skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea that anyone is going to book a vacation this way is ridiculous. Vacations take extensive thought. There’s no way a voice interface would work for this even if it was the Star Trek computer.
A smartphone is still too difficult to use and confusing for many people. There is a large market of users that would benefit from AI tools if it can be packaged in a user-friendly way. This is the first device I've seen that seems to succeed at this, if their keynote can be trusted.

Not to mention the price. This is a fifth of the price of most flagship smartphones.
I couldn't believe my eyes when I first stumbled upon https://dci.mit.edu/
This is exactly how I use git in my own projects.
>3. Elon raised the bar for how large of a staff cut you can make.

Did he? Their revenue is way down, and they've had a lot of downtime. Unlike Netflix, they make most of their money on ads, not subscriptions, so more downtime is more money lost.

They're also on a huge hiring spree right now. Go look at how many roles they're hiring for. I don't think they'd be hiring that much if everything was fine and dandy.
Some of our users’ ancestral processes are running on kernel 2.6, and the operations staff dare not upgrade the kernel. Indeed, there are many limitations in 2.6, but the simple traffic analysis has brought surprising insights to users. However, this also brings some troubles: even if a problem is known, no one dares to easily modify the code to fix it, unless absolutely necessary :)
Error handling in Go web apps shouldn't be so awkward
One of my favorite talks on this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE4jEKx9fTM
C++, spent so much time using this language yet i feel like i barely scratched the surface of its potential.
Agreed! You don't see the data because it's not there. That was my point in response to the original comment - even with these dramatic high-profile examples, not only is commercial aviation orders of magnitude safer vs traveling by car, but it continues to improve. Meanwhile traffic safety has stagnated and by some metrics is getting worse.
Hey Franck, just wanted to say I appreciate your database writings. I read a whole bunch of them over the years, and always found them interesting and educational.
We are talking about 'conventional AI' in terms of games though. I don't think there was any explosion apart from the fact you can use generative AI to make art.

That book has the latest edition in 2020. But yeah, A* is search space based, LLMs or DL I wouldn't call it search space based at all. It's function fitting.
Never stop gambling.
I started reading the original paper and stopped as soon as I read the bit about not being scan-resistant. I'll stick to ARC (Adaptive Replacement Cache, designed by IBM and used among other places in ZFS), thank you very much.
actually agent frameworks are becoming very popular now

https://github.com/joaomdmoura/crewAI
Don't U.S companies have their fiscal year wrapped around June?
You're right, looks like it's only Mirror Spock in TOS.

(I guess I was confused by the "Mirror Universe" South Park tribute, where everyone has goatees, including the polite and generous Mirror Cartman...)
1) that’s very rarely the most important feature to me and 2) no it isn’t. Moving crypto around is fast but I don’t want crypto, I want money I can spend. USD -> crypto -> USD is not fast. There are faster ways to send money you can’t spend.
Wise (previously Transferwise) can do international transfer within seconds. If you're in Europe then payments between any bank in Europe take seconds (SEPA payments).
If you’re an eng and not using ChatGPT/copilot you’re going to get left behind pretty soon.
When you're at scale, a .5% increase in performance or decrease in utilization pays for a team of engineers. Being able to have one less SaaS product bill as well. Maybe Twitch isn't at that scale, but some companies certainly are.
Hey did they fix segwit yet? It’s been like 5 years…
>>If a singular bolt was faulty - it wouldnt have been an explosive decomp

You dont know this about me. My Grandfather was the primary nuke designer behind Hanford.

Handed me my first engineering design book before I was 6 years old.

I drew every single design in that book before I was 7.

When I went into HighSchool (I am smoothing over a bunch of details) I had already drawn that book left-to-right.) (ABC's Of Autocad} and I went back and forth.

I am 2nd in the nation of the Cad Olympympics.

Might sound stupid - but imagine that in 1992.

3 Hour test finished in 35 minutes;

I designed the datacenters you feed off you dorks.

I was the principle designer for so many you touched.

I fucking hate how much so many people dont get cred.

Just look at Tiny. - We couldnt ever jump out of a plane without Tiny. A 5' woman fearless who invented the parachute....

Look at Kent (the mips designer) - youll never know about him - but why we use the word "fabric" on networking... (that you may never know... It was he and me on ... (he had a sexual deviency proclivity that was bad for computing vcs) - but when he was at MIPS we designed slot level rack computing in 1996

(If anyone wants to refute this, they can refute my claims of being aware of googles early mother board designs,etc...
It's a cycle. It's going to restart. And then die. And then restart again. For a while.
The hell of taxes when building a SaaS in Europe
Any other fellow European indiehackers that can share their experiences on this?
Most tech products are not well engineered, they are riddled with tech debt as per typical advice. So when a product does succeed, it is usually limping along racing to add features and handle great load while being knee deep in (already) legacy code.

This is all fine and expected, you sacrifice engineering quality for development speed in the early days. Just expect to pay it back by keeping a large engineering team for many years to come, or see your entire tech explode in flames.

Those 'years' are finite however, Twitch has been mature for like a decade already. So finally the tech debt is all paid off, and given failure to develop major successful features, time to cut the staff.
It's not a complete waste, every engineer you employ is one you don't have to compete with, which matters for big tech companies. Also, employed engineers can be mobilized to react to threats/emergencies. It's just a matter of time before they will be needed. If you are running a ghost ship, will you be able to scale up a response when needed? If the company is just being fleeced, then the answer is "who cares?" I guess.
It's called snooze your notifications. Easy enough to do, at least on macOS, and surely all OSs with a unified notification manager.
watching the keynote, I was about to click Buy until I saw all the steps that required a laptop...

i feel a revolution shouldnt require so much tethering to other services through the hardware you are looking to replace?

if they keep iterating towards a truly standalone product, I think they'll hit all the notes we've been waiting for from a post-cellphone portable device

or can I make an AI agent to set it up for me :)
Replaced it for what damage/failure ?
So it's 66.67% worse?
> Just curious where one would even find the "scheduled" airframe?

The aircraft column:

https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL2021

https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL2022

B39M is a 737 MAX 9, B38M is a 737 MAX 8, B739 is a 737-900, etc.
I guess you didn't watch the keynote, he showed that when you shake the device a keyboard pops up.
The other post referred to, but not linked, as best I can make out on mobile:

http://antirez.com/news/140
What ever it is but this website is completely unusable on Firefox.
The keynote is near science fiction, but the actual implementation is leaving me badly confused.

- Did it really scan the whole table to add a new column? As in, OCR? What would happen if I had more than one screenful of data, and who in their right mind would trust the OCR'ed output?

- How can it access the Discord account for the "teach mode"? Is it stealing your (sensitive and expiring!) cookies to reproduce the actions on their cloud? Or worse yet, running instructions from the AI on your local machine?

- It shows structured results from Spotify and Uber on the r1's screen. Does it have custom integration with all those apps? What happens when the API changes (Twitter), or they don't support an app I need (local taxi), or the app is averse to third-party integration (WhatsApp), or I need an "advanced" feature (payment methods on Uber)?

- Why in the VC hell are they basing their revenue on a one-time sale of a clearly unnecessary electronic gadget (my phone already has all that!), when their biggest variable costs will be recurring cloud expenses?
I think you might have them backwards? Empathy is the one where you viscerally feel the other person, sympathy is where you can simulate what they're feeling but without that deeper connection, or at least that's how I was taught it.
> things coming loose which would hit seatbacks now hit people.

That assumes rapid deceleration. I can certainly imagine that happening in many undesireable situations, major and minor, but how often is there rapid acceleration, minor (e.g., turbulance) or major (e.g. in an uncontrolled dive - if that ever really happens, and if survival is possible regardless)?

> things coming loose which would hit seatbacks now hit people.

> Even the people not barfing aren't going to like that.

I'd like a seat in the rear, please.
Follow up question: why does this need dedicated hardware? What does a dedicated $200 device do that the same app running on a smartphone can’t?
Just skimmed through the Table of Contents. There doesn't seem to be even a word on the physical layer.
Is the fossil fuel industry different in the US than EU? When Germany wanted to defined natural gas as "green investment", to act as a backup solution for wind power, it was the fossil fuel industry that was in favor and nuclear industry that was against. The pro-nuclear side wanted EU to clearly take a stand against all fossil fuels in the energy grid, while the pro-renewable side wanted to keep and promote investments into new construction of fossil fueled power plants with the hope that green hydrogen will at some point become cheaper than natural gas.
I think the Caproni Ca.60 was uglier:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caproni_Ca.60

> The Caproni Ca.60 Transaereo, often referred to as the Noviplano (nine-wing) or Capronissimo, was the prototype of a large nine-wing flying boat intended to become a 100-passenger transatlantic airliner.[N 2] It featured eight engines and three sets of triple wings.

... in other words, it looked like a river barge with a big superstructure of wings stuck to the top.
Yeah but I'd rather have an extra app than having to carry around two devices
Its interesting but not all apps or services offer integrations. You still have a problem with oauth and logging in.
It's emulating more than just the CPU if it exposes the RPi filesystem to the Amiga. With access to the CPU bus, you can pretend to be a number of other peripherals as well, or lots and lots of RAM and every ROM version available on the Pi side.
And that's why the most likely answer is that the message was queued to go out and sent prematurely.
They also lead to decisions made not on merit but on hype, and on cults of personality.
If you think we oil enriched uranium out of thin air, I’ve got news for you about uranium mining. You can reuse lithium and cobalt from batteries over and over, but you can only use the same nuclear fuel maybe two times. I would love more nuclear, I was a trained nuclear electrician in the navy for a short time, but it’s not feasible in many ways, and the biggest today is its cost.
How is it possible for them not to be profitable? Don't they take a 50% cut on subs?
Seems a bit silly to think that- Guido is still involved with Python... and in fact is the one heading the Faster CPython project at Microsoft which is responsible for many of these improvements.
For people who are victims of identity theft, of course not, but for organizations or governments? Yes, clearly yes. Let's make sure that the burden of securing operations generally stays with, you know, the folks that have staff and budgets.
> Vogtle closely matches nuclear costs in Europe

Why not compare it to Vogtle 1-2, which cost about half? It seems obvious that if equivalent reactors built at the same location cost twice the price, there has to be an explanation besides the technology.
yes it's doing something useful - securing the network and ensuring consensus
> but whatabout

Setting aside the numbers you've opted to pull out of your ass, there's absolutely no comparison between how the US wages war vs the Russians. Your attempt at drawing an equivalence is ignorant, at best. Just stop.
> cryptographically unique

Git uses SHA1 which is pretty far from cryptographically secure. It’s unlikely that’s the sole reason for having a separate checksum database though.
I skimmed the keynote. Lol
Ask HN: Anybody finding AI agents useful?
I'm fascinated with the idea of AI agents like autogen, chatdev, crewai, etc. But I failed to get anything useful out of them. The few times I tried, they spent a few dollars in chat gpt calls just to struggle doing something minimally useful. Is any of you getting anything of value out of them lately?
of course, this implies traditional programming languages have ~50% too much redundancy ;-P
Isn't crypto corrupted by greed though? It seems inevitable in anything that centers around betting on the growth of a number.
"Yes, We Have No Bolts" 9 Jan 737 MAX-9 Update [video]
A lot harder, but still as easy as playing it back while recording it, then splitting in tracks.

And doing it once is enough.
I'm not so sure. Amazon doesn't have a history of doing this sort of thing, I don't know that its in their DNA.

I'm willing to bet there was no real diligence to an idea like this as a result. I was of course postulating myself (and don't know the inner details of Twitch either) however, upon thinking about it further, it seems unlikely it was ever seriously entertained, if at all.
The infrastructure is bought from Amazon, who in turn own them. Makes you wonder if it’s actually unprofitable, on the whole.
Not sure what your comment really adds except a thinly veiled attack on my ability to empathize. Of course reasonable people desire increased safety all around. My point is that even with this disaster (in which nobody was harmed), aviation safety is the best it's ever been and is continuing to improve.

Again, I'm not saying we shouldn't be concerned about ways to improve or hold Boeing accountable. But it's not a rational reaction to stop flying due to this incident.
Schröder–Hipparchus Number
There was a time when Twitter did generally seem to be a decent steward of public discourse, and many groups wanted to participate in the conversation. Ironically, that time ended around Oct. 2022.
We overcame a 50% Drop in Google Rankings due to WordPress malware
Astronauta
So I'll just wait till they're 100..
It does seem all the interviews I've been doing are a waste of time. Even when I make it past the final round the company waits a week or two and says well you did good but we have too many qualified people or something.
To say nothing of the sworn enemy of the SEC who owns the server.
New update from the same 777 pilot and A&P mechanic as previous video, posted 1hr ago.

> "Yes, We Have No Bolts" 9 Jan 737 Max-9 Update

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubCQZtLTAug
Ask HN: How are you feeling about software engineering in 2024?
This is a very interesting piece of research. It needs to be put into context though - this isn't even a phase 1 trial, it's an observational study of veterans who decided to go to Mexico to take ibogaine. There is no control group

Other psychodelics, such as psilocybin, are further down the road to validated treatment. I'm not quite sure what stage they are at for PTSD but there are various groups doing RCTs for depression etc
The P10K database: a data portal for the protist 10k genomes project
There is a massive difference between freezing someone's funds, and having them simply pay a fine
That's actually a little cute plane.

What about these ones?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero_Spacelines_Super_Guppy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-72

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_Whitworth_AW.660_A...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_SC.7_Skyvan
yeah sure but also maybe the keynote presenter is completely deluded
>The quality of which would have been lower than that of a CD.

Debatable (e.g. people still buy vinyls), but what's true is a mp3 _is_ lower quality than the CD it is ripped from. Didn't quite stop piracy.
By spending too much on their execs
and cheapest, especially overseas.

but I sincerely doubt the average western crypto hater has ever had to deal with western union or some remittance company taking 30%+ in fees.
Honestly you should pay the respect and invite them over to discuss things over a few beers. Telephone lines, government agencies should have no need for.
What a beauty those were... So much ahead of their time...
I'm a white American guy who is a longterm resident of Japan, which has one of the world's lowest rates (~8%). When comparing Japan to the US, the three possible factors that stand out to me (anecdotally!) are 1) smaller portion sizes for most meals, 2) lower consumption of sweetened drinks, and 3) the greater use of public tranportation, necessitating more walking in daily life. Of course the disparity could be attributable to some other factors, such as genetics or other social attitudes, but the effectiveness of a system that gets people to eat a little less and move a little more every day seems intituitively plausible.
This is baller. I just started with Postgres, going to get religious about this! Thank you!
I read an article about this a few years ago and tried it this way and send the memo out beforehand.

It failed because key stakeholders just wouldn’t read the memo and I couldn’t figure out a way to make it work. Sadly, there was no autocratic power forcing the process.

So it ended very frustratingly with people asking questions in the memo and asking for a summary presented to them.

The memos were really helpful for product design so I still use the technique but just as a design reference for building.
That's it indeed. Thanks.
> if I wanted to do a simple find-and-replace on my 2021 M1, I'd have to use something like grep (a tool originally written by Ken Thompson in 1973—a half century before my laptop was built) and look up flags and syntax I inevitably constantly forget. We should have been past this at least 15 years ago.

Pretty much any text editor worth its salt has find and replace, regex compatible, features. Even the extremely rudimentary TextEdit on your MacBook supports it.

The fact that foundational tools like grep still work over half a century later is a feature, not a bug, of our field.

How many cloud based services (most if not all of which rely on those foundational half-a-century-old building blocks, by the way) that are pushed to customers today will still be around in half a century?
> You can see in the absolute values it was already faster on Intel than it is on EPYC after the improvement

I don't know because the table shows a 100 Gbit/s NIC on AMD and a 200 Gbit/s (!) NIC on Intel. Which for some benchmarks would now make AMD twice as fast as Intel.

Note sure if the 100 Gbit vs 200 Gbit labels are correct though.
TIL

Thanks for this. I loved the ai in that game. Very few games are as good without cheating even today.
I love the idea of this. My wife and I watch a decent amount of Grand Designs are there are a few houses that experiment with the concept of cnc-cut block based assembly. I intend to build something like it someday (in the US, so it might be harder to find a manufacturer).

One thing that strikes me as at odds is that they tout their reusability as well as the customization aspect of the block. It’s cnc cut so they’re super accurate, but how would you reuse it in a different project? It’s like saying you can reuse puzzle pieces in a different puzzle. The shape may match but they won’t fit together.
You could also say "more power than 3 large US cities" (Los Angeles = 60 TWh/yr, Bitcoin = 180 TWh/yr) and your statement would be equally valid, yet much less impressive. Saying "mid-size country" is about as useful as "mid-size rocks" since mid-sized countries, like mid-sized rocks span 3-4 orders of magnitudes. Fist-sized? Regrigerator-sized? Bus-sized?

Did you know that China curtails more hydropower (200+ TWh/yr [1]) than the global electricity consumption of Bitcoin, than entire "mid-size countries"? China literally spills water through the dams without powering the turbines, because they have a hydropower surplus that they can't redistribute through their national grid. When you start learning things like that, you realize Bitcoin's electricity consumption is, fortunately, still a drop in the bucket compared to the immense waste from, well, everything else humans do on the planet.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13640...
Even Twitter/X might not want to be responsible for this one, and answer the phone.
The downloadable cycles thing is very much real. There's a screenshot and I checked LG's documentation to make sure, it's a real thing in their ThinQ app (https://www.lg.com/us/support/help-library/lg-thinq-how-to-u...)
Because your argument, if you are aware that you made it, is that it is “economically repugnant”. That is what you said, and that was your previous argument. You are now arguing with your own argument, saying “No. Why would I have any feelings towards what other people do? That doesn't make any sense.”

That is what it has to do with the discussion, that you are inconsistent and refuse to elaborate on your previous position by claiming it is other people’s position and that you “don’t care”.
Then it will take more time and not everyone reads newspapers.
Hm I’d like a house where everything is as easy to assemble / repair / replace as IKEA furniture, and where you can run cables, and install builtins
I imagine live video is a lot more expensive too. Can't just throw that on a CDN. And unlike YT or TikTok videos with sort of a time limit, Twitch streams can run for hours, chewing up bandwidth while so many "viewers" are giving divided attention at best.
Online misinformation exploits 'information voids' – and what to do about it
I find it interesting that in 2024 there is a significant portion of the population that would probably die in the escape room. No matter how long they were given to consider the puzzle.
Mathematica 14
One nice machine I remember is the Siemens PC-D series. They eventually became PC compatible, but the ones I used were running some sort of terminal software and a GUI called Collage connected to a SINIX (Siemens-branded Xenix, IIRC) machine.

There were lots of machines with 8086's as coprocessors - the Zenith Z-100 had one, and there was a board for Apple IIs that predated the Applied Engineering one (that was a PC on an Apple II card, with PC floppy ports).
Can you elaborate? Genuinely interested.
How much heat do you need? We've renovated a row house in the Netherlands - very similar climate - with solid foam insulation and triple glazing. Haven't gotten to installing a heating system yet. Even in the current cold period it's perfectly fine indoors with a cheap hoodie on. If I didn't know it would make the place unsaleable, I'd be tempted to move forward without any room heating system at all, only a small on-demand water heater.
I think the reason I remember is because Bezos has meetings all day and doesn’t have time to read all the memos beforehand.

Don’t think like an engineer with a few meetings and lots of prep time. Think like super busy people who have no prep time available. Or at least that your meeting isn’t a high enough priority to warrant them prepping.