skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've met some people who have that outlook, and almost all of them have come from competitive high schools on the coasts, with successful parents who put a lot of expectations on them to achieve from a young age.

If your goal is to have some perfect career of "Perfect SAT -> Ivy+ -> Consulting/Finance/FAANG -> Senior Management -> C-Suite" then you're doomed to rumination and regret unless you end up falling into the smallest fraction of a fraction of perfectionist achievement, and I highly doubt even the survivors of that funnel are anything close to "happy."

As someone who grew up in a rural oil town and didn't go to high school, making ~200k at my B-tier tech company feels like winning the lottery several times over. Plus, I have time to pursue my actual goals (making art, building genuine relationships, hiking.) Any Ivy+ grad who ended up in my shoes would probably feel like a failure, and yet I'm in the top 1-2 percent of earners in my age group in the country and have never wanted for anything.

Also, just as an aside -- I know someone who has published some very ground-breaking research in genomics, runs their own lab at a young age, PhD from an Ivy+ program etc, and they actually did get a D in intro biology their Freshman year (at a B-tier school nonetheless.)

But they still ultimately out-performed entire cohorts of neurotic strivers because they were much more passionate, obsessive, and creative. Although their competition was very hard-working and ambitious, they ultimately didn't care about the actual research as much as they cared about their own careers. In the end, nothing beats passion and obsession.
The sudden democratization of Generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) tools, especially those backed by Large Language Models (LLMs), has enflamed passions and questioned our fundamental understanding of intelligence, consciousness, and reasoning. For some, LLMs are the latest expression of age-old questions. Can machines think? Can machines become sentient? What is consciousness? From philosophers to Star Trek fans, many have asked those questions. For others, it is an excellent source of click-bait titles
You have it reversed. The color of your skin determines how much UV protection you get. Skin color is 1-1 correlation to the average hours of daylight a population experiences. High melanin skin is required to live in the equatorial regions to prevent over exposure to UV rays. Low melanin skin is required in the northern regions to prevent under exposure to UV rays.

We saw a mass migration of eastern Europeans to the middle east mid 20th century and the result was the catastrophic increase in skin cancer rates.

We saw a mass migration of middle Easterners to great lakes region in the same period and we saw a catastrophic increase in depression rates.
> Why did they decide to be different here?

Hubris.
How Tally bootstrapped a $1M/year, no-code form builder
Hmm, that seems like a mistake because C allows for instruction compression with low cost to decode that is perfect for embedded use which is a big part of the RISC-V usage now.

That said, if they implemented C, and then had their replacement toggleable with a CSR that would still be backwards (albeit not forwards) compatible so that'd only be an issue if Qualcomm RISC-V binaries become dominant, but I don't think binaries are gonna be that dominant outside of firmware going forward, and any that are will be from vendors that will multi-target.
Very interesting. People like you make this site what it is. Thanks for posting!
Indian spies booted out of Australia for trying to steal sensitive information
It doesn’t, sorry for being unclear I cut out a big chunk of the comment and left that bit hanging.

I had a bit about horizontal gene transfer being more common on closely related organisms which somewhat maintains the idea of species in a single non sexual world, but it wasn’t worth going into.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer
https://web.archive.org/web/20240430123344/https://www.smh.c...

I had a suspicion it might have been India when this story came out.
To be fair, the official site ( https://faq.deltaemulator.com/ ) always just mentions "Delta", not "Delta Emulator", so it's probably not too hard to get ahead.

But as I mentioned yesterday [1], surprising low quality results usually show Google Ads, while the more appropriate site does not. This is yet another occurrence.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40199312
DEF reduces NOx, DPF reduces particulates- two totally separate systems for different purposes
How is this "Enshittification" in the original sense? From the article:

>>Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two sided market", where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them.

In this case what changed? Was reddit on top of spam a few years ago and deliberately let spam happen? Or did spammers realize the value and got more aggressive with their spamming? It's not clear how what's happening right now resembles "they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves". Are you just using it in the literal sense of "service got shittier"?
Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go
That isn't an answer to the question I asked.
It's missing all the anti facts, why the Unix Haters handbook exists. https://archive.org/details/TheUnixHatersHandbook/

Horrible libc (strings, blocking IO, threads, locale, ...), why all our systems are catastrophically bloated and insecure. Garbage in, garbage out, the tagline of modern unix.
He successfully marketed and monetized an industry that already existed and would continue to exist without him, then reinvested in that industry to make himself more money. The way you and some others talk about him you would think he invented batteries and was the first one to discover you can use electricity to make a car move.
This is mad - great things happen in east village
> Understood metaphorically, the "thetan hypothesis" might be partly true. It belongs with other psychoanalytic theories which, while out of vogue today, probably contain some truth.

Abstracted into a sufficiently broad metaphor, almost anything can be partly true. But in this case, abstracted to the extent where it starts to make sense, there's none of the original thetan hypothesis left in the mix. You'd just toss out the thetan part and go with the metaphor part at that point.

> I'm not sure where this leaves us. Maybe every "great thinker" is a mountebank?

Maybe! To me, it seems like the problem usually starts with the followers. The great thinker makes a case, it's persuasive enough, then other people take the idea and turn it into a worldview, or an industry. Sometimes you find a philosopher with enough charisma or force of will to start their own cult, but more often than not it's someone at the margins of the original movement who latches on and makes it their thing. A student, a lover, a family member, a random billionaire, whatever.
my theory is that we'll prove that its impossible to prove whether or not P = NP.
Yes, to understand bitcoin well enough to confidently ride the volatility at this early stage in its growth, not only does it help to be technically minded, but you also need an understanding of what money really is and how fiat money really works.

People with that combination are few and far between. But there's plenty of people on HN who confidently think they know.
"If you can't tell, does it matter?" This line from Westworld being played out on reddit. How does one determine if one is a real person with access to only text / comments and the constraint of keeping everyone anonymous.
This is gpt4 with massive rag db aka “memory”. It’s like the memory feature, it with a continuous updates web index. Google gonna feel the heat big time
IIRC the requirement is that where there's a default, the user must be required to change it on first login.
I do think it's amusing what the other guy says. Forums like this will be full of "Why software estimates are so hard and we shouldn't be forced to stick to deadlines" and the explanation will be "because each React form is like brand new R&D - more akin to Marie Curie's discoveries than a surgeon's work" and then suddenly a brand new kind of vehicle that has never been mass produced before has to hit deadlines or it's sign of obvious incompetence.

That contrast is definitely striking.
There will be no undoing of anything, fortunately. Unicode is committed to complete backward compatibility, to the point where typos in a character name are supplemented with an alias, rather than corrected. Han Unification was an unforced error based on the proposition, which was never workable, that sixteen bits could work for everyone. This is entirely Microsoft's fault, by the way. But it shouldn't be, and won't be, fixed by breaking compatibility. That way lies madness.

There are two additional planes set aside for further Hanzi, the Supplementary and Tertiary Ideographic Planes, the latter is still mostly empty. Eventually the last unique ideograph used only to spell ten known surnames from the 16th century will also be added as a codepoint.

I view the continued use of Shift-JIS in Japan as part of a cultural trend, related to the continued and widespread use of fax machines, or the survival of floppy disks for many years after they were effectively dead everywhere else. That isn't at all intended as an insult, it's that matters Japanese stay within Japan to a high degree. Japanese technology has less outside pressure for cross-compatibility.

Shift-JIS covers all the corner cases of the language, and Unicode has been slow to do likewise, and it isn't like Japanese computers don't understand UTF-8, so people have been slow to switch. It's the premise of "unaware of how it works in the rest of the world" that I object to. It's really just Japan. Everywhere else, including the Chinese speaking parts of the world, there's Unicode data and legacy-encoded data, and the solution to the later is to encode it in the former.
Wasm that runs eBPF, and eBPF that runs Wasm;

https://github.com/eunomia-bpf/eunomia-cc

https://github.com/eunomia-bpf/wasm-bpf

https://github.com/eunomia-bpf/wasm-bpf-rs

https://eunomia.dev/wasm-bpf/

https://eunomia.dev/blogs/ebpf-wasm
Bluetooth wireless file transfer... you are forgotten.
At full power running
24/7 (12V*3A) at 10cents/kwh, the mini PC uses $36 of electricity. Who cares how much power it uses.
This is exactly why I gave up moderation of a sub that was around 100k members. It just was so much spam and noise and poor tooling to deal with it all.
We unfortunately have no idea what they consider a success! That's just one of the most recent ones by some random user who wanted to use the program in the real world.
As someone living in the UK, that's not comparable whatsoever.
Another person’s explanation: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14702676>
You are not wrong, but programmers, uh, find a way.
A desktop system doesn't need to optimize idle power. So I'm willing to bet none of the components (cough intel) was picked for their low idle power consumption. :)
You can thank tariffs on China for that. In China, Tesla is beat out by higher quality, cheaper competition.
It's practical today with overhead power cables - these have already been trialled on major highways in Germany and Sweden. Although one of the test lines in Baden-Württemberg is going to be taken down, the test results from the Hessen test line on the A5 show that on an efficiency basis, the greenhouse gas emissions are reduced by 16%-21% compared to diesel trucks. In parallel to these tests, there are also discussion in progress for a Europe-wide voltage standard to avoid the kind of problems that have stymied cross-border rail travel.

There are many people who say that the technology is not appropriate, and these are mainly based on two claims: firstly, that electric propulsion will not be more environmentally friendly whilst the electricity is still produced from fossil fuels, and secondly that existing electric trucks are less reliable than their diesel counterparts. Neither of these are reasons to abandon overhead lines on an efficiency basis, though - the concept is sound.
Maybe an application for an AI chatbot! It can get all the chitchat over for you and only then give a notification when a real question is asked.

A question other than 'Can I ask you a quick question?' God I hate that. You mean two questions, since that was a question already. And why does it always have to be 'quick'? Does no one ever have a meaty question that will take effort to answer?

I know; I'm a crusty old fart. But boy howdy would I use that AI chatbot if it existed.
MySQL 8.4.0 LTS Release
Until they're activated how are you going to know?
Not sure if EVM is surprising though considering it means Ethereum Virtual Machine
Python is trickier because of the lack of strong typing support by default in Python. So we're left with projects using strict mypy or with very extensive test suites for validation.

It's possible, just probably not the next language to tackle. If you'd like Python support though, you can upvote this github issue: https://github.com/xeol-io/bumpgen/issues/61
Unfortunately you can’t do performance analysis this way but I think the overall point that it’s a fraction probably still stands as you’d expect the I/O work to dominate.

The reason you can’t do the analysis the way that you explicitly stated (which fairly is what was implied) is that when you lower the code to machine code you typically get rid of branches in the execution path. Since branches slow down execution by a disproportionate amount vs how long they themselves take, it’s easy to get a >3% boost getting rid of code paths that seem like there’s only 3% of room.

What the author also failed to mention is that they’ve gone on many optimization hunts eeking out less than a percent here or there to get a cumulative boost, so 3% isn’t anything to sneeze at.

That being said, the broader point which is valid is that the maintenance isn’t worth the performance profile that SQLite targets not to mention that JITs open up an attack vector for security exploits. So the cost vs benefit is squarely in the interpreted side for now.

Edit: Forgot to mention that performance tuning a JIT to work well is also hard - for small queries you’ll spend more time compiling the byte code than you would just executing. That’s why all the big JS engines do a tiered approach where each tier optimizes a bit more.
I hope I can comment on the above without taking a side in the current Israeli/Palestinian conflict:

Reddit seems to, on average, take a pro-Palestinian stance (they are practically jumping out of their seats over what is happening at Columbia), but for some reason /r/worldnews has a heavy, heavy Zionist slant.

Many people see Reddit as truth, and so it concerns me that either of these positions are accepted as the best course forward.
Much like the S in IOT is for security, the G in Internet and Web is for Genuine.
Meanwhile customers take their business to a competitor, as is happening here.

What is ambitiousness worth if the product/delivery is delayed by years and has to be discounted heavily to chase market share?
If they were fake, "I had fake testimonials because I was going to charge customers for my product" is something you don't want to suggest.
Ask HN: Can LLM's produce useful code?
After using code LLMs' for a bit, I wonder whether there is significant productivity gain in using them. I found that it's limited for me.

Main reason: a) to find the right code, I have to keep sampling it, and b) it doesn't seem to be able to solve larger / more complex problems that I actually find more need for.

I found some interesting research on combining planning-algorithms for complex problems, and some ideas on guiding the LLM's decoding process towards correctness by optimizing it via reward functions and reducing the search space. I've detailed and summarised the main points in the post below.

Questions:

1) Do you find code LLM's really useful? Please share some stories / examples where they help vs they didn't. I'm trying to form a better understanding of their usage

2) Any other research ideas being pursued in this field ? / what are you trying ?

Full post with details here: https://kshitij-banerjee.github.io/2024/04/30/can-llms-produce-better-code/
Starship has gotten to orbital velocity, which is the hard part about getting to orbit.
I’m sorry. That’s not allowed. For security reasons, every new password must contain at least one emoji, three greek letters and one set-theoretic operator.
>Reddit's enshitification was a long time in the making, bots and psyops are all it consists of anymore. I wonder if Eglin AFB, home to psyop army units (1st and 7th Special Forces), is still burning the midnight oil...

Surely there's an alternate explanation for this? ie. the military is filled with 20-somethings, and reddit's primary demographic is 20-somethings, therefore you'd expect any sort of cluster of 20-somethings (ie. a military base) to be more "reddit addicted"? Moreover, surely the US military can afford a $5/month VPN subscription to cover their tracks?
Lot tenders are the obvious place to start, so clearly.
It’s especially brilliant for Nintendo DS, since that works best with a touchscreen and the vertical layout of the screens fits great on an iPhone.

Getting it instantly increased my time gaming on my phone from ~0 minutes per week to four or five hours per week. And the games I’m playing are a ton better.

I’d buy more iPhone games but 1) there’s a very limited set of good ones and 2) they vanish too often, I’m not paying $20 to rent a game for 2 years when I might not even get to it until after that (life happens).

More advantages over App Store games: it’s easier on battery life than most native games(!), fits dozens of games in the space of one native game (and that’s the DS, not the smallest-cart system it emulates), and provides a common and IME very-reliable suspend-resume interface across all games. I can be back where I was in some fairly-complex game faster than I can get back to where I was in Angry Birds, say, which matters a lot on mobile, I don’t hesitate to close it at a moment’s notice.

… and that’s all aside from the, ah, price advantage (though to be fair I do own some of the carts I’m playing on it)
You could say that as well. Gamma is often (usually?) defined as any radiation that originates from nuclear state transitions rather than electrons; this tends to be very high energy but can overlap the range of EM radiation from electronic transitions. Th229 is the extreme outlier.
Yes Chinese EVs are Tesla's only real competitor, I don't dispute that.

But what's the excuse for the other American EV companies?
Businesses are going to need to be extra cautious about social media advertising spend in the era of LLMs. Personally, I think social networks are doomed, unless they can figure out how to lock things down. Will be difficult to do on a website known for anonymous posting.
How far north are you?
Everybody understands this. It's completely obvious.

I imagine you are complaining about people that disagree with you on how to solve the problem.
Tangental: 404 media is a fun agency, always enjoy their articles. Edit: This plug is not by a bot, but in the near future, nobody will ever trust a plug like this because they’ll suspect it is by a bot. Weird
Every case is unique, and yes Jaffa is nothing like Belfast. I simply brought it up because Belfast was also a settler colonial city claimed by the colonized peoples before the colonized relinquished their claim of it in a deal. However unlike Jaffa, when the nationalists relinquished their claim of the city, the colonizers reciprocated and gave them recognition of their state in return.
Metaprogramming is required to get typesafe easy to use code. The problem of most template code is that the implementation gets horrendously complicated but for the user it can create A LOT of comfort. At work for example, I wrote a function that calls an rpc-method and it has a few neat features like:

An rpc call with a result looks like this:

call(<methodinfo>, <param>, [](Result r) {});

vs one which returns void:

call(<methodinfo>, <param>, []() {});

It's neat that the callback reflects that, but this wouldn't be possible without some compiletime magic.
Their newly minted status as a Public company will remove any concerns or care for anything other than a (bullsh*t) measure of growth.

Reddit like every other advertising fueled social media company, will ignore the reality of who uses their platform and instead lie cheat and obfuscate the facts in order to remain in "good standing" with the ad tech cabal...
> Building more freight rail and electrifying it is another option for (some) long haul transport that isn't discussed enough.

Most are, it's just that the electric part is generated by a diesel engine. That being said, they're already several times more efficient per ton than a semi is.
The problem is that “certain missions” are often make work, even for robots in space. Hence why there’s a lot of talk about “doing science” and “doing missions”, very little about what the actual goal is. Or you get certain claims like helium-3 mining that sound good if you’re not paying attention, but then make no sense when you look at the details.

A lot of the manned space stuff - even a lot of the unmanned space stuff - is someone deciding that we need to use a hammer to make something, and therefore making nails part of every plan they have. Even if the job is inflating a balloon.
The other day I was configurating my Fire TV and downloaded a fake app from the Play Store that was top result.

First thing it did was to ask me for a premium subscription to be able use the remote!. I can see elderly people get easily scammed by this, I almost was.
Lazarus Group laundered $200M from 25 crypto hacks to fiat from 2020–2023
Is this sort of like a response to Devin? I'm having a hard time understanding what this is.
Not quite. pkl is a language that is mostly designed for parsing and serialization of data. TypeSpec is a language that is designed to describe APIs and the structure of data that those APIs take. You can actually combine the two technologies as follows:

1. Read a .pkl file from disk and generate (for example) a Person struct with a first, last name and an age value.

2. Let's say that according to some TypeSpec, the HTTP endpoint /greet accepts a POST request with a JSON payload containing a first and a last name. You convert your Person struct into a JSON literal (and drop the age field in the process) and send it to the HTTP endpoint

3. You should receive a greeting from the HTTP endpoint as a response. The TypeSpec may define a greeting as a structure that contains the fields "message" and "language".

4. You can then use pkl to write that greeting structure to disk.

Sidenote: pkl also supports methods[1] but in almost all use cases you only use pkl to define which fields your data has. TypeSpec cares most about the methods/endpoints. Of course, you still need to define the shape of the arguments to these methods and that is where you have a bit of overlap between these two technologies. I can imagine that you would generate pkl definitons from TypeSpec definitions.

[1] https://pkl-lang.org/main/current/language-reference/index.h...
OpenWeb did for all the big publishers: https://www.openweb.com/