skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While it is true that some protective elements existed, it is not as if this collision was a result of an unforeseeable chain of events that found a loophole in an otherwise impenetrable defense. Why were the dolphins placed so far apart, and the crushable barriers so close to the bridge piers? At some point, towers to support electric transmission lines across the channel were erected close to the bridge, and they were surrounded by barriers with a much greater radius (though I do not know if they are enough to stop the MV Dali, let alone the largest ships using the port.)

https://maps.app.goo.gl/FQCsXqomTNHShzP67

Here are two other NY Times articles, one describing a collision in 1980 by a ship half the length and with about an order of magnitude less capacity than the Dali, and another comparing (unfavorably) the protection of the Francis Scott Key bridge with that around others.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/us/baltimore-bridge-ship-...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/27/us/key-bridge...
If you try now and ask GPT-4o what is the cutoff date of the training set
it will say September 2021. If you ask GPT-4 it will say December 2023.

Also if you try the hallucination test mentioned in the article: "Who was the first elephant to swim across the English channel?"

GPT-4o fails but GPT-4 passes with flying colors.

More like a different model instead of an evolution.
valid feedback. thanks, will add this!
I agree with OP, I think we still have no idea yet what dreams may come of the LLM's we have today. So no one will be able to "enlighten us" — perhaps not until we're looking in the rear-view mirror.

I would say instead, stay tuned.
> why Microsft has ceased anything beyond legacy support for it

That is not true at all. DirextX is COM, UWP was COM based, WinRT is still COM, WinUI and the Windows App SDK is again based on COM. C++, C#, Python and Rust are all supported programming languages for the Windows App SDK thanks to - you guessed it: COM. The C++, C# and Rust language projections for it are still being constantly updated: https://github.com/microsoft/xlang

When they started Project Reunion (code name for Windows APP SDK) back in 2021, just before Windows 11's release, they decided to double-down on COM. Like hard.

https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK/blob/main/docs/fa...

> Practically speaking, any language & runtime that can handle COM objects can support Windows App SDK
The underlying OS is already the same, just a different UI layer.

You can run iPad apps on a Mac. All we need is Mac apps on an iPad.

It would be great if I was able to run an app on a Mac then pickup an iPad and continue using the app on the iPad.

I don’t need to know if the app moves from one device to another or if I just get a seamless remote screen.

More broadly I want to pickup any Apple device and run any app, access any of my data — all seamlessly.

An iPad app shown on an Apple TV using data from my Mac, audio into my AirPods and haptic feedback on my watch.

I know I can already do some of this but I want it to be a universal feature where I can do it all.
> A new car built by my company ...

While I think I get your point, I also believe that the background is very important. If your company applied standard engineering procedures, that's critically different from building a new product and actively hiding the differences with respect to the last one.
- "During the week to May 13, Germany's solar farms produced 17,531 megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity, according to data from LSEG,"

This is an obviously wrong number, and I'm not even sure how they accomplished such a specifically weird mistake. "Mean of 17,351 MW" would be plausible. That's different by a factor of 168.
It's regulated by algorithms.
How are Oracle with contributing to OpenTofu upstream?
What size is the cluster? Just curious how much hardware is needed to handle such traffic :)
This is a big part of it. There are companies that scan the internet in search of malware, and if you run on a different port it makes the search space so much bigger.
As someone who actually uses the API for real products, I don't think the OP understands what the reduced latency and reduced cost means: Everything related to building a more advanced RAG, for example building agentic features into it, sooner or later runs into the same issues of speed and cost. GPT-4 Turbo was simply too slow and too expensive for us to really use it fully. GPT-4 is plenty intelligent for many use cases.

Also, why on Earth would OpenAI launch a dramatically better model as long as their competitors don't force them to? The smart solution for OpenAI would be to almost let their competitors catch up to GPT-4 before launching GPT-5 and no competitor is truly there yet.
The hit man probably doesn't fancy himself as disposable.
Why not just generate complete random stuff and ask it to find stuff in that?
> describing electrons or batteries in Liters!

The volumetric energy density of batteries is described in litres. The gravimetric energy density is described in kilograms:

https://zbotek.com/gravimetric-vs-volumetric-energy-density/

> although supercharger actually does make sense with EVs

It doesn't. It just the brand name Tesla chose. Kompressor is the brand name Mercedes chose for its supercharged cars:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercharger
> they might just count clicks in the gamma spectrum.

but radon is emitting alpha particles ?
They're thermally heating up the air with lasers?

Doesn't a white-hot atmospheric plasma emit plenty of hard UV?

Or is this some kind of specific spectral line emission that the photos don't do justice?
"Oracle’s move seems like a straightforward decision to ensure it is using the most permissive underlying IaC tool without having to worry about downstream license complications, no more and no less."

Oracle wins a big competitive talking point versus IBM, as well as crushing the value of IBM's acquisition of Hashicorp, and completely eliminating IBM's Terraform inroad into a large group of Oracle's enterprise customers.
Couldn’t the evolution have occurred as: begin to stand which helps spot threats, gather, fish, etc -> run to avoid predators (efficiency of two legs begins to have large gains here) -> get good enough to have surplus time, safety, resources to create new tech like spears -> run to hunt everything
Virtual Boy: the rise and quick fall of Nintendo's enigmatic red console
Is the project considered complete or is it still maintained?
I wonder if there's an equivalent for "aphantasia" for the other senses. If there is, I'm pretty sure I have it for taste.

I can imagine whole detailed worlds and hold them in my imagination, but nothing tastes like anything, and I definitely can't taste recipes.

To be fair, it's possible it's underdeveloped because I don't taste things terribly well in reality either, but now I'm wondering about how all the senses translate to imagination!
> This interface has now been set in stone. Any additions that would be useful for the widget interface, say OnClick(), will require a breaking change

This is the expression problem[1]. There is an inherent tension between simplicity of extending the number of operations and simplicity of extending the number of types acted on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_problem
Flakey Windows taught me this doctrine, and it has carried over to any OS that I use (mostly Linux). A directory with 'portable apps' was essential in Windows, fortunately apt makes this a whole lot simpler :)

1. Find ways to automate setting up my env. Keep that instruction current. apt and chocolatey/ninite have made this far simpler than it used to be.
2. Keep data in directories that are auto-backupped. Concretely I have everything in 'shares', and these shares have survived various changes in tooling, buut their location and principle have stayed the same. Also helps organizing your files :)
3. Have short but precise instructions on how to setup new envs, wherever automation isn't possible or impractical.

Has worked for me for decades now, and it means I'm good to go within an hour of (re)installing a fresh OS.
Contamination wise it's worse "mining" uranium in the US than in the Canadian, Australian, Uzbek and other high density deposits.

Much of the Cold War era US domestic uranium "mines" were leach operations to remove low density uranium from large disperse areas underground.. somewhat like fracking in that an agent is pumped down a well in order to leach through the soil and carry uranium in solution to extraction wells from which the uranium is then removed.

This resulted in the agent and leached materials being carried into ground water supplies, large tailing ponds of water + chemicals, etc.

There's more waste per kilo of unprocessed uranium extracted with leach operations than with hard rock high grade operations in Uzbekistan and Australias Olympic dam.

There also seemed to be scant regard paid to the health and safety of the Navajo in the US .. one of those "not our problem" attitudes.
Ask HN: What do you do with your old Intel MacBooks?
Now that my MacBook Pro no longer receives the latest OS updates I was wondering what to do with it. Should I keep the 'aged' but working macOS or try Linux?

It would be great if there was something like Asahi Linux but for Intel macs. When I tried distros in the past I had limited success as there was always at least one component that was not supported (like Wifi or sound).
Maybe one of those projects that get delayed so much that, when it finally ships, the industry (Apple) has moved to another direction.

And it’s not like Apple is a fast moving target is that regard. It took them a long time to fix the MacBook Pro and they did a number of years ago.
You rarely fail to miss the point
Yeah man but there has to be some thresholds. We take phones for granted after years of active availability. I personally remember days when "what if your phone dies" was a valid concern for even short periods, and I'm not that old. Sora isn't even available publicly. At some point it crosses over from being jaded to just being a cynic.
Totally not expert on formal verification. If Rust’s base libraries get formally verified, and one does not use unsafe code, does that means all Rust programs that use the formally verified libs get de-facto formally verified quality regarding their memoryhandling?
Why is it obviously wrong?

During a duration of time it is okay so say an amount of energy (MWh) was produced, right?
It's currently 13:20 and sunny, Germany is at 183g/gCO2eq, not good.
A giant corporation like Oracle switching to the fork because they don’t want to engage commercially with Hashicorp is peak greedy.
It would and should have jurisdiction over both, you’re right.
Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation (2022)
Yes, this is why RAID5 isn't advised for (most) modern arrays anymore.

The time it takes to rebuild a pool full of 10TB+ disks is going to be extremely long, and the chance of a second disk failing during that rebuild is much higher than smaller capacities like 2-3TB that would have been more common 10-15 years ago.

For thia reason, its often recommended to use RAID6 for new arrays and treat the second failable disk as strictly a spare for during a rebuild.
I think Darts heavy investment on DX is what makes the language enjoyable.
Show HN: I made one interface for Chat, Gemini, Claude to avoid switching tabs
Blue Sky Mine was asbestos from Wittenoom, W.Australia.
Golden goose is already being hoisted upon a spit — and your company is not even going to get even drippings of the fat. I am surprised by the short-sightedness of execs.
Seven deadly sins of talking about "types"
> We feign ignorance and show him our JR passes, he patiently writes something like ¥500 on a piece of paper and shows us, we pay it. No anger is expressed, just more of a “silly foreigners” vibe.

That was my experience traveling around Japan.

There's an interesting caveat to it. Back when I studied Japanese, I had a Japanese teacher. But she never lived in Japan - she was born of Japanese parents living abroad.

Anyway, she used to tell me that for her, visiting Japan was a lot less welcoming, because they cut no slack to her. She looks Japanese, sounds Japanese, so everyone expected her to be very mindful of all social norms, and would be harsh to her whenever she made a faux-pas.
$460, 5,471-piece Lego Barad-dûr set comes for LOTR fans' wallets in June
He always reminded me of this guy from the 90s commercials: https://youtu.be/VNX6VH2nhgM?si=gfX1pkkiuuilV8LO

Which makes me wonder why a furniture salesman has so much to say about AI.
Because it implies non-belonging. The question self means that the conclusion is already made that the asked person is not "from here".
The mouse is more commonly swapped in situations with physical access.
Without physical access, those non-BlueTooth wireless mice (with their own RF dongle) are vulnerable to remote keystroke injection.
You reminded me of this blog post by Stephen Diel:

https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/crypto.html
So the alternative is to...?
> If we look at history of innovation and invention it’s very typical the original discovery and final productization are done by different people.

You don't really need to look at history, that's basically science vs engineering in a nutshell.

Maybe history could tell us if that's an accident or a division that arose out of 'natural' occurrence, but I suppose a question for an economist or psychologist or sociologist how natural that could really be anyway or if it's biased by e.g. academics not financially motivated because it happens that there isn't money there; so they don't care about productising; leaving it for others who are so motivated.
How? It seems entirely sensible
True, well I'm in the EU so 868MHz in my case. Still, it is very susceptible to external conditions. It truly is a hit or miss. Personally I host a things network gateway(indoors), I live on the last floor of a building at one of the highest points in the city and it is still very inconsistent when I've been fiddling with it. Back when I was doing my tests a few months ago I took a micro controller with a LoRa module up on the roof so those truly were ideal conditions. I have yet to test the CC2500.
Still better than being a nuclear reactor operator.
Show HN: HyperURLs: Simplifying Bookmark Management Across Platforms
Hey everyone,

We often get frustrated with bookmarking stuff on social media? Each platform has its own way of saving links, but they all seem to fall short. You can't search through them, share collections easily, or organise them well. It was a huge problem for me and when I was traveling and reading articles and videos it's even more frustrating because you often can't save it without logging in or using a desktop.

The Problems with Existing Bookmarking Tools
1. They don’t focus on a single problem.
2. They are bloated and often not affordable.
3. You can’t save links without logging in.

The Bookmarking Mess
We all save a ton of cool content on places like Instagram and Twitter, but:
1. We rarely go back to our bookmarks.
2. The systems are pretty flawed: no good search, no tagging, no simple sharing, and no real organisation.

Here’s What I Did
I decided to create something to fix this. It’s called HyperURLs (https://hyperurls.com), and it’s a tool that puts all your saved links in one place. Whether it’s articles, videos, or websites that inspire you, HyperURLs helps you manage it all. Here’s how:
* Centralised Organisation: Keep all your (not just) social media links together.
* Easy Access: No more endless scrolling. Use filters and search tools to find what you need.
* Simple Sharing: Share collections of links with anyone, regardless of the platform they use.
* On the Go Sharing: Save any link from the internet using a TelegramBot, even when traveling.

Why It Helps
* Efficiency: No more jumping between apps to find your saved content.
* Better Organisation: Use tags and search features to keep things neat.
* Easy Sharing: Share your favourite finds with friends, no matter what platform they’re on.

I’m looking for genuine feedback on hyperurls.com, and would like to understand your take on the solution which I have built.

Here is a small example of how you can share a list of links you others: https://hyperurls.com/mockup, I find it pretty useful myself and people who have already seen it also gave me positive feedback, but I want an outsider to take a look and let me know what you guys feel about it.

Thanks!
Arch Linux RISC-V
Forgive me as I am one of those illiterate people - but if it is right to say: "By 2011, solar PV provided 18 TWh of Germany's electricity, or about 3% of the total" why is it not right to say the above?

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Germany#History

(Or is the wikipedia article wrong too?)
Marathons have been my tire for about 15 years of city and road riding, and I have only flatted once -- direct hit on a nail IIRC. I am always amazed at their longevity and reliability.
Just so I’m clear, we shouldn’t flag it so that we read garbage and recognize it for garbage?

No thanks, I flagged it.

It was a stupid article when someone posted it on the GPT-4o story (and I said as much in the comments then) and it’s a stupid article now that has no business being on HN.

HN regularly flags trash that climbs up the ranks, the argument that we shouldn’t do that so that people can train their “media literacy” is just absurd. Go read The Sun or any number of bad publications if you want to train your media literacy.
I will repost the comment I made 12 months ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35402163

> LLMs are still an active area of research. Research is unpredictable. It may take years to gather enough fundamental results to make a GPT-5 core model that is substantially better than GPT-4. Or a key idea could be discovered tomorrow.

> What OpenAI can do while they are waiting is more of the easy stuff, for example more multimodality: integrating DALL-e with GPT-4, adding audio support, etc. They can also optimize the model to make it run faster.

OpenAI is doing science, not just engineering. Science doesn’t happen according to a schedule. Adjust your expectations accordingly.
https://www.keelog.com/keygrabber-forensic/
Why is it so hard for models to say "I don't know" or "That never happened"?

This seems to be a fundamental side effect of next token thinking, training data, etc.
Or a tiny opening in the cloak where the cameras/sensors are.
Using the JCI (Jim Cramer Indicator) and the GSI (Goldman Sachs Indicator) never failed to make me money on the Stock Market.
IMF boss warns of AI 'tsunami' coming for jobs
My company's data function, established 14 years ago, has a bunch of custom stores, as well as data-related tools. Back then data use cases were not really well-known, we had to build things from scratch a lot.

It is a very different landscape these days!
So as the article is suggesting, Gen AI has probably peaked.
When we replaced pensions for most workers and required them all to become direct market participants without teaching people the basics of how the markets work.

My grandmother taught home economics for her whole career including personal finance and I assure you she doesn’t know what a short squeeze is. My grandfather probably didn’t pay a bill or make a budget his entire life, but his heirs are still getting payouts from his benefits.

For that matter most of the tech workers I’ve worked with don’t understand how many of their benefits work either (e.g rsu, HSA, backdoor Roth’s, etc). How many startups out there are pitching options as major components of their compensation without even giving their employees the information needed to price them?

I think there is a ton of good about moving away from patriarchal relationships between employee benefits and employment, but it’s not at all surprising that it’s had the repercussion that people unprepared for it have been dumped in the deep end. And that it’s deeper than ever and they are drowning.
The expert quoted by the AP says changes to allow homologation for road use in US would only add a couple thousand dollars to the price tag. Unless your definition of "cheap" is extremely narrow, you might want to read TFA to get an understanding of why this vehicle is so inexpensive.
Oracle has a number of departments, but one way you can look at it is:

* Oracle Products (e.g. DB, Fusion, E-Business Suite)

* Oracle Cloud (OCI)

What's telling is that Oracle Cloud's Terraform-as-a-Service (Resource Manager) is still Terraform:

https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/ResourceManager/C...

Clearly, Oracle must think there is some legal distinction between telling Terraform-as-a-service, and selling+distributing a product _containing_ Terraform that end users then use as Terraform-as-a-service.
"Oracle’s move seems like a straightforward decision to ensure it is using the most permissive underlying IaC tool without having to worry about downstream license complications, no more and no less."

Hm, with that logic they could dump MySQL in favor of MariaDB as well
Because it's a nonsensically small number; and it's contradicted with the graph immediately below it, that shows larger amounts of energy (MWh) generated in individual hours, than the supposed figure for the entire week. The peaks on the graph are ~40,000 MWh/hour sustained over multiple hours (eyeballing it). The amount generated in the entire week can't be 17,000 MWh, a number smaller than that.

(For anyone unclear about units: the y-axis of the graph is GWh/h, the same as 10^3 MWh/h, or simply just 10^3 MW. The unit [MWh] = 10^6 [Watt]*[hour]).
Intel closing in on $11B deal for Ireland factory funding
Second sentence in TFA is:

> It provides fast (up to 500 MB/s) data transfer
Just like… (checks notes)… oh yeah every government on the planet.
Just don't let them hijack it for their own purposes.

Sun and MySQL precede them.
Are you using the RICE Framework to prioritize projects and product features?
That may be the case, but such assumptions have not been justified for some time (the report says the tugs were let go on entering the channel, which it calls standard procedure.) As I noted elsewhere, more recent structures in the vicinity have been given what looks like much more substantial protection.
I don't understand how you got that from his comment
To Exascale and (Maybe) Beyond
> Correct. The Linux architecture around a global of dependencies is, imho, bad and wrong. The thesis is it's good because you can deploy a security fix to libfoo.so just once for the whole system. However we now live in a world where you actually need to deploy the updated libfoo.so to all your various hierarchical Docker images. sad trombone

Only if you choose to use docker. As other people have pointed out most things on Linux can be deployed using a package manager.

> A light alternative to Docker is simply deploy your dependencies and not rely on a fragile, complicated global environment.

So like flatpak?

> I know my opinion is deeply unpopular. But I stand by it! Running a program should be as simple as downloading a zip, extracting, and running the executable. It's not hard!

How is that better than apt install? That (or equivalent on other distros) is how I install everything other than custom code on servers (that I git pull or similar).
Arguing against Aristotelian physics in 20th / 21st century is like pounding a rotten strawman.
Does anyone know a modern (influential) Aristotelian philosopher who holds views the writer is criticising?
You stay where you are and hire the ones willing or keen to work remotely?
Hi, I am Arkim Phiri, I use chatGPT, Gemini, and Claude a lot to help me write and prepare lessons for a youth group that I teach. I realized that I was wasting time switching between tabs (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude) to look for the best answer, so I decided to make one interface for all three models and one prompt to ask all the three models.
Your feedback on how I can improve Semaj AI will be greatly appreciated.
Must be a pretty cool toy; it constantly 10X’s my productivity.