skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Austin is also very car-brained, but worse because it's a small city that's vastly overgrown its borders. But, agree, Houston is an armpit.
In fairness to the filter, "How Rachel Aviv wrote that New Yorker story on Lucy Letby" doesn't say much to me either.
I mean, it's on the front page because people upvoted it.

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Huh I never knew that. I just knew you couldn’t have two floors directly above each other while also having both floors visible to the player at the same time. All of my Mara 1 maps I built would crash when I tried this. I wonder if what you just explained is why.
It also severely misrepresents the relationship between the USSR and Germany. Hitler made no secret of the fact that one of his chief aims was to destroy the Soviet Union. The Soviets feared a German invasion and pursued an alliance with France. The USSR wanted to intervene to prevent a German invasion of Czechoslovakia, but after the British and French signed the Munich agreement with Hitler, the Soviets feared the western powers would let the USSR and Germany fight it out and moved to make their own accommodation with Hitler. Both sides regarded that deal as temporary, and knew that it would come to war later. The Soviets wanted to buy time to build up the Red Army.
This is what drives me nuts about apps these days.

In the "old days", an open file was in memory, and you needed to explicitly save it with Save, or save a new version with Save As.

But now everything's flown out the window. If I open a PDF in Preview on my Mac and delete a page from it, it saves the change instantly. If I made a mistake, I can't just close it and re-open the original version. I have to use "File > Revert to > Browse All Versions..."

But it acts differently if my file is on an external drive which doesn't support MacOS file revisions, so when I close the file it gives me this scary long dialog to explicitly make a choice whether to keep my changes or revert, this is my last chance.

Oh and there's no Save As anymore, there's a "File > Duplicate" instead which is never what I want, because the whole point is that sometimes I want to save my changes in a new file but keep the old one without the changes. So I have to do a whole song-and-dance to first duplicate and then save that and then go back to the original and then revert that.

Except it all depends on the application. Some applications still have the traditional Save / Save As, while some have moved onto Duplicate / Revert.

And as you mention, some apps will update the file you have open to reflect changes on disk, while others won't.

And of course cloud apps in the browser just autosave the whole time.

So you have to keep this insanely complex matrix in your head to figure out whether you need to constantly save your work with Cmd+S or not, or whether your work will accidentally overwrite your previous version which you might have been intending to save, or whether something like a sync will overwite the work you have open, and it all depends on just on which application you're using, but whether it's a cloud version or not, and whether you're working off of an external drive or not!

It's maddening. I hate it.
You're right, besides the reference to the logo competition there isn't much info on why Tux is a penguin. Wikipedia is better at recording the lore https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tux_(mascot)#Origins
Still lots of CGI.
Whoa, hold up for a second.

> He began by saying that the US has to “scare our adversaries to death” in war. Referring to Hamas’s 7 October attack on Israel, he said: “If what happened to them happened to us, there’d be a hole in the ground somewhere.

You cited this as an example of an extreme opinion, but this is bog-standard MAD that’s been a big part of the US strategy since the Cold War.

We don’t want to go to war -> Enemies won’t attack us if they think they can’t accomplish their goals by doing so -> Make sure they understand they will die if they attack us -> no war! (At least, in theory.)

You may disagree with that opinion but it’s not at all extreme, that’s the mindset most of the military has. And it is rooted in the desire to prevent large scale conflict.
Nim equivalent:

seq[array[8, ptr ptr proc(): ptr seq[ptr char]]]]

I love having actual words instead of random punctuation soup.
It's still rolling out. It's not browser specific.
I like this different angle, goes to show how many unknown unknowns there are

I think most of us would agree that maximizing an architecture's flexibility, including self-improvement, will always be preferred

quite an exciting perspective I almost ignored. of course we want self-improving AI. Imagine preparing all of the hardware, computing power, and everything, and just planting that initial seed, basically telling it "here you are, we've perfected the seed of infinite ASI, now go and grow baby, this is all yours now". man, this is so exciting... wish I had no need for money so I can focus on just this for my entire life starting right now
A return to isolationism would be best. The next 1000 years belong to China, for demographic reasons--this or that sort of "Great Game"-style meddling won't fix anything.

It didn't need to be this way, of course.
> And in all fairness, "stuff no one should ever need to worry about" is prime interview material for jobs.

In reality, when I've seen this:

1. Shitty companies will ask you esoteric details like this that aren't relevant to your job, in which case you should avoid them anyway. It's usually from immature devs that just go down a laundry list of stuff just because it's "easier to grade". Note I'm not referring to Javascript "weirdness" that may seem esoteric but is actually pretty important to know. For example, anyone who has been programming in javascript for more than a hot minute should know `typeof null === 'object'`, because (a) nearly everyone hits this as a bug at least once and thinks "that's nutty", and then (b) if you don't know this you will be likely to write bugs in your code.

2. This also doesn't apply if you're interviewing for a job where you need to know those esoteric details, like the other commenter who replied who wrote a transpiler. But if you're just, say, a front-end web dev, yeah asking some of the nuttier details (especially all of the inherent type conversion rules) is sign of a bad company IMO.
Longtime Thunderbird user. I prefer the old interface and so I've selected that. I wish I could compose a message or a reply in a tab. I often have to click away from the compose window and finding it again is less convenient than it could be (I'm on a Mac.) Lots of people want it, it's been an open bug/feature request since 2008 [0] and yet this is ignored in favor of other UX cruft and website PR.

I don't get the importance of announcing a website redesign. Doesn't look like it would convince anyone to try it.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449299
Can you describe this deep state? Is it in the room with us now?
If I recall correctly, it was Craig Federighi at last year’s WWDC.
Lucy Letby is a nurse recently convicted in the UK of murder of a number of babies in the ward she worked on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Letby .

Rachel Aviv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Aviv wrote a piece in the New Yorker about the case that raises doubts about the accuracy of the verdict: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Letby#Doubts_about_convic... .

This article is not available in the UK due to a court order: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/15/mp-u...

The case, and the suppression of the article, is about a current event and touches on issues of censorship and the uses of statistics that are often discussed here on HN.
So the solution is to avoid the problem?
That’s a cool looking building, but I have to imagine that amount of glass must mean very high heating and cooling bills. Hope they at least installed efficient heat pumps.
And the film OP mentioned Oliver & Company:

>Eleven minutes of the film used "computer-assisted imagery" such as the skyscrapers, the taxi cabs, trains, Fagin's scooter-cart, and the climactic subway chase

I think Tron wins in terms of CGI
I've known that symbol for decades, never knew it's name - up-tack it is. Ta!
Of course, but stupidity and lying always potentially is. It doesn't need to be technical. That's a whole different conversation.
Ask HN: How do you see the future of NO-CODE Programming?
I've been experimenting with the latest iterations of LLMs like Llama3, GPT-4-Turbo, and Gemini-1.5, and I'm impressed by their progress.

Initially, creating full programs from a prompt was unreliable, but these new models are starting to deliver.

For example, I used tulp (with gpt-4o and gemini-1.5) to write Arkanoid, Tetris, and Snake games in seconds, and the results were impressive. While these models already have knowledge of the tasks because they are well-known games, they have the ability to easily understand and add changes by prompt. The advancements feel quite remarkable.

What's your take on the current state and future potential of NO-CODE programming with LLMs?
If you think the world is better off with the US as a global policing power then one could argue that having an overwhelming force is key to sustaining peace.

So war isn't peace but being 10x stronger than everyone can be.
Paenibacillus larvae is a rod-shaped bacterium, so the treatment is an antibiotic. Most people don't understand the difference between vaccines and antibiotics it's all just doctor stuff.
Have you actually read recent SF novels? Think what you will about awards, but I've never been exceedingly disappointed when I read a novel that won a couple out of Hugo, Locus, and Nebula. I'd suggest you start there.
Yeah, we've been quite fortunate with our health. One possibility if you were so inclined is that the Obamacare plans only have an income test, not an asset one, so if you've still been able to build assets and plan for your retirement income to be just above 138% of federal poverty level (so you don't qualify for normal medicaid), then you get the full ACA subsidy (so a free silver plan).
You're saying you'd prefer zero coverage of an AI warfare conference, then?
That’s such a false dichotomy. There is a whole spectrum of existence between being a corporate PowerPoint drone and being a subservient housewife.
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40390831
I believe many nation leaders, especially those who ruled in very tumultuous times, would absolutely love it if war was not an option but alas, we have to comply with reality. We've also seen what happens to pacifists, sooner or later they get conquered.
the problem isn't making money, the problem is chasing continuous growth and ever increasing profits
> Don’t have “end goals”.

> Instead, have a direction, or preferably more than one. Strive to make progress in those directions and celebrate your progress.

I like putting the same concept in these terms: most things in life are a process, not a state.
You don't need to be 100% in love with yourself to 'love yourself' or be kind to yourself to some degree. I think sometimes people (me) hear stuff like this, and feel like it's all or nothing.

Think of yourself as a coach to your 'self'. Good parents are often 'high expectations, high support'. So you can be very ambitious, but also support yourself. If you just whip yourself all day every day to get the outcome you want, you will wither like an abused animal.

I actually think the ratio is much lower than we think to feel good about things, which actually makes the bar much more attainable. If you spend 5% of your time expressing love/support for yourself, and 95% of the rest of the time being critical and judgmental, you will feel dramatically better and more motivated than 99.9% critical and judgmental.
As far as I know googling isn't illegal. As someone working in security I search for all kind of things. Doesn't mean I am doing them.
There was an example of this in the classic 'Duke Nukem 3d'. It had a level by Richard "Levelord" Gray, 'Lunatic Fringe'.

https://dukenukem.fandom.com/wiki/Lunatic_Fringe

This level had a circular hallway ring around the outside that had two full rotations around without intersecting, using the 'build' engine's ability to separate areas by their room connections that also drove the 'room over room' technology which was groundbreaking at the time.

It made for fun multiplayer, and the illusion held well there. The central chamber has 4 entrances/exits if I recall, and you would only encounter two of them in each loop around the outside.

I recall building a toy level while experimenting with the engine that "solves" the "3 houses with 3 utilities without crossing" puzzle using this trick as well.
The first band that comes to mind would be Nada Surf. Their most popular work is probably "Popular", released in 1996, which people might recognize, but is probably the least representative of their overall output. They have put out a lot of quality albums in the meantime and they play really solid club shows. The next album is due this year. A lot of their work in the meantime is stuff I can happily listen to from start to finish. "The Stars are Indifferent to Astronomy" and "You Know Who You Are" are good examples.

Beyond that, I think Travis have put out some really nice material and Buffalo Tom still has a special place in my heart. I'm going to add Teenage Fanclub the list. I believe all of these bands will be touring this year on the merits of recent work. I wouldn't file any of these under nostalgia.
A few cents, as far as I understand, but that's not the only problem:

You can get significantly more precision using an oven-controlled oscillator (frequency is temperature-dependent, and it's easier and more precise to control temperature to a known high setpoint than to compensate for the temperature-frequency curve using a thermometer), but these are, as the name implies, small ovens that consume additional electricity (on the order of 1-2 W, as far as I know).

An additional base load of 1-2 W per oven and microwave would be pretty bad for the energy budget on a global scale, so just providing a time source from the power line they're already connected to is more efficient :)

Other than oven-based oscillators, you can also use temperature-corrected oscillators; the Apple Watch does that, for example, and is supposedly about four times more accurate than a non-temperature-corrected MEMS, which in turn is already better than a quartz oscillator [1].

Not that it matters much, given that all models have at least a GPS receiver these days, as well as a battery life of about a day without charging, but I suppose it's a real benefit to all Apple Watch users working in faraday cage isolated bunkers without Wi-Fi :)

[1] https://www.watchuseek.com/threads/apple-watch-oscillator-an...
> exactly nothing ... tiniest ...

I know it's commonplace, but let's consider whether extreme expression has any rational substance to it, whether it's somehow more meaningful than an argument with actual reasons.

Outrage is a weapon. Do we want it to be? I think (apologies to the parent comment) it should be disqualifying, shunned, excluded. It's a demonstration that they have no reasoned basis and will not contribute.
What other types are you planning? Maybe some floats (even if only on cpu targets, would be nice).
Building ActivityPub: Day 1
> From direct personal experience, I strongly believe the backend infrastructure and staff required just to operate the core product functionality of a successful large-scale social network massively exceeds what could be provided by donations.

Because these social networks are designed for analytics. It's in their blood. It permeates everything they do, and causes immense overhead.

Check out mailing lists or usenet.
I don’t think this is true. They might struggle with distractions elsewhere but if they’ve created a ritual out of writing in this distraction free environment they’ve created it will probably always work for them (and maybe better over time). Having the experience of doing things without distraction might also help them ignore distractions elsewhere.

By way of analogy, learning to swim in calm waters helps you learn to swim in rough waters by giving you the experience of what swimming is even like.
No, they're unable to do those things with any population larger than Dunbar's number. Occasionally they put on a show that things are different, for people who will be gone in a few hours, if it would be embarrassing for people to see what it's really like.

You do know about Dunbar's number, right? It's why you didn't fall asleep last night sobbing in grief at the 10 gorillion people who died horrible deaths last week. You're incapable of caring about anyone except for a very small number of people (probably fewer than 250), but it seems slightly shameful if you publicly acknowledge that you don't care about anyone (except that small number I cited) so you ignore it or lie about it.

There is nothing insane about my view, though I suppose it might be sad. Humanity doesn't scale, now we can't be termite-people like the hivemind had its heart set on. Tragic.
Noticed an error;

return run(w, wS, r+1,m)

Should be changed to:

return run(w, wS, m, r+1)
People do lots of illegal things. When some tech titan does it, many on HN decry the laws, the government, etc. Painting graffiti is relatively, completely, harmless.
> I've worked with who must be multi-millionaires (at least one has told me they are); I don't know what keeps them working corporate jobs.

What many people discover is that they actually have a desire to work in some way or another, which makes sense in the big picture of being human: feeling like you're making some kind of contribution to a communal end seems like a pretty innate since that's how communities and cultures sustain.

If you've matured a career and gotten sufficiently comfortable with its processes, many people can find satisfaction in it even when they become aware that the "communal end" is bullshit. You just do your part, complain to friends at dinner parties, bank the paycheck, and justify your indulgences in luxury to how much you put up with to earn them.

Many find that once you take that away, you find yourself staring at a blank slate where you're not really prepared to make comparably significant contributions to anything else and are reluctant to start grinding from the bottom in a new field/skill.

Retirement is harder than many assume, and especially early retirement. And not just because of the financials involved.
Why do I remember The C Programming Language book by K&R explaining how to write a version of cdecl? I just checked the second edition of the book and my memory seems to be wrong.
There generally has been a major regression for both GNOME and KDE with regards to accessability with the switch to Wayland IIRC. Mostly due to the strict separation of apps and not being able to snoop eachothers windows by default.

Tho there have been major works sponsored/supported by GNOME/STF to improve the entire accessibility stack used in the Linux userspace https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9psDfEFf9c
I agree, but I never mentioned subservience at all. Those are your words.
Just a public service announcement for people interested into looking into Russian watches, and the watch makers that still exist. There are two Vostoks. There is Vostok Europe, which makes more "premium" watches at a premium price and they are not made in Russia, so literally the 'not your grandfather's Vostok.' And Vostok that still makes cheaper mechanical and automatic watches similar to how they used to make them years ago and made in Russia (your grandfather's Vostok).
An example of the test for a snake game:

TULP_OPENAI_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY tulp -x "A Snake game with Pygame. Press 'x' to start/restart, 'q' to exit. The snake starts small and grows when it eats. Food appears randomly over time. Red food is poisonous. Increase poison and speed with score. Make it colorful. The player has three lives. Include score and high score."

At the following link you can see more examples and some videos of the working games:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/no-code-programming-federico-...
> How did the Atom bomb stop Nazi Germany?

It didn't. The fear was that the Nazis might develop nuclear weapons and use them to end the war on its own terms [1].

> do you think dropping the bomb on Germany would have humbled them or would they seek revenge in the long term?

Yes, our eternal enemy the Japanese.

> bombs brought as MAD and that only works as long all parties try to stay alive and don't there is a paradise in the afterlife if they die for a holy cause

Fair enough.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein–Szilard_letter
Here’s the former team leaders take. Says they couldn’t get compute resources to do their job.

https://x.com/janleike/status/1791498174659715494
I believe we call this “crafting a narrative”
That's a great game, but it only uses portals to locally break the rules of geometry. The phrase "non-euclidean geometry" normally means either hyperbolic of elliptic (spherical) geometry.
Social media was already rife with fake news and half truths before ChatGPT.

And there are already open source LLMs that can be trained to scam a significant number of people. OpenAI can't do anything about it.

The only remedy is social media warning people.
> Apple sells highly profitable devices and makes its apps free, but locks you into a proprietary ecosystem.

Apple does sell a number of software products for high-ish prices: Final Cut Pro (as well as add-ons Motion and Compressor) and Logic Pro are paid-for software.

But the another thing (which is fascinating to me, given the audience of HN and the tone of the comments here) is that part of the purpose of the ecosystem lock-in is to get users to pay indy devs for software.

Now, yes, Apple does take a cut. But that aligns them with devs in terms of getting users to open their wallets. The iPad still has no calculator app. But there are plenty of paid ones in the App Store. Apple gets an extra $0.30 and the indy dev gets $0.70 because iPadOS lacks a built-in calculator[1]

I predict that the european experiment will ultimately prove to be a failure for paid apps. If you look at the commentary from users and developers about why they like the changes, the things they like are completely orthogonal, even if they sound the same. Developers like that they won't have to pay the "Apple Tax" because users can side-load. Whereas users like that they don't have to pay developers because they can side-load.

I hope I'm wrong.

[1] Except the one in spotlight.
The thing I've never understood is how Leike's superalignment scheme could work. There's a high-level description of their research aims here: https://openai.com/index/introducing-superalignment/ Basically they want to train a model to evaluate the safety of other models, because "humans won’t be able to reliably supervise AI systems much smarter than us".

But we know that memory-augmented LLMs (not conventional LLMs, but a minor extension that will likely become commonplace, or some variation thereof) are Turing complete, so being able to inspect a model and guarantee some property is equivalent to the halting problem.

It's probably hard to justify a research team whose goal is solving the halting problem, which is provably undecidable in the general case.
Google Launches Gemini-Powered Cybersecurity AI Tools to Combat Cyber Threats
Way off topic, but apparently Energy is the canonical "DOE". https://www.doe.gov redirects to https://www.energy.gov. <Insert joke about whoever had the most nukes wins here.>
Animation of how HIV infects a single T-cell

https://vimeo.com/260291607
Ambitious but at peace, thank you