skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"now with 42 percent less Unix philosophy", since HN seems to be lacking something to argue about here.

It is interesting because one of the primary accusations leveled against systemd has long been[0] that it's a monolithic and tightly integrated behemoth, in contrast to the unix philosophy (however imperfectly realized) of orthogonal tools that "do one thing and do it well". Defenders of systemd often retort[1] that systemd is modular, and that its many components can be separated - although the reality is not so friendly. Does this openly combative tagline represent an admission that systemd's hostility to piecemeal replacement is intentional? Or is it just a trollish crow of victory against systemd's historical naysayers, to celebrate this release number milestone?

[0] https://lwn.net/Articles/440650/
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/440753/
Can headlines written in the interrogative case ever be answered in the affirmative?
Forget AAAs, innovative indie developers were the real stars of Summer Game Fest
Original title edited for length:

Forget the AAAs, innovative indie developers were the real stars of Summer Game Fest
I found some kind of artifact @ 70.3169798 +19.0238259 FOV: 1.3°x2.4°.
What is that? Some kind of antenna?
External vs internal motivation.
Sans Bullshit Sans (2015)
Ah, you're correct, my bad.

I don't personally have a problem with spoofing user agents, but yeah, they're either spoofing or for some reason they're truly using a non-headless Chrome.
Game jam - like a hackathon, for games. Groups are given a theme or conditions and a short time (eg a weekend) to make a game as a challenge / for fun.

Demake - remaking a game for a more limited set of hardware. Remake normally implies increasing quality, whereas a demake is focused on cramming as much quality as possible in a much more constrained execution environment. (In this case, a PC/iOS game to a Pico-8 game.)
And houses are burning and people are being electrocuted regularly - being not only a hazard for themselves but also their entire neighbourhood. I certainly wouldn't want to live next to somebody who thinks they can handle their electricity installation by themselves.
We would employ local guides all around the world to craft itinerary plans to visit places, give tips, tricks, recommend experiences and places (we made money by selling some of those through our website) and it was a success.

Customers liked the in depth value of that content and it converted to buys (we sold experiences and other stuff, sort of like getyourguide).

One day all of our content ended up on Google "what time is best to visit the Sagrada Familia" and you would have a copy pasted answer by Google.

This killed a lot of traffic.

Anyway, I just wanted to point out that the previous user was a bit naive taking his fight to LLMs when search engines and OSs have been leeching and hijacking content for ages.
What's the state of Rust for embedded devices nowadays? Can someone point me towards some notable works, learning resources, etc.?
Quality journalism, and, even more importantly, free journalism (as in neutral or unbiased), costs money. I think a subscription is a very low effort compared to the kind of risks and hard work top reporters go through.

Another angle: prose and code describe facts using slightly different languages, but would you say that code (or institutions capable of publishing code at scale) shouldn't exist or that they should "belong to people" (what does that mean anyway?)
Voyager 1 has left the Solar System. Will we ever overtake it? (2022)
It’s always easy if we don’t know/talk about the hard parts!

In my experience, the panels themselves are at most 1/4 of the cost of any given system, even when discounting labor and permitting costs.
I see. Thanks for the clear explanation, it looks quite interesting for super quick setups.

Cheers!
Why is manual memory management a virtue? I'd rather fight the Rust compiler than deal with runtime errors, memory leaks, etc.
(1) The web offers a plethora of choices, and one subscription doesn't cover that. Like, pre-internet if you wanted National Geographic-type info, you could only get that with a hard copy of National Geographic.

(2) People psychologically struggle with paying for something non tangible.
I’m very curious about the numbers that Apple/Alphabet see internally, as I couldn’t find anything from quick searches. It’s just very hard to imagine that it’s an actual widespread issue. I can think of two demographics who experience this problem. First is older people (70+) who have never been exposed to apps, have an Android and text people on iOS. And the small groups of people that avoid “X, Y, Z” apps for ideological reasons, are on Android, but keep in touch with iOS users.
I'm not sure what you mean exactly. If Perplexity is actually doing something with your article in-band (e.g. downloading it, processing it, and present that processed article to the user) then they're just breaking the law.

I've never used that tool (and don't plan to) so I don't know. If they just embed the content in an iframe or something then there's no issue (but then there's no need or point in scraping). If they're just scraping to train then I think you also imply there's no issue. If they're just copying your content (even if the prompt is "Hey Perplexity, summarise this article <ARTICLE_TEXT>") then that's vanilla infringement, whether they lie about their UA or not.
Totally agree that’s an awesome tool (and there are others that are great too). My issue though (nothing against these tools) is that they serve to accelerate writing code by automating mundane/boilerplate parts of writing code.

My ideal scenario is defining features and reviewing proposed code changes accordingly, maybe fixing little things or tweaking it when I see my original idea isn’t really the best fit, etc.

Probably overly ambitious/not fully possible yet. But it seems like a combo of RAG/fine tuning/coding agents can be strung together to invert the software development model entirely.
In the USA, iPhones send videos/photos over MMS when including Android phones in a group conversation. There is a quality degradation but they aren’t missing. This feature works fine for me with the Android users I know in real life.

I wonder if you or your Android counterpart have a cell network issue with the MMS server configuration. This would only appear in cross platform texts, I suppose.
I'm willing to sign up for some cheap subscriptions through Apple that I'd be unlikely to make directly because I don't have the energy to scrutinize individual vendors regarding hidden charges, dark patterns, data collection, security breaches, etc.

I agree that the difference between $2.50 and $10.00 is significant, but addressing all the trust issues is too.
Countries most affected by climate change
Since the links in the "Ask HN" text are not clickable, here are the links in clickable form:

A) Atari Logo Reference Manual: https://atariwiki.org/wiki/attach/Logo/Atari%20LOGO%20Refere...

B) Atari Logo Introduction to Programming Through Turtle Graphics: https://atariwiki.org/wiki/attach/Logo/Atari%20LOGO%20Introd...

C) IBM Personal Computer Logo Reference: https://archive.org/download/ibm_logo_manual/ibm_logo_manual...
Pretty much everything beyond our solar system is essentially fixed on a human timescale. Over 2000 years, a typical star will move about half a degree. That's the width of the moon in the sky. There are of course notable exceptions like Barnard's Star, whose movement is pretty obvious on photographs taken over several decades.

If you want to explore how space changes over time, I recommend you look into something like Celestia[0]. It allows you to simulate star movement over thousands of years, and show you how the night sky looked to the Ancient Egyptians.

[0]: https://celestiaproject.space/
It went the same way as a $5 lunch.
None. I haven't found much benefit from it, and I just get sleepy (I currently don't have trouble falling asleep).
> Also weirdly it cannot spell behaviour.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/behavior
I had teachers that wanted code assignments on cd rom. No joke, I graduated undergrad in 2014. I had 1 professor who used fossil - which was on outlier (I actually kinda like fossil still).
This is the one that I stumbled upon: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_and_Other_Stories
> Odin inherits a lot of warts from horrible languages like Go

Still waiting on you to list what those "warts" may be. I mean sure golang may be overly conservative in its design but calling it "horrible" is a very wild take.

The only evil I know of that golang has perpetuated is making an unused-variable error an compile error that will block compilation instead of an linter error. This makes prototyping much more annoying.

Ironically a design mistake that Zig has copied as well. Not sure if Odin does actually
The answer is yes.

https://aidungeon.com/

This actually came out before chatGPT and it floored me.
Ideally I would like to have a good way to configure this, via some sort of "strftime++" syntax or something which allows different format strings depending on the age of the file.

For me, personally, this has been working quite well. If something is older than two days I don't often care about the exact time it was changed. While "yst" and "dby" are indeed slightly cryptic, it's quite mnemonic and reads naturally: "yesterday 15:14", "day before yesterday 07:42". Something like "-1 15:15" and "-2 07:42"? Rather less so.
Probably many things...

Google hype, popular cloud native open source projects showing its potential, well known creators, good to acceptable tooling, strong standard library, low memory footprint, concurrency, simplicity, productivity, the whole philosophy behind it.

Some of these are questionable, but I heard all these by some people.

What does this say about Swift's chances to gain mainstream popularity outside of the Apple ecosystem? Probably nothing, as the languages and the circumstances are so different.
Portal 2 has some truly unbelievable custom maps that hit the sweet spot for brain games mixed with hi-if graphics IMO. If you’ve never played the low-grav lunar levels or used the time traveling gun, you’re missing out.

Into the Breach is the closest you’re ever going to get to a chess sequel.
I'm going to put a plug in for Elden Ring.

Helps with reflexes and hand eye coordination but more importantly it fosters a zen mindset. Have to roll with the punches and work the problem instead of getting frustrated after you envitably die for the 1000th time.
Obviously yes. For example a nonprofit municipal communication network that people use for direct video calling with their loved ones, or that a public university uses to distribute free lecture courses.

A great deal of computerized products/services are today intentionally made to require constant upkeep so that they can produce an ongoing revenue stream when when no real work is needed. That's obviously not economically ideal, and their revenue is in some sense a measure of drag.

Consider for example music streaming. At 3 minutes per song and using 128 kbps Opus, you could have your favorite 100,000 tracks stored on your phone for about $15 worth of flash storage. From that perspective, Spotify revenue seems like an absurd thing to include as a measure of "progress", particularly if you mostly listen to music from 30+ years ago, which of course is not being made anymore.
'$' is common for interpolation in many languages. It's a good choice.

Awesome language, and it's definitely important from a theoretical point of view. However, you've missed the chance to call it "LiFo" :)
Goodbye, Work Friends
Myth: Japanese Are Only Good at Incremental Innovation
To get a halfway-decent view of the night sky I'd have to drive about an hour away from my home. To get a good view of the night sky I'd have to fly to another country half a continent away.
What's your beef?

>Boston at number 6? ... I find this list hard to take too seriously.

and silicon valley london, new york, tel aviv, and los angeles are ranked higher than it; the headline, that seattle dropped to 20, is the headline.

after Boston are singapore, beijing, seoul, tokyo, shanghai, and washington dc.

what is your suggested list? I just don't understand what you and many other commenters are saying.
I guess I meant from a technical efficiency perspective, rather than the social infrastructure around it. It’s unclear to me (and frankly seems unlikely?) that few more percentage points will fix the very real structural issues you raised!

At the same time, even if we do solve those issues, and we get solar panels on the roof of every home, there are still significant challenges to overcome as it’s unlikely the average home can become fully energy independent (especially if there is electrified winter heating), and anyways, the energy demand from single-family residential housing is only one slice of the overall energy pie. In any case, it would certainly help if we did that!
Tesla's solar roofs are anything but cheap, they are priced as super luxury.
This article claims that Tesla is using Python in control systems:

https://prateeksrivastav598.medium.com/python-powers-tesla-d...

That would explain a lot. How about a real time OS and a decent programming language for safety critical systems?

I guess I'll never drive in a Tesla.
I use and recommend ventoy for convenience. It is so convenient. That is, good for nerds to play with hardware and test distros. Not for end users.

For security, I always recommend Burning an ISO into a physical optical disc. Check the ISO MD5 before burning. No thumbdrives.

Then pray god your Government only aproves sales of backdoored hardware where you live. I recommend at least disabling (pulling out) the build-in Network cards (yes, wifi/bt too) and buying usb replacements.
As a person who has friends with Androids, I have no idea about the video quality through MMS. We just use WhatsApp, and although it affects the quality, it’s generally good enough.

My point isn’t that this upgrade isn’t useful. I meant, why would a private company allocate resources to fix a problem that barely affects their users?
The business model is journalism was advertising and it translated fine to the web. The problem is, it turned out that advertising didn't need journalism. Google ate the newspapers' lunch.
Fixing VR's screen door effect with the new iPad
Because that's literally what the author does in TFA and then complains about when Perplexity complies.

> What is this post about https://rknight.me/blog/blocking-bots-with-nginx/
> How would an LLM training on your writing reduce your reward?

Because you're not getting the ad impressions anymore. The harsh reality is that people do not click on to sources, so when sites like Perplexity copy your content, you lose the revenue on that content.

This, in turn, drives all real journalism out of business. And then everyone's screwed, including these AI reposting sites.
Instead of being so hostile toward a word that you've just encountered, how would it be if we were more curious about the concept behind it?

Satisficing is a form of constraint satisfaction under certainty, which although leads to local optima, can turn out to be more robust to unknowns.

Optimization assumes a correct model of the world, and that we can find a point within that model that gives us the best trade-offs (optimum).

But our models of the world are often incomplete or wrong. And even if we get to that optimum point, we back ourselves into a corner if the environment ever changes on us.

Instead, iteratively finding a satisfactory solutions that helps us make progress in the right direction is often far more valuable, and more robust to model mismatches to the real world.
AI language: Design vs. Emergence [video]
> Many top Chinese communists have degrees from US universities

Most leaders with a US educational background were primarily part of the Hu Jintao administration.

No one in the current Standing Committee of the Politburo spent an extended (as in multi-year) stay within the US or the West [0] (attending Bowling Green or UI for a couple weeks to months is not enough time to truly understand the US) nor are they technocrats (Hu's administration was unique in the amount of practitioner Engineers it had in its standing committee).

> The Chinese hawkishness today is reaction to the changed attitude of Americans

It very much did start in the 1990s [1] at the policymaking level and remained an active part of Chinese planning [2] for decades [3][4].

[0] - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/20th_Politburo_Standing_Comm...

[1] - https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-oral-hi...

[2] - https://www.jis.pku.edu.cn/docs/2018-07/20180703142847819805...

[3] - https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/323960205.pdf

[4] - http://dangshi.people.com.cn/n/2014/0504/c384616-24971840.ht...
Ask HN: Is Generative AI living up to the hype?
It is relatively early on in the adoption of this technology. What are the current adoption trends? Is Generative AI truly delivering value? I ask because I've come across this recent analysis by Lucidworks, and it's prompted thoughts about whether this wave of AI is living up to the hype. because generative AI is very capital intensive and compute resource intensive.

- "2024: State of Generative AI in Global Business": https://programs.lucidworks.com/Ebook-Content-2024-AI-Benchmark-Survey.html
2023 Hall effect controller purchasing guide
I do want an AI to dig through the seo content slop for me, but I’m not sure how we achieve that without fucking over people with actual good websites.
Or, I return whatever content I want, within the bounds of the law, based on whatever parameters I decide. What's your problem with that? Again, connect to my server or don't. But don't tell me what type of response I'm obligated to provide you.

If I think a given request is from an LLM training module, I don't have any legal obligation whatsoever to return my original content. Or a 400-series response. If I want to intersperse a paragraph from Don Quixote between every second sentence, that's my call.
Apple News+ helps there a lot. $13/mo for articles from a ton of paid outlets. It’s not everything on those sites, but I find that most of the popular articles are available.
PiWings 2.0 is a tiny drone based on Raspberry Pi Pico and ESP8266 WiFi module
so much projection

293984j29384 asked a perfectly reasonable question; they are blameless. you're the one who chose to start heckling the people who are actually talking about interesting things, attempting to harass them into formatting their comments more to your personal liking. that's what makes hn a worse experience for people

and if you think you're enforcing some kind of community standards by doing so, i have bad news for you
The implication would likely be that the share of population that can't afford it won't be able to pay for the grid alone either.

We have examples of this kind of situation in poor countries where the grid wasn't developed in the first place, and rich people use generators.
We have working systems like the Tongue Drive System (TDS) [0]. Tech companies seem out there [1] or [2] that offer solutions, but the a11y market is largely dysfunctional across the globe.

It is so difficult to get everyone the tech that works best for them. I was part of large EU funded project that wanted to fix this with an open source ecosystem [2]. However, I had to learn that although there are many innovative and engaged people it is really hard to fix seemingly simple problems.

[0] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.3006296

[1] https://glosdex.com/

[2] https://tongo.tech/

[3] https://ds.gpii.net
On a curious property of 3435 (2009)
Chat GPT4 has been in general both better and worse than 3.5. I sometimes start a conversation with GPT4 and then have 3.5 fix it in another window (by pasting the code and pretending it's mine). It feels like things have degraded for coding tasks specifically, but the more recent knowledge of GPT4 is helpful if I'm asking how to use a certain library that's more recent as it won't just pretend the library exists, GPT4 is also much slower.

I wish there was a ChatGPT 3.5 updated with more recent knowledge.
Why would the selection of characters matter? (Other than making sure you try distinct input strings)
Sure it is, but which of the many small websites are going to be able to fight them legally? Most companies would go broke before getting a ruling.

Reality is, the law doesn't matter if you're big enough. As long as they're not stealing content from the big ones, they're going to be fine.
Start-Up Domain Name Trends Over the Years
There's no "dogma" or "social consensus" here. The authors of the paper simply failed to do their homework adequately.

Earthquake Prediction is filled with cranks. To deal with the issue, there is a neutral set of criteria for "how to test a prediction theory" which involves making predictions in advance with a clear description of what types of events match the predictions and likelihood of event. Geologists can then compare a series of predictions and their outcomes to what would be expected based on historic patterns. Math then allows one to determine if the prediction theory is better than random guessing.

No predictions have yet been better than random guessing.
I agree with most of what you're saying. What I had in mind is if you have a kid that's not gifted, then trying to force them to learn reading at 2 will probably do more harm than good, when they could be learning to read just fine when they start school. At that point, unless they're showing signs of a learning disability, I'd absolutely be in favor of pushing them a bit.

I don't want a kid that's, for want of a better metaphor, at exactly 100 on the IQ chart to feel stupid because they failed at a reading program designed for 120+ IQ kids. Actually I don't want anyone to feel stupid and worthless, even if they're 80 IQ, but that's a harder problem.

I know that Maia Kobabe, author of the graphic novel memoir "Non-Binary" that's apparently among the most banned books in American schools, talks in said memoir about how e couldn't read at age 11 (apparently Waldorf schools go by "they'll learn when they're ready"), then Harry Potter came out and e suddenly had a successful motivation to learn to read (apparently Waldorf was right in this case). Now, e holds a masters in comics, and judging from the text in er memoir, e has no problems with reading and writing these days. (And yes, I respect people who use Spivak pronouns.)

I've also read a book by a therapist for autistic children where he talked about one case where the family was following some kind of ABA program to the letter and the kid was really not coping. They were starting to scream and have breakdowns the moment it looked like a "lesson" was coming up and was generally upset or angry most of the time. The new therapist's idea was if the program is working that badly, stop using it like that and do something else - and the kid's behavior improved soon to the point where they could start learning new things at their own pace. That's an extreme case of what I don't want to happen, ever.

The real tough skill for a parent is being able to distinguish between a kid who's giving up at the first sign of difficulties, and a kid that's genuinely overwhelmed and unable rather than unwilling to do what they're supposed to do at that time.