skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ozempic May Reduce Alzheimer's Risk
Allowing Waymo at SFO is a political mess because the airport owned by the city and the city hates robotaxis. Waymo did apply for a permit to operate at SFO, but were denied.
Building search-based RAG using Claude, Datasette and Val.Town
I brought SVG to WebKit, back in 2005. So I guess I'm part of the problem.

I generally agree with the article, SVG is bloated and confused about what it's trying to do.

You're not alone in wanting something better. We had this same problem in Flutter. Ian Hickson (of HTML5 fame) made some attempts at seeing a better future you might be interested in:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YWffrlc6ZqRwfIiR1qwp1AOk...
Most of the time the professors spend 0 time specifically on a student (PhDs excluded) as postdocs/PhD students mark coursework and even (in some institutions) exams
Filming what happens next has often been proposed as a great revenue driver.
The problem with that is that you can't do it by making straight chord slices of the the wafer - each cut has to terminate or it will go through the middle of the next hexagon. But it does sound plausible - surely lasers could do this more easily than retooling the whole lithography pipeline for rectangular wafers. But you'd think they would have thought of the idea.

You could do triangular chips with straight cuts. But I that would divide the area more finely, which is the opposite of what they need.
I think Apple and Nvidia are prepaying TSMC which helps TSMC pay for capex.

In other cases I've read about Apple owning machines used by their manufacturers.
If you want a game where you effectively script/program the entire gameplay, check out Bitburner: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1812820/Bitburner/
FWIW I think LangChain has evolved a lot and is a nice time saver once you figure out the patterns it uses. The LangSmith observability is frankly fantastic to quickly get a sense of how your expected LLM flow engineering ends up working out in practice. So much FUD here, unwarranted IMO. Don’t forget, reading code is harder than writing it, doesn’t warrant throwing out the baby with the bath water. Don’t fall for NIH :) Haven’t had issues running in prod recently either since they’ve matured their packaging with core/community/partner etc. For agentic use cases look at LangGraph for a cleaner set of primitives that give you the amount of control needed there.
It's a bit reminiscent of college dropout Steven Spielberg's returning to Cal State Long Beach in 2002 to finish his B.A. in Film and Electronic Arts: One of the degree requirements was to complete and submit a film project — so he submitted Schindler's List, which had won the Academy Award for Best Picture (and Spielberg the Oscar for Best Director).
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

SVG: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26114863 - Feb 2021 (219 comments)
I've been doing 80% >> 45% for a while on a 14 pro max....on a best effort manual basis.

Appears to be working...I'm on 93% battery health today while googling suggests others where hitting <90% in mid 2023 already.

So unscientifically it does seem to matter, though whether it is worth the hassle is another question
In Austria, 2k/mo before taxes is roughly what you earn as a part-time employee filling shelves at the supermarket [1].

[1]: Typical supermarket job in Austria: https://jobs.aldi-hofer.com/hofer-karriere-at/job/Linz-BACKB... The advertised salary for 21 hours/week of 1330€ is paid 14 times per year and comes to a total income of ~15.7k€ after taxes. If you make 24k€ a year as a self-employed person, you will have to pay ~400€ taxes + 6.5k€ pension + health insurance leaving a total of ~17k€ after taxes.
1) no they aren't, just like Python 2.7 libraries still work just fine with python 2.7 and that's fine and entirely on you (HI GRAPHICS INDUSTRY!).

If a 5 year old library doesn't work with current Node, that's perfectly fine. Kind of already the case right now anyway, so nothing new under the sun there. Packages that are still actively used, though, get 4 years to uplift. that is plenty of time.

2) how is that different from companies that still use Node 14 or even 10 in production today because their dependency chains make it impossible to uplift even without taking CJS vs. ESM into consideration?

Everyone who's already stuck in the past is going to stay stuck in the past, anyone who can afford to uplift their codebase over two to four years will be better off, including the entire JS dev landscape. Let's not pretend that the bad habits of others should hold everyone else back. That's how we got here in the first place.
I would go as far as to say the rewrite and aggressive reconcepting of Netscape spurred the growth of newer browsers. NS 6 added too much that people didn't want or didn't want in that context.

My comment above was trying to point out: NS6 rewrite wasn't the only browser to start back from scratch at that time.

What I think Spolksy was advocating for: Don't try to completely rewrite things for fun, there are a lot of dark corners there.
It is very much not meant to be training for a career. The culture of "time spent on anything that does not lead specifically to financial gain is wasted" is sad.
> Have you seen actually dysfunctional organization?

I have yet to see an organization that is not dysfunctional.

Some dysfunctions I can live with, though. I agree with you, if gaming the metrics wastes a reasonable time (say, 5 minutes a week), it's definitely not the worst.
Maybe, but perhaps they could counter that their piloting skills are so good they don't even have to be in a plane to land it.
Yes, most human drivers go above the speed limit. I agree that it can be unsafe, but wouldn't a self-driving car be safer at going above the speed limit than humans? I feel like it should be OK for it to go 5-10 miles over, especially if that's what the flow of traffic is.
Research careers. Lol. Since this is HN I’ll hit a nerve, but I bet much less than 0.1% of CS MS degree holders do research as a career.
Most scripting games aren't really incremental games as such, although they do exist most notably in the form of a game called BitBurner.

However, it's more along the lines of HackMud, than a scriptable RPG, so it's not got the fantasy theming that progress quest / OSRS have.

There's another game which is more of a scriptable story driven RPG, although I can't remember the name of it now. It might be "While Heart.Break()" but off the top of my head I have a feeling that's more of a computer themed story driven isometric RPG than a scriptable isometric story-driven RPG, and there's another game which is, but I honestly can't remember right now, and this is my work account so I can't dig too deeply around the steam archive.
Yes right now only available in the Bay Area, but we plan to expand to a few major cites post MVP phase.
Tigase XMPP Server 8.4.0 has been released – Jabber/XMPP Java Server
I would say never. Hex gives no advantage over round. Both have waste when dicing. Square gives the least amount of waste.
> Lol. They foreigners are buying homes like mad because there's no protection

Yes and its a major problem. Some locations are already acting out.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/portugal-ends-golden-...

> This is a distraction for an easy target. It won't help and it will make the quality of hotels worse.

Its not a distraction - its just a start. And hotel quality is still what it was before Airbnb and it will stay like that after airbnb goes away. The standards that national and international tourism institutions apply to the hotels has not changed one iota because of airbnb.

> But hey, instead of fixing the real problems

This is the real problem.

https://www.thestar.com.my/lifestyle/travel/2023/10/09/fed-u...
Why going cashless has turned Sweden into a high-crime nation
> So how is Apple (or Meta, or Google) supposed to launch new features

Like any other regulated industry: In a way that complies with regulations...?

> Fortunately, because Apple is delaying Apple Intelligence and these other new features in the EU, all of the thriving EU-based smartphone and OS makers can jump in and compete on merit now, without Apple the gatekeeping bully in their way.

Apple has a long history of launching features in the US, or even the en_US locale, months or years before the rest of the world, doubly so when they have anything to do with language processing.

In my view, they're largely using this opportunity to dunk on EU regulators in a way that they probably hope will agitate EU consumers against them. Not too dissimilar from what Meta is doing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40702886

And generally – I realize this puts me in dangerous proximity to an ad hominem, but hopefully my point above can stand on its own – I'm getting more and more frustrated with him lately, so here goes: Gruber is such an insufferable Apple shill. There's literally nothing Apple can do that he won't find a way to spin in a way that makes it look pro-consumer, rather than anti-competition.

Here he is on Apple Pay anonymizing payments somehow, when it does no such thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39844960

Or here, on Apple "high-quality" Lightning DACs, which he asserts are somehow much more expensive to make than (non-Apple-licensed, and accordingly without access to the Lightning port for anything other than power) aftermarket adpaters/headphones including a Lightning-powered Bluetooth SoC, which by necessity also includes the same kind of DAC... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40539762

I'd take anything he writes on contentious topics such as this with an appropriate grain of salt.
She first headed commercial crew which outperformed tremendously by comparison to almost all NASA programs (in terms of budget and execution).

She then got promoted to lead Human Exploration and Operations - which is absolutely a promotion. In terms of putting US Astronauts in space, her crew dragon program as significantly outperformed SLS at an absolute fraction of the per seat cost. So yes, very embarrassing.

I'd have to look at timelines, but my instinct is Nelson likely came on and that pretty much marked the end of her career at NASA as a result.

She wasn't afraid to make the calls she thought were right, she was pushing towards fixed price awards even on things like HLS, and having her in Exploration Systems Development would just have ruffled too many feathers over time.

The whole lunar landing architecture was so comical. SLS launching Orion to lunar gateway? Lunar gateway in a nonsensical orbit that would have needed an an entire separate transfer vehicle to get to LEO where it should have been to start with?

“Why would you want to send a crew to an intermediate point in space, pick up a lander there and go down?” asked Buzz Aldrin, who called the Gateway concept “absurd.”

Kathy was involved in HLS selection I think - and when I saw they were going to maybe leave gateway out of architecture for first lending... you knew that common sense couldn't last!

The ihab module on gateway (currently getting maybe 800 million per year in funding) is going to have 53 cubic feet for FOUR PEOPLE!! The entire module has a diameter of maybe 4 feet BEFORE life support? And gateways orbit mean you can only get to it at a very specific time once a week basically .
Wow, that’s a great argument against some argument that’s not being made here.
Why view it as a dichotomy? Expose kids to both (and other fruitful intellectual hobbies) and let them pick the ones they like. I don't think it's "problematic" to consider that how rewarding a hobby feels might not be an objective hierarchy and instead might vary by individual.
Spain is not the US. Barcelona had been building a lot of housing. Its not enough as they get converted to airbnbs or get scooped up by rich foreigners or foreign investment funds.
> Note that these numbers are of the Province of Barcelona. I don't know why you'd restrain yourself to the city proper.

The article, submission and discussions are about Barcelona city, not some far off town like Sant Joan de Vilatorrada (population: ~10k). No one who lives there would say they live in Barcelona, at most they'd say Manresa as that's the closest city.

But yes, if you're willing to live in the Catalan country-side, then of course Barcelona doesn't suffer from the density for you, but it's not a solution for us who live in Barcelona city.
Well it doesn’t go to the airport today, because it doesn’t go on highways or out of the city. So i don’t think anyone has missed their flight.

I suspect with their new permits approved, you’ll see them drive on the highway soon, which will result in much faster trips where applicable.

I am really glad it’s not aggressive at driving - they drive how humans are supposed to - cautiously. Humans kill people regularly from aggressive driving.
I think the joke is that they finished their undergrad at age 24.
I too wish there was someone cutting their way through the Internet jungle to find the Scene, and report back to the rest of us. Pockets of vibrant, virtuous, inventive community about. They are, rightfully, protective of their hard-earned turf. We probably need not look far to find one nearby, just keep an open mind about the tech being used. It could be a WhatsApp group, an old-school bulletin board, a Mastodon hashtag. Your own genuine engagement and empathetic attention are the entry ticket. Go thrive!
So what should we make of the presence of actual hucksters and actual senior execs who are acting like credulous sheep? I see this every day in my world.

At the same time I do appreciate the actual performance and potential future promise of this tech. I have to remind myself that the wolf and sheep show is a side attraction, but for some people it’s clearly the main attraction.
Overnight guests are typically banned, but I've never seen an Airbnb listing that says you can't have someone over for a cup of tea.
> But you're already doing all of that by carrying an Android phone.

I'm not.
I'm honestly not sure how to combat that any more, outside of a ban on the party.

Perhaps by getting rid of these haughty, and one simply has to say: typisch-Wessi notions of the new Länder as being "flyover territory". Which is part of what drives people to vote for AfD in the first place. As if the former West Germany doesn't have its own stereotypically maligned areas as well.
> Can you provide a quote of where I said this is an example to be followed"?

People can read the context of what you said, there's no need to quote it.

In fact, I would advise you to read the context of what you said; if you don't understand why I interpreted your comment the way I did, maybe you should read the posts chain you responded to and that will help you understand.

> Sure, to clarify: I meant precisely what I said. I did not mean any of the completely different nonsense you decided to suggest I was actually saying.

Well, what you said, you said in a context. If you weren't following the conversation, you didn't have to respond, and you can't blame other people for trying to understand your comments as part of the conversation instead of in isolation.

Even if you said what you said oblivious to context, then I have to say, if you meant exactly what you said, then my response is that a risk/reward analysis which only considers economic factors and ignores human factors is reprehensible.

There is not a situation which exists in reality where we should be talking about economic success when human lives are at stake, without considering those human lives. If you want to claim "I wasn't talking about human life", then my response is simply, you should have been talking about human life because the actions you're discussing killed people and that the most important factor in understanding those events. You don't get to say "They took a risk and it paid off!" when the "risk" was wiping out entire populations--that's not a footnote or a minor detail, that's the headline.

The story of the Challenger disaster isn't "they took a risk ignoring engineers and lost reputation with the NASA client"--it's "they risked astronaut's lives to win reputation with the NASA client and ended up killing people". The story of colonizing North America isn't "they took a risk on exploring unknown territories and found massive new sources of resources" it's "they sacrificed the lives of sailors and soldiers to explore unknown territories, and then wiped out the inhabitants and took their resources".
I read an article on evolutionary algorithm-based designs a long time ago -- they are effectively indecipherable by humans and rely on the imperfections of the very FPGA that they are synthesized on, but work great otherwise.

- https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/

- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03784...
Yes, that is a good clarification - it uses wider precision internally, but it takes floating point restrictions and operations into account. If you otherwise used Remez, you would have to just quantize the coefficients blindly and then tweak (probably manually) if something was off.

Shamelessly plugging, you can sort of see the old-school process here (using integers and mixed-precision fixed point is harder with Sollya): https://specbranch.com/posts/faster-div8/

The results of a follow-up quantization process that was programmatic using an LP solver to narrow the operands went into a paper I wrote for ARITH last year: https://arith2023.arithsymposium.org/papers/Newton-Raphson%2...

The coefficients and constants in both cases are substantially higher than what you get from Remez, to allow for truncation. When you have quantized operands, they are quite a bit higher. The same goes for approximations generated by Sollya - the optimal coefficients are relatively far from what Remez would tell you to do because of the error you get from rounding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%E2%80%93cube_law
It's funny that you call that the standard algorithm, because, although it intuitively makes sense, this is the first time I've seen that word-counting algorithm.

The first implementation of wc I ever saw was the one from The C Programming Language, which has this written at the beginning of the book (except instead of "(isspace(c))" they wrote "(c == ' ' || c == '\n' || c == '\t')"):

state = OUT;
nl = nw = nc = 0;
while ((c = getchar()) != EOF) {
++nc;
if (c == '\n')
++nl;
if (isspace(c))
state = OUT;
else if (state == OUT) {
state = IN;
++nw;
}
}
The embedded video review by RetroTV1 has quite a lot more info and details:

https://youtu.be/wVgITS8aLzc
Pentium 90 with 32 mb ram at least. 95 was dog slow even on a 486 dx2 66 with 20 mb ram.
Buffet also lost billions in buying Dexter shoes or whatever the name was.
I’m not understanding the bragging about packing 50 people in a box like sardines
Bring it with you and deploy it. It doesn't need to have the same mass as a Starship, just a significant fraction would do.
Well they just got the permit to expand, so you shouldn’t have to wait too long. That said, I think the plan was first to expand down the peninsula.
A Look Back in Time: The GM/Southern Pacific Vert-a-Pac
No, it’s not dualistic at all. I have not and never do make the argument that humans are somehow “separate” from nature. I am making the argument that value judgments (like all concepts) occur in people’s heads and are not intrinsic characteristics of anything at all.
I was surprised when I first took a flight lesson how easy it is to takeoff and go. You push the throttle all the way in and it takes off on its own. I believe there have been incidents of them flying themselves for hours after a pilot died or was incapacitated.

They are built to fly, so they do unless something interferes.
My trick is to walk a block or two on either end of the trip.
Atlas Shrugged? The book written by that demented woman who couldn't deal with her own feelings but told everyone how individualism was the answer to everything while living thanks to other people's support?

That book?
If they're really safer than human drivers, like the Google-funded studies claim they are, then this seems like a positive rather than a negative. Perhaps we humans should be slowing down and driving more carefully?

But I'm not sure if we can trust these studies. I'd really like to see a completely independent evaluation, of how the safety of Waymo cars compares to human drivers, and to the safety other companies like Zoox.
Love it, but at where Los Angeles moves to become like New Delhi in the 4 columns shown, my MBP 2016 GPU spiked to 880% and gets stuck til I shut down the process. Needs some optimization.
Anyone looking for an idea for something potentially valuable to make: ingest PDF datasheets and let us search/compare etc, across them. The PDF datasheet is possibly one of the biggest and most unecessary hurdles to electronics design efficiency.
Oh man, this hits so hard. Just got a request from the mkt dept at a corp I collaborate with to sync a db table to a Google Sheet. Yeah, I've done it, but now my soul is eternally damned.

Moreover, people keep messing with the sheet, sorting, adding, and moving columns like it's a free-for-all. Can you imagine the mess?
Tourism is lucrative only for a handful of major tourism corporations/agencies, a few local businesses/shops that can cater to locals, and a few among the locals who can use their real estate for things like airbnb. Only 6% of Spaniards have more than one house. So only 6% of them could actually benefit from this situation even if airbnb was a good thing.

The reality of the matter is that what's happening in Barcelona ended up resembling more a colonization when tourism got combined with golden visas that allow rich foreigners and investment funds to scoop up local housing and the recent digital nomad wave. There are now more foreigners in the city center than locals and you are hard pressed to hear Spanish or Catalan being spoken around the place.

"I was born and raised in Barcelona, no longer live there however. I didn't remember how bad it was until I went to visit my family last summer. Me and some friends went to walk around the center and the girl that took our orders at a Pans&Company didn't even know Spanish or Catalan, only English. It was honestly quite depressing. She was surprised we didn't open the conversation with English."

https://www.reddit.com/r/askspain/comments/1833ub1/comment/k...
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

My experience crafting an interpreter with Rust (2021) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35308246 - March 2023 (52 comments)

My experience crafting an interpreter with Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28026562 - Aug 2021 (2 comments)

My experience crafting an interpreter with Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27926705 - July 2021 (1 comment)
Can we just put Cloudflare in front? :) joking but half serious actually..
Yeah the one were people attack the author rather than the idea because they aren't competent enough to do so.
Making large silicon boules is cheap enough that I'm sure what they plan to do is just square off the sides of the boule before sawing into wafers. The scrap from that process, since it is pure silicon, can just go back into the pot the boule was drawn from (it might need some cleaning steps first), so there is effectively no wasted silicon.
The European Union official website has a cookie banner (https://european-union.europa.eu/index_en), does that mean it is spying on me ? Should I be worried ? Or is the definition of "tracking cookies" so wide that even extremely innocuous websites still have to display that banner because the law is stupid ?

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" (Hanlon's razor)
I always considered it looked like a rabbit!
Barcelona can basically not grow horizontally anymore, being blocked in from all sides and all the ground is already covered by something.

So the alternative is to build vertically, but that also comes with trade-offs as the streets get less sun and city dwellers will be able to see less sky.

People on the internet will do anything but read before spouting their obvious solutions on the internet.