skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are no emergent behaviors; LLMs are essentially memorizing statistical patterns in the data and using lexical cues to generate responses. They cannot explain themselves reliably because they don't know what they know, nor do they know what they don't know. In fact, LLMs don't truly 'know' anything at all. These are not thinking machines—they are simply the result of statistical pattern matching on steroids. That's why there will be no AGI, at least not from LLMs: https://www.lycee.ai/blog/why-no-agi-openai
And it doesn't breakdown into billions of micro particles that stay in the environment. (Though lots of micro plastics come from apparel rather than consumer electronics)
And Google will give you a denotative definition for art. Just because people have differing opinions about what art is doesn’t mean all those opinions are equally valid or true.
Have you tried trying an agentic approach, i.e. https://github.com/microsoft/autogen
In a world awash with answers the true skill is knowing the right question.
Not surprising. We know China has stopped taking plastic and other stuff from the US.

There was an article similar here on HN where plastics meant to be recycled end up in very odd places. It’s basically sold for pennies and transported to different places where it’s finally just stockpiled as garbage. Strange business of how it changes hands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony)
Almost all plastic is trash. Metal, paper, clean cardboard, and glass are the true recyclables. Always try to recycle those materials.
I was not expecting to see Histoire d’O by Pauline Réage recommended by McKinsey & Co.
> You claimed the problem got worse but if you've never seen it yourself, what data are those "well known" facts based on?

Not everyone has solipsism at the core of their epistemological worldview. Even without knowing your jurisdiction, I would discourage you from seeking out CSAM; the laws do not have an exception for curiosity.
It definitely is. I switched to it primarily because the main website just takes up so much memory, needlessly.

I have no moral issue with this either. If Google wants money then they need to be more legitimate in their business dealings. No ignoring DMCA abuse, no ending user accounts with no appeal, no dark patterns period.
Oh, I would probably agree. I’m just saying Intel also ships a lot of chips and it’s not like they are hurting for cash from those sales. I think a direct comparison would be difficult because the BOM of the average iPhone processor is surely much less than Intel’s but they sell a lot more, but also Apple’s revenue is mixed in a lot of things so looking at just a processor is not really possible to do considering the money goes to making iPhones not just chips. I think if you looked at overall R&D investment on processors in dollars though then numbers would look a lot closer.
There has been no austerity: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYONGDA188S
Reducing social media hours or eliminating them is also a great alternative to Twitter.
I was once pitched a business where external-facing cameras would be provided to car owners, distributed through auto insurance companies. The business intended to make money from selling the video data to law enforcement. I'm skipping a lot of details, but one of the main objections is that the police wouldn't pay for the data, they would just take it.
+1. I have done this. It works well.

I watch videos from my subscriptions in reverse chronological order and that’s it.
Anyone know how this compares with stackgres and cloudnative-pg?

Looks like this supports mysql and mongodb, which the others don't.
Taming the beast that is the Django ORM – An introduction
Also ironically, kinda like English, which is ugly, and has even more ways of saying anything. Language and writers, have done far more damage to the world historically than coding or programmers. Also many great and wonderful things, just like coding. Outrage is such a wonderful emotion.
Nice Design, however:

1. I don't understand why there's a pricing model for some CSS on forms. if I'm hosting the form & submission endpoint why do I need your backend (? not even sure what your role is here)
2. why not make it into a selfhosted typeform alternative; would be cooler than this saas bs
"Read the room" is just a variant of the appeal to authority fallacy.
"sustainable" while making the board $20bn quarterly profit, of course.
People choose the facts they want and it's incredibly dangerous to let them censor any dissent from their personal reality.
I've often said that I feel like I've lost at least a decade off my life. I had Covid back before tests, etc back in March 2020. Lots of testing until I lost my insurance. Recently, my GP says it's probably Long Covid, but we'll never prove it.

Beta blockers seem to have helped a little bit, at least my pulse doesn't just sit at 80 all the time. I find myself angry at getting so little done... until I do something... and then WHAM... that was a mistake.
No, the burden is on you. The web is public by default. If you join it and think there is a burden on your visitors to pay you by viewing some bullshit that you serve them from some megacorporation who sells their identity, you are the one being unethical.
You mentioned adblock but do you also have antivirus? Some of them act as proxies and will look something up on the first request. Beyond that there are a million little things that can cause the first lookup to be slow. Overloaded firewall, edge router trying to purge stateful sessions, link duplex mismatches, disk cache enabled and disk being slow, MSS/MTU too high when using a VPN so the OS retrying with a smaller segment tcpdump would show this, initial window size too big microsoft will block this from people tweaking for high throughput. Try viewing the page with curl and see if that is slow. I would just be guessing at this point without knowing everything involved in the setup. If it's a network issue then Wireshark [1] may be able to highlight some issues. Also try another machine on your network and then take that machine to someone elses network like a coffee shop or bookstore that has public wifi.

[1] - https://www.wireshark.org/
I'd say it's likely not due to any shenanigans, but simply because HN readers in general love eInk devices.

That said, I do which there were more players in the market. If you want an Android powered e-Ink device, you don't have a lot of options at the moment.
Check out Nim[0] - it's strongly typed, with good type inference, clean elegant syntax, memory management is automatic (optional gc, default is ARC + small footprint cycle collector), compiles to small single binaries (Hello World is less than 100 kb), has powerful metaprogramming and lsp support.

Nim compiles to C/C++ and then to native code, so performance is on the same level as Rust/C/C++. You can also compile Nim to js/wasm and run the same code in the web.

[0] - https://nim-lang.org
Show HN: Who is hiring job posts count since 2011
Hey HN,

I am working on a small hobby project to better organize job posts on the monthly Who Is Hiring posts.
A big issue I kept seeing was a decent amount of top level posts that were clearly not job listings, among other issues.

I ran my dataset through llama3.1 to make sure each post in my database is an actual job posting and not commentary, etc.

This is a spreadsheet of the job post counts since 2011 when the tradition was started.

Hoping to launch my site either this coming Who is hiring or maybe October.
The winners determine whether it is an overthrow attempt or a protest.
I think that process and the fabs influence things much much more than the microarch design. In fact, what microarch you can aim for (like, how wide it can be, and so how aggressive you get to be with all aspects of it) comes down to how good the process is.

So the comparison is Intel vs TSMC. If you consider that TSMC doesn’t just have Apple as a customer, then holy cow the difference is big.
In Arizona a giant home builder complained about a home inspector called CyFy posting tiktoks showing their shoddy construction. What you consider bland and unobjectionable they get very upset about.

https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/we-were-una...
Sorry about this, but a law was just passed making posting anything to a public-facing web site without prior government authorization a serious crime with a five-year forced-labor-camp sentence.
What is currently waste will be mined in the future. Everything is recycled on a long enough timescale (provided it doesn't leave the Earth.)

Yes, all this "plastics bad chemicals bad" eco-virtue-signaling is stupid. This idiotic paranoia is more destructive to society than anything else. Keeping the masses scared is how they will continue to maintain control.
5 tons / average American = 24 people?
Have you ever been rear-ended, stopping twice like that?

I have.
Playstation 2 GS emulation – the final frontier of Vulkan compute emulation
Most metals in common use are recyclable. Whether they actually are recycled or not probably depends on what they're attached to. A washing machine, for example, contains plastic and rubber, and those have to be separated from the metal for the latter to be recycled. Perhaps someone can comment on that.

Copper is of course valuable enough that at times people have stolen copper wiring to sell it for recycling. I don't know whether that's a thing today.

At one point, printed circuit boards contained gold--used, as I understand it, to coat traces (sort of like wires) to prevent corrosion. Tiny amounts, of course, but apparently enough to warrant recycling. I actually knew someone who stripped the traces off of old boards and sold them. Again, I don't know whether that's still a thing.
> The studies - part of the Select trial - tracked more than 17,600 people, aged 45 or older, as they were given either 2.4 mg of semaglutide or a placebo for more than three years. Participants were obese or overweight and had cardiovascular disease but not diabetes.

Exciting stuff. What does data look like in people that aren’t obese?
This is just a guess, but I think it might be more about the government not wanting to put valuations on complex assets. Let’s say I own a network of dry cleaners in Los Angeles. It’s a private business with no public business to compare it against. Cash flow is X, but is the business worth 10 million, 20m? How is the government supposed to determine what it’s worth? Now, let’s imagine your business is Koch Industries. We know it’s worth many billions but there’s a VERY broad range of what it might be. Without taking the stock public, its basically impossible even for top investors to value (investment bankers who value businesses for a living get it wrong all the time), let alone the government.

Even public businesses are not trivial to value for very large shareholders who don’t have the ability to easily sell all shares at once without moving the market quite a bit. But in any case, removing this loophole would just encourage the ultra wealthy to put their money into opaque businesses and then try to “value” them as low as possible. So it’s not so easy to fix.
It’s a crime to dishonor corrupt judges though… so it’s morally okay to not follow that law.
There was an excellent talk on Gleam at the Carolina Code Conference last weekend. It should be available on YouTube in a week or so.
P2P is hard, but that does not mean undesirable.
One can authenticate message integrity on the client side and the server side, it doesn't have to be a trade-off. The same is true for encryption and decryption.
LLMs will provide an answer for every question even when told it doesn't know what it is talking about.

Overwhelming majority of people won't do this.

So I don't think the comparison really makes any sense.
Is it acceptable for foreign owned entities to not follow the rules of a country? I think, probably not - the choice is to follow the regulations or to not be there, like Meta in China.
What synchronous processor can complete an instruction in anything other than a positive integer multiple of its clock?
It's a shame that we can't have a reasonable conversation about gender and mental health anymore without it offending someone or other.

"Trans rights are human rights" is a perfectly reasonable statement if what is meant is that trans people are entitled to every human right. It's a dangerous call for groupthink if what is meant is "the right to gender-affirming care is a human right".

One can be both a deeply caring person who views trans people as people who deserve love and respect and also be wary of running headlong after politically-driven healthcare practices that, when looked at critically, seem to do more harm than good. But even saying that immediately makes me a far-right neonazi as far as many in communities like Gleam's are concerned, and that's where I share OP's discomfort with the language.

It's unhelpful to ostracize large numbers of good, generous people from your community because they have science-based reservations about how to best help certain members of our society.

Edit: As expected, immediately flagged. The groupthink is real and it's dangerous. People are already getting hurt, and silencing calls for moderation is not helping, it's making things worse.
There is no difference. From all my searching, these terms are used interchangeably. As far as Brazil is concerned, freedom of expression is freedom of speech. Specifically Article 5 describes four activities of expression that are “free and independent of any censorship”: intellectual activity, artistic activity, scientific activity, and communication activity.
It’s a crime to dishonor corrupt judges.
X has just started sharing all of them in response.

https://x.com/alexandrefiles/status/1829979981130416479?s=46...
I have been using Linux on "bare metal" for quite some time, as my primary operating system on the machines I've owned. When I've needed Windows, I've run it in a virtual machine. This has been my MO on my personal machines for over 10 years.

On my most recent machine however, I've opted to do this the other way around. I'm running Windows 11 Pro, running Linux on Hyper-V.

The experience has been.... Fine! I may actually prefer this setup (time will tell). Everything hardware related "just works". As per another thread on HN, Linux does seem to run very well virtualised compared to Windows. People will get riled up about needing an MS account. But I suppose that hasn't bothered me too much yet (who knows I may change my stance on this).

The reality is, messing around with drivers, the Linux wireless stack, display resolutions, firmware updates (ie the nuances of running Linux on a laptop) offers zero value to cloud workloads.

So I don't think running Linux directly on the hardware is an absolute necessity.

You can achieve similar levels of productivity and knowledge uplift if you: reserve Windows use for only things that require Windows (eg Ms office, and zoom meetings with a Bluetooth stack that won't drive you insane), and do EVERYTHING ELSE in your VMs.
It's actually not difficult to vectorize Bresenham algorithms, at least the line algorithm. You just have to preroll the algorithm for each of the lanes and then adjust the steps and error factors so each lane steps 4-8 pixels ahead at a time interleaved. I've done this for the floor type 1 render in Ogg Vorbis, which is defined in terms of a Bresenham-like algorithm.
In particular, his line-drawing algorithm is easily beaten by fixed-point methods, which also have the advantage of a very short and non-branchy inner loop:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9954975
We would have to ban the iPhone then.
I remember booting up an emulated CADR for the first time and, after entering the date as something, something, 2008, was startled for the status bar to read a year of 19108.

I also did my quick Lisp sanity test of saying (* 4 3) and expecting 12 -- but I got 14 instead. It was then that I learned the CADR speaks octal by default.
I thank chatgpt when it does a good job. I like to think I'm helping to improve the model.
Oprah will screw up the AI story
Why GitHub's loading progress bar looks good and how to build it
It’s wasteful because it contains a chip to verify the cable’s fee was payed to Apple. They’re small but there are a lot of them and they are uneccessary and annoying when they fail and you can’t charge your device.
It's not the speed, it's saving the carpal tunnel for video games... :)
Brazilian Miku is dead. Long live Brazilian Miku.
This is really cool, I love how the sounds aren’t digitally created but come from real life tech
Pixel is supported until June 2028.

Palma is running a closed fork of Linux with non-upstream drivers, https://old.reddit.com/r/Onyx_Boox/comments/1btqzoa/palma_is...

- Palma was released at August, 2023.
- It's operating system was Android 11
- 05 Feb 2024 security supports was ended for Android 11

If you compare these dates: August, 2023 and 05 Feb 2024. It is only 7 months of lifetime - between release and end of security support.. Somebody in Onyx decided to use Android 11 instead of 13 that was released 15 Aug 2022 - 1 year before Palma release.

Small size and e-ink screen.. for 7 months.
Computers have been a hobby all my life. I well remember the epiphany I felt while learning Logo in elementary school, at the moment I understood what recursion is. I don't think the fact that the language I have mostly written code in in recent years is Emacs Lisp is unrelated to the above moment.

Yet I have never desired to work as a professional software developer. My verbal and math scores on the SAT are almost identical. I majored in history and Spanish in college while working for the university's Unix systems group. Before graduation I interviewed and got offers (including one explicitly as a developer) at various tech startups. Of my offers I chose an investment banking job where I worked with tech companies; my manager was looking for a CS major but I was able to convince her that I had the equivalent thereof. Thank goodness for that; I got to participate in the dotcom bubble without being directly swept up in its popping, and saw the Valley immediately post-bubble collapse. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34732772>

I'm glad, for the sake of civilizational and economic progress, that others are able and willing to program for pay. Meanwhile I will continue to putter around with Elisp (and marveling at Lisp's elegance) and bash (and wincing at its idiosyncracies) at home.
notably though, a release isn’t itself runnable in the same way a go binary artifact is, for example. there are a couple of projects like burrito that create runnable artifacts but in my (limited) experience with them they can be a little finicky.
I'd say explicitly allowing children on your site (such as TikTok and Google) is targeting children. Any company doing so should be careful with the content on their front pages and feeds.
And yet I can provide modern LLMs unique never before asked scenarios that require the ability to reason about real world phenomenon and they can respond in ways more thoughtful than the average person.

Much of human education is feeding books of information about things we will never experience in our day-to-day lives, and convincing ourselves it reflects reality. When in fact most of us have not personally experienced any evidences that what we learned is true.

That vast majority of what a person "knows" is a biological statistical pattern matching on steroids.
Cafe Gratitude used to seat strangers together in their Northern CA locations, which are now closed. I have no idea if they still do so in their other locations.
No shit. Are you surprised?
They never ordered anyone to censor anything. They shared recommendations that as far as we know were based on good faith determinations. Twitter was never obligated to do anything.
Similarly, the unique role the railroad played does not negate the atrocities that were part and parcel of its development. When talking about civilization-progressing technologies, it is not possible to focus entirely on the technology.

Unless we're also willing to talk about Facebook as a generation-redefining technology that altered how people interact, without mentioning the negatives. I'm sure people will attempt to do that a century from now; it will be wrong then as well.
Author notes some of the shortcomings of Linux-as-a-smartphone-OS, but to say a year-old Reddit post is out of date is an understatement.

The biggest advantage of a relatively young ecosystem (6" touchscreen Linux) is just how rapidly things can progress - especially given how quickly older hadware can be brought up.

So while TFA isn't wrong (Mobile Linux is not for everyone), it's also not entirely fair to call it "completely unusable".
Being cost-conscious keeps you aware that cheap things cost more, and cost is not only money, but time, restlessness, anxiety, frustration, etc.

If there is a team you know can deliver with a manageable level of technical debt later, you have worked with before, and you can afford their rate, then maybe. If not, you're building a castle on sand, and don't even know if there will be a castle in the first place.

Then, there's the whole cycle period, from talking to customers to development, the smaller the period, the more cycles.

We developed bespoke software for large, and less large organizations, and they were repeat clients, and we were paid many multiples of the rate of people in the U.S or Europe because we didn't just do "development"; we dived deep and transformed their whole models in some cases. They loved it enough to want to involve us with everything, invest, partner, what not.

That level of involvement is rare.

If I wanted to outsource for some reason, I have people in mind, people who were previously on my team for years, people I hand-picked, people I built a company with.

If you want an MVP or something you can just use as an asset for marketing and the first sales, that can deliver some value but that will most probably will be re-written later, I think you can find people like that. However, you're asking abut "outsourcing" to an "internal" team, and that's a bit confusing to me, hence my long-winded answer.
I have personally seen, on a California beach, a carcass of some marine animal, I can't remember but maybe an elephant seal, that had been choked by a plastic grocery bag.

I have seen subsequently, and considered briefly running after, many plastic bags in the streets blowing towards the storm runoff system.

And plastic in a landfill tends to degrade over a very long period of time, into substances that seem to have a tendency towards contaminating water tables and ecosystems.
Care to substantiate?

According to Wikipedia:

In September 2023, Amazon announced an investment of up to $4 billion, followed by a $2 billion commitment from Google in the following month.

They probably use both. Almost certainly most of this is credits in their cloud platforms.
If only corporations weren't (technically) people, or at least stayed in their lane instead of capturing regulators and buying politicians.
Feel free to pick up where we left off, but just know that you're in for a lot of pain on key sync, device pairing, unreliable data availability, poor connection establishment latency, high end-user device resource usage, and very small data indexes which make it nearly impossible to produce even moderately-sized social networks.
HR should not be evaluating coding skills. Senior developers should evaluate their future peers.
Well, if you decompose it to a series of shifts and adds, it’s a bit quicker. That’s actually how the 8086 implemented it.
As a starting point https://d2l.ai/chapter_preliminaries/index.html and https://d2l.ai/chapter_appendix-mathematics-for-deep-learnin... is enough.
There already was a time when Youtube was its own company. Google bought it. Maybe they didn't do great on their own but it was also ~2005 and things are very different now.