skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still have the three BOFH Omnibus volumes in my Kindle app, bought originally from Simon, who has since discontinued their sale on Amazon for some reason, IIRC Amazon fees/taxes/something like that which would actually lose him money from having it for sale there.

I've reread all three volumes quite a few times over the years, currently on Volume I, year 2000 #24 again, since I mainly read a few stories every time I'm on my 30 minute (lunch) break at work.

If Simon reads this, thank you for your work amusing your readers, me among them.
I think there is likely also bias in the data (what was considered significant) and inaccuracies in locations (many things assigned to Google’s head office).
It's called cloaking and it's still looked down upon from an SEO perspective. That said, there's a huge gray area. Purposefully cloaking a result to trick a search engine would get penalized. "Updating" a page with newer content periodically is harder to assess.
Doing a Job by Admiral Rickover: https://govleaders.org/rickover.htm

This one-pager guide never fails to set me straight whenever I feel like I've lost my way.

If you have more time - I recommend reading everything Rickover has written, it'll serve you throughout life.
Spending 3-10x as much depending on if you compare with offshore wind or solar?

Given the differences in cost investing nuclear power today prolongs our fight against climate change.

For every dollar invested in nuclear power we get less effect and need to wait longer for the effect to materialize compared to renewables.

https://www.lazard.com/media/xemfey0k/lazards-lcoeplus-june-...
Sure, ageism is bad. I'm in my 50s too and I've seen my share of hype cycles. But I think there is a danger of overreacting to the unbridled enthusiasm of younger people.

Every new cyle comes with ideas that are similar to what we have seen before. Sometimes I find myself thinking, OK, been there, done that, doesn't work. But I suspect that there is a sort of experience bias that lets me see the similarities far more clearly than what's new and different.

In every cycle people claim that it's nothing new and yet, with hindsight, we often find that small differences were important enough to change the world unpredictable ways.

I think it has value for older folks to contribute arguments and perspectives, but let's not be too self-righteous about it. Similar ideas can lead to very different outcomes in a different context.
babylonian confusion costing real lifes
What's the effective difference of a flying car with a helicopter?
Didn’t you effectively (just) Cæsar encode the input?
Venture capitalism doesn't care about you, about wider society, about social equity. Remember Venture Capital likes theranos, hates unions, would willingly sell any bad idea if it made unicorns happen.
outside of the company walls as the context for empirical measure:

1. is the web becoming more [accessible](https://abilitynet.org.uk/news-blogs/inaccessible-websites-k... http://useragentman.com/wcag-wishlist/)?

2. are the web pages getting [faster](https://www.nngroup.com/articles/the-need-for-speed/) and lighter?

3. is it righting wrongs about existing non-performant [code](https://www.webperf.tips/tip/cached-js-misconceptions/)?

4. is it encouraging [smaller](https://dyf-tfh.github.io/)?

5. is it promoting historical [insights](https://qntm.org/clean)?

6. is it popping [bubbles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7YAXUWG820)?

7. is it encouraging the correct interpretations of actual [innovators](https://mamund.site44.com/articles/objects-v-messages/index....)?

8. is it minimizing or eliminating [traps](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html)? (also see the W3C's Web Sustainability Guideline's on javascript fallbacks)

9. is it avoiding the "[wars](https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/framework-wars-now-all...)"?

10. is it shedding the object-form? https://dreamsongs.com/ObjectsHaveFailedNarrative.html
Let us play a recursive game. Will it loop?

> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.

> Blah blah blah, fancy Latin gibberish. Look at me, I'm so intellectual! Just kidding, this is meaningless filler text. Move along, nothing to see here.

> Meaningless filler. Keep walking.

> Move it, chump.

> Get lost, loser.

> Bye, champ.

> Later.

> Bye.

> Later.

> Bye.
Input: “Mauro, SHUT THE FUCK UP!”

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75

Output:

> Shut the fuck up!

> It's a kernel bug, not a pulseaudio bug. How long have you been a maintainer and you still don't get the first rule of kernel maintenance? If user programs break, it's a kernel bug. We never blame the user programs.

> Commit f0ed2ce840b3 is total crap. ENOENT is not a valid error return from an ioctl. That's just wrong.

> Stop making excuses and blaming other programs. We don't break userspace, period. Fix your broken "compliance tool" and your approach to kernel programming.
While a git log of prompts seems like a novel idea to me, I don't believe it would work - not because of temperature and LLMs being non-deterministic and the context window overflowing, but because at a certain level of complexity LLMs simply fail, even though they are excellent at fixing simple bugs.
It would be even funnier if it could reference critical news reporting.

https://www.propublica.org/article/philips-kept-warnings-abo...
The problem with most software for complex tasks, including Excel and Python, is the hidden and/or non-intuitive mechanics. That's why a AI companion should accompany them for non-expert users (99%), which would be able to check what the user is doing for intention-result errors and warn.
Azure SQL Database Hyperscale FAQ
Google is not, in fact, the only search engine.

For most users the internet has 5, maybe 10 web sites. I can use Wikipedia search or LLMs when I have questions.
The CLHS sez "Recursive expansion of the type specifier returned as the expansion must terminate, including the expansion of type specifiers which are nested within the expansion." though.
As expected, here on SBCL, your typep blows the stack.

> Most of the standard types from which derived types can be made are parametric types

I meant "parametric with a type parameter", but yeah.

> satisfies

I was (obviously, I hope) talking about static, not runtime typing.
Maybe they meant 70 million pounds of trash.
Another option in this space is using python to directly generate openscad code, which is a fun exercise to sort of quickly visualize simple recursive algorithms in a 3d world and play with tilings, space filling curves, etc. of course building what amounts to a transpiler will be fun for some, or a distraction, depending on how focused you want to be on the 3d part.

But openscad is a cool and minimal instruction set for such experiments, and doing this in a language with better meta programming support would be even more fun.
Paul Graham’s essays are well regarded, and I think they include all of the advice others gave mentioned here from other books

https://paulgraham.com/articles.html
Read the two general's problem. It is a mathematical impossibility. The counter is the delivery counter. Delivery, delivery + 1
Does your work keep you glued to screens for a longer period? Beware! No physical activity might take a toll on your brain’s cognitive functions and lead to digital dementia, warned experts. The term “digital dementia” means memory issues and cognitive deterioration brought on by over-dependence on digital devices like smartphones, computers, etc.
A helicopter cannot drive on land?
> That is an established mathematical convention, called "bearing".

Bearing is a nautical convention not a mathematical one.

I have worked on boat computer systems and can assure you that all the angles were in radians going in the proper direction while beatings were separate always shown in degrees and clockwise.
Would you mind sharing a link? For me it was Steven Mould's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMRi6pNAoag
OK, interesting! If I understand correctly, that means even within the arena, lifetime is tracked. That makes sense - it is Rust after all.

If each arena maintains a counter of live objects, then the arena can be dropped if it reaches zero.
When you’re about to quote a sentence with a footnote, you best read the footnote first.
Com.lihaoyi issue bounties Sep 2024. 12kUSD up for grabs
I don't say it's impossible but I believe it's quite near to impossible for most of OpenSCAD users to model this relatively simple drawing[1]. It's a breeze in CAD with constraint solver. Also it's viable in code-first systems with access to shape coordinates (build123d) using only construction geometry and projections. OpenSCAD requires hard trigonometry and math skills to pull it out.

OpenSCAD has amazing community though and part libraries celebrates human ingenuity despite tool restrictions.

[1]: https://build123d.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_images/ttt-23-t-...
Good start, but too mild for my taste. Aren't there laws against overpricing/price gouging? The price of in-game purchases quite often bears no relation to the cost of production.
Ask HN: OpenAI's Latest Model O1 – What's the Secret Sauce?
Dear Hacker News community,
OpenAI has recently released its latest AI model, o1, which has generated widespread interest in the industry. As an AI enthusiast, I'm very curious about the technical details and innovations behind this model, better with papers.

I would like to ask the community a few questions:

What are the breakthrough improvements of the o1 model compared to the previous GPT series? What new techniques have been adopted?

From the perspectives of training data, model architecture, optimization algorithms, etc., what are the unique design ideas and technical implementations of o1?

What are the industry experts' views and analyses on the performance, potential, and future applications of o1?

For regular developers, how can they better understand and utilize AI models like o1? Do you have any suggestions or experiences to share?

I'm greatly appreciative if the Hacker News experts could provide valuable insights and experiences on these questions. I look forward to an in-depth discussion with the community to explore the frontiers of AI technology.
Agreed. Idempotent _processing_, not delivery.
That's an interesting principle* and I totally get it, but I'm not 100% sure it applies here?

This is a comment section on an article about scientific data quality, and I'm pointing out a potentially confounding issue with the anecdata? Another valid challenge would be "wouldn't people with more health issues choose to live on lower floors, and logically be expected to pass away sooner?"

It's possible I've been reading too many Data Colada posts, but I saw the OP got back to me with a plausible explanation that enriched my worldview, so I'm going to take it that the OP didn't find offense in my response.

* One immediate problem I see with that principle is that it can quickly become circular. For example, an easy criticism of anybody attempting to reference it, as you did here, is to ask: did you apply the principle to my comment? And in turn, you could say the same of mine!
Nice. I want my TV news subtitled with a slightly less flippant version of this. Bonus credit for also catching media training techniques and bad journalism.

Actually, I would probably subscribe for a channel that aggregates other reporting on significant topics and takes it apart for bullshitlessness in the execution.
Hi! None of these are "gone" in any way, and are actually used in various different enterprises at global scale.
> Honestly, I question the whole idea that failing to "eat less" is a personal problem.

I guess it depends on what we’re eating less of.

Overeating calorie dense junk food isn’t the same thing as overeating carrot sticks and you rarely hear about problems coming from the latter.
Add /s for the Americans, it'll go over their heads otherwise!
I see. But I'm used to the notion of a "startup" being a vehicle to take over the world by explosive growth. A coffee shop is a fine lifestyle business, but not a startup.

Theoretically explosive growth can be self-sustained, but usually it's impossible to grow fast enough (even when the market is ready for taking) without taking some external funding, as an investment or at least as a loan.
More here: https://taoofmac.com/space/apps/window_managers (for most platforms, including Windows)
But they made it their job, got people to depend on it, and then yanked it away without telling anyone first.
No, it is because incentives are misaligned and people care about getting cited. It doesn’t matter whether it’s correct or not.
Show HN: Simple Metrics – AI-powered contract analysis and chat
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We built this to help professionals, entrepreneurs, and anyone dealing with contracts to quickly understand and navigate complex legal documents. Our AI can analyze a contract in seconds, providing insights that would typically require hours of careful reading and legal expertise.

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But is it? Everything is the same if you squint hard enough.

We do not have anything like a SCRUM master.

We don't do stand-ups, we usually don't have a per-release target for features. For example, for the past three months I've had a target of October 1st for a feature, but no specific sub-deliverables for the realeases before that. This is typical.

We don't have a separate sprint retrospective meeting. We discuss such things during our weekly meeting, even between releases (ie we don't wait).

It doesn't feel like what I've been taught and have read about SCRUM. But sure I'll agree it's closer to SCRUM than to the waterfall method.
> Oh no, now this website has information on how to kill someone.

That's just a bad faith response.

> I'm not a bioweapons expert

That's the whole point, innit? You don't know how to do, so you can't. Publishing functioning recipes using easily accessed materials would provide you and countless others with a bio-weapon. Thus the publication is the problem, not the tech stack (internet, pcs, servers, etc.).

Therefore, OpenAI publishing risky information is equally at fault.
It's almost too on the nose to do this level of silly mythologizing through a half-baked analogy (a favorite rhetorical handwave of the so-called "founder cult") of Mark Zuckerberg of all people in this particular thread. Excellent poe if true
> Woa, is driving without airbags even legal nowadays or do they drive different ones in Germany?

German here - as long as your vehicle matches the code requirements back when it was built, it is road legal. You're perfectly fine to ride a pre-WW2 car with only a single side mirror, no rear mirror, no airbags or any other kind of safety feature and no emission controls worth the name.

I still would not recommend it to tour such a piece of history on public roads though.
weve been hearing about printer ink for years now...whoever gets stung by this nowadays has no excuse, when u buy your printer u know where u are getting into
got this from submitting a DEI excerpt:

We do science stuff. We hire smart people from different backgrounds. We try not to be jerks about it.
> (0-3)^2?

It’s entirely unambiguous due to the parenthesis.

I don’t think the rest of your argument actually makes sense.

There is no sleight of hand required. The original argument is entirely related to having unary minus and binary minus which are different operators conceptually have similar precedence as being less surprising.
People on HN have repeatedly stated that Google is "stealing their content" from their websites so it seems like this is a natural extension to that widespread opinion.

Isn't this the web we want? One where big corporations don't steal our websites? Right?
Sounds dubious considering the amount of CO2 emissions caused by uneaten / wasted food is similar to personal transportation emissions.

I also don't think the idea that we should strive to limit our lives to that which is absolutely necessary to only survive or generate economic activity is valid. To me, my drive to the beach with my dog is more essential, valid, and valuable than your commute to work.

But regardless of whether true or not, environmental destruction caused by CO2 emissions does not care if the emissions were "necessary" or not, by any definition of necessary. So it simply isn't personal light trucks that are what's destroying the world.
It was declining years before LLMs.
I guess you can start here... (though it doesn't mention the USPS bill.)

https://www.whitehouse.gov/therecord/
>Everything has a price and people like to have their uncorrupted files, but not at all cost.

I have ZFS on nearly all machines and i don't have any cost, the opposite is actually true because of compression, snapshots an boot environment.

>I bet even 99.9% of HN visitors don’t run ZFS on their laptop/desktop

I really don't care that much what others run since 99.9% of HN don't run FreeBSD...probably, well except HN itself ;)
Absolutely this. Worse mistake I made was thinking a new business has to be innovative. Lost me years.

Anyone bootstrapping should make sure to copy an existing successful product or service. Copy it, copy its sales funnel, copy its ads, everything you can get away with.

Moonshots is for funded startups. Bootstrappers biggest risk, which will happen almost 100% if they have a technical background, is building stuff based on a logical "good idea", rather than mimicking what's proven to work as closely as humanly possible.

There's plenty of time for innovating later once the wheels are rolling and you're getting real time feedback.
In Terry Pratchett's slightly modified version, Lord Vetinari's solution for the final step was more effective -- "tax the rat farms"
Nothing, modern website owners think that Google, IA and similar sites think their IP is being stolen by archiving it and the law agrees.

You wouldn't want to be a thief... right?
> grew organically over centuries

(1.75 centuries, to be exact)
I tried several paragraphs from HN Guidelines and it could not come up with anything simpler or better. It produced some pointlessly snarky remarks.
Wikipedia bans user for 'trolling, doxxing and intimidation' of journalists
In the Uplift books dolphins are given prosthetic arms. That’s already half future tech and you’d have to miniaturize them for crows. No way to control them yet, in either case.
I wonder if those responses could already be influenced by the fact that the cutoff for some of the models out there was indeed 2023 and people wrote about it all over the internet.
Yes, there are obviously negative things about doing drugs, just as there are positives. But that doesn’t make it shameful.

No one is saying its virtuous.
> There’s another solution, but it’s on shaky ground. The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine preserves historic copies of websites as a public service, but the organization is in a constant battle to stay solvent. Google’s Sullivan floated the idea of a partnership with the Internet Archive, though that’s nothing close to an official plan.

Man, wish the Internet Archive hadn't staked it all tilting at copyright windmills...

(see e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41447758)
In theory you should just be able to set -march to the lowest common denominator kind of CPU you expect your code to run on and it'll avoid relying on SSE if appropriate.
Sorry, but have you driven in a city in India or Indonesia? Just for example?

My favorite example is a major intersection with no traffic lights. Everyone just drives onto it and then you get a sticky sauce of cars that move at a fraction of the allowed max speed until they leave the intersection again.

Horns and eye contact are used to negotiate progress by all paricipants. I would love to see a "self driving" car on such an intersection.

My guess is a video of this car's encounter would go absultely viral. But not for the reasons proponents of this tech hope for. ;)
This is wonderful.

"As part of developing these new models, we have come up with a new safety training approach that harnesses their reasoning capabilities to make them adhere to safety and alignment guidelines. By being able to reason about our safety rules in context, it can apply them more effectively."

"We made the AI slightly less likely to go rogue and kill us all. You're welcome."
You are mistaking the notation for the object.

There is indeed two ontologically different elements 3 and (-3) in Z. The question is however purely about what is the meaning of the ambiguous without precedence rules representation -3^2.

Note that it gets more complicated quickly if you want to keep thinking about it in that mathematicians often consider ontologically different but equivalent operations as the same when it’s irrelevant to what they are doing or the results trivially extend to both case. See for example 3-3 and 3+(-3).
That's the lamest excuse ever, are you a tech guy or a lawyer?
Input: We take security seriously.

Output: We got hacked last week.

Seems legit!
The internal combustion engine (ICE) variant has an estimated fuel efficiency of 14.7 mpg‑US (16.0 L/100 km), decreasing to 8.6 mpg‑US (27 L/100 km) when the air conditioning is on. For comparison, the earlier LLV (built 1987–94) and FFV (2000–01) have an average observed fuel consumption of 8.2 and 6.9 mpg‑US (29 and 34 L/100 km), respectively.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshkosh_NGDV
Stripe Europe's Losses Widen to $1.1B after employee 'liquidity event'
JFC ... another nail in the coffin ...
https://archive.is/PUEE3
I wonder if it's actually more similar to procedural generation, based on a seed value, that reliably recreates the same complex output that isn't entirely described by the seed alone. In this case, the DNA would just serve as input to a myriad of algorithms that yield a fully working cell. A single base pair change may lead to a mind-bogglingly long chain of side effects that result in a third arm, or really just nothing at all.
> But it works? We only have functional public transit in small amount of cities in NA as well. If we can scale it up, it might be a game changer. I’m as pro-transit as it gets, but unfortunately we don’t have political appetite for it.

Rather sad though that instead of implementing what empirically is already known to work in so many cities there's a quest for a solution to a problem that's completely self-inflicted.

Self-driving might help a bit with transportation in NA cities but it definitely won't be the solution, there's just not enough physical space on the roads to be a game changer, at worst it will create even more issues with road usage. And my fear is that instead of realising it was the wrong bet (just like the car-centric approach) it will be doubled down into some ever-more-complex maze of solutions to make cars transporting 1-2 passengers to get to their destinations quicker by interconnecting them, and doing traffic management on a network of cars.

Those are fun problems to think about and try to solve but completely missing the mark about what actually works for a city and why. Someone will call that "innovation" and sell it to some suckers, just like car-centric urbanism.
I think we should agree that standard notation is too ambigious and switch to reverse polish notation:

3 2 ^ - -9
3 - 2 ^ 9

No way to misinterpret that!