skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I picked up an iPod Video last year and could never go back to Spotify. What a mistake that was. With Rockbox installed I can play lossless codexs. With Bandcamp I can actually support artists. Without an infinite library I treasure what I have. When I want something that's not on bandcamp, like for example a live recording of a gig on youtube, theres yt-dlp. And otherwise CDs are cheap. All of this without distractions, without an internet connection, and without draining my phones battery. Spotify was a huge mistake.
Resume-driven engineering.
I love when I saw my first paper straw: wrapped in plastic.
That's kind of the opposite of the Hacker ethos
My kid still uses an iPod nano. It's amazing how many features are packed it in. But I would never use one as A) Loading music via Apple Music sucks. B) it's tied to a single Mac for syncing.
It also costs very little in DB for the vast majority of users, so it’s a classic case of Private Equity squeezing money from their product.
If you don't trade you won't have all the things you need. You can't legislate other peoples costs, subsidies, environment disregard, slave labour, natural resources and technological advances.

As seen in DPRK in 1990s or Albania in 1950. If you don't produce something other countries want, you'll starve to death. Import raw materials, export finished products, that how the wealth of the West was built. Now with no technological edge this would be harder to achieve.

Protectionism was attempted many times before:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Laws

There is no free lunch. You need more efficient government with less restrictions, and a good workforce with imported highly skilled people from around the world (ready to work, ready to earn, ready to generate taxes). Technology will create the profit margin the society needs and with this it'll be able to take care of he ones that can't produce and need help.
I have serious concerns about this as well. Now is the time for a very strong national consumer data protection law. The car companies have demonstrated their unwillingness to implement adequate data privacy protections on their own.
Time to require that protection with law.
I was hoping for something like musical chainsaws. https://youtu.be/AwZuN6JEP6I?si=dY3YioNMdTkx7Vci
I don't feel like this problem is limited to kids. Youtube is a cesspool of people trying to find anything that will make them money and increase their subscribers. 80-90% of the stuff youtube recommends to me is just random people posting whatever they think will get them clicks. I'm into tech and 4 of 5 tech recommendations are just some random no one repeating the latest tech news with some sensational spin and click-bait title.

And, that's not even going into the non-tech world where it's 10x worse. Years ago that guy got in trouble for posting a dead body from a forest in Japan but just looking at what's recommended it's clear 90% for the content is just people trying to find some random non-topic and hyping it up.

Checking top recommendations right now

"Should I Buy This Chinook Helicopter? Craziest Barn Find Ever!"

"I Played Fortnite on World’s SMALLEST Keyboards"

"10 NEW Costco Deals You NEED To Buy in September 2024"

"I Bought VINTAGE vs NEW Beauty Products"

"My Daughter Survives WORLD'S TINIEST HOUSE"

I supposed the world was always this way given that there was a market for "World Weekly News" but "at scale" with millions more schlock producers it's horrifiying.
It sounds like a really abusive environment. You are talented and some other company will be very happy to have you.
Also, it's not just saying "no" once. It's a hundred times a day, every day, for years.
They did not get relatively poorer because they were plundered.

The UK and Europe became much richer thanks to industrialisation, etc while others stagnated in their "old" world.

In fact, one reason for the current situation in the UK is that most of those old industries which were the foundation of the country's prosperity disappeared but were not always replaced.
This is like manual transmission cars, or the iPhone mini. It interests a small set of enthusiasts that would not be profitable given the expenses for an additional SKU.
Many years ago, I was just doing a drive through vacation of New England and woke up in my B&B to the smell of roasting turkey - I hadn’t realized it but I’d wound up in Stockbridge on Thanksgiving day. I don’t recall anything special going on in town other than a radio station playing Alice’s Restaurant on repeat.
100%. If they could learn anything, then shouldn't modern ML systems be able to solve the big mysteries in science -- since we have large datasets there describing the phenomena in various ways? E.g. dark energy, dark matter, matter-antimatter asymmetry, or even outstanding problems in pure mathematics.

The intention of this sama post is as you said, it's to build narrative so he can raise his trillion from the Arab world or other problematic sources.

In pseudocode, this is Sam Altman:

while(alive) {
RaiseCapital()
}
I highly recommend looking for bome conducting headphones that have built in storage (usually the ones marketed for swimming). It is essentially a wearable iPod shuffle that can also be used as Bluetooth headphones.

I have a pair that I dropped my FLAC library on, and it has been one of my best purchases on the year.
"AI is going to get better with scale" to me says almost nothing at all. It includes anything from we 100x the scale and get 1% improvement to 2x the scale and get "AGI".
Only way to watch YT by kids is FreeTube.io with blocked ads, skipping sponsored content, disabled autoplay and disabled recommendations.

Or browser with uBlock Origin and plugin Unhook, that lets you block recommendations, shorts, trends, autoplay, etc.
https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-national-laboratory-make...
Headend Project Report (1998)[pdf]
Can it have rubbery grip, or silicone instead of plastic? Sorry I asked, before asking Google.
The first rule of email is reliability, your home server tends to have a higher downtime than Gmail and it's more hassle than it's worth

If you want to get fancy get a domain and a 3th party to host it, self hosting is really unadvisable.
Not that I know of, but each service seems to publish a list (some in text, some JSON). I’ll reply later with the URLs of the ones I have.
I disagree! I think fields are very intuitive and it's everything else that's nonsensical!

Magnetism isn't made of anything. It is a field, and it's one your can interact with directly.

Compare that with, say, table salt. "What's table salt made of?" Uh. It's made of atoms entirely unrelated to salt, like sodium and chlorine. "What are atoms made of?" Uh. They're made of tiny electric particles zipping around at relativistic speeds but bound together by forces like magnetism.

Richard Feynman does a better job than me of describing this exact problem in one of my favorite physics videos of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1lL-hXO27Q
Browsing the Jellyfin site, I don't understand. Seems like you still have to collect and manage your music.

I was a latecomer to Spotify and now I can't go back. I've discovered more great music via it than I would ever have imagined. No it's not perfect, but still beats the old way of doing it manually.
Related. Others?

The Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS – Thomas Park (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36856428 - July 2023 (5 comments)

Al Jaffee, king of the Mad Magazine fold-in, has died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35517629 - April 2023 (64 comments)

Frank Jacobs, Mad Magazine writer, has died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26819773 - April 2021 (18 comments)

Al Jaffee turns 100 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26461739 - March 2021 (28 comments)

The Al Jaffee / Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23457930 - June 2020 (43 comments)

Mad magazine legend Al Jaffee retires at age 99 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23442041 - June 2020 (25 comments)

A World Without Mad Magazine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20527990 - July 2019 (2 comments)

The World According to Mad Magazine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20427142 - July 2019 (5 comments)

Mad Magazine to mostly stop publishing new material - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20351524 - July 2019 (86 comments)

A personal tour of MAD magazine, in the crucible of a young life - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11984032 - June 2016 (12 comments)

Al Feldstein, the Soul of Mad Magazine, Dies at 88 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7680093 - May 2014 (17 comments)
libpg_query is a good library!

"C library for accessing the PostgreSQL parser outside of the server environment"

https://github.com/pganalyze/libpg_query?tab=readme-ov-file#...

pg_query wrappers in other languages:
- Ruby: pg_query
- Go: pg_query_go
- Javascript (Node): pgsql-parser
- Javascript (Browser): pg-query-emscripten
- Python: psqlparse, pglast, psqlparse2
- OCaml: pg_query-ocaml
- Rust: pg_query.rs
> You can't legislate other peoples costs, subsidies, environment disregard, slave labour, natural resources and technological advances.

You absolutely can. The evidence of this is clear. If you want a recent example, see the Inflation Reduction Act, that requires domestically sourced supply chains for batteries, EVs, and solar panels, as well as union labor. TSMC now builds semiconductors in Arizona Apple uses, with US labor. Fiber optics being installed for rural bandwidth is mandated to be sourced from US providers. Steel is sourced from Nucor in Gallatin, Kentucky for domestic use. Policy drives outcomes at scale.

https://time.com/6304143/inflation-reduction-act-us-global-i... ("How the Inflation Reduction Act Has Reshaped the U.S.—and The World")

You say it cannot be done when it is being done. Policy works, and it can be used to bend economics to what the desired outcome is. A shorter work week can be a desired outcome.
Differently from what?
Because of course I want people to carry around leaf blowers in my office.

Yeah, it's snarky but gosh that thing has to be SUPER noisy. I find it annoying when people use leaf blowers outside (yes even electric ones, which are not as bad but you can't blow that much air without the noise) Now having them walking the hallways? That seems like a total non-starter to me.
The MBAs who are drafting these requirements don't know that. They're still confused on how double chocolate chunk is making its way into a web browser. They'll always just prioritize marketing, so put the banners and who cares.
You might enjoy the movie "Young Ones"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Ones_%28film%29
Librem 5 phone runs a desktop OS without any artificial restrictions. It's CPU is relatively slow though as the OP mentioned.
> do not believe that such a big teletype has existed.

Decwriter II, according to wkipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECwriter. I've actually used one of these, but I can't remember the printing width.
Most software doesn’t really care. This list only has common issues (though the issues it goes over seem more like problems from 2010…)
No one should be using any of the big wordpress hosts - theyre all overpriced garbage.

Its so damn easy to get a WP site up and running with a decent and cheap VPS server and a cloud panel (e.g. runcloud, xcloud, enhance, spinupwp, gridpane, etc...). Some even have a free tier. Cyberpanel is even a free option, though clunky.

For a rounding error of blog traffic which can probably be fully cached in cloudflare CDN, you could use a 1vpcu server from Hetzner for like $3/month. Hell, I think there's a fully free tier at aws lightsail and Oracle cloud (theyre garbage, but again, just cache it all in cdn).
Even worse, that debt doesn't capture obligations such as social security. Reagan got us addicted to the heroin of debt after the Nixon Shock that effectively ended the Bretton Woods Agreement. Like all addicts, weening ourselves off our drug of choice isn't going to be easy.

The pessimist in me sometimes thinks the Boomers are kicking the can down the road so the worst effects will be felt after they're in the grave.
https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fg.html
its singularity speculation .if the battery gets better, the power source gets smaller or a smaller lift generator gets developed you might be able to exercise upwards lift from the next tesla via patents .
> aiming their rifles with weights hanging off the end of the barrel

That sounds like it has a practical explanation: Strengthening certain muscle-groups so that the soldiers won't easily tire of handling their weapon.

It might be even better if the rifle had a laser on it, so that the exercise involves not just lifting the barrel but also centering it onto a target. (However shooting live-rounds could metaphorically backfire, since users would be getting trained to expect the wrong recoil.)
Came in to comment on this, all of them were great but Don was the GOAT. And his sound effects! I would love to compile a list of them.
There are so many MP3 players available, both from random Chinese companies you've never heard of and from name brands. Does it have to be Apple?
Apologies for replying to my own post, but this article written by an AI sums up much of what I was trying to (clumsily) say:

https://medium.com/@dualisticunity/ai-religion-and-the-uncom...

It says that it was written 3 days ago and that my post was 4, and I definitely read it after mine. But I've noticed that these similar attention/expression synchronicities are happening more and more often lately.
> The entire vocabulary around machine learning is and always has been really weird.

I would argue it took a staggeringly weird turn around 2022/23. Machine learning has been around for a long time and only recently since OpenAI and it's slavish desire to harness true AI (which thanks to their horseshit now has to be called AGI) and Sam Altman in particular's delusional ramblings upon the topic that he clearly barely understands beyond it's ability to get his company fantastical amounts of capital has it truly gone off the rails.

I cannot wait to watch this bubble pop.
IDK but I know C++ has [[likely]] and [[unlikely]] hints:

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/attributes/likely
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41628019
For me, I found the secret was eating anything other than cereal (or egg & toast) for breakfast. Those seem to make me jittery. Eating something like yesterday's dinner leftovers for breakfast turns the coffee into an on switch instead of leaving me exhausted but adding jitters and sleeplessness.
The issue is that we re-eject too little of that energy back into space again.
who wants revenge on a six-fingered man
Seems like it should be a dumb LCD clock in front with the phone dock behind it. Now the iPhone can be grabbed off and used in an emergency. The BC21 shown is close, but the alarm and other features are redundant.
IronRuby?
> even thicker bags in Jan 2026

One of the nice things about the older "non-reusable" bags was that they were so thin that you could wad them up in a pocket, they would be unnoticeable, and you could always have it on your person. The thicker bags require careful folding and even so, take up a lot more space.
Microsoft Secure Future Initiative September 2024 Progress Report [pdf]
> the idea that they can learn anything, is based less on empirical results and more on what Sam Altman needs to convince people of to get this capital investments.

Techbros love to pretend that they created digital gods (and by extension are gods themselves). We should all be thankful, worship, and of course surrender unconditionally -- Sam's will be done, amen.
Poland.
As a result I'm paying a huge tax to get an emergency healthcare and also paying for private health insurance to get a regular healthcare.

And private is not covering surgeries! For that there are queues for years, if not emergency.
I like ChatGPT 4o just fine, but the whole lamplighter bit is a bit Whig-history, right? The lamplighters were better off in the long run. We might not be. You can't just blow the problems off.
> most runtime improvements benefit all languages that target it

And most CIL ABI additions to the CLR driven by C# totally break them, because the C# ecosystem adopts them immediately (recently even breaking changes in the shared framework!), and there's no modern equivalent to the Common Language Specification.

Plus, no library writer would care if there was a CLS 2.0 because every CLR language other than C# and F# is in maintenance mode or simply abandoned.
Washington Post cuts 25% of it's tech arm, Arc XP
Except when songs stop being available because of licensing.

If you don't possess it, you can't always access it.
Lifetime Access for everything I ever build. matts Fund
I kept on seeing the same names support me early on in each product I ever made. So I made this for those and others who wanna support. For $22 you get access to everything i build or acquire forever(first 22 spots) Can sell your plot if you wish to the highest bidders.
I assume this is meant to ban PRC cars from even entering US soil, i.e. tariffs won't stop Chinese cars from crossing Mexican border. Meant to make PRC cars not viable in North America.
I don’t know if you are trolling but you have been using pretty loaded and manipulative language yourself.

For the record, the new trend to shill MrBeast is to pretend to be neutral while you discredit the side against MrBeast more. Most of the time these people have a lot to say about MrBeast even though they say they don’t care or don’t like MrBeast. So…
Donate all the time you can afford!

Regarding monetary donations, if you believe institutional misuse outweighs efficiency gain, then your area food banks are in a much worse shape than my local area, which I hazard to guess is merely average.

Food banks can do so much more with cash, such as buy fresh produce from local farmers, than they can with your unwanted groceries, usually canned goods. Or if you're buying food specifically intending to donate it, do you really think the average person reading this (and 50% of you reading this are below average) is a better shopper with their $100 than the food bank is with $10,000+? Instead of shopping, spend that time with them, and still donate the same amount you would have spent.

I was surprised when I spent my own time and found out how much further they can stretch each dollar, and often provide healthier food.
That is right.

The only purpose of the branch predictor, which has become one of the biggest and most important parts of any modern CPU core, is to execute only one of the two branches, hoping that you have guessed the right one.

On a CPU that executes both branches, there is no reason for a branch predictor to exist.

The equivalent of executing both branches is obtained by replacing the conditional branches with conditional move or conditional select instructions, which are used after both values corresponding to the two alternatives have been computed. The use of conditional move/select instructions is justified only when the direction of the conditional branch would have been quasi-random, so the branch predictor would have failed to predict it.

Executing both branches has an exponential cost in the number of conditional branches that are speculated ahead, so it is neither feasible nor desirable, as it would greatly increase both the power consumption and the die area for a given performance.
Progress might be logarithmic in compute, but compute (transistors/sqinch and transistors/$) is growing exponentially with time.

Despite what skeptics have been saying for decades, Moore's Law is alive and well - and we haven't even figured out how to stack wafers in 3 dimensions yet!
Back 20 years ago it cost companies more to aquire new people than to keep existing customers happy. Hence "grandfathering" people was common. Loyalty paid off.

I have a netflix account that is older than the founding date listed on Wikipedia yet I pay exactly the same as someone who signs up today.
There is no evidence that it has made it easier to end up with a successful company, however.
Wow I had never heard of this, it's pretty egregious.
The updated manual for AGS is maintained in GitHub, a tutorial is here with some screens of the Editor https://adventuregamestudio.github.io/ags-manual/acintro1.ht...
Local File Organizer: AI File Management Run on Your Device
What I want is not an iPod for my pocket, but an "iPod" for my home: a dedicated music playing device that connected to my streaming service, but really elevates the importance of browsing and albums.

Something to bridge the gap between the ocean-of-songs and radio stations of streaming with the more browser-you-own-collection experience of physical albums.

I could even go for some skeuomorphism: bring back Cover Flow and the virtual shelves of iBooks.
That's not possible to calculate because the total denominator of possible "cases" approaches infinity. Level 3 doesn't define what the cases for operation are, that is up to each individual implementor of such a system to define. The criteria is likely to be more much more complicated, like "the output of all 12 sensors when applied to this algorithm, and referenced against this mapping data, delivers a confidence greater than x"

Things don't really get that simple until level 5.

Even at level 4, we're going to have vehicles that pull over when they can't figure out how to navigate successfully.
Download the executable? That's not safe. Even if your intentions are good, you're teaching bad security habits.
Mild inconvenience? Compared to having a Macbook with a touch bar at least.
As much of a curmudgeon as I am on AI I do sincerely believe that one area that it's effective at is going from absolute beginner to decent understanding on something completely new and foreign.

Recently I've been somewhat curious about Skia, the graphics library that Google uses. A while back I fielded a few questions about Skia to Claude. Nothing crazy, just questions on how to draw a few primitive shapes, but I felt it would have taken some effort to find the answers on my own.

And I must say I was pretty satisfied with what it gave me back.
> "World Weekly News"

At least it was relegated to the magazine stands and check out line at the grocery market. You had to physically travel to see yet alone obtain a copy. Now it's in your pocket 24/7. Bat boy would be displeased.
I think this is a temporary problem. In a few years many AI companies will run out of VC money, others will be only after "low-background" content made before AI spam. Maybe one day nature will heal.
I didn't really want to engage with your broader point. I do disagree with it, but only in a measure of degree, and that's hard to debate because it's perspective and opinion oriented. If performance wasn't as important as you seem to imply, it's very unlikely that ripgrep would have gotten popular given that performance (and filtering) are its two more critical features. That is, that's what I hear from users the most: the like ripgrep because it's fast or because it filters or because of both.

But on the smaller point, it is just factually untrue that GNU grep falls into the "performance will be looked at later" bucket. That was why I responded.

This post is a classic about why GNU grep is fast, demonstrating that GNU grep definitely doesn't look like it wasn't optimized: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2010-Aug...

And then before that, there's this: https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/old-age-and-treachery....
I would presume that that’s the time period he’s currently trying to fund.