skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an interesting claim. I make range requests to 100GB+ files (genomics) all the time for work and it works great. I've never considered total file size as directly related to latency in this respect, assuming you have some sort of an index of course.
Can someone ELI5 what google cache was and why it was important? Was it essentially a wayback machine alternative? People are upset about its removal; curious to understand why.
The original concept was great for some things, sure.

I bought an OG Chromecast over a decade ago. It was a one-trick pony: Push "cast" button on pocket computer, and whatever I was doing there would show up on the BFT.

Which is great, you know, for a person who lives alone and never has visitors: One can select an item from the slick interface provided by the service they subscribe to on their amazing personal computing device and it appears magically on the big screen. The control buttons are there on the pocket computer, too. It Just Works.

However, it is an awful experience for someone who wishes to watch a film together with others: My personal pocket computer is not really set up to be shared with others (and the live screencast function of Chromecast, while functional, has really high latency for interactive tasks).

And if someone else wants to pick something to watch using their own personal pocket computer, then they can of course do so -- but theirs is also not meant to be a shared experience, and they won't be able to use the services that I pay to use in my home.

So fine. A film is selected, however that is done, and it is playing. But it's time to pause it so someone can use the bathroom. Do I use my phone for my Chromecast for the movie my friend picked on their phone? I already had to hide the buttons from showing up in the notification area of everyone's pocket computer on the LAN, since my roommate kept being a dick and stopping my shit.

Or do I have my friend fumble around with this potentially-unfamiliar interface on their own (locked) pocket computer to pause it? What if they stepped away? Do I find the Home app on my own pocket computer, open it, find the devices page, find the appropriate Chromecast device, and then finally fucking pause it? (Fuck you. I just want to go take a fucking piss.)

Back then, it was a much better experience in my household to use a PS3 for streaming: It had a regular remote control that -- as a design intent -- anyone could pick up and operate. Browsing possible selections was done on the BFT that was visible to all interested parties. My roommate didn't get a notification on their phone that encouraged them fuck with me from a different area of the house. It was a much better experience for those who didn't live a life of absolute solitude.

Today, it's still that way -- except nowadays I have [what is sometimes referred to as] a GCWGTV. It can behave like an OG Chromecast (what UI???), or it can behave like a human-centric streaming device with its own GUI and dedicated physical remote control that anyone can pick up and use, browsing Netflix or Plex or whatever in a manner very similar to what we were doing on a PS3 back in the day.

This works fine.
```Any User-Generated Content you post publicly, including issues, comments, and contributions to other Users' repositories, may be viewed by others. By setting your repositories to be viewed publicly, you agree to allow others to view and "fork" your repositories (this means that others may make their own copies of Content from your repositories in repositories they control).```

Section D.5

Whoever the user that is posting the content is agreeing to the terms of service. If they don't actually have permission to agree to those terms with the content, then where that liability falls will likely fall to a court, but I'm sure I would argue as a user who forked the content, that I was given permission via the TOS which has to be followed by the user posting the content.
In an ideal car-less city, public transportation should be adequate in moving people from their neighborhoods to places that are walkable. You can have your ideal home while still living in a place that doesn't prioritize 2-ton death machines over actual people.
A lot of people refuse to believe it won't make your food taste fishy. Sigh.
Why do they have to be crappy? Why wouldn't childcare be a job in the jobs program? Or teaching? or driver? Scott Alexander doesn't think deeply or fully address that in that piece, choosing instead to use a strawman to say it just won't work, but less critically that UBI somehow magically would.
Seems like a bot
On a semi-tangent, does anyone happen to know how Microsofts push to use Rust in the Windows kernel is coming along? They rewrote some components in Rust and rolled them out to production about a year ago but it has seemed pretty quiet on that front since then, unless I missed something.
There is probably some backroom dealing regarding the future of TCH's RTP rails [1].

[1] https://www.theclearinghouse.org/payment-systems/rtp
HN automatically changes some titles, to counteract against SEO'd clickbait titles.

dunno about the link, but the part after "si=" isn't required, e.g.:

https://youtu.be/_wc7ujflrnI

works fine
He also sent the extortionate messages before the terms were changed. How is it exactly that paying a licensing fee to Automattic would resolve this situation?
FWIW services like Redfin list their fees right upfront.
I’m curious about the “market charges X so I’ll charge X too but with a better service.” I’ve seen this elsewhere, too.

Isn’t the point of replacing a human agent with software that your margins are better and can charge less to the end user?
I haven't seen any official reasoning for this. Does anyone have a link to the explanation for this change occurring to begin with?

I would like if there was some technical or biz reasoning behind it, maybe I've just not seen it?
1. The idea is not to shatter it. The idea is to ablate material off of the surface as a kind of "rocket motor" to change its course so that it misses the earth.

2. Even if it shatters, much of the mass should miss earth. See #1.

3. Even if all of the mass hits earth (or at least earth's atmosphere), 36 separate pieces is still much better. A meteor's ability to do damage is proportional to its kinetic energy, which is proportional to its mass - except that the first part of the damage is taken by the atmosphere, not by the ground. Spreading that around 36 separate places in the atmosphere leaves less of it to hit the ground, and that will be spread out, too, not concentrated in one place.

36 city killers is still far better than one planet killer.
A Preliminary Study of O1 in Medicine: Are We Closer to an AI Doctor?
ByteDance is shutting down TikTok Music globally
Everything you list existed in Europe at the same time or few years later in the worst case scenario.
Totally forgot about QuantumLink but I agree completely. The whole being tied to/hamstrung by the C64 platform fits.
> doesn’t necessarily mean you should start — especially if you’re sensitive to caffeine or have been advised against it by your doctor.

So those who may be prone to heart problems are advised to not drink caffeine, and then we find that those who don't drink caffeine are more prone to heart problems. Yep.
You can also edit the post after submission to revert the automatic title changes
Yeah. Every time Nvidia or OpenAI come up, and some one asks "where's their moat?" I giggle because that just makes me more convinced it's humans that are stochastic parrots, more than LLMs don't have something resembling intelligence. intelligent.
This is a lot of fun to read, but when I got to the point where I need to run the assembler code in the HELLO WORLD example, I cannot get GAS to work due to being on MacOS on an M2 and not being smart enough to figure out what to install and what magic incantations to run. Does anyone else know? I tried using brew to install a few of the different packages I could find, but couldn't get anything to work properly.

In any case, I find it interesting to write a compiler and do want to continue with this book, so perhaps I'll just write the code on my MacBook and then transfer it to my Windows gaming PC to run it on WSL or something :)
Everyone is commenting on the distribution terms. But the Contributions section is just as bizzare.

> Waiver of Rights: You waive any rights to claim authorship of the contributions or to object to any distortion, mutilation, or other modifications of the contributions.

I waive the right to claim that I authored my contributions? Wait, what?

Why would I ever contribute to this project under this license?
Show HN: Chrome extension to summarize HN comments using AI and LLMs
Hello! I built this to solve a personal problem of where I didn't want to wade down large chains of HackerNews comment threads in order to get the key takeaways from the discussions. I built this Chrome extension, which supports both OpenAI and Ollama(local LLMs) to summarize comments and display the summary within Chrome's sidepanel. It's open source as you can see from the link, feedback appreciated!
> 400-megawatt (MW) solar and 400 MW/1,600-megawatt-hour battery storage

So 4 hours worth of storage is apparently enough to make this sort of thing work.
I think the idea is large pedestrian only paths, interruptible in rare occasions by emergency vehicles or for moving large things (perhaps car priority during very limited hours?)
It matters because the HN crowd maybe small when it comes consumer products , but is a dominant factor for cloud purchases.

Having been burnt too many times with Google products[1] I try not use their offerings on the cloud many decision makers are here who will worry about similar issues.

If Google wants to be serious about Cloud then they need to be serious about long term support.

Microsoft in the win 3 /9x days till even win 7 was exceptionally consistent about ABI support even adding specific behaviors to support a single binary to make sure upgrades just worked. That kind of culture was a key factor that made developers want to develop on their platforms

—-

[1] just this week having to start work on upcoming firebase dynamic link deprecation.

While google had given a long lead time and announced the sunsetting years ahead , I still don’t have to worry about similar issues on AWS nearly as often.
Capacity and level boarding are the two big ones.

Trams are more capacious than buses because they don’t have onboard fuel tanks, so more space for passengers; and they’re fixed to tracks so they can be significantly longer without worrying about the back swinging out.

Trams are also perfectly level with platforms, so there’s no need to waste time to achieve level boarding for wheelchairs, strollers, luggage and the elderly; buses can spend quite a lot of time kneeling and deploying ramps.
Well, within reason of course. In smaller quantities it is an excellent source of umami and a killer "special ingredient" for dishes that can benefit.

Throw it on a pizza, and all I taste is fish. This could just be me and my absolute aversion to "fishy" tastes though?
That's a thing only if you don't emit receipts or use a modern POS system. In particular it would happen in flee markets or in old shops that only keep a very forgiving paper trail.

But otherwise your POS won't let you get away with that, and your customers will usually be grossed if you're handing them goods for cash without any receipts. Food business could be the last bastion where it would somewhat work on a regular basis IMHO.
ScreenToGif: Screen, webcam and sketchboard recorder with an integrated editor
So like AI Gilfoyle
> I already hid the buttons from showing up in the notification area of everyone's pocket computer on the LAN, since my roommate kept being a dick and stopping my shit.

Honestly that sounds far more like your roommate being an ass than some failure of the technology. If you had to tape over the IR sensor because your roommate kept blasting the IR power off signal for your TV, would you also blame the IR sensor?

Either way, my TV remotes which support CEC that have play/pause buttons on them can play/pause content on my OG chromecast.
This just in: exercise cures all disabilities!
I think the best way to view this paper is as a sort of meta-analysis of a wider literature around null hypothesis testing and p-values. That literature goes back at least to the 1970s with the work of people like Paul Meehl and Gene Glass. But you can push it further back, like the 1957 Lindley Paradox that Ioannidis cites.

Part of the reason this paper was impactful is that it was short and punchy, took aim at all of medicine rather than a smaller subfield, and didn't require as much mathematical understanding as other papers.

I knew some of the big names that were hit by the replication crisis. And before that I spent some time trying to talk to psychology researchers at a top school about the problems with statistical testing. But they had limited knowledge of stats and didn't want to go out on a limb when everyone else in the field seemed okay with the status quo. A paper like this can be read by everyone and makes a forceful argument.

> It then try to generalize to "research" and avoid this very narrow support to the claim

This is a good point. The methods in medicine and the social sciences are especially weak and prone to these sorts of criticisms. In the physical sciences, often you can run enough iterations of the experiment to overwhelm any prior.

> You have limitations in tech and tools you use. You might miss something, didn't have access to more information that could change the outcome. That is why research is a process.

I totally agree. Science is basically a control system, or a root finding algorithm, or gradient descent. At any time t there is a gap between the best known science and the truth. But the point is that science converges to the truth over time, whereas no other alternative does.
For starters there is this:

https://killedbygoogle.com/
> Never underestimate the bandwidth of a double-articulated bus filled with people going to work/play/shop.

Let's imagine a chart, "Average door to door journey time experienced by a passenger" and "Total journey time" as a function of "Number of people on the bus."

Do you think these lines go up and to the right, or down and to the right? If it goes down and to the right, do you think the slope is steep enough so that the total door to door journey time goes down?

Who is the marginal bus passenger? Is it people who are in a hurry, or who can take their time to get to a destination? What does that say about average door to door journey time?

I don't get it. It seems like common sense to me that busses are slow. As they get used more, they get slower, not faster. There is so much adverse selection for a bus passenger: the very first passenger is for whom it is most convenient, and the very last passenger likely has the worst journeys.

In your scenario, you asked to estimate. The expected average passenger and aggregate journey times of a double articulated bus filled with people is much slower than an empty bus. That said, anyone is entitled to strongly held beliefs about anything.

The only intervention that lowers average and total door to door journey times makes busses look more like Ubers than trains.
It's a scheme layered on top of regular SEPA bank transfers. As such, it does not work across borders, for example, and not even with all German banks.
My totally unspported hypothesis is that many, many people have blocked Elon -- I have -- and he knows that and hates it.

We know that Elon once demanded, on superbowl Sunday, "demanded that his engineers find out why" a tweet of his was underperforming relative to a tweet from Biden, and then had the algorithm modified to boost his content [0]. Would unblocking the (presumably) most blocked person on twitter be such a leap?

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/20/opinion/trump-elon-musk-t...
You could access a snapshot of the page that was taken when google was indexing it.
It is helpful if the site content changed or was removed shortly after google indexed it. This often lead to wrong search result preview texts which you could still find in the cache. The internet archive has a different focus and maybe you won't find the missing information that google has indexed there.
What was the article? Is this in Pak?
You don't reverse it. It's like a cash transaction in the sense that it's irrevocable, which means people understand it intuitively. But unlike cash, there is an effectively permanent record of the transaction, connected to the participants' legal identities. That tends to discourage scammers. And it all happens within a single jurisdiction.
One more reason to not use Google search, I don't remember when it was the last time I used it, perhaps like twelve years ago.
With the Rust team falling apart, who is actually long term going to maintain it? I want to use it but I just see drama.
Coffee seems to be healthy today, unhealthy tomorrow, and healthy again next week. Though if there's any truth in these kinds of studies I've gotta be damn near invulnerable
My Experience Getting Licensed in Ham Radio (2020)
FedNow does look an awful lot like SEPA Instant to me (down to banks not being eager to offer it to consumers without a legal requirement).
I think the ethics committee would block any large-cohort study that required participants to drink instant coffee.
I think we agree on the outcome, but not the mechanism.

I'm saying that debit protections have nothing to do with the issuer "feeling generous", and a lot with market forces and legal regulations, just like for credit cards.
A lot of openAI followers are just people who listen to pop-tech podcasts or watch TikTok get-rich-quick schemes. It’s not limited to programmers in the same way crypto isn’t.
These Founders Almost Killed Their $12B Business, What Went Wrong
Yes but my credit limit is a very large buffer to the amount of cash in my bank account.
I dont have the data you are looking for, but my take on California is that cost is largely an afterthought. regulatory pressure and regulatory costs drive up or eliminate the alternatives, and power companies have a captive market. As a result, I'm paying $0.50/kwh with a large green component, and have no choice on the matter.

My only alternative is to try and reduce my use of the grid, which also means going solar.
Before cars, we had roads. They were not empty.

A big problem with cars was that people had to stop walking on (or near!) roads.
This blog post explains it in detail, including the POC prompt injection hosted on the website: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2024/chatgpt-macos-app-...

Note that such a payload can come from anywhere, like a pdf document the user analyzes, an image, a spreadsheet, etc...
Terminal–based game in 150 lines of pure Ruby
So you believe the justice system didn't deliver justice and Chauvin received the wrong sentence?

If that's the case, we clearly can't trust the justice system, so my question on how we determine whether the State is issuing violence or force is the same.

By locking up Chauvin unjustly, has the State used force, or violence?
Well, I guess I was coming from a position that hobbies can be as irrelevant as you want and use whatever age of tech you want, whereas if you're doing this for a living you generally want to use the tech of the day. Sometimes this tech is old stuff that survives and thrives to this day, especially with CS concepts that won't really age (like data structures for the most part), however there is some stuff that just is not efficient enough to use for making money, sadly, since that's mostly about efficiency these days and not usually about doing things perfectly right, or even to any decent quality standard, sadly.

I, personally, use old and/or shitty equipment and techniques when I do woodworking, for example, like using chisels to make mortise and tenons rather than a fancy plunge router, or just skipping those and using one of those fancy Festool machines that do the "fancy biscuits".

When I program, I mostly use Python these days (don't judge me!) and I tend not to use third party extensions or libraries, so I guess you could say I use the "old school" technique of using the standard library for Python for everything, where if I were trying to make money I would be using `poetry add` for things like requests, flask, etc.

I think irrelevant and out of date tech can be used for making money, but it's a bit harder that way. I personally like using the "old ways" quite often in my personal and professional lives, and not trying to optimize my personal or professional life as much as most do, but I can see that I'm not the norm there, and most people just memory-hole old tech and move on to the next house of cards.
> Thankfully research is not guided by notions like "what makes money in the current economy"

Unfortunately I don't believe this is true for AI research... I think you'll find a strong correlation with each year's most cited papers and what's currently popular in industry. There's always exceptions, but we moved to a world where we're highly benchmark oriented, and that means we're highly reliant on having large compute infrastructures, and that means that the access and/or funding comes from industry. Who is obviously going to pressure research directions towards certain things.
Thought that ThePrimeTime in his video https://youtu.be/62oTu9hjxL4?si=E98WZ0zJSNUC8TEH&t=287 hit the nail on the head re: Rust versus C.

Max level C programmers, have designed their programming style around control down to the absolute bit. C derives control from absolute control over behavior.

Max level Rust programmers have complete mastery of types. Rust derives control from types.

Seems somewhat philosophically incompatible.
[Orig title far too long, used title from Pocket]
My Chromecast is 11 years old and still works fine. Sometimes YouTube thinks it can try playing back the higher bitrate 4k version of a video and it'll get choppy but I've never had issues with 1080p content.

My older Roku 2 is effectively unusable as most apps are just outrageously sluggish and videos often crash loading.
When an IR remote starts putting notifications on any and every phone that happens to be on the network that let them very easily fuck up my streaming experience, then it may be possible to start drawing parallels. Until then, they're very different concepts.

(And CEC is a curse for those with AV systems of even moderate complexity.)
Yes that's exactly what I said, good job friend!
> pessimistic lens

Architecture outside of the academy has been pessimistic for decades.

If you want scientifically-driven interventions that could make a difference, create tools that let investors and laypeople completely bypass the pre-existing real estate economy. Make software that designs spec homes, make robots that build spec homes, make self-driving cars, make telepresence to eliminate commutes entirely, make chatbots that file permits and respond to nuisance neighbor lawsuits, make gasses that can turn deserts and tundras into temperate climates, make safer sedatives and painkillers to put smiles on gruesomely NIMBY boomer neighbors. Tall order, right? That's like saying, "Destroy California."
Secure boots works great with Linux.

Some distros use the MS signed grub shim, but you can generally just go into the BIOS and whitelist whatever bootloader you installed (and optionally disable the factory-loaded MS keys, which I generally do, since I don’t dual boot).