skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Is this "AI is good" or "Google is shit" or "Web is shit and Google reflects that"?

It's a -"I can ask it questions based on results and/or ask it to tweak things and/or ask it dumb what if questions" that I can't on web "good."-

Honestly one of the major plus towards LLMs is that it is immediate and interactive.

>Hmmm, that almost sounds like we're trying to use AI to unwind an Eternal September brought on by StackOverflow and Github. I might buy that.

I mean, what's the alternative? You're not going back to web of 90s (and despite nostalgia, web of 90s was fairly bad).

>you can't trust textual web results anymore--you need a secondary channel

I wonder how good LLMs would be at verifying other LLMs that are trained differently - eg sometimes I switch endpoints in LibreChat midpoint during a problem after I am satisfied with an answer to a problem, and ask a different LLM to verify everything. It's pretty neat at catching tidbits.
I think "heavy drinking" is something that people interpret differently. In some cultures having a couple of beers a day (example, Germany, Scandinavia) or a couple of glasses of wine (France) would be pretty normal while some other people might view daily drinking as a "problem."

To me it's a problem if you can't stop when you want to or feel cravings when you do. Like I said I'll have a bourbon or two occasionally but I also go weeks sometimes without drinking at all. Sometimes, around the holidays especially or when a group of friends gets together I'll drink more. This seems pretty normal to me.
You can run any wlroots- (and possibly smithay-) based Wayland compositor nested inside an X11, but it won't be rootless; you'll get a separate window that all the Wayland apps will be drawn into.

There's really no reason why someone couldn't write a "WX11" or something of that nature, but I'm not sure it would be worth the effort.
China: 1 Billion people, GDP ranking: #1 or #2 depending

Taiwan: 0.02 Billion people, GDP ranking: Not even top 10, location: literally part of China.

How do you see the future playing out where China doesn't get to do what it likes to Taiwan? It is all but set in stone at this point, literally the only path Taiwan has to get a good outcome is to negotiate it with China. We've seen in Ukraine what will happen to them if they rely on the US in a military way. There will be mass deaths, the island will be levelled and China will likely seize control anyway.

I wouldn't want the CCP seizing control, but a policy of serious independence is being taken off the table due to China's sheer size. There isn't a backer available to Taiwan that is big enough to stop the mainland from getting what it wants. War is pointless for Taiwan; they'd even be better off going out Hong-Kong style.
Was Fukushima real or just in people's minds?
>so the whole freaking country is a helicopter pad?

the whole country is people living in 10 story apartment buildings. Taiwan looks like this[1], not like suburban Texas where everyone lives in 2k square feet mansions. The very limited roof space/dweller ratio you have in a country like this is indeed used for water storage, helicopter pads, what have you. If you're in a country so sparsely populated where home's are so large that a house can power itself with solar maybe roof solar makes some difference, in a place where you can slap 2 solar panels on a building of 300 people it really doesn't.

[1]https://img.static-kl.com/images/media/54842792-60B3-4C6E-A9...
But just to clarify, because I'm also having a hard time imagining this, an LTE antenna in a cell phone can beam data to a satellite and have it picked up? Even at whatever low kbps? That is insane to me!
The USA, you mean?
Interesting read -- I appreciate their emphasis on what AM radio has mostly become ("divisive, grievance-filled infotainment") and that if Congress were to legislate AM radio as "public good", it should actually deliver a public good, not right wing corpo garbage.
I love that Taiwan has 20 peaks over 3km. Such a small island for that kind of geography!
https://rimstar.org/science_electronics_projects/razor_blade...
GrapheneOS is attempting to pursue the "legal" way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41119047
I love JQ. But ... I'd never considered its query language to be particularly admirable. If I want to ask questions of some databases, I don't understand why I'd choose JQ's XPATH-like language to do it.
I’ve heard broken and cracked used in this way, usually in a game-mechanics balance context implying something is overpowered, but busted in that same context has a negative connotation to me for some reason, signifying something being underpowered or bugged, if that makes sense. I can’t even tell if this is ironic or unironic at this point.
I've been running Hyprland for a while now. I find its window management capabilities quite good, in particular, the default 1 LHS / n RHS setting -- I lack the desire to deal with binary trees; the window manager should manage the windows, not me.

That being said, I am a W^X person so I don't really like some of the (x86_64-specific) aspects of their plugin systems. I need to publish my #ifdef-it-out-with-fire patch at some point...
I think api may have been alluding to the potential end state, where conception is performed in the lab.
I think they would if they could.

They would need the funds and talent.

SpaceX have been able to do it on this scale due to reusable rockets
I am so glad I moved away from the web. I remember spending lots of time playing with different frameworks for Node.js and Java and PHP and Python, all with different tradeoffs, and all of them suck the fun out of programming out of me.

Yeah yeah I know <whatever> Framework is great and good for stability or something, but using a framework makes something that I enjoy (programming) feel more like filing out my taxes, just so I can end up with a mediocre CRUD application that more or less works for the project I am working on.

I have removed myself to from the web and programming almost instantly became more fun for me again.
they were likely paid for?
You've described the setup instructions for Composer. Which once Composer is installed, it can be used to install packages globally.

https://getcomposer.org/download/
Yes. It's been demonstrated a few times.
It was stock in my 2003 Forester that we eventually got rid of due to head gasket problems.
Is life not as valuable in the US? Or are there fewer crashes?
Show me where I asked for a framework that magically turns Rust into Ruby. The person has created a list of (high-level!) features that they need. None of them are 'no borrow checker'.
Yes! "Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy". It incorporated virtual reality with tiny flying drones for 'invisibility'. It was published in 1974.

I was inspired to make a handwriting copying machine based on the "Homework Machine" book.

Great series!
I haven't used AM radio for years. It does feel like it would die out if cars stopped including it, but this law seems like it's fighting the inevitable. I'd rather have internet access viewed as a public utility and/or better Internet privacy laws.
Gamma-ray flickers seen in thunderstorms
How about Superfund sites, where the owners didn’t just remove valuable resources, but actively added and then left behind hazardous materials which are now the responsibility of the taxpayer?
I agree it seems unlikely. On the other hand there’s a reference to “ the current (fifth) edition of Webster's New World College Dictionary” and that seems to be from 2016 - so perhaps the article was mostly done in the late eighties / early nineties but got some updates here and there.
Cost benefit ratio would be very low
Counter-point: developing web services in Rust is just as easy as doing it in Go or Java, yet you now have an excellent type system (sum types!), an excellent package manager, and extremely good performance.

You can do dependency injection in Rust to share connection pools just like you would in Java, and it's super simple to write threaded background tasks.

Google gave a talk recently that said they measured Rust developers as no less efficient or productive than Go developers [1].

It's a fantastic language and you shouldn't ever limit yourself to systems programming with Rust. It can do so much more than that.

[1] https://www.ardanlabs.com/news/2024/rust-at-google/
IDK I use C/C++ all the time for web servers. It's lightweight and lets you pretty easily/quickly call C/C++ and low-level code and gives you a lot of control in terms of networking. You can pretty much "do anything" in a straightforward generic way without having to learn some application specific language like PHP or through nginx/apache configuration files.

Having a rust alternative to something like libmicrohttpd would be nice and I would use it.
No, but they would to avoid customer complaints at the dealer level - I dont think its a huge cost to add needed filtering.
It was probably NOAA Weather Radio.

https://www.weather.gov/nwr/
yes, most vehicles are, that doesn’t eliminate the environmental impact.
A few hundred microseconds is not enough time to send an announcement at the low bitrates required for noisy channels, and then you need to multiply it by the number of cells in a collision domain. This is a hard limit of information theory and physics.

And it is possible for the vast array of computer scientists in the world to work on more than one thing at a time; this particular work was done by a small team, whose specialties are in any case not suitable for work on better open authentication/consent protocols.
LLMs can be made more deterministic if you decrease the temperature parameter and have a fixed seed. Outputs can be controlled with test suites (i.e. that they do not change behavior or have performance regressions). For me as a team lead, a human programmer is already a very non-deterministic agent :) Give a non-trivial task to 10 human programmers and they will all solve it differently.

Lack of debuggability is a good argument. Maybe it's only a problem if you want a human to debug the generated code? How about let an LLM iteratively run the code and figure out where it goes wrong by itself (o1 style).
The earliest reference on my shelf is Kernighan and Ritchie, 1978. Like you say, it's probably just been passed on from generation to generation. And it's easier to say "just like C" than to make up a new convention. Python uses the same convention.
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. It's a sci-fi adventure with self-reliance and counter-cultural themes.
That's fair. And good on you.
Wine is definitely something I tend feel the next day more than beer or spirits. It might be the sulfites?
You do have to buy the right edition to get the full effect. It was also published without color.
I haven't listened to FM, AM, DAB, or anything broadcast since I've been able to connect my phone to my car (20 years?).

Why would I listen to what the station programmers decide (and possibly riddled with ads) when I can configure my phone to play whatever I want when I want?
Until wlroots is statically linked into xfce compositor... you know, if we could avoid the mess of the bazillion of x11 libs all over again...
Yes? The return on investment seems obscenely good.
China grew 5.2% last year and is growing faster than the US this year. Clearly problems with how they allow startups to operate but growth is happening. Do you trust the numbers? That’s another story.
Apple lost trying to argue that iOS shouldn't be emulated too.

https://www.engadget.com/apple-loss-lawsuit-corellium-120347...

> Apple sued security start-up Corellium last year, accusing it of violating copyright law for offering researchers access to “virtual” iPhones that can help them find bugs in iOS products. Now, a federal judge in Florida has tossed Apple’s copyright complaint, giving Corellium a major victory in its legal battle against the tech giant.
Not every application or even web application bottlenecks at the network or database level.
> The thing is, why 10? Why not 9 or 11? The code says "if you see 'string of newline character', output 'newline character'". How does the compiler know what a newline character is? Its code in turn just says "if you see 'string of newline character', treat it as 'newline character'"...

You can look into the ascii table then.

10 is the line feed.
'\n' is there to help human because it makes more sense than '10'.

Nobody is asking why 'a' is equal to '61'.

From the codebase, you know that '\n' is a char. A char is a value between 0 and 255, if you explicitly convert '\n' to int then you happen to find the ascii value and you are good to go and there is no need to pretend there is any poetry in this.

Requoting you:

> "if you see 'string of newline character', output 'newline character'"

It simply becomes "if a you see 'the arbitrary symbol for the new line', output 'the corresponding ascii value'".

I read the quote as "if you see 'a', output 'a' in ascii code." which is not mysterious in any kind of way.

IMO, the article does not make sense at all because it pretends to wonder where an hexadecimal value is coming from, but with any other kind of symbol it would be the exact same article, you enter 'a' and find some weird hexadecimal value and you won't be able to correctly trace it from the source code.

It would make sense it 'a' would display 'a' but '\n' would display some hexadecimal garbage in a text editor.
> I'd rather the radios be in cell phones since they're more likely to be with you and powered on in a disaster!

It would have to be a very short disaster, because your cell battery is going to die before the day is out. I've only changed the batteries in my AM/FM shower radio once since I bought it a decade ago.
bloomberg radio has been my go to station for the past 16 years or so since it broadcasts in some major markets and i have no difficulty getting signal even at night. it is way better than using internet radio with buggy apps and where they inject an ad right before the stream starts playing.
Related, 4 days ago, 118 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41726698
Because the car has been the only place a radio might be located for the last few decades not because it was a great option in and of itself. Wanting to mandate emergency radios be made available to every person is a matter in and of itself. Even implementing distribution as part of getting a new car is a separate topic. Requiring it be built in to the structure of the car is neither a good option for safety or a good option for efficiency. The only reason we're even discussing it is it was the last place to use it normally.
How will we ever get good peripherals and good use-cases if everything can only ever be USB 2.0?
See also from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41754074
In Utah there can be blinding snowstorms that trap people in their cars on the side of the road. There are public service signs every so often, "for weather tune to AM 830" or something like that. It's great to pass one of those signs when there's a bunch of snow coming down. It helps you make a decision whether or not you should pull off and get a hotel room.

Could they move to FM? Yes, but FM reception could be dodgy in a snowstorm, especially when going through mountain passes. Knowing what I know from my HAM radio training, AM radio is fantastic in emergencies. One tiny little station can blast out a signal that can be heard from halfway across the country if given enough umph. Being on the lower bands, AM punches through the storm better too. It makes a lot of sense to put emergency and national weather stations on the AM bands. They're cheaper to run, and they work better in emergencies.

Some commenters here talking about right-wing political radio and sports wanting their AM radio bands available. People who listen to right-wing political radio don't do so from AM, or at least they don't need to. Podcasts and even FM stations out in red Utah are usually reached for first by my friends who listen to them.

I remember driving through the "four corners" area where Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona meet. It's a place home to many American Indian nations. It also has terrible cellphone reception. The first time I bought a paper map in years was when I went down there. You couldn't find your way otherwise.

I think of places like that when they talk about getting rid of AM. There's not a lot of money in AM radio, not compared to all the other media. At the end of the day, if you live in a _very_ rural place, AM radio may be your only source. I remember listening to a Navajo Radio station like this one[1]. The announcer spoke in Navajo. I remember driving through the reservation. It seriously feels like the 1930s. Frame houses but without any electricity plumbing or heating. The people in these regions are terribly poor.

For safety reasons detailed above, I would not drive a car without AM radio. For humanitarian reasons also, I would advocate for keeping The rural and the poor in mind when making a decision to keep a receiver that otherwise makes no sense in perhaps a very urban setting where disasters are not that big of a problem, like the Chicago area where I grew up.

1: https://www.ktnnonline.com/events/
Have you played Pentiment?
Internet radio has MANY potential points of failure, particularly during emergency situations, when electric power is unreliable, or out for many days.

AM radio has a"head office " situation, studio and broadcast transmitter, both of which normally have emergency power supply's and generators capable of sustaining the station for several days. AM radio in cars can operate from car batteries. AM has significantly longer range than FM. Satellite radio , would be nowhere as wide spread as AM radio in cars. ( On a unrelated note, it is my opinion that the mobile phone network should have reliability standards for power supply - ie base stations and other network elements would keep operation if the commercial/ public electric supply was down - as often happens in emergency situations - like floods / cyclones / hurricanes / typhoons " Electric car makers need to try much harder to reduce their vehicles Radio Frequency Interference or RFI
Sometimes more important than to get the right answer is to ask the right question. That and the verification that the answer satisfies the question is what you are providing.

If you delegate a task to people working under you, would it be that different? They can also learn and replace you. Maybe even with more productivity since they may be willing to use AI.
TLDR: If he buys a car a year, and drives the same number of miles as the average American, his total emissions are probably equal to someone who drives 28k miles a year.

Carbon emissions for a Model 3 vs a Toyota Corolla even out after 13'500 miles according to Argonne National Laboratory [1], which is slightly less than the average an American drives per year (14'263 miles [2]). Assuming that he drives as much as the average driver, his cars generate as much Co2 as a Model 3 (definitely not true for the Cybertruck, but he probably has low-build-emission ICE cars in the other 8 to lower the average), and he buys a car a year, he has roughly the equivalent emissions of someone who drives twice the average number of miles each year. For reference, a long haul driver (of which there are 300k-500k in the US [3]) drives 100-110k miles [4] a year (7-8x the average).

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/when-d...

[2] https://www.thezebra.com/resources/driving/average-miles-dri....

[3] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/05/25/999784202/is-t....

[4] https://www.caltrux.org/driver-faqs/#:~:text=Begin%20a%20Car....
Rufus: The Reliable USB Formatting Tool for Quick and Easy Bootable Drives
The npm dependency ecosystem is extremely tangled. I work with node frequently, but there's plenty of opportunities for bad actors to introduce abuse and I'm wondering when the other shoe will drop.
Servo is in Rust.

I want to make an app in Rust that hosts Servo in it with my business logic in maybe SciterJS - like electron but hopefully lighter?

Something, just a business software guy who wants something with more control than an webapp and not so heavy like electron.
> I hope they eventually become a viable alternative for mothers.

Sadly it seems that modern liberal societies that don’t enslave their women seem to not achieve sufficient fertility rates to avoid going extinct. Artificial wombs would be a huge advance toward fixing that problem.
I consider myself a lazy developer: I like to write code that minimises the amount of code I'll need to write to incorporate new features in the future.

Laziness isn't necessarily a bad thing, depending on how it's implemented.
For many decades, having a radio in a car at all was an optional extra. Probably in the 1970s or so it became pretty standard. I see no issue with an automaker deciding to omit AM radios if they think customers prefer that. The market will decide. There's no reason to mandate a radio of any kind in a car.
Lol, every country listed on your linked Wikipedia page (except US and Japan) use FM.

I think you succeeded in motivating for the opposite of what you intended...
https://archive.is/Pz6C0
I'm not sure I'd call it "best", but it's definitely one of the more interesting ones that I've just never heard of anywhere else. I found it in an antique store like two decades ago: An Alien Light

It's mostly from the perspective of primitive humans being studied by aliens while the aliens teach them various topics like math and science. The aliens are studying these lost tribes because out in space they're at war with humans and cannot figure out how the humans are able to fight each other and still be winning the war with the aliens.
Is that where your drinking water comes from? Only a monster or a foreign invader would poison a drinking well.
There are road outrage/park status things still broadcast on AM
The Popular Science I recall had lots of pictures, diagrams, etc.
The public interest reason for mandating radios is so that drivers can receive emergency broadcasts.
In the US some cars just have run flats. But the common case is to just have a donut spare even in cars that can theoretically go off-roading. I suppose the logic is a full size spare takes a lot of room and there are a lot of things that can go wrong beyond a flat and people who use their cars off-road will outfit as needed.
No it’s because I like to drink tea while I work and I don’t enjoy the idea of splashing liquid into the fan intake of a $3500 computer
The problem is the amount of Bandwidth taken at the lower frequency.
Yeah, though the article describes 0xE2, which is 'b ? a : c'. 'a ? b : c' would be 0xCA.
I was just playing with something similar today... seems like Cloudflare Workers supports Puppeteer now, so you can easily use that to make a serverless API that runs a headless browser: https://developers.cloudflare.com/browser-rendering/platform...
So a localized total outage? Weird that the farmer had no idea everything was in the one spot.