skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am curious to see how all this plays out. I am not a developer but have played some with chatGPT to write some simple python. It has done an OK job. When it works it is sometime easier than other cut and paste methods. That is a long way from replacing those that know what they are doing (even at a junior level).

On the other hand I remember hearing the old electrical engineers saying "you do not need a microcontroller for that. Just use a resistor and capacitor, or a 555".

As an aside, is my Firefox spell check worse? Are they getting ready to replace it with a LLM?
Sure, but who's going to pay for this? Satellites (especially geostationary ones) are expensive. And SiriusXM doesn't provide a worthwhile service that compels enough people to subscribe; it's a wonder it's still in business. The main function of a music subscription service is to listen to music, but have you ever listened to SiriusXM? The audio is so compressed that it sounds terrible.
I was wondering about this too. It could be a an android using something like airdroid and still provide people with the opt out messages sms always should have.

Putting a keyword at the front of outgoing and incoming messages might be able to help as well if a users phone number was tied to more than one service.
I’m not sure what the attack would be, tbh. Is there a situation where I would want to feed a lie to an LLM that I wouldn’t want regular chrome users to see?
I have lived through several waves of technology and change that would supposedly make me obsolete as a programmer and system admin. Over forty years in the business now, I have learned to take those predictions with a lot of skepticism.

If LLMs get close to doing any part of my work I will incorporate them, like I have previous “threats” like cloud computing. I won’t panic too soon or give up because I have enough experience and expertise to know better.

I can't predict what might happen, but right now LLMs don't do much of value in the domains I work in. They seem mainly to exist as excuses for stock pumping and managers cutting their labor costs to the bone. The people who don't get laid off cling to their jobs out of fear. The threat to (mostly junior) programmers comes from turning our work into a commodity, not from automation itself.

Maybe your analogy does apply. A person who can drive a tractor will indeed outperform a farmer in one important but limited way: covering more area in a day than a farmer on foot. But the person who can only drive a tractor likely won't have all of the skills and expertise of a farmer who knows the land, soil, crops, weather, etc. from direct experience. And the person who can only drive a tractor -- but cannot actually grow anything or manage a farm -- becomes more interchangeable and replaceable. Tractor driving already gets replaced by robots, but knowing how to run a farm does not. Likewise a good programmer offers a lot more value than just the code they write; in fact code itself has no value without the context of a business domain and a theory [1] of the system.

By the way, I'm one of those old guys who still use vim and the command line, as I have since the late 1970s, and will continue to do so. I can use IDEs and GUIs if I have to, I didn't get left behind, but those don't improve my efficiency or quality. They can slow me down and distract me with futzing with tools rather than getting real work done, and they don't work in all of the environments I need them to. I haven't had any problem keeping up with the IDE users.

[1] https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
I already explained why the previous reply was wrong and someone replied adding no value which only needed a “lol no”.
> Previously, only drivers from the 15mph and 25mph roads had to stop!

This is something which drives me crazy with a decent number of roundabouts that the Wisconsin DOT constructs. You have a rural intersection where a local road crosses a major highway, and the local road has a stop sign in either direction. Then the DOT slaps a roundabout in there, greatly inhibiting the highway traffic which is 95% of the traffic going through that intersection. That is not a good use case for a roundabout! But for some reason they insist on doing them anyway. It's terrible road design.
That's fine. You have your terminology and others have theirs.

It might (not) surprise you to learn that what I call Cyprus is called "Zypern" by Germans and there are a lot more copper related names for the place.

Closer to my home, what I call London is Londres in France and London in German. The city in question was named by a bunch of what would become Italians (Romans) - Londinium was named by a murderous bunch of colonial invaders.

I have insinuated an awful lot from your comment and "replied" to those insinuations as best I can.

I am somebody and I use the term America routinely to describe the USA and the term Americas for the entire continent. North America is US + CA and Southern America is Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Paraguay, Chile, Uruguay and ... oh there are rather a lot more. There is also Central America which is the countries that join the north to the south.

I get that you have an axe to grind about which America is which and who owns which name. I have some sympathy for Brazil getting pissed off about Amazon (the company) too.

I try to understand all points of view - its quite interesting.
Freedom to work on your own projects is a form of retirement imo. Work is only 'work' because you're stuck building crapware for The Man.

I'm jealous ofc :) gz
Unfortunately, it's not. Driving from right-to-left (in the first picture) requires drivers to enter the roundabout twice, then leave once. Judging by the amount of vehicle debris generally present and the additional "Yield" markings and signage that have been added to the second yield point since the construction was completed, it's been confusing from the ground as well.
Amazing quote. Can you share a link to the article, if it exists?
That 6 year old has been through more and knows more about strength and life than you do. Learn from him, from all of them. What they are low on is hope and joy, bring it and share it with them. Leave your pity and unease at home
Sentinel (https://www.mobygames.com/game/16639/the-sentry/)

Mercenary (https://www.mobygames.com/game/10982/mercenary/)

and

Conqueror (https://www.mobygames.com/game/16593/conqueror/)

Sentinel is fairly well known, but by no means is it universally praised as some of it's contemporaries were.
Yes, the entirety of the Netherlands was hundreds of kilometres inland during the last ice age, up to 10000 years ago. So I guess it should have been all solid land, Flevoland included.

Here's a map of what the region would have looked like:

https://www.ecomare.nl/en/discover-ecomare-on-texel/expositi...
As a personal preference, I dislike podcast artificial banter, and this audio is a great example of what I dislike.

Artificial artificial.

Great little project, though. And, as satire, I did like the show notes writing.

And the generative AI was impressive, in a way. Though I haven't yet thought of a positive application for it. And I don't know the provenance of the training data.
Agreed, The Stand, notwithstanding.
I enjoy reading these kinds of physics / astro-physics debates on HN. They make the neuroscience ones I’m use to seem quaint and manageable in comparison.
> I'm not sure what can be done when land is worth less than the cost of cleaning it.

Financial and legal liability for the people responsible.
I would pick Windows 11 (LTSC) over any prior version of Windows, and I would pick macOS Sequoia over any prior version of macOS.
I always figured a kibbutz-style scheme might be something to encourage. Let's try to make spaces where families raising children can live together and cooperate.

From a sheer economic standpoint, sharing the breadwinning and parenting duties might allow the children to get more hours of hands-on parent time. There might be economies of scale in sharing and handing down equipment, clothing, toys, or even provisioning services (if you have 10 families loving together, maybe at that point keeping a pediatrician or tutors on retainer might work?)

There might also be benefits in a more diverse set of ideas in the shared house-- when the kid reaches an age where they develop more complex interests and questions, more "parents" means a better chance they have someone with the appropriate knowledge or skills to help their development.
That probably felt very nice to say, but it's wrong. Everyone starts somewhere. Nobody can start out architecting the login infrastructure for the 250 applications at a major company, all of which already have their own login system and local considerations. Everybody starts out on some simple work. They have to. It's all they can do on day one. It's all I could do. It's all anyone can do.

I'm fairly worried that AI as it is developing now is going to be the most effective ladder pull in the world. While a new dev is grappling with "grunt work", they're learning. I'm working with them, explaining why this was done and why that was done, and why, yeah, that's busted, but actually not for the reason you think, and they're learning a lot more than just how to accomplish the specific task nominally laid out in the specific ticket they are working on. If they do the work by just asking an LLM for the answer and they actually get it, they may finish the task today... but what of their progress in five years? Ten? I'm very concerned that juniors leaning on AI will discover that in five years, the easy stuff is still easy, but the hard stuff is still as incomprehensible as it was five years ago.
Least error-prone and JavaScript in one sentence, I’m not sure about that, to be honest. JavaScript alone without any types in a big project is a shot in the foot, let alone the quirks JavaScript has. Apps crash when a thrown error is unhandled, etc.

I would say JavaScript is easy, but it’s definitely not the type for a least error-prone app.
> TypeScript has an equally powerful type system.

How does TypeScript's type system prevent shared mutable state?
It’s funny that anyone wouldn’t.
This study was specific to the Antarctic Peninsula, not all of Antarctica. The study further restricted analysis to only areas below 300m ASL and free of ice, snow, and clouds.

This is still a very small percentage of green, but orders of magnitude larger than 0.0008%.
Also, without claiming that experienced c/c++ developers never write memory safety bugs, I don't think it's at all controversial to say inexperienced c/c++ developers write a lot of them (and hopefully experienced ones write way fewer).
It’s on my to-read list, but starting is daunting. A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again (the essay collection) was amazing. I think about it often.
> Complicating this further is the fact that outcomes differ significantly across the U.S., with some leading hospitals able to keep twice as many 22-week-old babies alive as the national average, and occasionally able to keep babies born as early as 21 weeks alive.

The hard truth that many don’t want to face about prematurity is that the odds of survival at 24 or even 23 weeks are actually quite high, IF the baby is lucky enough to be born in the right facility. The odds at 22 weeks and even 21 weeks are not a lock but actually much better than you’d think.

We don’t actually need new science to radically improve prematurity outcomes. We just need to invest money in equipping and training more NICUs.

My son was born at 26 weeks, luckily in New York City where the standard of care is excellent (level 3 on a scale of 1-4) at even the second-tier NICUs, and where the highest possible standard of care is never more than a short ambulance ride away.

To put it bluntly: in NYC, a 26-weeker is 90% likely to survive to term. In some areas of the country a 26-weeker is 90% likely to die. The averages cited here flatten out this reality and make the problem seem more scientific and less social than it actually is.
TSV support might be nice for Zeek logs
this person is definitely trying to sell a LLM-based coding solution somewhere HAHAHA.
Is there a non-ad version of this?
What is your point exactly? It seems like you are agreeing with me. That money is being spent on illegal immigrants that could otherwise be diverted to the needs of legal residents or citizens. Surely you can understand why many people who are receiving limited help are upset about this. Whether it is due to Congress or the president or the head of the agency is not really relevant. The fact that it is happening, especially when people in the agency are saying, they may not have enough funds for the rest of the season for disaster relief, is the problem. The statement that they put out is saying that money is not being moved from one bucket to the other without admitting that money is being spent on non-citizens. It is trying to cast doubt on the notion that money is being spent on illegal immigrants when it is factually the case.
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> The best minds of our generation are being used to...

This idea is repeated often in threads like this and I'm not at all sure where it comes from.

Do the best minds of our generation all go into tech? No. Do the best minds that go into tech all go into software engineering? No. Do the best minds that go into software engineering go to work at Google and Facebook and other advertisers? No. Do the best minds that go to work at Google and Facebook and other advertisers work on advertisements and tracking? No.

If it were possible to come up with a rigorous definition of "best minds", I see no particular reason to believe that such a definition would have substantial overlap with "pursues FAANG salaries", much less "works on ad tech".
This feels like profit-driven marketing that boils down to “cheap old reliable solution bad, new expensive low entropy solution good”
>why is being in a car a special case?

Because this is about America, a large and sprawling country where most residents can be safely assumed to own a car and would use it in the event of an emergency or disaster.

Obviously if you have the foresight to have a (AM!) radio in your home and your camping gear that's even better.
Be aware that the article is written and published by a company that's selling an alternative version of refillable dispensers so that it may be biased.

And as always, no one discusses the danger of creating even more plastic waste by not using refillables, or using the pouches being sold by this company.
The area needed depends somewhat on where the panels are located, the north/east don't see a ton of sun for about half the year. Also, 70+% of TW is covered by mountains and dense forest. I don't mean to say it's impossible (I'd like to see a lot more solar), just that the economics aren't as good as other places.

I also wonder if building for typhoon conditions affects construction costs significantly.

$10b seems impossibly low to go fully off-grid, I expect real estate costs would dwarf panel/battery/construction costs. TSMC isn't stupid, so I assume they've explored the options in this area.
New Book: Effect Oriented Programming
Dark matter to me seems a lot like the ether. Our understanding is wrong and we don’t know how or why so we invented a fudge factor to explain it. One day people will think we were silly to believe it.
The BladeRF and ADALM-PLUTO are cheaper alternatives to the entry level (B2xx) USRPs. They use the same Analog Devices MIMO chip as the USRP, so are similar in capability.
Or two near me have traffic lights very near (1/4 block or so) from the exit, meaning that traffic will inevitably back up into the roundabout, locking it up.
Having worked extensively with both Go and RxJS, I’ve come to appreciate the distinct strengths each brings to the table, though I lean towards Go for its clarity in managing concurrency. RxJS, with its powerful operators and composability, makes handling complex asynchronous flows relatively succinct. But that same power can lead to hard-to-trace bugs when things go wrong, especially with the more subtle operators like switchMap and mergeMap. Go, on the other hand, offers a more explicit concurrency model through goroutines and channels, which can be less error-prone in larger systems if used judiciously. The trade-off for Go’s more explicit concurrency is that it can feel more verbose, but the payoff in long-term maintainability and debugging is hard to overlook. RxJS is still a great tool for certain problems, but in terms of reliability and ease of debugging, Go wins out for me in most cases.
> This idea is repeated often in threads like this and I'm not at all sure where it comes from.

I think you have a reasonable idea and you’re playing the devils advocate.
In the modern formulation and understanding of Maxwell's equations, yes, they do show that the speed of light is a constant. However, in the context of the time they were written, it was not known whether or not that was a true fact of the universe or if that meant the equations were incorrect.

In the historical context I'd classify it as a "clue" but not a proof. Proof really came from observations.
When did threading get added to JavaScript?

And does Rust have type unions and intersections, interfaces, and mapped and conditional types?
Part of the point is compliance. If we were to decide that all homes must have an AM radio, you're not going to get great compliance. I would likely put off buying one because it doesn't feel necessary "right now", and I'm sure if there was a requirement for builders to actually build the radio into the home, old homes (read: nearly every single current home) wouldn't be required to have a retrofit.

> I think it would be more appropriate to tell people to pack an AM radio in the disaster bag we’re all suppose to keep in the trunk.

I don't have a disaster bag in my trunk, and I know exactly two people who do (they are volunteer SAR people, so big surprise there). You'll get very little compliance for this requirement. And if you want to try to enforce compliance, doing so will be incredibly expensive.

And that brings us to the other part: cost. Every (or nearly ever) car out there in the US today already has an AM radio, from my 2-year-old car to some restored antique from the 1960s. Most people don't have a standalone AM(/FM) radio these days, and basically no one has one built into their home. Can you imagine how expensive it would be to require all homes in the US be retrofitted with a built-in AM radio? Even requiring homeowners to purchase a standalone AM radio would be massively expensive. Especially when compared to the cost of $0 to require that all cars have them in it... because they already do! And for car makers planning to drop the AM radios: it will be at most a few tens of dollars added to their cost to continue to include them. A cost they can continue to pass on to their customers.
I live near this roundabout and drive through it almost daily.

> Drivers going northbound on SR 203 traffic may need to yield twice – once when entering the roundabout and again if traffic is passing between the two islands. If you think about it, that’s just following the same rules a second time.

The one key difference from the average (American) roundabout is the second yield. After you've waited your turn and entered the roundabout, you're required to yield again within a few feet. Obviously this is not an impossible task, but the signage leading up to the roundabout from northbound SR 203 doesn't at all indicate the shape of the roundabout. The navigation sign at the entrance only shows a single roundabout.

The second yield point is indicated with the standard yield sign and triangle markings on the road. But judging by the amount of detritus scattered on the ground, as well as the recent addition of "YIELD" text painted on the road and orange flags attached to the yield sign (both not present at any other entrance to the roundabout), the yield-twice pattern is not obvious to everyone.

Plus, the topology of the roundabout isn't conducive to seeing this from the ground, either; the relatively sharp right turn leading into the roundabout places the second yield sign out of your forward vision when you're approaching the roundabout, and the whole intersection itself is very slightly tilted away from the northbound entrance, making it really tricky to see and understand it when approaching.

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Anecdotally, almost every time I've driven through here while there is simultaneous traffic from northbound SR 203 and northbound 203rd St. SE, the northbound 203rd St. SE traffic ends up being cut off by drivers failing to yield at the second entrance.
I watched it for the first time a few hours ago, and did a Wikipedia dive about the Book of Kells. Flip over to HN and see this thread; what a weird convergence.
Scientists develop mRNA vaccine that protects mice against C. difficile bacteria
I took a look at the 1992 Best of What's New edition and got a blast of nostalgia. My favorite part was always the classified ads at the back of the magazine. Got scammed out of a buck by one of those "make money at home" ads.

One thing I was surprised by was how enjoyable and high-quality the main section color ads seem compared to the online ads I mostly see today
I am someone who has been in the drone hobby space for YEARS. These guys are the GO TO solution for people building first person view (FPV) racing/freestyle drones. It's incredible this software is open source.
Liquid fuels are relatively light and easy and quick to transfer.

When we had no power for a week, I drove a couple hours away to a gas station, spent 15 minutes filling jerry cans, and came back with enough energy to power my entire house for a week.

Yeah, in a continental or global disaster, we’re quickly going to be unable to get our hands on gasoline without the drilling and refineries and distribution, etc and electricity would be much more available. In the much more frequent and likely regional disaster… I’d prefer to be stuck with gasoline right now.

I could definitely see a future where instead of a noisy generator I power my house off of my car for a week until the charge is getting low, supplemented by some solar, then drive a couple hours to where the electricity is working and spend a half hour charging it back up.

I just don’t think we’re quite there yet. A typical long range EV right now, after the power to get me there and back, would have about 25kWh of power I could use for other things. That would be three hours of driving to replace 3 hours of generator output.