skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Claude trades quality for speed. From what I've seen it starts generating almost immediately even with a large token window. For smaller changes it is usually good enough, but larger changes are where I bump into issues as well. I'll stick to using change [somefunction] rather than change entire file.
Scale Ruins Everything
Develop Consilience.

Read this to learn more — https://asindu.xyz/posts/the-nature-of-technology-book-revie...
> But you're severely limited in the number of concurrent users

You can easily handle 100-200 concurrent active users on a decent CPU with SQLite, if you don't do anything crazy. And if you need a project management solution that needs more than that, you probably are not too concerned about the price.
So pretty much just vague references to some studies? Your second reference link is literally just the title of a study and you cite nothing directly from it.

For the first study, you have conveniently focused on "supersonic flight" as the issue which is not the fundamental issue cited in the article (link isn't working for me, btw, I had to google it find it myself). The fundamental issue is in aircraft fuel and the sulphur based impurities it carries. Starship burns Methane and LOX. In general, these fuels (fuel and oxidizer) are typically kept as pure as possible and are unlikely to contain much more than trace sulphur impurities as there removal is a standard and well followed practice.

So for full clarity, your argument as presented here is completely without merit and it looks like your first study was intentionally presented in a way to obfuscate its extremely tenuous link to the issue at hand.

As an aside, you're also quite focused on your mood affiliation with the topic, doing things like asserting the motivation of those you reply to without any evidence (eg 'You willing to risk it because "space is cool"?'). This won't help you think clearly about a topic.
The GBR is not that old, and it experienced a major boom during it's creation, obviously.

We really don't have enough data to rule anything out as we weren't tracking it that long relatively to say for sure. We also don't know all the variables.
Sure. But it wasn’t someone else; it was Columbus.

If it were someone else, I’m certain we’d be talking about them instead.
Cost of the Europa Clipper program is around $4-5 billion. Can anyone in the industry shed some light on why these programs are so expensive?
Unrelated, but I really liked the website design. The background colour and text font are nice.
Rust solved this by autogenning code from mfgr published device xml descriptors. Eg https://embassy.dev/

Better than any C(++) embedded hal I've used
Your question implies the answer; charge it at different times and wear it to bed?
It takes lots of engineering effort to make things svelte. That makes it incredibly hard for "indie" phone makers to come up with something competitive in this regard. Likewise with price --- Android phones with similar specs can be found for only $200.
The use of FM doesn’t inherently imply higher bandwidth. For example, those consumer-grade FRS/GMRS radios you get from Costco use narrowband FM, which typically occupies about 12.5 kHz per channel. This is much narrower compared to the 200 kHz bandwidth used by FM broadcast radio.

FM is simply a method of modulating the carrier signal by varying its frequency. The actual bandwidth depends on factors like frequency deviation and modulation, so FM can range from narrow to wide bandwidth depending on the application.
It's a Linux phone that runs Android apps, so they ostensibly don't have the problem of building the ecosystem.
Show HN: Postdio – Personalized AI Assistant
Postdio's AI gets smarter with what you post and save, giving you better help as you use it.

It's still a work in progress. Would love to hear what you guys think!
Adding a Safety Layer in Generative AI Systems
Neither. I'm replying to another comment my friend.
It looks nice, I'm positively surprised by search results I got on demo page. Ai response is more or less similar to what I'm used to, graphics contain YouTube thumbnails from videos that are super related to the topic I asked (one that took me a while to stumble upon, but is a huge knowledge source), text results are decent...

I never looked into private/selfhosted search.
How does such service gather data from web? What's the original source, who does scrapping and how do you update it?
Yes, exactly. Which means that, while the speed gains are real, they only apply in cases where your libc is dangerously defective.
it’s definitely not how the US works, but it should be.
Apparently it is based on Halium, so it's probably not going to run mainline Linux any time soon. On the other hand, I'm less happy with Android than I pretty much ever have been, so having some more options outside of relatively unusable Linux phones and being stuck with modified Android firmware certainly does not hurt.

I am definitely interested, especially if the team working on it is as active as it seems they are. Definitely one of the biggest bummers with PinePhone and PinePhone Pro was realizing that the community was largely on its own; that could work well, but in practice progress has been slow and painful and I stopped paying attention.

I would really like to see more projects doing cellular Linux devices in general. It doesn't need to be a candybar smartphone, if someone can jam a cellular modem into a MicroPC I'm sold at any price I can afford.
Simple enough just to think about localities and time of day. New York during Tuesday rush hour could be more load than all of North Dakota sees in a month. Even busy cities probably drop down to nothing on a weekday at 3am.
At least some corals must be able to survive the current transformation? At least some past extinction events must've been very abrupt and things like corals lived through that?
The suspiciously clean white areas on all three boosters where the landing legs have been removed are good indicators of what's planned.
Truly, it's so hard for me to not see this as just dressed-up techie-flavored consumerism. If you can't look at your phone to run a timer without getting distracted, I think there's a different problem to solve.

(reminder that Android makes it trivial to not show notifications on the lock screen, or even in the top bar. I see notifications only when I want to.)
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of SDFs, Part 1
This could have been the story that cast them in a positive light, if they were honest about it. They were beyond dishonest. Operators at the event were instructed not to give a clear answer when attendees asked if the robots were autonomous or not. It's like going to disney world and asking "are you the real mickey mouse" except the investors actually need to know if its mickey mouse (spoiler: it wasn't)
Investor driven?

You have it all wrong. It's not going to be AAA studios doing this. Instead, it will be randos who have a cool/fun concept that they want to try out with a couple friends.

Sure, most will be bad. But there might be some gems in there that go viral.

Making it easier for regular people to experiment with games is a good thing.

Or even better, what if this allows people to throw something together to see if a game mechanic is fun, and once it's tested out, then they can make the game for "real".

Allowing quicker experimentation times is also a good thing.
Please send me apple pie recipe.
No, that's one time varying signal.
I wonder how many people bought this item without checking that it's legitimate?
IMHO companies should not be allowed to sell anything unless they will provide open hardware and open software and an irrevocable license to use their tooling to construct more.
>If you're out there-- how does it feel to know that what you meant as a efficient course-correction for newcomers was instead a social shaming that cut so deep that the message you wrote is still burned verbatim into their memory after all these years?

I've never been a IRC mod for a channel of anywhere near that significance.
But as someone who has put in considerable effort for the last few years trying to explain basic fundamental ideas about what Stack Overflow is and how it's supposed to work to people (including to people whose accounts are 15+ years old but who insist on continuing to treat the Q&A like a discussion forum)...

... I'm kinda envious.

Being presented with a text entry box, and the implied contract that what you type there will be broadcast to a wide audience, is not supposed to imply a right to reject the community's telos and substitute your own. Gatekeeping of this sort is important; otherwise you end up with the Wikipedia page for "Dog" being flooded with people trying to get free veterinary consultation. Communities are allowed to have goals and purposes that aren't obvious and which don't match the apparent design, and certainly they aren't required to have goals which encompass everything possible with the sites software.

There are countless places on the Internet that work like a discussion forum where you can post a question, or a request for help, or just a general state of confusion, about a problem where you're just completely lost; and where you can expect to have a back-and-forth multi-way conversation with others to try and diagnose things or come to a state of understanding; and where nobody cares if your real concern ever surfaces in the form of an explicit, coherent question; and where there's no expectation that any of this dialogue should ever be useful to anyone else.

Stack Overflow is not that, explicitly and by design; and that came about specifically so that people who do have some clue and want to find an answer to an actual question, can do so without having to pick through a dialogue of the sort described above, following an arbitrarily long chain of posts of questionable relevance (that might well end in "never mind, I fixed it" with no explanation).

But in order to become a repository of such questions, people presented with the question submission form... need to be restricted to asking such questions.
I made this with rust in 2020 http://yager.io/vumeter/vu.html

The embedded rust ecosystem has invanced a pretty insane degree since then. I have an ongoing embedded project and I have had to use C FFI calls a total of zero times in a ~100kloc codebase. There are native rust HAL libraries autogenerated from manufacturer published device specs that are insanely good, and take advantage of rust type system features to offer vastly superior APIs compared to mfgr provided C libs
How to annotate PostgreSQL ASTs with location information
What makes those better?
> Human writing is short and to the point (either because they're lazy or want to save the reader's time)

Good human writing is short and to the point. (Technical writing at least.) But this is not a result of laziness — it’s actually more difficult.

“If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.”
- Blaise Pascal, and probably others [0]

In any case I find these LLM “gotcha” comments incredibly tedious.

[0] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/?amp...
It's sad that basically a static page is getting hugged to death.
Rad device! Not here to gripe about the actual price - and I realize it's counter-intuitive since we say "one hundred dollars" out loud - but in the US, the dollar sign goes before the amount: $189 not 189$
Electric drones could suffice if you still want people to be able to view it up close.

There's plenty of nature reserves that have tourism limitations for the very reason that high traffic has negative effects.

The best thing for the reefs in Thailand was Covid (ie, the absence of people)
> then you’re still dealing with a B+tree

Absolutely, though they're generally orders of magnitude smaller than the table file unless you're INCLUDE'ing lots of columns.

There's pg_bulkload which supports parallel writers as well as deferred index updates until the loading process is complete. Not sure how it compares to what MySQL offers out of the box, but I definitely agree that the MySQL tooling ecosystem in general has a leg up.
> regurgitated from some manual somewhere

yes, a lot of stuff is like that, and LLMs are a good replacement for searching the docs; but the most useful SO answers are regarding issues that are either not documented or poorly documented, and someone knows because they tried it and found what did or did not work
> IBM created PCs as we know them and is currently worth $214Bn, yet nobody cares much about them

"Nobody" except the people paying the revenue to support a $216B valuation. Hello HN bubble, you are all clever and innovative people and I love all of you but you are not everyone.

Also, I hate the future where the web is powered by managed solutions .

> they are also dramatically easier to launch and operate

They are also are easier to get kicked off for no reason that can be appealed to a real human being
Fresh take. What could Automatic do to make things better for themselves? Launch a WordPress-related more easily managed solution with support for some legacy WP plugins? Sehr Interesting. I hate the ghettoisation of the internet, but the people will get what they want.
Knowledge Graph Based Agent for Complex, Knowledge-Intensive QA in Medicine
The niche is anywhere C or C++ is used, which it excels at
Because it's one shot, must work stuff. They don't build this type of equipment often (really ever) because it's all bespoke to this mission. That means they need to build, verify, test, etc and it all has to work first time because there is only 1 shot (over a 1 month period) for the launch window
Facebook Having Site Issues?
DNS-level blocking is worse than the MV3-compatible uBO Lite.

It can't block ads coming from 1st party domains, it can't do cosmetic filtering, it can't work with shims to prevent the breakage of websites, and it's easily detected and circumvented.
Finally, the productivity technique named after a $1 clockwork timer gets the fiddly software-and-cloud-based solution it deserves.
Combining google's ocr with llm gives OCR superpowers. Tell the llm the text is from an ocr and ask it to correct it.
I had exactly the same feeling. I've spent most of my career working on software for investment banks in the UK and at the end of the day you can't show your work to anyone (even if they cared) and you only get paid for the time worked. I'd known for years and years I wanted to build my own business but waited until I was in a financially feasible position to do so. And with that I had many many ideas but it mainly came down to ideas which weren't capital intensive and had a viable gtm. And with that I chose to pull the pin on https://www.getdestash.com
Nobody wants mechanical arms attached to their sink and every other object that may require work. Mind you they may not want an android in their home either.

Laundry and washing dishes is not just “putting things in a spot”. Perhaps you don’t fold your clothes or separate your clothes or scrub dishes but many people do. Even loading the dish washer is fairly annoying when it’s a large crowd. Cooking is of course a huge one.

The question is really just how much would you pay for a 24/7 live in maid that can cook, clean, repair, etc. with a real human you’re paying them for availability. With a remote operated robot you’re paying for just the labor hours and none of the downtime.

It seems kind of fucked up but I do think the economics could work. People do have servants today. I tend to imagine such a service would be cheaper than a servant even at $20k up front cost. I do agree the bipedal legs seem unlikely be cost effective.
Wayland is more focused on security. That onion layer right there will increase the complexity of usage. X11 doesn't have the extra abstractions to limit and prevent intrusive interactions with the desktop.

Example of this would be where "runas /user:smith application.exe" is simple but does not work when a Windows Service is required to run an application as the user signed in. One must use Window's API to pull in the account's token and use more API to execute "application.exe". UltraVNC is a great source to see all the extras needed.
I think writing broken C is easier than writing correct Rust is easier than writing correct C.

A lot of C(++) devs just like that they can mostly get away with writing broken code
It doesn’t need to beat the stock market to be a net win.

Edit: Suppose you had a 500k investment paying ~5% you could sell to avoid a 500k mortgage at 6% that seems like a good idea. Unless you’ve got a high paying job so you could get a sweet home mortgage tax deduction.

Similarly, a dividend paying stock may have returns of 5% but if you’re paying capital gains when selling that stock you’re also getting 5% of money that would disappear when sold. IE If you would keep 500k on sale a 550k investment paying 5%, it’s effectively paying you 5.5% of 500k.
Focus , one I am struggling with recently, central theme and I read this at right time. Thank you for writing this
Personal opinion but I see personal cars as more of a burden than freedom, compared to public transport.

You need to care for the car even when you are not travelling. You need a parking space, insurance, maintenance, etc... And when you are driving, you need to be attentive, sober, and well rested, otherwise you are a danger to yourself and others. With public transport, you have none of that, no one will die if you take a nap, and once you are at your destination, you are free, you don't have a ton of metal to care for.

The same applies to taxis and ridesharing, but public transport is usually more efficient and cheaper.
That's true, except it neglects the cost of the launch tower itself. If you botch a catch and need to rebuild the launch tower, that could get very expensive, both in immediate costs of rebuild, plus in opportunity cost of missed launches. So in the end, whichever has the lowest wind limit, launch or landing, will likely determine whether they fly.
This is really great work getting all of the evidence into one place. Really helpful, thanks. I really like the focus on the victims.

I am a previous PhD student who worked under Marvin Minsky, and I do believe that there is no evidence that Minsky was present for any sexual misconduct, and some of the quotes about Minksy do not mention that there is no evidence of Minsky's sexual misconduct. I believe the quotes about Minsky unfairly harm Minsky's reputation.

Again, this is great work, and I'm mostly nitpicking from my very particular perspective as someone who has worked directly under Minsky.
Let's take it to the limit:

Signal0: infinite SNR.
Signal1: anything less.

I just don't see how the output of averaging these would improve over Signal0. I don't think it can.
I agree that it's definitely too tall but I don't agree that it's too thick. It has a removable battery which fully justifies the thickness imo.
Sure. This is just Great Man theory [1] in action. It's a bit absurd, once you know about it you see it everywhere.

It's especially distasteful when it's about people who 'discovered' places, because the next step was usually the subjugation or genocide of the people already living in the discovered place. But we still celebrate the explorers as heroes.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory
I think we have different definitions of cheap
The trick is finding a problem that increases revenue or decreases costs after providing structure to the data. Sure, it would be great to bring structure to assets, but you can't just provide search or labeling. You have to figure out how providing the structure actually brings value to those companies. You'd hope they would do that for you, but you need to figure it all out, at least for one set of customers who will pay you, before you build the MVP. The details of how it benefits the company has a profound effect on the design of the MVP, including how to access the assets and how to expose the structure in the UX.
Good visualization, and kudos to the author for creating this.

BUT, as others have observed, this vis doesn't make an attempt at comprehensiveness.

One glance at "World Music" categorization is enough to drive home that conclusion. Which is not to say that fault (for lack of better word) is entirely with the visualization, but with the poor ontology itself.

I'd LOVE to see a more comprehensive visualization where WORLD MUSIC has equal weight, with (selfishly) a decent ontology of Hindustani classical music.
Tangent/funny coincidence but seeing the domain wanderinghorse and the name Cwal, I assumed it comes from PL cwał (meaning "full gallop").

(it doesn't and it's pronounced as "see-wall")
Notes on the Internet Congestion Control Research Group Meeting at IETF 110
I Stopped Grounding
Using pointers correctly and safely in C basically requires tracking pointer rules substantially similar to the rust pointer rules, but in your head. Most people who don't do this just write incorrect code, although it might only rarely cause a serious problem.
James Gavin made it from private soldier to Lieutenant General from 1924 to 1958.

John Vessey enlisted in the Minnesota National Guard in 1939, and became Chief of Staff of the US Army in 1982.
Not common but I have heard “moving at a fair clip” to describe speed in commentary and conversation.

Perhaps the term hasn’t quite died out.
Added C02 from boats may have an effect. And people may know not to touch it, and you may not, but that doesn't mean other's don't.

The best way not to effect nature is to not interact with it.

Obviously that's not 100% possible nor pleasurable, but for more sensitive systems, it's more necessary.
Out of interest is there anything similar to the Ulanzi TC001 but with a slightly higher resolution.
Big Advance on Simple-Sounding Math Problem Was a Century in the Making
"more legal" ? Nothing but consuming the site as-they-publish-it, including letting all of their malware have its way with you including forcing you to suck down region-appropriate verification cans, is legal from the view of the copyright maximalists.

The main legal difference between pasting the text here and sites such as archive.?? is that the latter creates centralized targets for legal destruction xor capital intermediation depending on whether such sites achieve "success". Either way once they get popular enough, we lose.

The sheer majority of the web would be better off if entire pages/sites were shared by value instead of by reference. The main problem with pasting whole articles here is that it makes a big wall of text. But still, I applaud it.
I think LLMs aren't better than the median software developer at LeetCode. They simply have a compressed database of the (stolen) answers. If any software developer had access to Google in an interview, he could "solve" all of the answers instantly.
Response to DHH
I worked on one component of the spacecraft which was a derivative of something we've built may times before. However, the test program was entirely unique to Europa Clipper, and most of the cost was in this bespoke testing. The use of a "heritage" component served mostly to lower risk; it did not save much cost overall.
Same with code generation.

But generating useless code, or proofs, just to discard them is hardly a consequence and externality free effort.
design is kinda ugly + 500 dollars is not cheap
It will go away in Edge as well.

Furthermore, Microsoft's Edge is sharing your data with the entire advertising industry.
Yes, Rama probably isn’t semantically comparable to one single monad.

I was talking about the do notation as a way to sugar the syntax of cps monadic operations into a flat, imperative syntax. This is exactly what Rama is doing.

If you look at a tutorial of what haskell do-notations desugar into, you’ll find the same cps stuff described in this article.
Looks like lametric alternative?
I don't think 12mm is bad. My iPhone in its Otterbox sleeve is just over 11mm thick.
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