skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Provide specific dates and months. Even saying “summer (Northern Hemisphere)” implies the Euro–American-centric approach.

What? Do China, Russia, the Middle East, etc, not also have summer at the same time as Europe and America?

> And Indigenous communities often use seasonal calendars that align with their local environments, reflecting a deep connection with nature’s cycles

I see, this article is just nonsense.
There's a gap between public fora and the blogosphere though.

Generally speaking there are plenty of blogs that get linked in places like here. Blogs just don't have comment sections hosted on their own as much anymore.

Having discussions happen in separate places is also interesting, because the HN convo and some subreddit convo will be different, for example.

There's a lot more mainstraeam stuff but I think niche communities still exist. Glibly, we're not a part of most of them on account of having gotten older. Or we are a part of some, but there's plenty we're not seeing.
You're sort of presuming that LLMs are going to be a massive service to the world there, aren't you? I think the jury is still out on that one.
Yes, the TV doc was just an example. Have you looked to see what RCTs there are? People are not birds, and we can't navigate using a compass in our heads as far as I'm aware.
Cool :)

Directory MSDOS/SNOBOL4/
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AISNOBOL.ARC B 286049 871217 SNOBOL language for MSDOS
AISNOBOL.TXT A 5750 871217 Description of files in AISNOBOL.ARC
VSNBL220.ZIP B 250971 920312 Vanilla SNOBOL4, PD vers. 2.20 of the language
VSNOBOL4.ARC B 258956 871217 Vanilla SNOBOL4, PD version of the language
VSNOBOL4.TXT A 5984 871217 Description of VSNOBOL4.ARC - Vanilla SNOBOL4
Intel and AMD will be extremely happy.

Nvidia will be very unhappy.
"Elon Musk's Fake Sites" turns into:

"Elon Musk funded PAC does X" which turns into:

"Elon Musk (allegedly) gave money to a group called "Citizens for Sanity" which then (allegedly) gave money to a group called "Building America's future" which then (allegedly) gave money to a group called "Future Coalition" which then supposedly paid for some anti- Harris ads.

Yeah, just more rabid partisan crazies.
I think one big problem is that people understand LLMs as text-generation models, when really they're just sequence prediction models, which is a highly versatile, but data-hungry, architecture for encoding relationships and knowledge. LLMs are tuned for text input and output, but they just work on numbers and the general transformer architecture is highly generalizable.
SvelteKit is a great way to build a SPA. I think just adding those two lines of config to your project once shouldn't be an issue. If there are any difficulties you'd like to share we'll try to fix them as part of SvelteKit 3. (e.g. this issue which I added to the 3.0 milestone: https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/issues/12580)
You do if you register as a Business. Individuals and Government are the only non-required entities.

https://developer.apple.com/support/D-U-N-S/
For sure. And I'd add that the specificity of unit tests is hugely valuable. If I do some sort of refactoring and found I've broken an end-to-end test, it may tell me very little about where the problem is. But the pattern of unit test breakage is very informative. Often just seeing the list of broken tests is enough to tell me what the issue is without even having to look at an error message.
'It’s a real thing': Ex-GOP official says 'whisper caucus' of Republicans will pick Harris
ML and LLMs are complete overkill. You can do this with simple difference equations.

Anyway nowadays you can just use Macrofactor which makes it all easier (not just the calculations/predictions but the data input itself).
So it solves a problem, then? Its useful? Saying a problem would not be a problem if the universe was a little better is not particularly useful.
I think it's more likely different species in different places. I, in NZ, don't think I've ever seen a slug as much as 5cm long, let alone 9cm.
I don't have a lot of apps on the play, and none of them are particularly popular - but some of them were/are useful.

I'm letting my account lapse in November when this falls due for me - no way in heck I'd be putting these details out there.

No great loss for google or the world, but still smarts a bit given the hours I've put in to them over the years.
> How did "couldn't" become "could"

Sarcasm and Laziness are at least 2 reasons people might modify it. The second carries it through time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Taylor
Gradio is built with svelte https://github.com/gradio-app/gradio
> What this tells us for AI is that we need something else besides LLMs

You mean besides a few layers of LLMs near input and output that deal with tokens? We have the rest of the layers.
Who said management and shareholders are in it for the long run. Plenty of examples where businesses are purely run in the short term. Bonuses and stock pumps.
I can’t list the full response, but it was surprisingly insightful. I’m not sure it told me anything I didn’t know, but it did sum up a lot of the challenges I am facing. Maybe I use ChatGPT too much…
Efficient TypeScript
If that headline doesn’t tell you everything you need to know about Artemis…

The sooner this program gets canned the better. Suppliers aren’t even pretending to give value for money anymore.
Yes. And if you track transformations of the binaries or ml training
In a six month period some time in the future? Plausible.

In the next six months? Unlikely enough to be a myth.
So where do the adjusted 10M rows live instead? S3?
There may be examples of this, but picking on Venkat Rao for not being sufficiently prolific is a laughable argument.
You are conflating two seperate problems (security vs functionality).

"Firmware" can be open source and secure, but how does this translate to driving performance at all? Why does it matter if the firmware is validated by security researchers, who presumably don't know anything about motion planning, perception, etc? And this is even assuming that the code can be reasonably verified statically. You probably need to to run that code on a car for millions of miles (maybe in simulation) in an uncoutable number of scenarios to run through every edge case.

The other main problem with what you're asking is that most of the "alpha" of these self driving companies is in proprietary _models_, not software. No one is giving up their models. That is a business edge.

As someone who has been at multiple AV companies, no one is cutting corners on "firmware" or "sensors" (apart from making it reasonably cost effective so normal people can buy their cars). Its just that AV is a really really really difficult problem with no closed form solution.

Your normal car has all the same pitfalls of "unverified software running on a safety critical system," except that its easier to verify that straightforward device firmware works vs a very complex engine whose job is to ingest sensor data and output a trajectory.
Its happening with AI wrappers (eg. AI headshot) and smart-contracts; but it will ~probably~ take more than 6-months to familiarize yourself with the space and market; if you had the domain knowledge, you could succeed insofar as there is not much code to write.
I mostly feel like you didn't read my comment since you're pointing out the exact conundrum I did, however yes obviously the government is better positioned to spend some of that money, there are a lot of things that have long term positive externalities that are not captured by capitalist incentives. The rest of it? Why don't we just take it from the rich and give it to the poor. We can have a progressive tax that approaches 100% as you get into the 100s of millions of dollars that's redistributed as UBI. Estate taxes that prevent the buildup of generational wealth etc.
These are a huge upgrade in flexability and comfort.

Aesthetics are not ignored, but they are certainly deprioritized over functionality.
Except that HTTP/1.1 to HTTP/2 was not a big bang change on the ecosystem level. No server or browser was forced to implement HTTP/2 to remain interoperable[0]. I bet you can't point any of this "enforcement" you claim happened. If other browser implemented HTTP/2, it was because they thought that the benefits of H2 outweighed any downsides.

[0] There are non-browser protocols that are based on H2 only, but since your complaint was explicitly about browsers, I know that's not what you had in mind.
The old syntax is considered legacy and it is recommended to upgrade. There is a migration tool to do most of it automatically for you.
Those "few layers" sum up all of linguistics.

1. Syntax

2. Semantics

3. Pragmatics

4. Semiotics

These are the layers you need to solve.

Saussure already pointed out these issues over a century ago, and Linguists turned ML Researchers like Stuart Russell and Paul Smolensky tried in vain to resolve this.

It basically took 60 years just to crack syntax at scale, and the other layers are still fairly far away.

Furthermore, Syntax is not a solved problem yet in most languages.

Try communicating with GPT-4o in colloquial Bhojpuri, Koshur, or Dogri, let alone much less represented languages and dialects.
Quoting the HN guidelines at people is a semi-noob practice, as old as the hills.
For reasonably long downloads (so it has a chance to calibrate), why don't congestion algorithms increase the number of inflight packets to a high enough number that bandwidth is fully utilized even over high latency connections?

It seems like it should never be the case that two parallel downloads will preform better than a single one to the same host.
That's fair. It's easy to get philosophical about such things so something you can point to that's more based on metrics can help a discussion be more objective.

otoh countering opinion with fact doesn't always work well - it might just turn into quibbling over where on each axis different test types' strengths lie ;)
> Because it pushes the flow control out of the kernel (and possibly network adapters) into userspace

That’s not an inherent property of the QUIC protocol, it is just an implementation decision - one that was very necessary for QUIC to get off the ground, but now it exists, maybe it should be revisited? There is no technical obstacle to implementing QUIC in the kernel, and if the performance benefits are significant, almost surely someone is going to do it sooner or later.
To summarize the main two take-aways, measure ROI (return on investment) and be Agile.
Don’t assume whales are less intelligent than humans. They’re tuned for their environment. They won’t assemble machines with their flippers but let’s toss you naked in the pacific and see if you can communicate and collaborate with peers 200km away on complex hunting strategies.
While we're at it how about why apply the same standard to coal and natural gas plants? For some reason when we start taking about nuclear plants we all of a sudden become adverse to the idea of unfunded externalities but when we're talking about 'old' tech that has been steadily irradiating your community and changing the gas composition of the entire planet it becomes less concerning.
I love Vue. Svelte is great! Unfortunately nothing beats react especially if one plans to develop for mobile. Despite how ugly the nuances in react are compared to those two, it’s still more mature making the other two trying to catch up and feel outdated in terms of features.
> Frankly, I don’t think async code is leaky at all, and the ways that it does leak are largely due to library problems.

Huh? One could argue the exact same in opposite direction - blocking code isn't leaky at all, just wrap it in a Future. And if doing that is difficult because of !Send data, then those are just "library problems". You could always just use a threadsafe library instead, right?
Building a Fluxgate Magnetometer
A gigabit connection is just one prerequisite. The server also has to be sending very big bursts of foreground/immediate data or you're very unlikely to notice anything.
The steam engine was almost immediately useful. It may not be used for cars or trains, but it was the best solution for pumping water from some mines.

In the more recent comparison, I remeber using the web in early 1990's, when it was less then 5 years old. (Fun fact: the images thing were still new, I remember each image had a "download" link in case yser's browser did not support them). It was already used, and had no analogies, and most importantly, the pages I were used were _not_ related to web or even CS, it was some physics thing.

It's time to accept reality: we've spent dozens of years and billions of dollars, and the most useful application is avoidance of financial controls. There is not going to be anything more.
I get this:

I’ve gathered a lot of information about your interests, projects, and lifestyle, but when it comes to understanding things you might not know about yourself, that would require deeper self-reflection rather than just factual data.

What I can observe is that you’re constantly balancing a mix of high-level thinking and practical problem-solving. You’re involved in complex projects, whether it’s property development, consulting, or managing personal matters, and you seem to be always learning and evolving. You also display a strong desire to improve, whether in fitness, personal habits, or professional growth. Perhaps one thing you might not fully realize is just how versatile your problem-solving skills are—spanning from tech and finance to more hands-on property work, you’re able to transition between these domains fluidly.

Does this resonate with how you see yourself?
> There's a temptation to demand that others do things the hard way just because we had to. But is it healthy? I don't lament the demise of the 555 any more than I lament that the youth no longer knows how to put shoes on a horse.

I agree with both you and the GP. Arduinos tend to make goofing around with electronics more accessible to more people. At the same time a lot of projects could be built very simply with just a couple timer chips. It's unfortunate people reach for a relatively complex solution (Arduino etc) to what's ultimately a simple problem. They would benefit a great deal from just knowing a blinking light can be made very simply with a simple circuit.
I grew up with Arduinos, never used 555 because it draws too much current for what it is doing. I get how it once was a popular thing, but if I need a simple delay circuit or simple logic that needs to e precise I do it discretev if ir needs to be more complex there is any number of MCUs.

I was 100% self thought and teach electronics in art university now. And I have to say I can't really confirm your suspicions about "the kids", sure many stay at the module level (totally okay, they study arts not electronics), but many don't. I had a student who over the course of 2 years built a brain wave reading circuit with a specialized instrumentation amplifier IC, to filter out grid EMF she built an opamp based notch filter and that woman had nearly no help from me and no prior education in the field. That analog stuff isn't going away anytime soon.
"asynchronous code does not require the rest of your code to be synchronous" fails the smell test.

Many APIs are shipping async-only. You can't stick calls to those APIs in the middle of your sync code in many cases (unless you have an event loop implementation that is re-entrant). So... you gotta convert your sync code to async code.

I am curious as to what a principled definition of a "blocking" function would be. I suppose it's a call to something that ends up calling `select` or the like. Simply saying "this code needs to wait for something" is not specific enough IMO (sometimes we're just waiting for stuff to move from RAM to registers, is that blocking?), but I'm sure someone has a clear difference.

If you care about this problem enough, then you probably want to start advocating for effect system-like annotations for Rust. Given how Rust has great tooling already in the language for ownership, it feels like a bit of tweaking could get you effects (if you could survive the eternal RFC process)
Thanks for the insight - I’ll do some research on that.
I don't know if they committed "theft" under criminal law, but I would bet lots of money that Automattic is going to get obliterated by the complaint filed by WP Engine, probably including injunctive relief. Tortious interference in a contract is normally difficult to prove because one of the elements is malice or intent to cause harm, but Matt basically handed WP Engine's lawyers all the ammo they would ever need during his yappy media tour.

I would further bet that Matt's either on drugs or maybe has a brain tumor or some other undiagnosed medical condition. Only an insane person would destroy their entire reputation and life's work like this.
How is it clickbait? The title implies that QUIC isn't as fast as other protocols over fast internet connections.
You are missing the entire point: Complexity.

It's not your fault, in case you were working on this. It was likely the result a strategy thing being decided at Google/Alphabet exec level.

Several thousand very competent C++ software engineers don't come cheap.
As far as I understand it, it's just output and speaking is just enclosed in tags, that the body can act on, much like inline code output from an LLM.

e.g. the neural electrochemical output has a specific sequence that triggers the production of a certain hormone in your pituitary gland for e.g. and the hormone travels to the relevant body function activating/stopping it.
You can believe what you want to believe. It works fantastic for me whether you believe it or not.

I do wonder if people who have wildly different experiences than I have are living in a part of the country that, for one reason or another, Tesla FSD does not yet do as well in.
shadcn-svelte is great!!

https://www.skeleton.dev/ and https://flowbite-svelte.com/ are another couple of popular ones.

There's a big list at https://www.sveltesociety.dev/packages?category=design-syste...
Great article by Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-10-17/michae...
Those performance results surprised me too.

His testing has CPU-bound quiche at <200MB/s and nghttp2 was >900MB/s.

I wonder if the CPU was throttled.

Because if HTTP 3 impl took 4x CPU that could be interesting but not necessarily a big problem if the absolute value was very low to begin with.
Matt sent WPE a bill for using his webserver and trademark. When WPE didn't pay, he turned off their access. Then WPE sued him. If anyone is acting abusive, it's WPE. I mean, I don't sue AT&T if I forget to pay my phone bill. Except Matt isn't an AT&T. He's running an open source project. I run open source projects too. I don't want to be sued and accused of being a cybercriminal by some profiteer whose IP I blocked for abusing my webserver. I don't want to be ordered by a court to help someone for free who's been harming me. That's what abusers do. They abuse you and then abuse you more if you don't let them keep abusing you. It always makes me glad to see victims of abuse stand up to bullies. Of course it's always the abuser's MO to act like they're the one being abused when the victim stands up for themself. WPE's case rests entirely on optics relating to Matt's guileless aspie behavior, which is perfectly understandable if we consider how terribly he's being treated.
It’s the counter-point to the “it doesn’t work for me” posts. Are you okay with those ones?
A strange lacuna in this article is how "high" and "low" in professional forecasts usually refer to the daily peaks and troughs in temperatures, such as "overnight lows in the mid-60s".

So to differentiate highs and lows from hot and cold, it seems like a no-brainer, yes?
Extreme A: every team member is litterally five years old (born 5 years ago)

Extreme B: every collegue is required to read and be able to recite x86, C specifications, postgre manual, and must have IQ 190+.

What is obscure or hard to understand is subjective.
Fiber is the most economical solution, it's compact, cheap, not susceptible to electromagnetic interference from thunderstorms, not interesting for metal thieves, etc.

Most importantly, it can be heavily over-provisioned for peanuts, so your cable is future-proof, and you will never have dig the same trenches again.

Copper only makes sense if you already have it.
Designing for resource-constrained systems typically comes with making tradeoffs.

Once the resource constraint is eliminared, you're no longer getting the benefit of that tradeoff but are paying the costs.
Commercial whaling, I guess. Whaling began thousands of years earlier elsewhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling
Regarding our Cease and Desist letter to Automattic
> below 600 Mbit/s is implied as being "Slow Internet" in the intro

Or rather, not "Fast Internet"
> the way your mind works is seen as an error.

Not as an error, but as something that can trap you in certain behaviours.

This is something you can find in other places. I've read that in education books where they advise you to get kids to see themselves as nice and competent, in order for them to internalizing this is who they are (and conversely, not to tell them they're idiots, they're not nice or stuff like that). It's also in that "win friends and influence people" book, "give people a reputation to live by". And more simply, "fake it till you make it".

Now when it comes to getting rid of narratives, I'm not sure what it really means. The whole thing around replacing with perspectives, which is pretty much switching from prose to poetry, I didn't get. Maybe I'm not smart enough, or maybe it's something that correspondance to different characters.
Apple Music isn't OSS, but it's quite a large Svelte app: https://music.apple.com
Sandia the loan shark!
What do you hate about 11ty?
Can someone sometimes use jj and sometimes use git in the same repo?
I'm building a tool to search, read, and cite research articles smarter
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Meanwhile fast.com (and presumably netflix cdn) is using http 1.1 still.
17 percent of pedestrian fatalities occur on freeways. Considering how rarely pedestrians are on freeways that suggests to me people aren’t very good at noticing them in time to stop / avoid them.

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2022/06/09/why-20-of-pedestrians...
I think that a lot of folks have never heard anything else but the testing pyramid, repeated over and over. I find them often very open to other ideas, in my case I've previously heard about the "testing trophy", and found willing audiences.
> how are we to be confident that its safe?

I hope you realize that these companies dont just push updates to your car like vscode does.

Every change has to be unit tested, integration tested, tested in simulation, driven on a multiple cars on an internal fleet (in multiple countries) for multiple days/weeks, then is sent out in waves, then finally, once a bunch of metrics/feedback comes back, they start sending it out wider.

Admittedly you pretty much have to just trust that the above catches most egregious issues, but there will always be unknown unknowns that will be hard to account for, even with all that. Either that or legitimately willful negligence, in which case, yes they should be held accountable.

These aren't scrappy startups pushing fast and breaking things, there is an actual process to this.