skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OT, but am i the only one who feels part of this article is wrriten using a GPT?

This para especially strikes out as very odd:
"2. Advanced AI-driven features: With the advancement in artificial intelligence and machine learning, VLC may develop new features to enhance user experience. This could include AI-driven media organization and curation, smart recommendations based on viewing patterns, or even intelligent quality enhancements for low-quality media files."
My parents transferred an old car to my older brother and insured me and him on it and signed something saying we were not permitted to drive the other cars.

Not sure if that is permitted/possible everywhere, but the problem is if the parents drive nice cars the insurer presumes the kids will also drive them (and crash them).
You're saying "yours" and "you" but from what I can tell you're describing completely different sets of people as some kind of hypocritical single entity
Driving is hideously inefficient. It should be the most expensive option, because taking a 2-ton machine with you everywhere you go should be considered a luxury.
I worked in the Century City Twin Towers about twenty years ago. There was a firefighter who would come out to the building every month or so and climb the stairs, basement to roof, with 100lbs of gear/hose on his back. Twice. That's something like 1400 feet of vertical.

He did it just for the exercise, and to be prepared in case he had to actually do it someday.
The solution may also be not to make classes too hard. If, for example, your physics classes were of the same difficulty as the ones in my undergrad (easy to medium difficulty for the most part), then the 2.7 GPA is probably an accurate reflection of your abilities.

But if you went to a top university with brutal courses, and got a 2.7 GPA, then all I'm seeing is you're not elite material. The number otherwise does not help me one bit in evaluating you.

BTW, having spent a lot of time out of the US - it's still pretty laid back in the US. A person who is 2.7 GPA material in the US would simply not get admission in any decent university in some countries. And plenty of people in the US start all over at another institution and do well - something many countries don't allow (state funded, lack of resources, you have to move out of the way to let the younger batch in).[1]

[1] A good friend of mine totally flunked out of his university. He spent time off in the military. Then started all over at a new university. Got really high grades. Went to a top school for his PhD and is now a tenured faculty member.
Anyone interested in exploration might do well to take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bancor#Proposed_revival

(I'm not going to, because currency arguments existed well before 1971; eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_silver#Climax . But if any of you all find anything, I'm all ears...)
Podcast/RSS seems like ideal distribution tool?
Red Hat Reveals Major Enhancements to Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI
HubSpot <> Stripe ends on November 4.. what are you doing for a solution?
HubSpot is going to sunset its Stripe integration. They have acquired Cacheflow (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241011791781/en/HubSpot-to-Acquire-B2B-Billing-Management-and-CPQ-Solution-Cacheflow) to do this internally. Anyone using HubSpot + Stripe and what are you planning on doing moving forward?
If you think mostly everyone is absolutely mortified by commercial aviation, I think you must be in some sort of bubble. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The article itself is also very shallow, and contains a significant amount of strange and/or repetitive wording and structure. It is a bit uncharacteristic of writing done with care about a historical topic of interest. And contains very little by way of meaningful citation or documentary practice.

I see in comments below some hypothesizing that it was written by LLM. If you are right, that likelihood is significantly higher...
It’s not clear why they state “git diff” specifically. It’s simply a diff (git or otherwise).
If they did that and hit them consistently.. talk about rubbing salt in the wounds of the rest of the industry. It would be like a sports team running up the scoreboard on an obviously beaten opponent. Super heavy hitting X's painted on the chopsticks right in the middle would be border line unsportsman-like heh.
The article is extremely light on details, and I'm highly skeptical of the economics, though I do think its cool that they seem to be actively planning a demonstration mission. If nothing else, it would be neat to see the concept demonstrated in a real spacecraft.

I listened to a podcast[1] a few months ago which proposed the (IMHO) more innovative idea of using giant, ultra-light foil mirrors in space to sell sunlight to existing solar farms at night. Aetherflux seems to be using the more traditional solar panels + IR laser approach, which seems harder to justify the cost of compared to batteries.

[1]: https://firstprinciples.fm/episodes/8-ben-nowack-selling-sun...
Oh, so you're in favor of playing Sim-City with the infinite money cheat codes.

Cool. Because if you were suggesting that in the real world then, at least in America, you're suggesting a complete overhaul of almost all transportation infrastructure and saying that no average person will have to spend an extra dollar to pay for it somehow. Is Mexico paying for it or something?
I have two vehicles, my girlfriend has another one, and despite living in one of the higher insurance premium areas in one of the highest insurance premium states in the country (Oakland County, Michigan), our total bill with full coverage and relatively low deductibles is around $7k/yr. A family with 4 cars total (two driving age kids, two parents with cars to drive to different jobs) should not be massively more expensive, likely only $3~4k more than my bill, making it about half of the headline number. To do worse than that, you'd have to live in the worst part of inner city Detroit with the highest insurance rates and have full coverage or massively more expensive vehicles... I don't think the math checks out, really.

I do know people who have very very high bills, but they have one of 1) very high end cars (911 GT3 RS, Bentley, etc.) 2) something rare insured at full value of its rare nature or 3) actively stating to the insurer that it's a track car being raced on the weekends. All of those happen around me, but those aren't the modal case.
Also you can hire people with 20+ years of experience that also can't code (where people claim to be a software engineer). FizzBuzz was a real filter for a while. It has amazed me how some people where able to slide by in larger organizations for years and then switch (internally or to another company) when the competency mattered. You can make a whole career it!
This is great, I'm going to start learning Morse code because of this.
Personal automobiles are suboptimal in every measurable metric aside from your subjective "but I like owning a car" opinion.
"Fraud and corruption"
This place would be dreadfully quiet if only true experts were allowed to comment on anything.

I certainly enjoy reading some of these theories, even if the professionals in the hot seat disagree with their take.
Yup it's surface amplitude with the engines running is probably more than that.
lol not sure why the downvotes... I built most of your favourite game
yeah kinda
Definitely reply with concrete rebuttals than denigrate the knowledge of others
Nah, not destructive, if I say so myself. More like: disruptive. Which should be a pretty popular concept around here?

To elaborate, maybe: I would fully support a robo-taxi scheme to ferry people to and from their job, shopping, or whatever. Where I live, shared e-vehicles are as good as it gets right now, but that's definitely a promising step already.
Once You Try a Four-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back
Just don't go looking for the etymology of "vanilla"
Sounds like Palmer Luckey is putting that Oculus money to good use. Article mentions Anduril Industries.
No, it's not a problem at all. There are already several high-performance databases written in Rust.

Lifetimes are mainly a learning barrier for new users, and affect which internal API designs are more convenient, but they're not a constraint on the types of applications you can write.

Rust strongly guides users towards using immutability and safeguards uncontrolled shared mutability, but you can use shared mutable memory if you want. In single-threaded programs that's trivial. In multi-threaded programs shared mutability is inherently difficult for reasons beyond Rust, and Rust's safeguards actually make the problem much more tractable.
Fil-C was 200x slower when I started and the latest overheads are lower than 2x in a lot of cases. It’s getting faster every month, though I don’t always update the docs to say the latest numbers (because I’m too busy actually making it faster).

I think the reason why folks end up using C is often because they have a gigantic amount of C code and for those folks, Fil-C could easily be good enough as is.

But dismissing it as a contender because the perf isn’t there today even as it’s getting steadily faster (on a super aggressive trajectory) is a bit unfair, I think.
To be clear: Server-side Node.js tooling is relatively simple. It the web tooling (Webpack, etc) that is complicated.
NYC signed $300M deal with energy startup, but doesn't know if it worked
> If you claim to know C very well and can't knock that out in 5 minutes, and it takes you 45 minutes of prompting, well, you don't know C usefully.

I recently had an interview and a "skill test" in C. It was proctored by the interviewer in-person. I had so many questions about the questions. It was like, what is the output of "some code" and while obvious, there were some questions where specific CPU architecture mattered:

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
unsigned int x = 0x01020304;
unsigned char *c = (unsigned char*)&x;

printf("First byte of x: 0x%02x\n", *c);
return 0;
}

I was like, what architecture are we running on here? So, I answered that "it depends" and explained how it would depend on the architecture. They came back and said that I didn't know C.

Sure, whatever. Probably dodged a bullet.
I’m 100% pro union and not the guy you’re thinking of. Apologies if that wasn’t clear because of the first person writing in my comment.

I’m an engineer on the vendor side that begrudgingly got promoted into CTO role where I was helping get deals done with F100 c-levels. So I know how these people think. I hated it, left enterprise a few years ago and never looked back.
I don’t agree with you on aviation, but on the car front you should also consider that they are an underutilized asset that sits idle for the vast majority of their existence.
But what are the pros / cons of using something like tailscale instead of CF tunnels / Pinggy?
Kinda, yes. As LLM proponents are fond of pointing out, you can sorta break up the common style by asking for a different tone.

(Apologies for the following LLM sludge) For the heck of it, I prompted 4o mini like this:

"Write a paragraph explaining the background and reason for the VLC traffic cone, in an upbeat conversational tone"

It replied:

> The VLC traffic cone is an iconic symbol of the VLC media player, and its origins are as quirky as the software itself! Developed by the VideoLAN project in the late 1990s, VLC started as a student project in France aimed at creating a robust media player that could handle various formats. As the project grew, the team needed a logo that was both eye-catching and memorable, and they landed on the traffic cone! This choice reflects the project’s commitment to open-source principles and the idea of guiding users through the sometimes chaotic world of multimedia. Plus, who doesn’t love a bit of playful design? Now, every time you see that bright orange cone, it’s a reminder of VLC’s user-friendly mission and its journey from a student project to a beloved global media player!

I said, "Make it chirpier" and got:

> Absolutely! The VLC traffic cone is not just a logo; it’s a cheerful symbol of the VLC media player’s journey! Born out of the VideoLAN project in the late '90s, this colorful cone sprang to life when a group of enthusiastic students in France decided they wanted to create a versatile media player that could handle any format under the sun. To make it memorable, they chose the traffic cone, and how fun is that? It perfectly captures the spirit of guiding users through the multimedia landscape with a dash of personality! Now, every time you see that bright orange cone pop up, it’s a little wink from VLC, reminding you that navigating your media should be as fun as it is easy. Go VLC!

Which really does feel pretty in-line with the original quote you gave.
I wish the “most powerful RISC-V” title would change hands more quickly.

Seems like we should be much further than we are today.

This board is touting incredible things like HDMI and dual gigabit Ethernet… it almost feels like they don’t want to be taken seriously, and that makes me sad.

Go faster. If you’re trying to keep excitement up by timing things, stop it. It is not working.
But then it's not a translation of the bird tweets, but more like a predictive mapping from tweets to behaviors.
I wonder whether they are simply having cables cut, getting painted over, shot at or any of the other obvious ways to disable an unguarded camera.
You've omitted the most important part - what happened after? Had the reason prevailed? ;-)

I'm asking, because all this "AI" text-generation stuff isn't a technology problem. It's 101% a human problem.
Congrats to Moldova!
The weirdest design choice about VLC is that clicking on a playing video does nothing. Nearly every other video player I can think of toggles pause/play when clicking the video. Seems silly not to make use of what is the largest click area.
SQS/SNS/S3 are so simple, reliable, and cheap they're pretty much a no brainer. While you can probably run those workloads in Postgres, it isn't designed for those use cases and you'll eventually run into nasty limitations like managing vacuums with high churn tables and slow/complicated backups with big binary blobs.

If you have a good understanding of load up front, however, those are probably non-issues.
> I shy away from going towards the front end because I really lack any conceptual frame of how to think about and subsequently implement UI or UX.

UX isn't a true requirement for frontend dev. Tech people (including myself) complain a lot about bad UX, and it's great you're interested but I just want to make sure you're not creating a false idea of dependency there. You can learn how to build UI without understanding the art of creating the best user experience for a problem.

UX is a discipline in itself and it's something a frontend dev naturally learns about over time, and if you value it I say totally learn it! But if you're a backend dev wanting to get into frontend, just get into frontend and get into UX later.
My brother (mid-20s) still writes in cursive. He does so beautifully, completely legibly, and rapidly, at a faster rate than he, or the average person, can write non-cursive.
Here is the product page

https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-premier-p550

It is based on the ESWIN EIC7700X SoC with its quad core 1.8GHz RISC-V core

https://sifive.cdn.prismic.io/sifive/ZxLjE4F3NbkBXuzW_EIC770...

You also get Imagination AXM-8-256 'GPU' on chip. You get h264/h265 encode/decode and '3d support' in a yet-to-be-released driver.

Looks like a fairly promising product -- quite a step up from the unmatched
We don't need open ground near cities to put square miles of solar farms. Why would you do that? We have long-distance transmission lines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_DC_Intertie is 3GW from The Dalles Oregon to Los Angeles (as well as other parts of the west).

Putting AI training in space is daft. Heat dissipation is the problem (on top of gravity)
"United States Federal Government"
It's not like people had been ignoring Yann LeCun's work prior to AlexNet. It received quite a few citations and was famously used by the US Postal Service for reading handwritten digits.

AlexNet happened in 2012 because the conditions necessary to scale it up to more interesting problems didn't exist until then. In particular, you needed:

- A way to easily write general-purpose code for the GPU (CUDA, 2007).

- GPUs with enough memory to hold the weights and gradients (~2010 - and even then, AlexNet was split across 2 GPUs).

- A popular benchmark that could demonstrate the magnitude of the improvement (ImageNet, 2010).

Additionally, LeCun's early work in neural networks was done
at Bell Labs in the late 80s and early 90s. It was patented by Bell Labs, and those patents expired in the late 2000s and early 2010s. I wonder if that had something to do with CNNs taking off commercially in the 2010s.
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
At the end of the day switching from an interpreted language to a natively compiled language will result in a faster program. Of course there are performance gains to be had refactoring with a deeper understanding of the problem. That might be enough in many cases, but if the primary goal is speed the language cannot be ruled out.
I have really enjoyed by Kindle Scribe prior version since it came out. I have had 7 different Kindles since they first came out. The Scribe is my favorite. Not sure if the new Scribe is worth buying.
Oh, sorry I read your comment quickly and hadn't realized you were talking about memory solely.

But that's because memory usage isn't the relevant bottleneck here -- it's disk IO. It's reading the entire table from disk, or only the entire column(s) if applicable.

That's not something you ever want to do in production. Not even if it's only a single column. That will destroy performance on any reasonably large table.

If a full-table scan of all columuns takes 180 seconds, then a "small fraction" to scan a single column might take 10 seconds, but queries running on a production database need to be measured in small numbers of milliseconds.
Define “trust banks”
> forbidding car ownership

No need to be dramatic here. First, it's not "forbidden," just expensive. And the cost reflects the level of risk. Insurance companies aren't charities, and the marketplace is competitive, at least.
The designers of the raptor engine should get a Nobel prize in chemistry for combustion physics.
> I struggle to find any substantial arguments against the js language

The biggest problem with JavaScript is that it's an extremely footgunny language. IMO, of the C++ variety, but probably worse.

1. The type system is unsound and complicated. Often times things "work" but silently do something unexpected. The implicit type conversion thing is just one example, but I know you've seen "NaN" on a page or "Object object" on a page. Things can pass through and produce zero errors, but give weird results.

2. JS has two NULLs - null and undefined. The error checking around these is fragile and inherently more complex than what you'd find in even C++.

3. JS has an awful standard library. This is footgunny because then basic functionality needs to be reimplemented, so now basic container types have bugs.

4. JS has no sane error handling. Exceptions are half-baked and barely used, which sounds good until you remember you can't reliably do errors-as-values because JS has no sane type system. So it's mostly the wild wild west of error handling.

5. The APIs for interacting with the DOM are verbose and footgunny. Again things can look as though they work but they won't quite. We develop tools like JSX to get around this, but that means we take all the downsides of that too.

6. Typescript is not a savior. Typescript has an okay-ish type system but it's overly complex. Languages with nominal typing like C# are often safer (no ducks slipping through), but they're also easier to work with. You don't need to do type Olympics for most languages that are statically typed, but you do in TS. This also doesn't address the problem of libraries not properly supporting typescript (footgun), so you often mix highly typed code with free-for-all code, and that's asking for trouble. And it will become trouble, because TS has no runtime constraints.
Is it legal to put a young driver on their own insurance policy with a cheap small used car, while the rest of the family has a different policy with fancier cars and collision coverage?
These aren't quite the last gasps, but the end is definitely in sight for the car insurance industry. Self-driving cars are an extinction level event for car insurance. $20K would buy a lot of Waymo rides.
I keep reading about ridiculous insurance prices the last few years, but it seemingly never affects me. Do most people tend to get lots of moving violations and in accidents or something?

I have two vehicles, mid range limits, one brand new with full coverage, and one a bit older with liability, and for two drivers the bill is around $1200 a year.

I know kids of course get a higher rate, but even so, $20k seems a bit out there unless you have a dodgy record.
Not yet. I'm willing to pay for stuff like this. I was reading Tim's Rust in Action at that time and I liked the book so when he announced that he was starting such a course I immediately singed up, although the price was a bit crazy. I got the coupon code from a guy on Reddit so that's pure luck. I am really willing to pay for other peoples IP. I am still hoping that one day he could complete the project but before that I've got some other projects to work on.

Side note: I've finished Build your own Redis in C/C++ (https://leanpub.com/build_your_own_redis) and it's pretty decent. The title of the book is a bit weird since it's almost 100% C++ so I don't know why they put "C" in there. But it's a pretty decent book (and reasonably priced).
Terrorism for the price of a phone call. For a public official, this is a severe lose-lose kind of situation.

Ground flights, people hate you. Let the planes fly and a real explosive materializes, lose your job/jailed for negligence.
I think there probably is an actual niche for space-based solar, depending on how retarget-able it is. Imagine being able to beam 24/7 power to remote mining or military installations, or if you could really steer it, beaming it the receiving station with the highest power prices. If it's competing with diesel that needs to be flown in (or trucked through hazardous terrain), it would be much easier for it to be competitive.
Deeply destructive, perhaps, but the norm in European countries. They prefer making driving expensive (be it via taxes, or import duties, etc).

The US is still far cheaper to drive in, by comparison.