skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Realistically off by at least a magnitude. There is literally zero chance there's 1 million active developers working on this experimental Google Tech out there.
Also a +1 for the solitaire! One suggestion: how about an inverted mode where the piles grow up from the bottom? I think it would be much easier to control while playing on phone
“They only dedicate real resources in the direction of self interest”

Wow, it’s almost like they are a publicly traded company with a legal obligation to do so!
> How large is the Flutter team, today? Google doesn't publish this information, but my guess is that the team is about 50 people strong.

I doubt google have even 50 flutter devs in their team. You can easily estimate by checking github pulse:

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pulse/monthly

https://github.com/flutter/engine/pulse/monthly

Also take into account inflated commits by CI bots: engine-flutter-autoroll, skia-flutter-autoroll, auto-submit[bot], fluttergithubbot, flutter-pub-roller-bot
I don’t think the SAE has the authority to remove anything from the public domain?

It likely is still freely shareable for existing copies.
Consumer electronics have a negative recycling value - the raw materials are worth significantly less than the extraction cost (in both financial and carbon terms), making recycling nothing but environmental theatre. If electronics manufacturers actually care about sustainability, they must extend the working life of the product by designing for longevity, repair and reuse.

Apple have a very mixed track record in this respect. iMacs used to work as an external monitor when the in-built computer became obsolete, but that feature has been removed. Most components in an iPhone are locked to that device, preventing their re-use as spare parts. Apple computers are almost entirely non-upgradeable, greatly limiting their potential useful lifespan.
AT&T announces $1B fiber deal with Corning
I think it's crazy to be sentenced to death for having 500 grams of cannabis. Nobody is going to overdose on it, almost nobody is going to make a business of it if it were actually legal, ... this isn't a heroin, meth or even moonshine operation we're talking about.

Is there really a way to overstate the insanity of state-sponsored killing people for this? Please let's not stray too far from the subject of, what justification for killing this drug user are you looking for?
I used your iMac as the daily driver for years, and now use the 27” Studio Display. I don’t know what’s more frustrating: that it’s still effectively the same panel 10 years later, or that it’s still the best one (for reasonable money).
This post is using regression to build a reward model. The reward model will then be used (in a future post) to build the overall RL system.

Here's the relevant text from the article:

>In this post we’ll discuss how to build a reward model that can predict the upvote count that a specific HN story will get. And in follow-up posts in this series, we’ll use that reward model along with reinforcement learning to create a model that can write high-value HN stories!
I run a single-person SaaS company, https://easyteegolf.com/. I started it a couple years ago as a side project and have grown it organically.
A lot of sites require substantial environmental cleanup before they can be redeveloped. Things like underground fuel oil tanks for boilers can be costly to remediate.
X11 has plenty of warts, but Wayland has more.

Example: screenshot. X11: "please tell me the pixels in the root window". Wayland: "please tell me the extension number of the portals extension so I can open a portal to pipewire so I can get the pipewire connection string so I can connect to the pipewire server so I can ..."

Example: get window position on screen.

Example: set window title.

X11 is a protocol about managing windows on a screen. Wayland is a protocol about sending pixel buffers to an unspecified destination. All the screen-related stuff, which is integral to X11, is hard to do in Wayland with a pile of optional extensions and external protocol servers which do not interact.

X11 is also more standardized, de facto, because there are fewer server implementations, which is not just an accident but is by design.
This isn't true though. Neither in theory nor in practice. A broad set of individual product quality has consistently declined throughout the industrial era - not least, infamously, one of your own examples: nails.

Many products have increased in quality due to factors unrelated to centralised production: new scientific research, intensive r&d, internal standardisation efforts - but centralised production tends instead to produce demonstrable reductions in individual quality. We're living in an age of unprecedented consumer waste due to this phenomenon. Planned obsolescence is a relatively recent term (& while it may not be real in terms of being intentional it's definitely true in terms of increases in obsolescence-rates).
You're correct (as you pointed out elsewhere), so I edited my original comment.
In a story like "The Day After the Day the Martians Came" sure, the purpose of the aliens (Martians in that case) is purely to tell us about us.

But you don't really need aliens for that, there are several Black Mirror stories which do roughly the same perspective trick, particularly "Men Against Fire". Aliens offer an opportunity to explore something quite different and it's always disappointing to see them used as something less interesting.

It's like FTL. FTL is actually exactly equivalent to time travel, and so it's disappointing, though commonplace to see SF which decides to do FTL but no time travel (or indeed vice versa though that's less common)..

I like Culture novels just fine, I like Greg Egan's Amalgam setting (with aliens who are basically just us again, although a bit less obviously so than a Star Trek alien) just fine, but, in both cases I'm a little disappointed. If your aliens aren't even as weird as the Octopus is (and we have no idea what the fuck is going on with an Octopus) then you're not really trying are you?
If you separate vehicle traffic too thoroughly then you essentially just turn roads into walls for everyone that isn't in a vehicle.

I think the idea of optimising vehicle flow in urban areas is folly. It comes at the cost of too many other things.

Here's an example of what I mean. https://maps.app.goo.gl/pati5dBBTnSgxZ1m9 . It shows a road in a built up area that has been optimised to increase vehicle flow to the airport (using a roundabout instead of lights) and the effect that has on someone trying to travel by foot - turning what would be a <1min walk into 30min.
Telephony has been using -48V as a line voltage for a very long time, probably > 100 years.
Shenzhou-18 crew records video showcasing life, work in space [video]
I rarely see Maven files in non-trivial projects that are anything but a confusing mess of XML.

Granted, the constrained abilities do tend to keep folks from writing one-off snowflake build customizations, which is nice. But it still leave a hell of a lot to be desired. It was however, leagues ahead of Ant, which wasn't a high bar.
Overall this is a pretty balanced take. I still think we have different interpretations of what is "normal" for a war but I don't expect we'll close the gap on that.

Now to introduce some levity into the conversation:

> It's war. It's complicated. There are no easy answers.

When I was a Senior Watch Officer at the Operations Center of a 3-star command, our Operations Chief was lifelong infantryman and Fallujah veteran. I haven't been in combat. But I used to frequently rant "Why do we always make this stuff so complicated?!?! It can't be this hard to kill people!" For those lacking context I'm complaining about how I felt that our approach to command & control was needlessly diffusing our core Marine Corps function of efficiently killing our enemies.

...and one time the Chief just looked at me and responded plainly: "Trust me, it's not."
The accusation of apartheid against Israel makes no sense because of what Apartheid means -- institutionalized racism against country's own citizens.

If non-jewish citizens of Israel(that as you know DOES NOT include West Bank or Gaza) had different rights than jewish citizens, than you could argue Apartheid.

Again we are talking about Israel proper, not Westbank(controlled by Fatah) or Gaza(formerly controlled by Hamas).

Please tell me which rights do non-jewish citizens of Israel lack institutionally within Israel that Jewish citizens have?
> This would require additional hardware in every iMac sold.

Hardware that costs a few cents at Apple's volumes and adds about 1mm of thickness and 2g of weight.

Also, it's standard hardware
It's due to the decline of in-person socializing by young people.

Young people don't get introduced to it as much. Less in-person peer pressure. Fewer parties. Young people do things in groups that they won't bother doing alone because it's not as fun.
The Airbus Cockpit Philosophy [pdf]
I see, I don't want to shame this kind of use. It's kind of almost like talking about something briefly with an educated person.

Until it's not.

I'm not the type who'd say "don't use AI". Use whatever works. Myself I became really fascinated by transformer LLMs / GPTs in winter 2019, then again when ChatGPT was published and a good few months after that.

It's just that my interest&enthusiasm has almosted vanished by now. Surely it will reemerge at some point.
> For a laptop, give me something more portable, like the old 2 pound, 12" MacBook.

MacBook Airs or your iPad Pro is perfectly portable.

Absolutely love, love, loooove Apple finally upped the MBPs to 14 inch.

Such a QoL improvement over 13inch.

I'd never buy a 12 inch computer, ever.
Given that it has a lithium ion battery and you’re very much not supposed to put it in a bin, i’m not surprised you ignored a low battery warning for weeks.
> There are a few processes in the bot that are especially latency sensitive, which we have tuned the nice value for.

This immediately signifies some level of "does not understand how this stuff works". Latency sensitive (audio or other) tasks need to be in the SCHED_RR or SCHED_FIFO scheduling class, which nice(1) has no effect on.

Conversely, using nice(1) on a SCHED_OTHER task is also unlikely to work, given that nice only impacts scheduling decisions and cannot provide RT-like behavior.
how many of them now vape though? in the US, if you look at vaping in adolescents, I would not be surprised to see an increase in nicotine users just in a different form.
It would be wrong to ascribe this to the politics, it's the change in the physical and social reality that enabled this situation, off which some politicians are feeding their movements.

Young men might not be as socially adept, which matters more now than it did before. And that creates a lot of undesirable side effects. But politics didn't create this situation.
There is a simple tail recursive implementation of fibonacci that is O(N) and doesn't use memoization. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader.
This is a fair point. The reason why I think "correlation" is a better metric than "predicts the exact correct score" is because of how I'll be using this model in the next post.

Broadly, the main use case for this model (in the RL context) will be to take two different versions of the same post, and predict which of the two is more likely to be upvoted. So what matters isn't that it gets the exact number of upvotes correctly, but that it correctly predicts the relative difference in likely upvote count between two variants.

Now it still doesn't do a great job at that (the correlation is only 0.53 after all) but it still does a good enough job to provide some useful signal.
> You never add abstractions until you can’t avoid them.

Whilst I accept that bad abstractions can really hold a codebase back, good abstractions and layering are what make code clean, understandable, and maintainable. I don't think we should throw the baby out with the bathwater.

What's important is having good designers who understand the domain and are able to judiciously select the "right abstractions" to apply at the "right time". Often this will mean people who have worked in a domain and made or experienced the consequences of mistakes previously.

Bad or inexperienced developers will write bad code. Good, experienced devs will do a little better. Don't let inexperienced devs design abstractions that you'll be stuck with for a while.
This is why I buy AAPL stock and not Apple™ products.
Generally a connector manufacturer would make these, Amphenol, Aptiv (formerly Delphi), Cinch, JAE, JST, Molex, TE Connectivity, Yazaki. See Mouser for some examples(https://www.mouser.com/c/connectors/automotive-connectors/#)

Usually they create their own design so maybe having an open standard would allow you to do contract orders with any plastic injector that has the molds.
Automate your releases with the Jupyter Releaser
This is an awesome idea. Traditional use of anki (i.e. med school) is super helpful for memorizing and retaining a vast amount of information making it especially great for recall when solicited on a test or irl. Have you found the ai component to help with learning the meaning of a word or phrase in various contexts?
I suspect there's a lot of larger apps out there which use Flutter for one feature or set of screens but the majority of the app isn't written in Flutter. You could have a team of 100 working on a app where only three of them actually touch flutter on a regular basis, but depending on how exactly you capture analytics all 100 of them may get counted.
Looks interesting, we solved this problem with Kinesis Firehose, S3 and Athena. Pricing is cheap, you can run any arbitrary SQL query and there is zero infrastructure to maintain.
> Appearing to be more engaging/addictive does not imply more value.

for modern day businesses it sadly does. But that misalignment of how to define "quality" is a part of why we're in this real time divide of whether social media is good/bad to begin with.
I used to work with the guy who was named by DJB in the crypto export case which removed the restrictions. IIRC, the NSA guy used to be his student!
With WordPress, I can stand up a unique, functional website in a day. With a robust UI. And even with some advanced eCommerce features. It's not the best CMS in the world but compared to Drupal it's like building with Legos. You can also let it run for years without needing to go in and update/fix anything.

There are not many other self-hosted services that really compete at the same level.
That's fair. Should have said "Tesla proposes new standard electrical connector".
I wonder if there is a link to the increased use of Adderall and other ADHD treatments. Younger people may no longer be self-medicating because they have other, more effective alternatives available.
It's not that "busy" though, is it? My understanding is that asteroids are pretty damn small and very far away from each other. It's always funny to see an "Asteroid Belt" in Sci Fi movies and TV, where it looks like they're flying their spaceships through a raging river of rocks dodging one every second. In reality: if you were standing on any asteroid in the belt, would you even be able to see any other one with the naked eye?
You mean, like with a notch… It is cool on iOS but not on a mouse… Funny.
Those look much like AMP automotive connectors.

Using one kind of unkeyed connector in a car may be a bad idea. Things can be plugged in wrong during repairs. There's a lot to be said for making connectors not fit where they shouldn't. Especially in automotive, where many connectors are plugged in blind, by feel. This simplifies manufacturing at the cost of repair.

If it can be plugged in wrong, it will be plugged in wrong. AAA put a battery in backwards in my Jeep once, and most of the vehicle electronics had to be replaced.
One Mentor Isn't Enough
Yeah, this is what it comes down to. WordPress has an incredible following for a great reason: it works well for the people that know how to use it.

Designers and agencies are more than happy to continue to use it, and frankly they should -- it is their bread and butter. The WP drama is news for us web-devs but will affect their market in no way whatsoever.
taking this morally relativistic position to its logical conclusion, should the preeminent military power intervene with force to stop a country genociding its own people within its own borders, for example? how about intervening without force to stop the institutionalized subservience of women, through political meddling?
The other day I was thinking how communities around a programming language or software framework sometimes become toxic subcultures, where its members dogfood the product too much to the point where they can't think outside the box. I guess corporations take advantage of this mechanism of brainwash feedback loop to foster loyal employees who believe in the mission, who can speak the lingo and think in the given conceptual framework, no matter how arbitrary or wrong.

It also leads to "big fish in a small pond" syndrome, where people in the inner circle start to think highly of themselves, to look down on the "newbies" and users. They value thier expertise in this niche without realizing its relative poverty and low quality in the larger context. It's a mix of arrogance and ignorance that insulates their ego.

I hope the collective disillusionment that WordPress is going through will be healthy for ecosystem in the long run. Let a hundred forks and alternatives bloom!
If you (a) need low latency (b) have hardware with unpredictable/unreliable latency behavior, you're screwed by definition.

If you can manage with large latency, then sure, buffer the hell out of everything and your chances of losing data will be close to zero.

If you need low latency, you cannot buffer the hell out of everything, and anything that interferes with the data flow runs the risk of causing an underrun.

The solution in the CD burner case was easy: massive latency is fine, so buffer the hell out of it, and it just works.

The solution for low-latency audio anything is not so easy: you can't buffer the hell out of it, which means you're susceptible to hardware and software issues that disrupt timing and end up causing underruns/overruns.
GH200 Superchip Accelerates Inference by 2x in Multiturn Interactions with Llama
Don't think of it as a standard as-in SAE, but a standard as in "molex", "AT", or "ATX". Yeah, they aren't really "standards", but they aren't exactly proprietary either and they also are clearly useful.

The goal seems to be to promote reuse of a good-enough design in as many places as possible. Noone's forced to use it, but it'd make things simpler for everyone if there is as much commonality as possible.
We have worked with flutter since 2019; having built internal apps for our staff, public apps for our customers, small utility apps etc- this has been our experience as well. Not only flutter has been rock solid, easy and fast to develop, it has a wide array of libraries. Long may it continue.
WhatsApp had less than 50 engineers (or was it employees total?) when Facebook bought them out, and they had millions of users.
if they let a country extort them, others will follow
Ok, I understand your point but let's be real for a minute and just acknowledge that the worse situation that you can get. I'd rather hear about how what is happening with young men today was happening with young women than men - not that that would be better but it would be less dangerous.

Young men that are disenfranchised from their society and have little to live for are a primary metric political scientists use to measure the stability of country. Historically speaking, once a society gets too many men like that, the society ends.

This isn't a battle of the sexes and women do not win bc of what has happened with men.
>I wish trains were more affordable because (I think) the experience is worth it.

I understand the sentiment you are trying to convey, but if you need the price to be lower to be worth it, that's the definition of "not worth it" :)

It is a nice experience, worth the time; I was not sensitive to the price. I booked last minute because it was a spur of the moment trip, and iirc we snagged a bargain rate because of that.
Life Long Learning: Dealing with New Things
> Communication monoculture

This point seems like a callout to a certain discussion and I kind of want to see it
Github shows 98% of code is "Shell" on top of that there are also many different package managers that people use: fnm, volta that are build with rust. You can also install nodejs using homebrew.
The Emerging Age of AI Diplomacy
In a team, is it possible that one user use the gamified version and other the boring version? I guess some people will love this but other will hate it.
This is preference. I just don't see why its anyone's preference. I will just build an admin dashboard that allows a site owner manage their content, however, I'm not building as many sites for other people, so you probably have a better perspective as someone who does it professionally for 3rd parties.
Are we talking about Maven with its cache extension?

https://github.com/apache/maven-build-cache-extension

Because in my experience, this makes Maven very, very fast.
I’m waiting for the point in time when content platforms no longer try to downplay their generated content but instead simply embrace it and even go as far as excluding human only content.

Like for example a TikTok, but all the videos are generated by the platform itself using likes/skips to drive its algorithm to generate more addicting content. That seems like the logical conclusion of where all of this is going.

They can then drop the creator side of the market and a lot of moderation issues that come with it, while gaining full ownership, control, and monetization of the underlying content.
CGI / PHP is really not a bad way to work in 2024, even though I was traumatized by PHP in my early days. I’ve only experimented with it though, I think it would be hard to maintain at scale, and I’ve heard there are not insignificant security concerns. It’s a lot easier to hire somebody to maintain a Wordpress install than it is to mess with Apache or PHP.

When I figured out that Wordpress literally is executing every piece of PHP every time the site loads it was kind of a “woah” moment for me

Interesting idea with the Cloudflare thing
> and additionally the total investment about doubles in roughly 5 years

That is a big assumption. What happens during the next real estate bust and your real estate value goes down to 1/4 of its prior worth? You are now set back 10 years.

I think residential real estate is a bad bet long term. As real estate gets more expensive and more and more young people cannot afford to buy there is going to be more political capital to change the situation. You are basically betting that the next generations are going to be fine with being priced out.

I don’t believe we have seen the full repercussions of the housing affordability crisis, it hasn’t even been going on for that long. As gen Z comes to house buying age I think there are going to be changes.
8%.

I wonder how many they gained, if any significant amount
Unemployment is lower today than it was 20 years ago: https://www.statista.com/statistics/217882/us-unemployment-r... (though it hasn't materially changed one way or the other).

If teens and young adults NEEDED to work but couldn't find jobs, the unemployment rate for that age group would show it.
They don't strictly need to greenwash even despite the difficulties with repairing their devices. They talk about green stuff because that's what they want to be, for whatever reason.