skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is not "stupidity" per se. As in, behaviour that leads to unfavourable outcomes due to faulty intelligence detection senses of the individual. We can work with that and work around that at constant costs via companies and states - meta-organisms.

The real flaws shine, when the stupidity is load bearing. As in, if you try to repair it, society falls apart. You cant repair it, you must life with it, it produces constant failed attempts and it severely limits societal ability to act/steer and move to survive problematic events.

You could make a Big(O) table of stupidity and there is of course the whole variants of levels.

Detectable: by Individual / Organization / Undetectable / Unknowables

Patchable: by Individual / Organization / Unpatchable Big(O)

Dependencies: Stupidity is Standalone / Affects Organizations / isDependentForFixOnOthers/ Loadbearing for Society / Not fixable without patching biology
A friend of mine has been visiting places with weird time related things going on, because it is interesting and takes you funny places.

He has been to Lord Howe. Now I know why. He has a user account on HN. I will ask him if he wants to make an appearance here...
This is a typical excuse I always hear in defense of Ruby but am yet to see a proof that it is the case, with plenty of arguments that demonstrate that Ruby also happens to be a productivity loss the moment the project scale goes beyond trivial.

It has such an embarrassing failure mode that is unthinkable in statically typed compiled languages. Rails is not even a better choice at its main selling point which is developer UX, it has been many years since the rest of the industry caught up and surpassed this. Nowadays, as a primarily C# developer I’m always baffled by the crutches RoR developers have to deal with - one would just not tolerate these in .NET.

At the end of the day, if every line of code costs 100x more, it’s very difficult to come up with a good reason where such Ruby tax is worth it in the projects that cannot afford to throw more compute and memory at a problem.
Seems like reducing power consumption isn’t a thing anymore
In the UK, not at every intersection, by any means. In fact, it's probably a minority in many places. We're taught how to cross in the middle of the road.
I spent 7 years in the public sector in Denmark and one of the things I experienced there was that people who question the stupidity of MBA type systems are very valuable. We have a lot of good intentions which get ground into these spreadsheet analytics and checklists which can inhibit smart solutions in our social policies and systems. I think this article touches on this sort of "systemic stupidity" that is rarely performed by stupid and was typically created with the best intentions.

I know the article has a much broader scope, but I really do think that when we set up too rigid systems with too much auditing and too many "best practices" we also create systems where a lot of people within them won't think. Especially when we manage to extinguish the will of people who might question parts of our systems which are so obviously terrible that they simply stop trying to create change. I never thought of it as collective stupidity before, but I think that it's the perfect description.
Granted you've misinterpreted the posters point - but I will respond to your perception of his point (which I agree with).

You could easily imagine a world where pedestrians have the right of way on the streets, and cars "request access to the road" in a similar way that pedestrians do. Actually, if this is not easy for you to imagine - it suggests enormous internal bias.
More like " how some people prefer manual memory management for non-performance-critical applications".
I like how Cipolla's 4th Law, coupled with laws 1–3, mean even the non-stupid are stupid.
People can pretend to be stupid if it suits them.

People can seem to be stupid if their reasons for action are not known.

People can't help but be stupid if deprived of factual information or if presented with false or confusing information.

Finally, all people are not trained to avail of the mental tools that civilization has honed over millennia to fight stupidity.

In the end "stupidity" is a social phenomenon, deeply connected to the nature of information exchange between individuals in society.

Transparency about the state of the world and the internal mental states of people and education (information processing capacity) can reduce what we commonly call stupidity.

But its a relative game. Full transparency and infinite processing capacity is not possible for human brains.
When I did this a long time ago, it was difficult to get the information. The reasons were at that time, that the search algorithm is being tweaked for user and then some SEO jerk comes along and puts his page in front by tricking and optimization.

I don't think it has changed much now. But there are plenty of documentation from Google on this - what they want and what you need.
Not sure what you mean by "complex systems tasks" but most of the leading models have helped me with writing concurrent go code just fine. Not sure if that counts as "complex" enough. However this was prompting, not completion. Obviously I expect something like copilot to pick the normie non-concurrent implementation
I guess the jaywalking law is partly to avoid disrupting traffic, but the most efficient cross is the one when no traffic is present, and that's more likely in the middle of the road than at an intersection.
Mimicking sound and run of ICEs id the most absurd pro-reactionary move possible, sorry.

BTW since current motors ad high speed have heating issues having a REAL mechanical "extra gear" (3 gears actually, one very short for very steep passages and tight parking, a normal one, a high one) might be interesting, but to understand that engineers need to drive EVs. Today they seems not doing so.

It's the same history for p.v. missed integrations: most engineers and decision makers seem not to have p.v. at home, so they do not feel the need and the opportunity of such integration.
The fact it was reported and Altman didn’t deny it shows how ludicrous and wild his thinking is

It might be a $100B company on paper but that’s propped up by Microsoft investment. It’s hemoragging money still isn’t it?
There was a brief mention of other recent circumstances, which are not elucidated further. Guessing there are unstated personal reasons.

Aside from that, if you’re running something on a shoestring and your own time, moving it somewhere else is a lot of work for little joy.
I don't really understand how that would save energy. Did people work 7am-3pm days or something?
What did the director who asked you to apply say when you told them?
I'm sorry but you'll have to go into /etc/tangibles.conf and use_cases = "beyond_extension", and then run systemctl daemon-reload to get that behavior.

I mean sure. Obvs I don't speak for everyone that runs Linux. Knowing how Linux, works from Kernel to user space, from an LFS install,
or simply being around it that much lends itself to being the kind of person who's able to setup, or gets paid to setup the kinds of tangible use cases others want. Like a webserver, back when it was hard. Like eg mounting files as a drive. It's just losetup then mount /dev/loop0 /mnt. That's a tangible use case where you can copy files off a dvd ISO. I'm sure you can find a program to do that on Windows, but it's basically a built in feature on Linux. Linux at the base level is workshop full of tools, it's up to you what you want to build.
> Wrote a script in emacs lisp to calculate Ramadan

I found this pretty funny, but a spot on solution. The solar/calendar features of Emacs are surprisingly robust and easy to work with.
I live in Asia. I can see any specialist within the week, and if it is urgent, possibly that evening. I needed surgery once and they told me to come back at 6pm, the same day.
Deprecating REST APIs: A Developer's Guide
> Theory of Bounded Rationality tells use we are all stupid given the right problem.

I’d say one of OP’s main messages is that this is a misunderstanding or misuse of the word. We’re not stupid when we are aware of our limitations. Stupidity is more of a character flaw than a lack of intelligence. Perhaps you could say it’s a failure to even try to be rational.
Nah it's definitely speeding.
I am so glad that anyone can become a developer and software engineer now, the cost of making software is continuing to go down to zero and the barrier to entry getting is lower.

This is exciting times for anyone wanting to get into software.
can I use this app in my data notebook?
When in sleep mode, Macs consume less than 1-3W of power, which is about the margin of error for most plugged-in devices. It draws ~5W idle and awake.
Because it's not 'asking' if it's a law. If you're legislating that people can't just walk across a deserted street where it's most convenient then you have a broken law. Legislate against disrupting traffic if you really need to. Not disrupting traffic? What's the problem?
If there must be a cookie popup at all, this site is a great example of how to do it.

(Edit: although it kinda then spoils it with the newsletter popup)
How do you install it on fire stick?
What editor supports 7 equal-width columns, as mentioned/shown? I.e. show a single file in many columns?

And how does it look when you press page-down or scroll? Or insert a line on the left? Any lag?

Or is the only solution to clone the file into 7 different views? Seems hard to keep track of.

Edit: ok, I guess Figure 3 is 7 separate files? But without tabs at the top?
Hackbat – a open source Flipper Zero alternative
Which countries obey crossing lights as strictly as you describe? I've been to lots of European countries and none were like that. Not in the way that the US is.
I think translating to russian wasn't worse than translating to English because "russian is more compact".

Probably it was worse, because people in charge in Google speak English. It was embarrassing to watch Google conferences where they proposed Google Translate to translate professional products. It's similarly embarrassing watching people proposing chatGPT lightly, because they lack the ability, or probably just don't care to, analyze the problem thoroughly.
@ThePrimeTimeagen trigger ... BRazil mentioned ...

New Go Billion Row Challenge w/ Great Optimizations | Prime Reacts

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ1PDS7iRU8

- https://r2p.dev/b/2024-03-18-1brc-go/

Spoiler:

SwissMap: A smaller, faster Golang Hash Table

- https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2023-03-28-swiss-map/

- https://github.com/dolthub/swiss

Want to see Paul Allen's implementation in Rust, Zig, Mojo ... and even Bun.sh, Deno.com
No mention of license on contributed data, or the model.
Model Predictive Control in the Browser with WebAssembly
I'll never understand why some people think multi-monitors involves neck pain. It's a complete non-issue.

I have a chair with a headrest, my neck never has to move at all, I can see all parts of the screen just by scanning my eyes. Very rarely does my neck ever move and it's usually to see the 65" Tv a few feet over - and even then my chair has a swivel and if I'm watching the Tv more than the computer, my chair will swivel over, not my neck.

My neck is just fine, thanks.
For country near equator that is not actually unreasonable system to define day cycle.
... previously https://github.com/shraddhaag/1brc
It doesn't! That is why some countries want to leave one time for the whole year.
When lots of power were used by lighting, it must have saved something...
Are those prices in AUD?
> On the other hand, sometimes you just need executable line noise that gets the job done by Thursday so you can ship it and think about refactoring later.

This is a problem too. ChatGPT enables you to write bad code.

It's like Adobe Flash: flash using websites didn't have to be slow, but it was easy to make a slow website with it.
Having N leading zeroes is very similar to what "Bitcoin mining" consists of. Brutforcing small-ish N is possible on Raspberry PI in seconds, large-ish is almost impossible
can you link more infos on the drama pls
pet peeve: your blog has no RSS feed
So if you are waiting at an intersection pedestrian crossings and getting impatient you can just move over a bit and cross anyway?
It would kill the utility of cars though, you could never drive faster than maybe 30 miles per hour or you would constantly run people over.

Pedestrians are more nimble than cars, so it kind of makes sense that cars have the right of way. As far as I know, large container ships have right of way over small vessels for the same reason.
No. Incredibly confusing assumption of US hegemony.

Looks like it should be about AUD$15,000.
Finally, a “breaks one’s silence” headline that’s not a celebrity posting something on social media.
Parts of Germany, lots of Poland, Austria, etc. South Europe where I'm from is "decoration land", but the more east you go the harsher they are/were with enforcement so the more people abide.
> Are there any dual transmission vehicles which manual and automatic transmissions???

Yes, but Koenigsegg is not a brand that's in budget for most of us.
Germany and Poland both do this.
INNER JOIN ON vs WHERE clause (2009)
It still worked the other way as well.

Come to think of it, laws that are most frequently broken by the general public are also probably deeply broken in their concept or the worldview they were based on.

For instance speeding laws, while making sense on paper, are completely inadequate for the thing they want to improve. Structural changes to either the roads or other infra, the cars, or more deterring power than a slap on the wrist are probably needed in the places where they're routinely broken by normal people.
The idea behind DST is that it shifts working hours into daylight hours during the darker months. This would theoretically cut down on energy use for lighting during those hours.

Of course offices, factories and even schools still use artificial lighting even during daylight hours. And now the energy use of artificial lighting is much lower than back when everything used filament.
The main takeaway is that 1 billion rows is just not that much nowadays.

A corollary is 'postgres is really all you need' unless you have irrefutable proof it isn't.
The bubble you live in that makes you think this is a good idea. Sheesh.
I would say they are generally obeyed in Germany, of course there are always people that walk over a red light but generally, most people obey it.
people assert their opinions as facts, they parrot bullshit they heard or read online and make no attempt to verify anything, they willingly spread lies in support of their political or spiritual beliefs, they lie or exaggerate to make themselves look good or to make people they don't like look bad, or they even just straight up lie for no reason. to say anything said by an LLM is a lie until proven otherwise and then act like it's ridiculous to apply the same thing to humans is nuts.
As someone living north of the arctic circle.. there are other issues than just clouds.
I've been using Copilot in VSCode as I have it free as a student. I wanted to try Cursor, but money is tight. Are they that much different? If so, what makes Cursor so special?
Sure, knife forging is one thing, but the idea of making replacement blades for folding knives sounds like it takes machining, because of the weird shapes needed at the pivot end, especially for weird locking mechanisms. It would be nice to be able to do that at a semi-commercial level if one were to get into it at all. Victorinox is on a completely different scale, making millions of units of whatever. But forging is for making one or two of something, while CNC machining is interesting for making a few hundred.

In practice I don't have it in me to pursue something like that for real. It's just interesting to find out about.

If I simply wanted to make knives, then no machining would be needed, just some cutting discs and belt sanders. It's the specific thought of making replacement blades for existing folders that seems to want more automation. I guess there are existing shops that can do that type of thing from a CAD drawing though.
No, they did join quite a while ago.

For years legislators demanded new security features in cars with the hope to at least protect the local market. Part of these security features are indeed sensible while others can only be described as experimental unproven technology, that can even be dangerous in some cases. Systems that do emergency breaking for example would require similar sensory information to autonomous driving.

Ironically, this had a net negative effect. While foreign cars did indeed have difficulties on EU markets, cars got significantly more expensive in general. So much so that building basic smaller cars has become unprofitable. This has again a negative effect on the environment and the price of cars, which are now even more uncompetitive on other markets.

Sure, large EU manufacturers have special versions for foreign markets, mostly far cheaper than the European alternative.

Not every safety feature is senseless, but I would dispute that something like lane control should be mandatory. A feature any driver I know more or less immediately turns off anyway.
Nope, they are just doing their job. Musk is the one taking risk and making choices.

Musk could hire other engineers and they would still achieve pretty much the same results. Those xAI engineers though can go elsewhere, but there is close to 0 chance they would achieve the same thing there. Leadership is important and we tend to forget it lately.

Now, weather this leadership leads in the right direction here is up to debate. I personally don't think so. But the speed at which they build it is in itself an achievement, and it happened under Musk.

PS. Praise from Jensen Huang who just sold them those 100k GPUs is very funny though. It's not like the guy would say that they are all useless.
On October 18th, a significant update in the Linux community sparked a mix of debate and concern as several maintainers, specifically those with Russian and Eastern European ties, were removed from the Linux maintainers list. This change, reported in a message to the Linux kernel mailing list, hinted at complex compliance measures tied to international sanctions. Below, we delve into the specifics, implications, and potential future impacts of this decision on the Linux ecosystem and the broader software development landscape.
a 64-bit vector can also be used to cheat at poker
I find it slightly ironic that a blog that’s educating (and entertaining) us on time and timezones does not itself mention when its blogposts were published, at least on mobile.

This one appears to have been published in the summer of 2024.
This should be a ‘Show HN’?
please share! it's such great challenge to map each language internals. here's an idea how to write up https://r2p.dev/b/2024-03-18-1brc-go/
Earlier this year I had to write a function to find the current local time given a US address. The naive way to do so would be via a static mapping of state to time zone but there are a few edge cases that preclude doing this; in the interest of cost and speed relative to this specific application I spent a few dollars on a CSV that maps every US ZIP code to UTC offset and whether DST is followed (among other data). pytz takes IANA timezone names so I ended up having to map offset and DST info manually to specific timezones. As it turns out the US has a fair number of weird edge cases for overseas territories and military bases that necessitated the use of things like "Etc" zones [1] that have funky semantics (because of Unix for some reason if Wikipedia is to be believed).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#Area
In most places, jaywalking typically means crossing outside of a crosswalk while being within a short distance of a crosswalk. It's more dangerous for pedestrians near crosswalks, cars are turning and have limited visibility, so using the crosswalk (when crossing is allowed, if there's a crossing indicator) is the rule.

If you are a certain distance away from a crosswalk, you are allowed to cross the road but must yield to oncoming cars.

It's really pretty simple and common-sense. Of course there are differences in local rules, but this is the way it usually works.
I think you misread that. America/Nuuk doesn't have reverse DST (which is easily solved by just switching DST and non-DST around). It starts DST at a negative offset because the offset is defined as relative to the previous day.
GitHub Copilot moves beyond OpenAI models to support Claude 3.5, Gemini
I'm currently in Tokyo and it is the norm to wait for the green man, even if it is a two-lane road there isn't a car in sight. I can understand waiting at one of the mega intersections, where you can barely make out the pedestrians on the other side - definitely waiting for permission to cross there.
Looks pretty great. Will definitely take a serious look at it for future projects. Very happy that it’s in Go, which is our stack.
They could vote for better leaders to achieve something closer to that world, but in many places these days (esp. the US lately), they actively vote for the opposite.
Nothing at all. The headline talks about the proportion of code written by AI. Contrary to what a lot of comments here are assuming, it does not say that the volume of code written has increased.

Google could be writing the same amount of code with fewer developers (they have had multiple layoffs lately), or their developers could be focusing more of their time and attention on the code they do write.
The absolutely best thing about being in Japan is realizing that games so often are recreating Japan ... and you don't realize it until you're there. You hike and exit the path at a small shrine and feel like you're in Zelda. You go through a tunnel and come out in a different (snowy, in my case) environment, and feel like you went through a Mario pipe. You drive on expressways in Tokyo with office buildings nearly right up to the road, with pillars between lanes and (in one spot) a highway going through a building and suddenly racing games don't seem so far fetched.

It's a trip, in the best of ways.
Eighteen Years of ABI Stability
The "single guy" does better than google is because of incentives. Not that google is unable to do the same thing. The biggest ad company won't make the same choices as a dev who wants to use the product for its benefits.

We'll see more and more algo-feed enshitification. I'm not ruling out "you don't need a subscription feed anymore, we'll show you our best AI-chosen videos.

It was a good long run, I hope "product managers" won't destroy YT like Facebook did with "a place to keep up with frends" to "a shitty feed infested with ads".
You can cross wherever and whenever is safe to do so. If traffic conditions don’t facilitate this, pedestrian crossings provide guaranteed crossing points where pedestrians have right of way.
>It would kill the utility of cars though, you could never drive faster than maybe 30 miles per hour

That sounds lovely. I would live in that city.
Automatic transmission doesn't know your intention in 5s, so it consistently makes the wrong choice there if you intend to slow down or cruise until a red light.
I mean, you can come up with the same kind of shtick for security: "every bug is just an opportunity to use Rust", "you can't outrun the Mossad", etc. But you aren't really going to get that kind of content, regularly, from following geohot on Twitter.
> import os;proc main = (let file = paramstr(1);(for line in file.lines:(echo line; if line == "": return)))

Yeah, bliss-style, you know in docs it isn't made clear that that works but i sensed that would.

> Random thought: it shouldn't be too hard to write a formatting tool that translates braces to indentation and vice versa. But I have yet to see a project like this for Nim.

It's a hour-long "project" if you don't care about how to treat pragma annotations. I did just that.