skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yesterday an article was trending "The Secret Electrostatic World of Insects". Now I wonder, how much does static electricity actually affect cells?
https://www.wired.com/story/the-secret-electrostatic-world-o...
many TV boxes come with it 'cheap' preinstalled, like the slimboxtv firmware. still, remove this or go with an AOSP/stock TV firmware and install it yourself.
Exactly. Cars are horrible, they made everything worse for everyone except the few people with money to buy a car.

Cars produce toxic fumes, air pollution, noise pollution with their engine noises and horns, light pollution with their headlights pointed directly into my fucking eye, consume incredible amounts of resources to function, consume a fuckton of resources for road maintainability waste millions of man-hours in soul-crushing traffic jams, all that for them to be slower than me on my fucking bike inside the city.

Yeah the horse and buggy manufacturers were right, cars were a mistake. We just doubled down on that mistake.
Most of the LLM quality discussions have a shelf life measured in weeks. The companies involved are leap frogging each other with model updates and tweaks every few weeks.

Try it yourself. I'm getting a lot of value out of just using chat gpt for coding. It's not without flaws. But I can get it to do a lot of routine stuff quite quickly. What I like about the desktop client is that a prompt is just one alt+space away. I usually just copy paste whatever I'm working on and then ask it to do stuff to it.

There's some art to the prompting and you usually have to nudge it to not be lazy and do the whole thing you asked for. It seems engineers on the other side are working really hard to minimize token usage.

I find it's increasingly the UX that's holding me back, not the model quality. Context windows are now big enough to hold a lot of stuff. But how do you get everything in there that matters? Manually copy pasting together stuff is tedious. I actually wrote a script (well, with some llm help) that flattens things in my repository into a file that I then simply attach to a conversation. Works surprisingly well.
No example given about what stupidity is.
Then how can you tell the diff stupidity vs intelligence since there is not a point refence my friend?
Should i take your word for it?

"According to Cipolla’s "Basic Laws of Human Stupidity," a stupid person is one whose actions result in negative consequences for both themselves and those around them, irrespective of intent"

Whould strongly argue against this.
Bus Traps (Wikipedia)
By some intuitive measures, it’s surprising they have very many still writing their code. Google’s product quality isn’t what it once was. There is no amount of AI accelerators and energy they can burn through to fix that without humans.
Yeah but are those valid reasons? Bandwidth is unlimited for most dedicated servers, and 190 GB for 7 years of data isn't a lot; it could fit on my phone 5 times.
You should, because not only are you being rude you are also wrong.
Building a character without being all that concerned with the truth is a way to have anything plausibly fit the character. But the resulting character is not real. It's fiction.
Average user tells average HNer their computer is slow and the HNer continues to develop Electron apps.
Automatics are more complex and harder to repair, easier breaks.

Damages that would give a manual gearbox 'personality', might make the automatic refuse to engage gear at all.

The accelerator padel in practice also becomes a shift down gear button. So you need to keep your feet at a more specific position of the pedal.

When towing trailers the automatic gear selection is usually bad.

You can't start the engine by rolling it and release the clutch when low on batteries or the starter motor is somewhat broken. I would say this is the biggest drawback of automatics.

On the other hand, automatics are nice in queues.
What? This already exists and most ISPs already does it, bcp38.

They're only validating that the traffic that they originate use the IP addresses that they manage. So ISP that has an interface with 100.0.0.1/24 make sure that any ingress on that interface has source IP addresses in that range. If everyone does this spoofing becomes impossible and there's no cooperation or whatever you described required.
as far as i see a "universal relation" system is Prolog and the likes.
Anyone still thinks Russia is serious country ? But still seriously dangerous...

And all that for official gov jury supporting nazi portal... :>
To add: it’s been my experience that it’s the company that thinks the boilerplate code is some special, secret, proprietary thing that no other business could possibly have produced.

Not the developer who has written the same effective stanza 10 times before.
If the street is empty then it's easy to recognize that. However what will the rule be if there is a car, but far away, or not that far away. It's a slippery slope with a 2 ton SUV driving at 50mph and a person "interpreting" that it's not disrupting it.

Ambiguity will be the problem and it is solved by the rule of "not crossing at all". The lesser of 2 evils.
You are right, especially because politics is the most visible example of people being called "stupid" where they should be instead called "arrogant" or "assholes" or anything like that.
I wish I had more money and time for it, but shifter carts are pure joy (if that's your thing). For adults they come in 100cc single speed or six-speed 125cc, both under 200lb and are pure racing machine.
From the article ”It also allows for crossing against traffic signals and specifically states that doing so is no longer a violation of the city’s administrative code.”
I'll bet! Glad we can agree on something. :)
The eco mode is not usable, it's the manufacturer's way around a ban of 8k monitors. These monitors use at least twice what other monitors of the same size use, sometimes it's four times as much. And these measurements are probably in eco mode, so it could be worse.

> I am old enough to recall 100W as the typical single light bulb and I still use an electric tea kettle that touches the multi kW range daily.

Not sure why you mention this here? Just because we had horribly inefficient light bulbs our monitors can use twice as much?
Not entirely true. Generally true in England & Wales and Scotland aside from motorways, but in Northern Ireland the cops can fine you for it, although it rarely seems to be enforced.

https://www.psni.police.uk/sites/default/files/2023-01/00008...
Village kids don't have any issue eating animals. So it is not going to be just that.
I would say there are more artists and game designers than programmers.

However sports and news content in general is still lacking, but better than mastodon for sure.
That city is London - well, to an extent. The majority of London roads have a 20mph limit.
You'd need to drive the automaic in semi automatic mode for it to be as efficient, right?
It's a philosophic question. Some believe physics is mathematics. Roger Penrose believes the Mandelbrot set exists, because it's logically consistent and reproducible.
I worked on the triggers and it was VERY effective.

https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/silence
That is a fantastic way to put it. I’d argue that you’ve described a bubble, which fits perfectly with the topic and where _most_ of it will eventually end up.
That's what happens to kids. Up to eight years old, if I recall correctly, they're unable to tell apart imagination from reality. If they think of something, say a monster hiding at home, it exists in reality. Which is a big problem while watching movies that can have scary parts as they now think they're real.
AsyncAPI Specification
Tulum for example was never "lost." It sits directly on the coast and it was "found" by Europeans (from a ship!) in 1518. The local Maya people knew exactly where it was.

Today the Maya still live in the area and they support their families by working in the tourist industry.
I mean, you're championing the glory of humanity in a subthread where the observation is human society is predicated on humans being special.

This isn't a jab at you, rather you're demonstrating the axiom of human society as a member of it.
Its more like a dance that goes back and forth over time. Rules get proposed to solve one problem and create another down the road.

That's the nature of dealing with complex ever changing systems. There is no free lunch unfortunately. Unless AI comes up with something that our own cognitive limitations individually or as a group block out.
> even if lunar time is well known

The date of Ramadan is not well known because it's based on being able to see the moon from the local position on Earth. If the sky is particularly overcast for instance, then you cannot see the moon, regardless of where the moon is.

This presents problems for implementation of the calendar into the workings of a nation state. Many countries that adopt the Islamic calendar officially use an approximation, a pre-calculated date based on the moon's predicted visibility at a particular position.

The Islamic calendar is therefore not really one calendar, but two: the observational Islamic calendar and the predicted calendar, and both have a dependence on a location from which either real observations are made, or predicted observations are made.

I don't know how Morocco or Gaza do it.
As someone living in the further north, the issue of sun not going above the horizon for months at a time makes them a non-starter without 100% coverage from other sources, making them rather expensive without externalizing the costs to someone else
About

> First, BGP generally prefers the shortest path and yours is going to be a little long, so unless the best original path is very long you need on some transit provider to use policy-based routing and trust you as transit.

the article states:

> The leaked route is likely preferable because of a localpref setting which would prefer sending traffic for free through a peer regardless of the AS path length, over paying to send traffic through a transit provider.
My first thought was similar, though followed quickly by "...but it's Apple, so what's the catch?" The relevant extra things to know are that the SSD is soldered, there are no slots for extra SSDs, and choosing a sensible (1TB) drive is >4X the price of buying similar storage at retail. Still a no from me, then.

(The only thing I do often that's CPU-limited is compiling, being faster at that saves me maybe a few minutes in a full working day; I don't care. I am frequently limited by RAM and I really hate shuffling things around to make space on drives.)
This would work for an instance of human accounts who need real UX. A bot instance should really work with the most basic Fediverse software, if it supports posting, reading, replying, etc.
I really don't know what problem(s) this solves. Don't all the javascript runtimes already have wasm engines built into the runtimes?
I don’t think time is quite important here, look at Apple silicon chips and how they transformed the performance and removed dependency on Intel.

Once they get it right, they will increase the gap with other LLM providers.
Have you ever driven through a downtown urban area? You can't go more than 30mph anyway, even if you wanted to. There is simply too much connections, turns, etc.

And yet, I still disagree that pedestrians should be able to just enter the road willy-nilly. Crosswalks are there for safety because it sets the same expectations for everyone using the road, drivers included, thus creating order and flow that is generally reliable.

This is also the same problem I have with cyclists that think they should be allowed to ride against traffic, ignore stop signs, etc. By not moving with the expected flow, they endanger themselves and creat problems. When I am making a right hand turn, for example, and a cyclist has decided to ride against traffic, I am not compelled to look to my right as I am timing my turn because I am not expecting traffic to be there since a right turn has you crossing zero lanes of traffic and merging with on-coning that would be on your left.

I don't really like our car-centric roads in the US at all, but rules are in place for a reason.
For your second scenario you should announce the /23 to both and each /24 to one of them. Usually you can also prepend your own AS, ISPs I've worked could also prepend for you with select communities.

I don't think your cases are good enough to allow anyone to spoof by default.
Cars are already supposed to slow down if they see pedestrians on the street, even if the pedestrian is crossing illegally, same as they are supposed to avoid drivers doing illegal things. It's the police's job to punish illegal behavior, not drivers'.

So, in the situation you describe, the solution is clear: the car has to slow down, and any police officer is supposed to notice that the car had to slow down and issue some citation to the pedestrian for not respecting the right of way. This is exactly how all traffic violations work: if some car is not yielding to you, you don't drive into them, you break to avoid the accident, and hope that the police sees this and issues a citation to the other driver.
I think "no jaywalking because safety" would make more sense if crosswalks were totally safe. Correct me if I'm wrong, but in NY, can't traffic move over crosswalks even against traffic lights, in some circumstances? I always find that confusing-and frightening!
how one can estimate a progress of a given design? For example on the photo there are no walls protecting the people in the lab from neutrons. Even the fusor 60 years ago running at 100KV already generated neutron flux requiring such walls.
Very unlikely. The default gear selection algorithm is optimized for efficiency in most cars.
The first time I came across this link I got sucked in for six or seven hours and pretty much dropped a ball on an entire workday as a result. Evil, evil game.
> But I do agree with leap seconds: it's absolute trivia, not a useful thing for a programmer to know.

Maybe, all I know is that it was relevant for me during the first years in industry. If you work with timeseries which comes from source systems you don't 100% controll, like in many industrial settings, its important to know about them, and how they are handled upstream. Do the source do smearing, or does it just sync every X hours? Does it sync with NTP, which will smear (slew) the change, or have they implemented their own thing? Do they just run `ntpd -q` regularly?

But yeah, as I type it out I realize that most programmers probably don't work in that domain:-p
Even better thx.
Precisely. Electric cars almost universally have one fixed gear, with the engine smoothly providing variable torque.
What makes for a good or bad virtual desktop implementation?
eBPF: Unlocking the Kernel (Official Documentary) [YT]
Welcome to Hacker News. Even the founder (Paul Graham) doesn't visit anymore because the tone is too negative.
> AMD hardware is good. The software is getting better daily.

Which is the story of AMD for the last ~15 years.

getting support so we could develop apps for their graphics card was dispiriting. at the time they were faster and very much cheaper than nvidia (but no cuda) But every time we found an issue, the poor devs who were contracted to fix it were left struggling.

Its the same where I am now. We were trying to qualify some motherboard/TPM/other issue, but they didn't have enough bandwidth to help us in time.

Its better now, we do have some AMD stuff in the fleet.
You should have a look at Factorio, if you want to lose a month or two.
Even ignoring the energy saving part, it sucks waking up and leaving for work or school while it is still dark.

A while ago Turkey switched to a different timezone and stopped doing DST for reasons and now everyone was waking up one hour early in winters. Considering how bad traffic is in larger cities that meant a lot of people will be waking up and going to work or school while it is still dark.
Omnivore Joins ElevenLabs
Presenter of that talk here, very cool to see it being shared here.

Running 1BRC was immensely fun, I learned a ton from it. Had you told me before how far the community would be able to push this, I'd have not believed you.

One main take-away for me was that you could improve performance by one order of magnitude over the baseline basically by just doing a good job and avoiding basic mistakes. The resulting code is still well readable and maintainable. In most scenarios, this is where you should stop.

If you want to improve by another order of magnitude (like leaders in the challenge did), code becomes completely non-idiomatic, super-dense, and hard to maintain. You should go there only where it really, really matters, like when building a database kernel for instance. Or well, when trying to win a coding challenge ;)

Some more resources for those interested:

* Blog post with the results: https://www.morling.dev/blog/1brc-results-are-in/

* Show & Tell, featuring implementations in languages other than Java: https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc/discussions/categories...

* List of many more blog posts discussing 1BRC in different languages: https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc?tab=readme-ov-file#1br...

* 3h deep-dive into the implementation techniques by Thomas Würthinger and Roy van Rijn, two of the top participants of the challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w4-BqeeC0k
The VW Golf manual does 4.7L/100km
You might be referring to direct consumers but keep in mind that Microsoft has integrated Copilot in Windows and they keep improving the integration.

Once all outlook users have buttons to summarize, extract into, improve the email, then you have hundreds of millions using LLMs everyday.
libcurl is part of the macOS API and de-facto standard on any Linux box and commonly available on BSD boxen as well. Microsoft has been shipping curl.exe for a while as well, though not the library.

If Microsoft would also ship the library in %system32%, we would have a truly cross-platform and stable, OS-provided and -patched high-level network protocol client.

(So that probably won't happen)
This speed limit, or lower, is pretty common in major European cities. Helps divert investment to things more beneficial to society than individual car ownership, improves transit, cleans up cities, makes for great public spaces.
Did you read the article? Pedestrians can always cross but they then don't have the right of way and have to yield to traffic. Basically everyone can keep doing what they've been doing all along but police can no longer arrest them for it through selective enforcement.
> It's a slippery slope with a 2 ton SUV driving at 50mph and a person "interpreting" that it's not disrupting it.

Maybe the problem here is that a 2 ton SUV shouldn't be driven at 50mph when pedestrians are anywhere near. I always find it interesting how the ones advocating for the absolute freedom of owning and driving an SUV everywhere, to carry 70kg of human flesh, are usually also the ones asking for the restriction of the freedom of other users of the public space.
Async Rust is not safe with io_uring
My brother told me the same and I believe it, so I have been keeping my distance from that game. :D
by the standard of calling anything on the fediverse "competitive" with tiktok ,Et al
makes all of us comenting here, challengers to
the heavy weight boxing title of the world
and to further unpackage the title, the idea of
"hype it till you make it" as applied to the unarticulated premise of the fediverse,ie: that fairness is somehow self evident and therefor somehow the inevitable choise and outcome for
social media is doubly absurd
facsism always starts with the basic notion that if people wont recognise and accept "fairness" then for there own good, it must be imposed
Is there any chance that Omnivore's features will be shipped to ElevenReader?
I'd suggest The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi.

It's good stuff. I didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did.
What about Open AI or since they are both under the same org, it is sort of understood Open AI can scrape it.
> I hate this Crichton quote so much.

You seem to hate lots of things and this subject makes you desperate to call yourself a specialist. There are 3 days you have been desperately trying to shutdown discussions in this thread. What is your problem?
Hello fellow EV-head! (Is that a word?)

I loved my 15-year-old Kia Rondo with the V6 and 5-speed transmission and manual up/down override. It was very peppy and surprisingly great for a plain old crossover SUV.

Last year I went on a road trip to a friend's wedding 80 miles away. The Rondo was showing its age, so I wanted to rent a more reliable car, was curious about EVs, and found a Kia EV6 at my local Hertz outlet.

OMG. The driving experience was so different! The torque is always there when you need it.

A couple of months later I got one of my own. I was amused that the window sticker says "1-speed automatic".

Speaking only for you and me, and without any political implications, we are not going back!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13808146
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18105371
Very well said - "all people are not trained to avail of the mental tools that civilization has honed over millennia to fight stupidity."
Rules for people are not the same as a code for a compiler. You may enact a rule, but people are not guaranteed they will comply with it either because they will brake it or they will forget/ignore it.

If a bad rule is enacted and it kills 100 people per year more, will enforcement of the rule bring back those 100 people?

Rules should take into account the stupid things people will do and that in real life you won't get 100% compliance and enforcement won't get you to 100%. (many real life examples)
Be aware that TVs make screenshots every few milliseconds and send them away for advertising analytics. I wouldn't use them as a monitor while connecting them to the internet.
2T is still ridiculous.

My guess is that since they are so sure of AGI being achievable soon, that they think they can squeeze out any amount of money they want out of investors.

After all, AGI would be worth way more thab 7T right?
That's literally how it works in the UK
The Politics of AI
Tesla might not have managed to do it, but Waymo had over 7.1 million miles driven by their driverless cars by 2023: https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/20/24006712/waymo-driverles...

I'm still waiting for the future where a robot maid does my dishes, hangs my clothes, tidies and vacuums my apartment while I'm working on my piano skills. But at least I now have a robot vacuum with a camera that avoids whatever toys I forgot to pick up.
I think the old Riyadh timezone is the weirdest personally https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/be62d5918223b4df209cc94163...
Fair comment -- As I say at the start of the essay - it is not easy to define or measure stupidity and sought to show how researchers have attempted to define stupidity in different domains - hence my definition. I can certainly provide many examples from my own life of stupid choices that have impacted others and me!
You may notice that the first reference is from java, and i bet js lifted it from there. They may have been aware of java because they lifted the name too.

The other two are too new to be relevant.
Twice as slow as top submissions in C# and C++ which is still pretty good for Go but a likely indicator that memory here has become the major bottleneck.

https://hotforknowledge.com/2024/01/13/1brc-in-dotnet-among-...
No, they were anything but peaceful. [0][1]

>And there was no war for 50+ years.

There is still no war between Russia and the US.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis#Averted_n...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Kennedy's_escalati...