skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The marketing department was what was missing. I've always had that problem. Borland was brilliant at marketing an inferior compiler. Phillippe Kahn is an amazing businessman. (He's also a very fun person to talk to.)

For example, Borland at one point decided to include the source code to some of its runtime library for free. At a compiler roundup in the magazine, this was hailed as a great advance forward by the reviewer. Meanwhile, Datalight C was also in the roundup, and had always included 100% of the runtime library source code. No mention was made of this.
Gabe Newell speaks about it in the documentary. Here's an article about it: https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/16/24298091/gabe-newell-hal...

Basically, they wanted more than just simply finishing the story, they wanted to make some cool new features, similarly to what HL2 was compared to HL1.
I may disagree with people politically, but I would never ask to ban them. Heck, I don't even report people who hurl racist insults at me, I just counter-attack, just like I would in real life.
About to start. Hoping it's like The Last Starfighter.
Exactly. I’ve seen this enough now to appreciate that oft repeated tech adoption curve. It seems like we are in “peak expectations” phase which is immediately followed by the disillusionment and then maturity phase.
I wonder how much they cost and how efficient they are compared to other ways to produce electricity.
LibSQL: SQLite for Modern Applications
Did anyone actually manage to read the whole essay? I noticed that often texts like these try to imitate
The author has a great youtube channel - DiodeGoneWild. His teardowns of vintage (eg. soviet RF tubes) and contemporary (eg. various products of chinese ingenuity) are worth checking out.
If Brevo is one of the best, I am sceptical. I've had he displeasure of using it this year and the tools they offer are very iffy. But even ignoring that, the service is often down. I was often trying to edit a template, but it would not work because you keep getting a message like "something went wrong" and nothing gets displayed.
Like something out of Philip K Dick's A Scanner Darkly
There's no textual restriction. It's the law that restricts you, the text is the thing that makes it legal for you.
There is no one "Amazon" here, there are at least 3:

* Twitch: Essentially invented live streaming. Fantastic.

* Amazon Interactive Video Service [0]: Essentially "Twitch As A Service", built by Twitch engineers. Fantastic.

* Prime Video. Same exact situation as Netflix: original expertise is all in static content. Lots of growing pains with live video and poor reports. But they've figured it out: now there are regular live streams (NHL and NFL), and other channel providers do live streaming on Prime Video as a distribution platform.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/ivs/
Yggdrasil just works, so there is less of a need for developers to be in the chatroom discussing how to fix the problems with it.

I use yggdrasil right now on all of my devices so I can ssh between them even if they are behind NAT.

Using termux on android and the yggdrasil android app I can access files located on my home computer while I'm on the go without storing them in a cloud somewhere.
I see two people mentioning speed - is Homebrew doing something inefficient?
Disclaimer: I am a layman, not trained at all. But I am interested in this stuff.

Our most powerful telescopes can see "back in time", by looking at stuff far enough away that it took nearly the entire age of the universe for the light to reach us.

I would guess that we can use this natural compound lens to "see farther" with our current telescopes than we might otherwise be able to see.

Our current best telescope, the JWST, can almost see to the very beginning of when it was possible to see, somewhere between 300k and 200M years after the big bang [0].

Somewhere in this time period, the universe cooled enough for normal matter to form.

The JWST still cannot see the actual 'edge' of when this occurred.

Maybe with this natural compound lens, we can see all the way to the edge.

And if we could see where the edge actually is, then maybe we can refine the estimate to a tighter range than [300k,200M], which would give us a better estimate of the expansion rate of the earlier universe.

[0] https://www.universetoday.com/168872/webb-observations-shed-...
Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Math in ML Research
We had this debate early on with D. The resolution was checking was on by default. In order to get array bounds turned off, you had to throw a switch and it only happened for code marked @system.

This turned out to be the right move.
CubeTrek

An Open-Source Alternative to Strava (GPS Track Manager for Hiking, Running, Cycling, Mountaineering etc.)

https://cubetrek.com
https://github.com/r-follador/CubeTrek/

Java, Spring Boot, PostGis, JavaScript, Babylon.js

Front end could use some help in design overhaul, new feature ideas etc. Also looking for some 3D designers helping to improve the Babylon.js parts. Other, new ideas and features are welcome!
Experts of the kind that will be able to talk for hours about the academic consensus on the status quo without once considering how the question at hand might challenge it? Quite likely.

Experts capable of critical thinking and reflecting on evidence that contradicts their world model (and thereby retraining it on the fly)? Most likely not, at least not in their current architecture with all its limitations.
Well, what you want to see reported in a clinical vaccine trial is the breakthrough percentage, that is, the percentage of vaccinated subjects who then became infected. In the case of the smallpox vaccine, this percentage was extremely low, which is why 'vaccination ring' strategies in India were effective in wiping out the disease, so that it now only exists in a few freezers globally (though the genetic sequence is widely available and thus it could be synthesized from scratch using modern molecular biology techniques).

Since this wasn't reported to the public, but many official government sources claimed it was a sterilizing vaccine (0% breakthrough), this resulted in great public distrust of the health authorities. It's a lesson for the future: be honest with people.
99% of the time I spend running “brew” is downloading time, so I honestly don’t get this question. What kind of Internet connection do you have?

Brew is just fine as it is, unless you’re running an older version of macOS and it has to build packages from source.
Sustainability considerations are not influencing meat consumption in the US
The article has a broken link for the free copy:

https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/b...

https://web.mit.edu/6.001/6.037/sicp.pdf

I hadn't seen a blessed PDF version until today. Circa 2001, only the HTML version was freely available, and someone converted it to TeXinfo: https://www.neilvandyke.org/sicp-texi/

If anyone wants to work through SICP today, you can run the code in MIT Scheme, or in DrRacket: https://www.neilvandyke.org/racket/sicp/
Please don't complain about paywalls: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
My second reading made me dig the footnotes and references, and there's a big world of beauty out there too. IIRC there's a paper where Sussman and some team made a custom design programmable processor to compute celestial bodies properties (trajectories). Mind bending as usual.
No clue what this means
Fine-Tuning Multimodal Models with Knowledge-Adapted Captions
I assume this is also a CF PoP?
I believe this is the spirit of the "solved problem" comment: not that the solution is an off-the-shelf widget, but that if it has ever been solved, then that solution could technically be used again, even if organizing the right people is exorbitantly expensive.

Offering it for sale != having solved it.
> NVIDIA has some very smart people, but they don’t fab EUV wafers and they don’t do whatever it is where it’s ok for a dorky guy in a leather jacket to sign a girl’s breasts.

Why does it matter whether NVDA fabricates wafers or not? It's not their business model.

The dorky guy sells something all of the mag7 and more want desperately.

> The price of the stock is “supported”.

Supported by gigantic growing cashflows. Did you ever valuate/analyze a business? You know people don't put random numbers on the stock price (looking at longer timewindows obviously).
As annoying as I find them, on this site they're in fact not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
Why should she care how science works? She's just getting free vitamins (maybe).
You literally have a "Following" tab where you can have a timeline for only people you care about. You also have both a mute & a block button. Any platform focused on news & politics will have people fighting & insulting each other, learn to deal with it.

Advertisers have left as part of a concerted pressure campaign to bring back censorship. This effort has been coordinated by NGOs that ironically receive funding by the US Gov't as part of their mis/dis/malinformation playbook in order to keep in check populist political movements that may undermine the State Department's interests. As soon as Elon sued GARM, it broke apart, and I bet the Trump admin will target NewsGuard and kill it as well.
Reading a little deeper, they seem to see that graphql’s ability to aggregate data products and their schemas is useful as support in LLM applications. The key term is “data products”; they don’t seem to be hyping it as the magical enterprise cross-system federated API gateway, instead as a structured/LLM-ingestible DSL for data understanding and live retrieval across many datasources. Which makes sense IMO.
Actually I put in that work myself, while working, and while raising kids. It took me a lot longer than a month or two. It took a ridiculous, embarrassing amount of time.

> And those I've met were absolutely insufferable and incompetent.

I understand this last part, and annoying and insufferable people absolutely do exist. But consider that you may be generalizing and discriminating against a pretty big pool of people using a small sample size, and give some of those people a chance-- as long as they're not being insufferable and are treating you the way you want to be treated. Those people exist in FAANGs too.
I think these are cool and seeing the NetBoot + CoW setup for gaming is fun.

Thanks for sharing!
I would also say in the "what is it" part that projects intended for a broad audience should avoid jargon as much as possible. It's frustrating in my experience to have to google several acronyms before I can even tell what the purpose is. (Security projects/programs are notorious for using way too many acronyms for example)
Caterpillar fungus can slow down growth of cancer cells
They still have to put it behind a privacy-friendly proxy to hide their IP address from litigators right?
As counterpoint, I observed 2-3 drops in bitrate, but an otherwise fine experience. So the problem seems to have been in dissemination, not at the origin.
It would be cool if we some day had special days of astronomy where every telescope is turned to galactic eclipses the way they once did for solar eclipses.

The sky is huge and we are moving, so surely some would happen in our lifetimes?
Those are everywhere. Many are in storefronts
Are A.I. Clones the Future of Dating? I Tried Them for Myself
There are multiple companies that offer this capability today that would take a few weeks to hide behind company branding. This was a problem of netflix just not being set up for live stream but thinking they could handle it.
From The Register, with more comments by Filip ("Phil") Pizlo (the author): https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/16/rusthaters_unite_filc....

Other memory safe implementations for C and C++ mentioned/proposed are TrapC (https://vimeo.com/1028578347) and Safe C++ (https://safecpp.org/draft.html).

Fil-C adds capabilities and garbage, though it mentions performace costs of 1.5x - 5x. I would think the capabilties aspect of this language extension would be better addressed by hardware proposals (like CHERI) to prevent adding too much overhead to systems that are performance-critical.

Edit: It also looks like the author could use help porting C programs to Fil-C, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42158296.
Never heard it. Doesn't ring true in my experience.
Original version: https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/b...

Javascript version: https://sourceacademy.org/sicpjs/index
X86S allows 32-bit ring3 (userland) but even VMs are stuck in long mode and only support 32-bit code for userland. Booting a VM for a 64-bit OS that has a legacy bootloader with 16-bit or 32-bit code would require software emulation of that code.
> This isn't a new phenomenon, it has always been this way. If you're a professional who uses Photoshop in their daily work, consider that maybe your assessment of FOSS alternatives isn't fair, and try dedicating some time to learning a new workflow with new tools with an open mind. If you're not willing to do that much, then you're going to be stuck with Adobe forever, and will be forever grouchy.

If you think folks haven't done this, then you're not paying attention. They've tried that and failed. That's the whole problem, they're failing to migrate to the open source options. That we can just take as a given, look if you can't compete with Adobe in 2024, then you're not ready to be at the table yet. There have never been better conditions to compete in these areas than there are right now.

Note that none of your complaints hold up with Blender, sure I occasionally see folks suggest that Blender's UI is a bit janky. But the overwhelming sentiment in creative circles toward Blender is heartfelt gratitude that application exists and is so capable. From my own personal observations, I'd put Blender as one of the most loved GUI applications in existence today.

I'd even go as far as to say Blender is over loved, I don't think it gets enough pushback for not having a dedicated GPU-renderer which is tablestakes feature today. So I'd actual say your entire point is actually inversed, FOSS gets too much leeway for being less capable because folks value the FOSS (and free-as-in-beer) points too much, which causes the software to be recommended in contexts where it really shouldn't be yet.
Great work!

Are you planning to do something similar for iOS?

As a legal geek, I feel the need to point out that you haven’t linked to any privacy policies or similar documents (at least on the website). Is that something you’ve thought about?

In the early stages you’re in, you’ll probably be fine, but you wouldn’t want to risk getting sued for something so simple down the line.

I’m the creator of a tool called Legalfast (legalfast.app), so I’d obviously recommend it. And hey… if the early adopter pricing feels too steep, let me know!

Wishing you all the best,
// Sebbe
it could be that they made use of the same advice X followed :)
I assume you're referring to what the upgrade guide refers to as "Backward Incompatible Changes". If so reading through the list I can't see a single one on there that has a major impact, in fact I'd wager that 99% of all 8.3 instances will have no issue upgrading to 8.4 as they are all very superficial changes to some very legacy areas of the language.

I'm also not seeing 200 on there, though you said "200 lines" are you talking about the length of the article, if so thats not really a helpful metric.
Your minimalistic app is great! Can you add these 38 features, though?
They (YC) are interested in the use of LLMs to make the process of designing chips more efficient. Nowhere do they talk about LLMs actually designing chips.

I don't know anything about chip design, but like any area in tech I'm certain there are cumbersome and largely repetitive tasks that can't easily be done by algorithms but can be done with human oversight by LLMs. There's efficiency to be gained here if the designer and operator of the LLM system know what they're doing.
Honestly. Do not waste any further time with them and just leave and either do the following:

- Find another role at a different company (that pays more).

- Build your own startup or consult with others.

The biggest risk is by doing nothing and being too comfortable.

Frankly speaking, your boss does not care and wants you at your desk working for them as long as you don't do anything other than listening to them.
- Doesn't allow installing multiple versions of packages at the same time

- In practice, requires being installed to /usr/local

- Hard to uninstall in practice, leaves files scattered behind
Can you be specific about “iffy”? I’d be curious to know more.
What you've described sounds a lot like running an AS with BGP. Yes, there's centralized allocation of ASNs and IP ranges. Otherwise, the whole thing is pretty decentralized, but you've got to figure out how to connect to peers and transit providers.

Many peers will connect without a real contract, especially if you're both present on a peering fabric, but transit usually needs a contract because transit isn't mutually beneficial.

For some sort of overlay/alternative network, reliable transit seems highly likely to have a cost too. Probably not a contracted cost while it's experimental; and maybe optimistically, much lower than today's costs for IP transit, but still there would be a cost. Actually, IP transit costs are much lower today than years ago, but last mile transport costs are more important to your bill and running wires requires skilled labor and specific capital equipment, so it remains expensive; bandwidth capacity of wiring increases over time, but you still need one connection per home for best service; although wireless seems poised to reduce costs for good enough service in favorable conditions.
Agreed. This is a management failure, full stop. Unbelievable that they'd expect engineering to handle a single Livestream event of this magnitude.
You have completely missed what i was talking about. If you couldn't find some video i mentioned, you should have had the sense to infer that it was maybe linked to in a previous comment in the same chain which is what i had done. Or you could have simply asked for it when i would have readily pointed you to it. As it is you did neither but made a silly comment which is what i called out.

All that you mention in your second para are symptomatic treatments but Circadian Research is big picture systems thinking giving you a framework within which you learn to slot your life/treatments. A medicine taken at the wrong time may lose its efficacy. The references given in my previous comments and other comments linked to from some of those give you the Science. Whether you want to read/study those to get more insight into your condition and perhaps work constructively towards a solution is up to you.
How was the needleless blood draw supposed to work?
I didn't get into this in the article, but one of the major challenges with achieving superhuman performance on Verilog is the lack of high-quality training data. Most professional-quality Verilog is closed source, so LLMs are generally much worse at writing Verilog than, say, Python. And even still, LLMs are pretty bad at Python!
> Ever try to drive a nail without a hammer?

I've driven a nail with a rock, a pair of pliers, a wrench, even with a concrete wall and who knows what else!

I didn't need to be told if these can be used to drive a nail, and I looked at things available, looked for a flat surface on them and good grip, considered their hardness, and then simply used them.

So if we only give them the "right" tools, they'll remain very limited by us not thinking about possible jobs they'll appear as if they know how to do and they don't.

The problem is exactly that: they "pretend" to know how to drive a nail but not really.
This is a good point, but this article assumes the questions are proffered in good faith. The example questions are explicitly in good faith.

There is the "just asking questions" method of casting doubt on something, often done by conspiracy theorists. It's a lot like the "Gish Gallop" - you could offer a lot of objections in good faith, but you could also often a ton of low quality, easily refutable objections in bad faith to run out the clock on a staged debate or some similar situation.
We already use radioactive materials in our smoke alarms. And they aren't eternal batteries either. To longlived a isotope wont output enough power (long lived means less decay events to release energy in a given amount of time), conversly you probably dont want to energetic an energy source as it will decay to quickly. And the batterys energy output will decrease by 50% every halflife so you either have a device that has more energy than it needs early in its life cycle or it will need the power source replaced before its estimated end of life, or third possibility your device like voyager space probes gracefully looses functionality as it ages to consume less power.
Right hahaha
I like this reasoning. It is shortsighted to say that LLMs aren’t well-suited to something (because we cannot tell the future) but it is not shortsighted to say that LLMs are well-suited to something (because we cannot tell the future)
I also can confirm that on apple silicon mac webgpu on safari 18.2 works by default, finally.
OpenAI vs. Musk Email Archives
Another similar incident happened around a week after that one: https://www.channel3000.com/news/dane-county-sheriffs-office... .

One thing to note is that the car doors in Teslas are electrically controlled and a different failsafe method of opening the doors is required when the electrical system isn't working. Here's the steps for manually opening the Model Y's rear doors (car in the story the post links to): https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/modely/en_us/GUID-AAD769C... and here's the steps for manually opening the Model S's rear doors (car in the story I linked to): https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/models/en_us/GUID-AAD769C... . Note that this involves removing the rear carpet in the Model S and the door pocket mat in the Model Y, and that the Model Y instructions note that some cars aren't even equipped with manual rear door releases. It seems like Tesla didn't account at all for what happens if passengers who aren't familiar with the car need to quickly exit in an emergency, especially if the driver's incapacitated and can't give them directions.
Oh sorry, I more meant specific to the times when you harvest maple syrup.

If you didn't know, you need to wait to harvest maple syrup until you have a series of days when the daytime temperature is above freezing and the nighttime temperature is below freezing. This causes the maple sap to flow and allows it to collect in the bucket.

https://botanistinthekitchen.blog/2013/03/18/maple-syrup-mec...
Kicad is amazing. I was trying to contribute a while ago. But setting everything up and compiling is a bit tricky. I think I will give it another shot.
That wasn't something I was even debating here. People derailed this whole discussion.

All I was doing here was saying was that the fix for your "C's biggest mistake" (your T arr[..] proposal) is already in C++ and you can get it today: it's called std::span, and it was explicitly designed to let you get bounds-checking, with just a different syntax. It needs a compiler flag, and so do optimizations. You already pass one, so pass the other too, and get what you wanted.

That was all I was saying. But this being HN, everyone insisted on derailing this into an argument about whether safe-by-default is better than fast-by-default, when that had nothing to do with my point, and when I was certainly not trying to argue one is better than the other.