skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Native bindings written in c/objc and a zig binary that bun spawns.
Sure, and think about how many more lives he could've saved if he came out more vocally in favor of it, and how many more lives he could've ended if he came out more vocally against it!

He waffled, and his followers waffled too.
The company was formed as Niantic Labs in 2010 as an internal startup within Google, founded by the then-head of Google's Geo Division (Google Maps, Google Earth, and Google Street View).

It became an independent entity in October 2015 when Google restructured under Alphabet Inc. During the spinout, Niantic announced that Google, Nintendo, and The Pokémon Company would invest up to $30 million in Series-A funding. Not sure what the current ownership is (they've raised a few more times since then), but they're seemingly still very closely tied with Google.
my dream is to see ternary support at the HW wire level - that'd be even more power efficient, and transistor count may be less...
Totally agree, making page loop faster is on the top of our list of things to do! There are cases where you need page loop to do quite a bit of reasoning so it will be this slow until models get faster, but we can make it a lot faster today on happy paths - stay tuned :)
Your logos are quite good but I don’t like the styling of the chat page. It makes me question the quality of the other design work. That may just be my personal style tastes, though. But on my phone, it is quite large and uncomfortable to scroll through, with awkward “UI” styling. I would imagine it might work a little better if the style were a bit closer to Android or iOS SMS, or telegram messaging UIs. I personally would find a simple IRC client style UI appealing but that’s not everyone.
> I don’t get why headers and requests need to be spoofed if all traffic is over https?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_packet_inspection
No, they are not.

The Debian/Ubuntu family uses the "Debian Almquist Shell" (dash) as the system shell (#!/bin/sh) for a number of reasons. It is very much not compatible with anything fancy from bash (or korn). The bash shell is available as #!/bin/bash, but that opens the door to a new set of problems (in that POSIX mode is not enabled).

In the embedded realm, busybox also implements the Almquist shell, but it does throw simple bash "slang" back in (but not this does not include arrays).
This is nonsense. The majority of the population don't want to be fat, ugly, and unhealthy and want to persists in maintaining good healthy habits in which they don't eat junk food.

People who promotes fat positivity are ridiculed.

Blaming it on culture overly simplify the issue, which is going to be a complex mix of interacting causes.
Hi, I’m the “greg”. AMA??

But also, this is Rafal’s project. I’m just a huge huge fan of his..! See:

https://sit.sonnet.io/

https://untested.sonnet.io/

And https://www.potato.horse/ !
I visited the hardest math class [video]
Waymo is supposedly geofenced because they need detailed maps of an area. And this is supposedly a blocker for them deploying everywhere. But then Google goes and does something like this, and I'm not sure, if it's even really true that Waymo needs really detailed maps, that it's an insurmountable problem.
A close approximation might be a search-mode which penalizes results based on how many ads they have and how much of the page they cover...
So this aspires to be something like Tauri, but with Zig for the fast/native bits, and leaning harder on and more opinionated about the frontend/UI part?

That's a pretty interesting proposal, but also a staggeringly huge amount of work.
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You lose muscle when you lose weight, especially if weight loss is rapid. This is why it's important to be physically active when you're losing weight. It doesn't matter if you're on drug or not.
For most taxes you expect higher earners to pay more but this is not the case with student loans because high earners pay of their loans quickly whereas lower earners end up paying far more in interest.

An actual graduate tax would be far less regressive than the current system
This is how I do it

1. Make HTTP

2. Send HTTP via TCP

3. Perform text processing on the response body (I create own SERP instead of using Google's)

Personally, I use multiple programs, some I wrote myself in C, to perform these individual steps, connected by UNIX pipes and the shortest, simplest possible Bourne shell scripting

However there are countless ways to perform these steps in wide variety of programming languages; there is no need for UNIX or shell scripting, it is purely personal preference
Fantastic. I'm very impressed with Simon Willison in general (what a dynamo) and this in particular.
Thanks for the ref!

Not sure when i’ll get there praying for a serendipitous intersection of cargoculting nonsssociativity and diagram spelunking (aided by your hints, half-remember’d)

Although… i confess to doing the trivial thing of drawing the “cayley graph” of {rock,paper,scissors} and observing that it looks like a loopfree 3-vertex term (1 outgoing)

https://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Commutative_magma
Runner H 0.1: Compact 3B Agentic Model Beats Claude on WebVoyager (67% vs. 52%)
Friendships too!
Had the same problem (with MIT among others). Somehow I heard farmland was treated a bit more generously (a recognition that you can't just sell the land to pay for college & remain a going concern). For a small biz with 4 employees, though, the math was impossible. Good thing Caltech was cheaper.

s1artibartfast below is saying that it seems intentional. But how can someone with a small business sell the assets, eliminating their own income in the process, and provide for the remaining children/themselves/etc? Sacrifice is one thing; killing the job you created is another and far too short-sighted.
Bazel is an open source rewrite of Blaze (which introduced Skylark)
At my first company out of University, we found our app was being distributed on "piracy" versions of the Play Store, with all the IAPs bypassed and given for free. We spent months cracking down on it, and the end result was bugs in our detection system negatively affected our users, and I believe we also introduced a crash which hurt our Play Store ranking.

I still remember having a meeting about it with the CEO, as we all collectively realized that blocking the free version of our app made no positive impact whatsoever.
How does that help?

What business model do we expect chrome to have? The same DOJ doesn't like Google giving Apple money for traffic acquisition. Why would that be allowed for spun-out chrome?

Why do we expect the rest of the ecosystem to remain static? What do you think Google's next move is if they sell chrome?

Who do you expect to buy Chrome? Not Facebook. Who else could and would want to?

This is a solution that has been proposed without really considering any second order effects. Or if they were considered, it was done badly (it would be easy to prove me wrong: they could just write up what they expect to happen, and it would have to be even mildly believable)
I'm intrigued to try it. I wonder how much it overlaps with Gammel Dansk, which my cousin describes as "it's a like a cinnamon stick threw up"
A few million bucks is all you need to immediately retire with the expectation of being able to draw a us median income from your investments in perpetuity.
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>>The agencies were democratically put in place for a reason.

>>Has that changed?

'that' 'reason' for any government is to ensure its own survival till eternity. Though eternity might not be possible. Its really more on the lines that governments exist to ensure their own survival, and the survival of their interests. Its often a misunderstanding that Government work for the people, they just work for themselves. To that extent, unless the government is going down due to this very reason, Im guessing it doesn't make any sense to chop departments whole sale this way.

Another factor is budgets just don't work the way these people imagine, its not that budgets would reduce or that they would return some money back to the treasury. These sort of actions just mean that budgeting just goes on as is, the money that now is saved will be used up by the other departments. Im guessing the armed forces.
(I work on Firebase App Hosting, which also supports Next.js directly rather than OpenNext)

I want to +1 that Vercel has been really improving their portability. We still have Next.js specific code in Firebase, and having different architectures can sometimes make us have to figure out the best mapping of their features, but Vercel has made a noted effort to improve encapsulation of Vercel-specific features and portability has improved. I’m honestly surprised that OpenNext, which is not a new project, seems to have gained a lot of attention in the immediate past.
You can apply this same argument to when the agencies were created in the first place.
The meme-ification of the “Demon Core”
You'd need to compare the harm done: acid rain versus warming due to less sulphur.

Given that it's possible to offset the rise of CO2 elsewhere, it's hard not to argue that the sulphur emissions are strictly worse, and we are better off for having less of them.
It’s still early and it’s just me working on it so I’m trying to get to stability and then building for (distribute apps to) windows and linux before making all the cli stuff work to let you dev on other OSes.

So “no immediate plans” means check back next year after the 1.0.0 release
If you think HN users are normies, I think you might be in a bubble. Normies ain’t this literate.
#4 is the big one for me.

And I don't really care. I'm super comfortable with one-liners in my bash shell. I can do useful stuff in bash scripts, but typically with a base script gets to more than a dozen or so lines, I find myself way more productive rewriting it in Python instead. Not because Python is "better" or because bash is "worse", but because _I'm_ better with Python and _I'm_ worse with bash. And I don't feel any urgent need to get better at bash, because the work I do means I pretty much always have Python available (at least everywhere I have bash available).

I know bash is way more capable than my kindergarten-grade use of it. And it'll remain in my toolkit and crontab for as long as unix-like OSen exist. But I'll be very unlikely to ever keep writing a bash script past a dozen or two lines ever again.
I grew up in Fairbanks, Alaska, near a strategic Cold War military base. I still remember seeing the TU-95 “bear” bombers flying overhead being escorted and turned around by our fighter jets.

It makes it pretty real when 7 year old me is wondering if this one has any nukes on board, and if this will be the day that they drop.

Russia is not to be trusted, imho. They do not honor their international commitments in good faith, and they will expand their territorial claims if they are allowed to do so. Europe, like a frog in a pot, is in peril and they need to take steps to make sure that Russian war fighting capabilities are destroyed through exhaustion in Ukraine.

This of course is tragic for Ukraine, because it means that she will be utterly razed in the process. But if Russia prevails or backs down with strength, it will happen again. And again.

Russias ability to project force in a strategic way must be destroyed. They are not trustworthy stewards of coercive force.
It depends on your major. For those who study English, for instance, many of the assigned books are out of copywrite already. And new books are market price so they won't be more than 20 dollars. And if you're in a not so conservative English department a lot of the "theory" texts, aside from the more obscure ones, are freely available online because they're written by people who care more about intellectual freedom than making a buck or two.
no wonder you're depressed
Apple is creating a large marketplace where it controls everything. It can be argued that the 30% tax is probably reducing the amount of useful software being produced, as is the case with other store rules like browser engine restrictions. Also, it allows Apple to compete in unfair ways against e.g. Spotify has to pay the 30% tax if they want to offer the same service as Apple, which is to offer in app subscription options, where Apple pays nothing. It may or may not meet the legal definition of a trust, but it surely seems to have all of its negative effects.
Sf is 7 square miles. You can cut a swath out of that size out of other cities and find that density. Possibly more density. Koreatown in LA has like 45k people a square mile, over twice as dense as sf. Several other areas there clock in at a higher density too. Really you need to consider it as just a region in the greater Bay Area metro region. And given its prominence in position as a transit hub with billions invested over decades in just that effort, it makes sense to add density there.
Works where archive.ph is blocked:

https://web.archive.org/web/20241120125505/https://www.nytim...
Cringe or clever? Sent an AI photo of myself with 'Wanna grab dinner?' – worked
It’s only been a few months but yes it’s a huge undertaking.

I’m only picking up steam though and my whole career has been taking on these kinds of huge projects so it’s just getting started.
Native wrangling of JSON objects. Instead of stringify, parse, convert to arrays; treat JSON as a primitive object with properties. When you assign a JSON object to a string, the language should have an official casting mechanism of JSONtoString. Even better it should have an official way of casting JSONtoStruct so you can easily insert it to a table.
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Use lithium ferrophosphate instead- no fire
when your enemy cry wolf consistently, you can become complacent and stop being overly alert.

This conditioning is how you prepare for an actual attack, so that they're not prepared at the actual time of the real attack. It's also why some military exercises near a country is considered provocative, even tho it's "just an exercise".

Not to mention that it drains resources to respond/monitor these cry-wolf fakes.
This is a really great bit of analysis. I wish more things like it existed. I wonder if something similar exists for a utility comparison of roads? Something like average economic value/waste generated per mile of road? Probably not that exactly, but something that gets to not how well they are built, but instead how well they are implemented.
> we know

No, we don't know. Most physicists believe it, but that's not the same as knowing. We won't know unless and until we are able to actually do experiments in the relevant regime.
Also, the last new LtU thread was created 2024-01-25.
Top of my deadtree stack is Chazelle, The Discrepancy Method (1998)

(Father of the regrettably more famous Chazelle, if you’re okay californicating rabbit holes)
Strings that are automatically allocated, reference counted, copy on write, counted, can contain binary data, and are null terminated for compatibility. Like the strings in Free Pascal
“””

I’m at Stanford and I research software engineering productivity.

We have data on the performance of >50k engineers from 100s of companies.

Inspired by @deedydas, our research shows:

~9.5% of software engineers do virtually nothing: Ghost Engineers (0.1x-ers)

“””

https://x.com/yegordb/status/1859290734257635439?s=46

Uses LLMs to build a classifier to evaluate the usefulness of commits on company-private Git repositories. The classifier has r=0.85 correlation with a 10-person panel of software engineer evaluators.
The Harry Potter game had much better AR integration
Yes I agree that fight had a great deal of interest but the nfl is their real goal.
That will throw a nuclear bomb on the whole .com. Things are already not that good with the US being able to seize .com. I don't think ICANN pulling something off will make it better.
Yes, I'd imagine they're talking about the Eggers book in this case -- it's a decent enough read imo.
Its not the lecture thats valuable. Its everything else. Particularly research opportunities. That’s how you get really solid in your domain. The difference between a student who only took class in the subject and a student who applied those concepts in a lab environment to make contributions is staggering. Its like the difference between someone who watched a video on engine maintenance and someone who has not only watched that but has been rebuilding engines themselves for 2-3 years.
To dive into the utility of the sensor readings--
The main gas we monitor is Total Volatile Organic Compounds (TVOCs), which act as a general proxy for decomposition activity. Combined with temperature data, this gives a strong indication of whether the activity is aerobic (a healthy compost pile) or anaerobic (not ideal and potentially smelly!). For example, a spike in TVOCs with decreasing oxygen availability often flags anaerobic conditions.

In terms of air pressure, this is used as part of our pile turn events detection in our companion app Monty Mobile. The app also analyses other data to assess how changes in conditions (e.g., moisture levels, turning frequency) affect decomposition. For most users, though, the general proxy is plenty— by identifying when a pile is “active” or “stalled,” they can tweak their process (e.g., adding browns, adjusting moisture, or aerating).

Compost is incredibly diverse, and the results will vary depending on the setup (tumblers, bins, worm farms) and inputs (manure, food scraps, garden waste). That said, 24/7 data from our system helps streamline the behaviour-change process. Rather than relying on a “try-wait-try-again” approach, users get immediate feedback, which can be a game-changer for both beginners and seasoned composters.

As for me, Monty has been a massive learning tool. Using the Monty Mobile app has personally helped me engage more with my compost pile and remember to add feedstock to adjust the pile when needed. It definitely makes me feel more in tune with what’s going on!

I hope this clarifies things! Happy to chat more :)
Losses are socialized, profits and bonuses are privatized. That's how the current system is set up to work.
Academic textbooks are mostly a racket, forced upon a captive market (the student body) and - with rare but notable exceptions - not books that most students would care to hold onto after graduation.

Historically, your lazier instructor took problem sets out of these books which put extra pressure on students to buy them. There's also the accelerated edition turnover in the publishing industry, so that teachers always get the latest edition, which has slightly different problem sets than the one from two years ago, even if the material is the same as it was two decades ago. It's hard to feel much pity for any lost sales suffered by those outfits due to online distribution of current texts.

Today, any instructor with access to an LLM can come up with unique problem sets and solutions with relatively little effort for a whole semester's coursework, and just do that every time they teach the course. Yes students will just use LLMs to help them solve the LLM-generated questions - so more in-class quiz sessions are likely to become the norm.
If that is still hard for you to understand, ...

Howabout saying "If it helps, ..." instead.
Almost nobody would care about this issue even if they knew it was being done.
I really eat a lot. When my gf cooked more and the potato meat ratio changed from 1:3 to 3:1 I immediately started to grow fat. I had her adjust it to 1:1 and started eating lots of sausages and chicken legs between meals. 500g to a kg per day worth of extra food. My body fat declined rapidly.
For the MIT license to make sense it needs a copyright notice, I don’t actually see one in the original license. It just says “The MIT license” but then the text below references the above copyright notice, which doesn’t exist.

I think both sides here can learn from this, copyright notices are technically not required but when some text references them it is very useful. The original author should have added one. The user of the code could also have asked about the copyright. If this were to go to court having the original license not making sense could create more questions than it should.

tl;dr: add a copyright line at the top of the file when you’re using the MIT license.
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I’m shocked people are managing incidence response over a google dock… what happened to emailing things to people?
none of those things prevent russia from waging war.

All of it are merely suffering that the russian citizens suffer, but canwithstand. Russia does not import food, does not need to import fuel, and can import most consumer goods from china and bypass western sanctions.

Therefore, russia's gov't can allocate most of their internal resources for war production.
This is not an example of that..
He could probably sell that business to the right buyer for a few million dollars and walk away. Just go sit on a beach somewhere, drinking Mai Tai s for a year, and then get bored of not working and then go back to working.

That you don't envy his current lifestyle doesn't mean he's not rich.
Yes, SF is only 7 square miles, so already you don't have much to work with. The Bay Area is the 4th most populated metro in the USA. So still not as dense as NY or even LA, but still denser than the vast majority of places in the USA.

1. 2,251.1/sq mi Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA / 12,828,837
2. 2,156.5/sq mi New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA / 19,865,045
3. 1,614.4/sq mi Trenton-Ewing, NJ / 369,526
4. 1,303.6/sq mi San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA / 4,466,251

Bay Area density fairly well correlates to SF's density, actually (yes, not as dense, but neither are the metros around the other dense cities).

More housing is always great, but I think it is really idealistic to think that building more housing in a hot area is going to bring prices down much, if at all. Literally, anywhere in the world, that simply doesn't happen. At best, we get a place like Berlin that has a nice economic bust that brings housing prices down for awhile (and then they start ticking up again as the economy improves), or Tokyo, where a country-wide baby bust coupled with anemic local wages and a huge 1980s housing boom hang over, keeps things reasonably priced.
ChatGPT is quite good at bash and improves the learning curve/time to market by a lot
I am skeptical of Mr. Prusa's reasoning for not being open source. I am not doubting the sincerity of his belief, but I think he's wrong.

The Chinese are very good at cloning. Releasing the design doesn't change this, as they don't need the PCB layout because they already have their own PCBs and have lot of people who can design electronics. In any case, there are hardly any secret sauces on a Prusa. Rather, Bambu doesn't even need to copy and are seen as surpassing Prusa in some respects(true or not).

He mentioned about keeping things secret to prevent supply chain competition. I wish I knew more about this issue, so I can't confirm or refute it, but it seems dubious to me as well.

Anyway, open source is only as good as how you use it or develop it. Prusa seems to be for the most part a closed shop, so they don't benefit from community development and seem to have Not Invented Here syndrome and allergic to using community developed solutions, except for software.

For the majority of people, the open source label signifies that you are much less likely to get scammed or get taken advantages of companies or individuals. That's probably the most important thing.

Anyway, I don't run an open hardware company, so take it with a grain of salt.