skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I agree - my favorite language is Python, but it can be annoying/inefficient for certain low-level OS things. This is why I created https://www.oilshell.org (and the linked wiki page)

A few links for context:

Are you reinventing Perl?

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/01/why-a-new-shell.html#a...

The Unix Shell Should Evolve Like Perl 5 (with compatible upgrade options, rather than a big bang like Perl 6/Raku)

https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/07/blog-roadmap.html#the-...

A Tour of YSH - https://www.oilshell.org/release/latest/doc/ysh-tour.html
Prior art, Ice Cube https://icecube.wisc.edu/science/icecube/
I'm with OP. Let's see some counterexamples.
in shift to electric we need to hit reset on design and just build the best car not one that is an iteration of design from our older gas cars
I'd be surprised if you weren't correct. Perhaps I could improve this a bit with the docs, but ultimately mise is complex and that will put people off no matter how good it is.

I think this is all fine though. I'm hard at work improving mise and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. If someone is hesitant, I'd rather they wait a year until more kinks have been worked out, docs have been improved, feature gaps are closed, etc. I think this is especially true for tasks which only came out of experimental a few weeks ago.

Or people can just not use it. It's not like this is a business where I make more money when I have more DAU or anything. I just want to build a good tool for building sake after all.
Are you sure that PAL reception/tapes and possibly "yeah we also do that" PAL implementations were good in your region? I'm from a PAL region and broadcast PAL looked just fine to me. Only VHS PAL looked blurry. VHS's very low horizontal color resolution was a VHS limitation, AFAIK not much to do with how color phase errors were averaged out across lines in PAL vs SECAM.
Also there hasn't been much innovation in aviation since the first passenger jet came out back in 1952. Cars were also pretty much perfected by the late ~40s or so, only insignificant refinements since then.
Llama 3.3 is insanely good and can be run on a Mac mini with 64GB of ram for $2k USD.

OpenAI is screwed.

(As an aside: very interesting Google tried to go closed source and objectively lost the race, and Meta went open and is the real threat to OpenAI.)
My experience is that TDD just ensures that the code is unit-testable. This can lead to more complex code when it need not be complex. I definitely write tests, but my default approach is to make the test simulate how a user would use the functionality. So mostly a higher level test like a system test. And you can do this only when you have a bigger picture of the program that you write (which need not be driven by unit tests, just need to elucidate what the program needs to do and break it into steps). I don't rule out unit tests, but my approach is to start with tests that resemble system tests, and if i specifically need a unit test for a hairy algorithm in a function, use a unit test to help.

Also the higher level you test at, the less probable that you have to change the tests when you change a piece of functionality.
Starbucks promotes recycling to customers but many plastic cups end up in trash
I understand what you are saying, but this is also historically how authoritarian regimes are enshrined, by persuading people in misleading or corrupted ways.

I feel your attitude is a bit defeatist. I think there are mechanisms that can work to protect from deception. For example, transparency of funds, or origin of the message. It's similar to asking for candy bar makers to disclose the true ingredient list and calorie count. It's not a Pandora's box to require this transparency from all politically inclined parties.

And I'm sure other mechanisms could be thought off.

To me, putting in place mechanisms like that and valuing them above even your current opinion of who to vote for matters as much as free speech. It's in the same category. Free speech is another mechanism that even if you don't like what's being said, you should value the right to free speech above it. I think mechanisms to prevent deception are just as important to value even above your personal choice, if you care to keep democracy free.

The scale at which information can be manipulated now, it's easy to be consuming more ideas that are coming from outside your country than inside it without even knowing that all the posts, blogs, tiktoks, tweets, news, memes, and ads you are seeing are not representative of what people in your country are thinking or saying in any proportion, but instead coming from outside your country, orchestrated by rich or organized groups, trying to make you think this is the current discourse, until it becomes the current discourse.
What's your plan to make food/rent money for the next year? Sounds like you currently have $68 and need to pay rent/eat?
I wonder what would a ceremony like this look like before the era of cameras broadcasting every move to the entire planet simultaneously. It does seem like a lot of this is performative in the “showtime” sense, and I wonder if the character of an event like this would be more “practical” in another time.
Normalized how?
Orange juice is more than 90% water, but you would need to get your sense of taste checked if you confused it with sugar water.

By the same token if you can’t taste the difference between sugar syrup and honey, then you need to get your taste checked, or perhaps you’ve never had real honey.

The flavors in honey are also deeply affected by what the bees eat. Buckwheat honey is a totally different thing than Tupelo honey, and neither are anything like clover honey.

Even if you ignore all of the health claims, saying honey is just sugars and water, you are ignoring the fact that humans want more than nutrient paste.
Did you send in your comment via fax?

Also in what way are "refinements" not technological innovation? e.g. modern cars are massively safer, more reliable and comfortable.
Here is an article summarizing the composition of a variety of acacia honeys.

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s13197-019-035...

Its mostly sugar water (syrup), but there is more to it.
I feel like the number is still a bit lacking, especially since many models made by Chinese companies are not represented, like speech-to-text.

As far as I know, there's a volcano engine in China that has impressive text-to-speech capabilities. Many local companies are using this model.
> I'm sorry, but these defence companies are the reason that you can enjoy a liberal democracy that protects your LGBQT+ rights.

Are they really, though? Did Lockheed-Martin sponsor the Stonewall rioters? Did any arms company threaten to cancel supply contracts if the US didn't introduce nationwide gay marriage? Did they withdraw support from anti-trans legislators? How come countries without a huge military-industrial complex also have LGBTQ+ rights - often even stronger ones than the US?

And what about people living in other countries? The US has supported quite a lot of tyrannical regimes - often by aiding overthrowing democratic governments. Those arms companies are directly aiding authoritarian governments in oppressing their citizens. Do those people not deserve the same freedoms you enjoy?

Your comment might make some sense if defense companies were actually used for defense. You know, like Japan's Self-Defense Force, which is constitutionally forbidden from using threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. But that's not the world we live in. The US military is primarily used to start wars and oppress people, and the very recent developments in Ukraine do not change several decades of history.
What a beauty! Its been rebuilt (restored is a tricky concept here) in largely the same materials and in the same form as the original, prior to various restoration efforts through the centuries, with a few knobs on.

This means that we get a mediaeval cathedral looking like it did when it was conceived and built (with an extra spire and a few other things). The colours are amazing.

Elderly churches, mosques and temples (int al) have a habit of losing their original colours and "feel" across the centuries. They change - age. Stone walls age and thanks to modern pollution darken. Pigments age, disperse and peel off.

Notre Dame has been restored. Not to how it was in 2018, prior the fire ... but to how it was intended when built, with a bit of sympathetic interpretation.

Well done!
I think lifestyle creep is too general of a description.

The difference between $900 pants and $50 pants is more than lifestyle creep. I see it as indicative of a stratified society. Previous times had wealthy paying more for clothes but it showed in workmanship or materials.

In the words of Lucille Blutb:

How much could a banana cost, $10?

I see Lifestyle creep as an individual gradually spending more for meals and cloths
I think one of the biggest disasters of modern society is to relegate almost every sort of community task such as homemaking, assisting neighbors, etc. to the economic system. The immediate effect of such a relegation is the breaking apart of communities for the sake of economic efficiency: the person who takes care of the children is no longer the parent, the person who helps you fix your porch is no longer your neighbour, and the person you ask for a ride is now an Uber.

Yes, it may make for a more convenient society in some ways but I wonder if the cumulative effect is worth it? I don't think so. Economists hail efficiency and comparative advantage as a good thing, but it is also a reduction of true value to a single variable (money) which is a dimensional collapse that strips humanity from human beings.

The short-term results seem good, but because in the long-term, the process never stops, the END result is a transformation of human beings from people into cogs in an economic machine that has no soul.
This vary between classes. Middle class people usually have enough money to live whole year without work.
Also if you add social security into this equation, here in middle of EU, social security gives you certain portion of your previous paycheck as unemployment support, depends how high it is, you can also get rent support, which will pay you whole rent.
What about, hypersonic glide vehicles, specifically the material science behind their implementation?
What tactics do you use to refresh while using them?
It looks like they did, but the comments after seem to indicate there are still affected users https://github.com/googlecolab/colabtools/issues/4979#issuec...
We can blame Brexit but it’s usually a number of continuous decisions over multiple administrations that lead to outcomes like this.

US isn’t doing any better by gutting funding from their institutions and making them a shell of their former selves.
> We need the next generation to grow up, become productive, and pay taxes.

I think it would be even better if the next generation grew up, became productive, and learned to contribute to society in new ways outside of just the obvious monetary one. Overall, we need more non-monetary contributions to be recognized.
Generally my aim with both Nix and Bazel are that, while they are the source of truth, day-to-day development and debugging occurs using language-native tools. So the only touch point for local development is when you are modifying the dependency graph in some way.

It's definitely more work (you need to maintain compatibility with two different build systems), but worth it for exactly these reasons.
Perhaps read the full comment I wrote, instead of stopping halfway...
It kinda of reads like you don't understand what a photo like that is, it's a memento, not an imax experience, it's kind of insulting you would think people think that
Russian Socialite and Influencer. Cops Say She's a Crypto Laundering Kingpin
They only get access to what your browser gives them, through a file picker.
In most politicians, the percentage is even higher.
who's up for silent investing
The law defines that which is owed the government.

No man owes the government more than the government demands.

Ethics has no place in the discussion aside from being a consideration in setting what the government demands.
I was thinking about this the other day. What we need is a tax on businesses that don't pay the area's single-income, livable wage. If companies pay more, they get out of the tax. If they pay less, they pay the tax. That tax then goes into making things like childcare more affordable. It's a way of forcing companies to internalize the externalities of paying below-livable wages.
> Imagine connecting a graphics card to a display and a power source and running diagnostics before installing it or running it standalone later when troubleshooting. Perhaps the card could have a compact Linux distro onboard, mused the iconic Doom developer.

So basically a Raspberry Pi glued to an eGPU?
Lower-cost sodium-ion batteries are finally having their moment
Total agree. It constrains the chaos in my projects, and its easy to refactor bits into more sustainable cicd, if or when that is ever needed.

The self documenting aspect is what puts jt above a folder of shell scripts for me
0x01 – Killing Windows Kernel Mitigations
Yeah, sans Raspberry Pi ;)
Electricity is basically how it was in the 19th century.
Adversaries and Anonymity Systems: The Basics
Being able to run some graphics diagnostics without a host CPU would be useful.

However, if we're talking about putting a general-purpose processor/RAM onto a GPU that has enough power to run Linux, at that point, you've essentially created a game console.

May as well go all the way and add a display and battery too, for portability. I'm sure that would be a hit! /s
Interesting point. I feel the same about the old SNES classic, Earthbound.

It was a different perspective on America, making small towns and suburbia (a sometimes looked down upon aspect of the country) look appreciated, cozy, nice.
no flags, no parallel tasks, no skipping tasks unless files change, no watching for changes

come see a modern task manager: https://mise.jdx.dev/tasks/
Pakistan has seen a big jump in installs over the last year.

Pakistan is now the third-largest importer of Chinese solar panels, buying an incredible 13 gigawatts (GW) in just the first half of this year. To compare, the United Kingdom is expected to add only 1.5-2GW of solar capacity this year and the United States added 32GW in 2023. This likely makes Pakistan the sixth-largest installer of solar panels in 2024 but locally, the impact is even bigger

In six months, Pakistan imported solar capacity equal to 30% of its total power capacity, which was 46GW in 2023.

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/10/distributed-solar-en...
I think the game being played is considering mere improvement in performance or cost to not count, vs. initial invention.

The problem with that is there will be proto-inventions all around us that will later be improved and made economical, but we can't see them yet. So this approach is inherently biased, treating past and current innovation differently.
Seems like a great application for AI. An LLM could most likely predict how things could be merged with high accuracy in 3 steps:

1. Look at the authors changeset to put a “reason”, or similar, to the edit

2. Ask whether either of the edits makes the other edit redundant

3. Ask the LLM which order to replay the changes (addition or deletion) to preserve the reason of both edits, or otherwise pick the best order

I doubt you need even a 70B model to get “90% good results”, which is all you probably need, because lets be honest offline editing is quite an edge-case to begin with in 2025.
> Are you saying nothing new has been invented since the 1970’s?

The book referenced argues there have been no major innovations that have changed society and the economy in large ways since that time period, or at least nothing that shows up in any economic metric.

Transportation: in the US, the automobile hit >80 cars per 100 households by the late 1920s. Airplane invented in early 1900s, the 747 was designed and launch in the 1960s. Rocketry and satellites were developed in the 1960s, and culminated with landing on the moon in 1969. Trains developed in early 1800s, mainstreamed by late 1800s into early 1900s; electric trains in operation in late 1800s. Trams and subways/metros in operation in 1800s.

The vacuum tube in early 1900s, computers in 1950s, transistor in 1960, and since then it's been miniaturization but nothing 'new'. ARPAnet was in 1970s, with the mainstream Internet in the 1990s hitting saturation in 2004, and per the book that's when productivity numbers stopped increasing.

Or health metric: there was a step change when treated water and indoor plumbing (including sewage treatment) came in. We got penicillin in ~1945, and widespread vaccines in the 1950-60s. CT scans were invented in the 1960s, and MRIs in the 1970s.

Honestly, I was kind of skeptical of the claims that the book was making at first, but the arguments and statistics that it puts forward are decently convincing.

Really interesting read. Worth checking out, if just for the history of 'progress', even if you don't fully buy into their conclusions.
I don't think that's the OP meant.

But perhaps you're aware of the mother of all demos. That was in 1968, and we've been effectively just figuring out how to economically deploy the ideas from that demo, and figure out how to actually use these innovations to affect the rest of our lives for the last 50 years.

Another thing to consider is just how systemic and total the innovations in the first half of the 20th century were. We discovered blood types, antibiotics, deployed widespread industrial refrigeration, made air conditioning viable, got widespread automobile adoption, the birth of heavier than air flight, birth of commercial aviation, invention of the jet engine. We harnessed nuclear power for the first time. The first medical x-ray just barely misses the time cut.

I don't know if it's fair to characterize the last 50 years as "stagnation", since maybe 1900 to 1950 is an unfair comparison. But it is fair to say that the rate of change as obviously changed.
> OpenAI is screwed.

They are for multiple reasons, not the least of which is:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/subprimeai/
Advent of Code, Behind the Scenes with Eric Wastl [video]
Or to keep hives alive when nectar is scarce but colonies have not started to hibernate. Adulteration of produced honey with syrup would be 10x easier than feeding bee with syrup and then doing extraction from comb.
Awesome! There's so much you can do with the browser now. Thanks for making an SDR app that's "gone native."
That reminds me of a great Dara Ó Briain routine[0] about pseudoscience.

[0] https://youtu.be/YKZN-hBTBUE
Twinkies are pretty much the same. Never surpassed.
Meanwhile on the HN-equivalent on some planet around a white dwarf: “can life emerge around a yellow star?”
This looks cool, but why not have vars in .env files?
Tangentially related, but GPUs with embedded m2 drives mentioned in the article (IIUC they effectively pass m2 drives through to the system by using unused PCI lanes) are a very interesting idea for a low volume transcoding machine.
Crystallization isn’t an indicator of fake or low quality honey.

We have had wildflower honey crystallize in the honeycomb when we left it in the garage over winter.

It can be decrystallized easily with gentle heat. I put our jars in a water bath in a pot and leave it over a low setting for about an hour until it is good. The water never gets over 125 or so, which should be fine.
You can’t declare one group reasonable without implying the other side is unreasonable. Your phrasing and framing was more nuanced than most I admit

Reasonable is both a legal term used in legislation and a term that appears in gun debates at a disproportionate ratio.
That looks like an AI hallucination
The real questions are:

- Did Starbucks bill Thompson for his drink before the shooting?

- If so, did they refund any charge (since he presumably did not pick up the drink)?

- Can Starbucks legally refund money to a credit card account knowing the account owner is deceased?
Mercedes claims new 'solar paint' could eliminate daily EV charging
This is a good article. My impression is the way we think of scientific credit in general is broken. There's too much of an attempt to attribute credit to a small number of people. This might or might not have been more accurate at one time in history but it's increasingly a problematic schema for how to think about how science works.

I don't mean that people who get credit don't deserve it, more so that there are often a series of people who also deserve it and don't get credit.
I was on there for while, but I wasn’t really impressed by it. I prefer reddit even with all the chaos there.
if someone is making poor life choices, they're going to be judged poorly for it. if those "poor" decisions aren't actually bad and are just outdated social attitudes, like judging gay people poorly because of the gender of who they love, then it's entirely right to question it. being gay isn't a choice so judging someone for that isn't right because they're consenting adults.

However, living beyond your means and buying luxuries you can't actually afford, and living a lavish lifestyle is entirely a personal decision. the problem with living paycheck to paycheck is that life happens. you get into an accident. there's a fire. your dog gets hurt. you get laid off, through no fault of your own. the company just decided to downsize. and now,
because you don't have any savings, you can't absorb that loss, and then you're out on the street. homeless. hopefully not literally, there's a grace period before you're kicked out. but food and shelter aren't as solid as they were before. your life could become very difficult. all that hardship was an avoidable problem with an emergency fund because you weren't able to not doordash dinner.
They mostly enter a low activity state and cluster in the hive to stay warm and save energy/honey. If it gets warm enough outside on occasion you will see them leaving the hive to poop and push the dead bees out.
It's a clever idea but unfortunately limited by the fact that it requires the motherboard to support PCIe slot bifurcation, which isn't very common on consumer boards. I assume the target market is OEM integrators who can go out of their way to pair it with a suitable motherboard.
Only the other day the news was that there were casings with words etched on it and a unfired round from clearing the jam. Surely, those casings would tell them what sort of gun was used.
nit: The WebUSB API isn't really a part of "HTML 5"

https://wicg.github.io/webusb
you can do that too: https://mise.jdx.dev/environments.html#env-file

but sometimes you don't want to make it an env var—just supports this too through the `export` keyword
It’s really easy to disable that stuff. I use as my “incognito” browser, it has some of the best anti fingerprinting capabilities and I just have it delete everything when I exit. I know tor browser is better but tor network is just too slow for me to do casual incognito browsing
There is a guy on YouTube that runs a channel called "I will teach you to be rich". Part of his content is like a call-in radio show, where people share their trainwreck expenses. It is unbelievable how people spend their money. And these are people frequently earning over 200K USD per year. If you watch more than a few episodes they all sound the same, and it is very hard to have any sympathy for their wasteful spending habits. When confronted by the host about various line items in their shared budget, the guests (invariably!) have unlimited excuses why this or that cannot be cut. Most people that I know that are earning more than 50% above median income are incredibly wasteful spenders. Most of them are in for a huge shock in their 50s when thinking about retirement.
I mean it may be cheaper for her to take care of her kids on this "vacation" than to hire a nanny while she also works. Also, since when it taking care of your kids a vacation?