skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What climate records were broken in 2024?
Show HN: I made a tiny game to challenge your mind
Just want to say this is so cool! Many concepts seem much more accessible in visual form.
The DC will be around for a long time, but games won't be played from optical discs much longer. It used a format that was double the density of the yellow-book standard, and when my drive failed, it was much cheaper to replace it with a flash-based option than to buy a replacement drive.
The fact that “Polish” and “polish” are different words is the whole point. The other commenter was saying capital letters aren’t signal, and yet.
I like the build of Iosevka that the Zed editor people made, called Zed Mono. It's hosted on github [0] but there are no screenshots. You can see kind of how it looks in the screenshots of their editor on their website though [1]

0: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed-fonts/releases

1: https://zed.dev/
The only thing that will stop this is for battery storage to get cheap and available enough that it can cover for renewables. If we are still building gas turbines it means that hasn’t happened yet.

AI is a red herring. If it wasn’t that it would be EV power demand. If it wasn’t that it would be reshoring of manufacturing. If it wasn’t that it would be population growth from immigration. If it wasn’t that it would be replacing old coal power plants reaching EOL.

Replacing coal with gas is an improvement by the way. It’s around half the CO2 per kWh, sometimes less if you factor in that gas turbines are often more efficient than aging old coal plants.
"... but if I'm spending money to verify you control a number, I feel better when you (or someone else) has spent $5 ..."

This is exactly it.

All of these auth mechanisms that tie back to "real" phone numbers and other aspects of "real identity" are not for you - they are not for your security.

These companies have a brutal, unrelenting scam/spam problem that they have no idea how to solve and so the best they can do is just throw sand in the gears.

So, when twilio (for instance) refuses to let you 2FA with anything other than tracing back to a real mobile SIM[1] (how ironic ...) it is not to help you - it is designed to slow down abusers.

[1] The "authy" workflow is still backstopped by a mobile SIM.
A small request: please stop using automatic translation for blog posts or documentation.

Especially when I still have English set as the second priority language.
My fav part of the writeup at the end:

"""

LLMs need better criticism #
A lot of people absolutely hate this stuff. In some of the spaces I hang out (Mastodon, Bluesky, Lobste.rs, even Hacker News on occasion) even suggesting that “LLMs are useful” can be enough to kick off a huge fight.

I like people who are skeptical of this stuff. The hype has been deafening for more than two years now, and there are enormous quantities of snake oil and misinformation out there. A lot of very bad decisions are being made based on that hype. Being critical is a virtue.

If we want people with decision-making authority to make good decisions about how to apply these tools we first need to acknowledge that there ARE good applications, and then help explain how to put those into practice while avoiding the many unintiutive traps.

"""

LLMs are here to stay, and there is a need for more thoughtful critique rather than just "LLMs are all slop, I'll never use it" comments.
You said:

> Windows 10/11 both mandate that installers are signed before you can even launch them

The word mandate means that it is a requirement.
These I-talk-with-people-for-a-living perspectives on return-to-office are exactly why I have never wanted to be in an office setting. I get why the author wants to be in the office; he thrives on social interaction.
Handheld gaming PCs will come into focus at CES
That's a interesting way of thinking of it, but a little limited. For most, the proof of work aspect becomes just another part of the the status competition. I think I'm a little more optimistic about the future.

Also, there's definitely web games (paperclips, kittens) and art in every media that are memorable and excellent to someone. That's kind of the point that I was making; the medium is part of the message, but many things can be presented in different ways, and mostly this doesn't detract from anyone else.

Fundamentally, I reject your model of art; I personally think the actual artifact should be the most important part. Anything else shouldn't even be considered as far as we're able, even though we are mostly status seeking monkeys who pay very close attention to every other monkey's status so as to increase our status.
> Eventually Chang is approached by a manager who tells him that he could eventually rise to the position of Vice President of R&D, but to do so he would need to get a phD, and that TI will pay for Chang to get one ... Chang applies and is accepted into Stanford’s electrical engineering graduate program. He again works hard and graduates in 3 years

3 years for a EE PhD is extremely impressive.
It would be really cool if big tech could find a new hyperscaler model that didn't also require offsetting the goals of green energy projects worldwide. Between LLM and crypto you'd swear they're trying to find the most energy-wasteful tech possible.
They are forced to provide coverage, but can pass through their reinsurance costs. If you cannot afford it, you will either sell the property (if you have a mortgage, as your lender will require insurance) or pay off the mortgage and go without insurance.

> In exchange for increasing coverage, the state will let insurance companies pass on the costs of reinsurance to California consumers. Insurance companies typically buy reinsurance to avoid huge payouts in case of natural disasters or catastrophic loss. California is the only state that doesn’t already allow the cost of reinsurance to be borne by policy holders, according to Lara’s office.

> Opponents of the rule say that could hike premiums by 40% and doesn’t require new policies to be written at a fast enough pace. The state did not provide a cost analysis for potential impact on consumers.

Opponents of the rule want subsidies for poor risk decisions. Consumers want what they cannot afford.
I'm confused by your analogy-

In the case of user-hostile software, what is an example of an action that would lead to a change in overall climate
> I’ve heard from sources I trust that both Google Gemini and Amazon Nova charge less than their energy costs for running inference...

Then, several headings later:

> I have it on good authority that neither Google Gemini nor Amazon Nova (two of the least expensive model providers) are running prompts at a loss.

So...which is it?
> physical engineering they don't have to

Totally agree with what you wrote but in any well run engineering organization one has to consider the cost/benefit of extra testing and engineering.

If you're making a USB powered LED desk lamp, you get into diminishing returns fairly quickly. If you're making basically anything on JWST, less so.
Don't you end up paying twice that way?
OP didn't make any claims, merely asked the question. I don't think we can ever know how well this exact person would have done with a different racial background.
It's a court martial, since the use was singular.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court-martial
It's on my list :) I kinda wanna replay SM64 first for a comparison.

I replayed Majora recently but insisted on replaying OoT first for similar reasons.

EDIT: idk now thinking about it again, I think I'll just play it. I want something pure and fun to play. Sadly it doesn't play on original N64 but alas. I can always use my Steam Deck :D
Today was the first day I ever used Grafana and what a terrible day its been. Grafana really needs to simplify their interface. There is no point having so many features when you can't even use the most basic functionality without pulling your hair out.

If there is going to be an editable JSON panel at least separate out the presentation and data layers. I don't even know where to start with the query editor, NewRelic allows autocomplete using the text editor so instead of clicking it will use context to figure out what to show. If it weren't were all the available dashboards and pretty looking things I would just use chronograf.
There's probably more tendency to be sloppy in software because "we can always fix it in post." But absolutely, with hardware, if you don't get it right--especially with heavy construction or modern electronics, you're going to have to rip a lot out and start over.
The Colonization of Space (1974)
No, it's not terribly hard for a suitably compensated and skilled team with the appropriate tools and timeframe. Yes, we are doing it wrong.

Most of the 'inventions' you describe are more aimed toward reducing the barriers of entry: the promise that your team of expensive C wizards would now use Java at greater speed with less defects became "now we can just use cheap CS grads" at slightly worse but still acceptable levels.

Without any real consequences for poor software (see CrowdStrike's YTD despite its multi-billion dollar farce in July) it's only logical that the standard will always be "bare minimum that can be shipped". Developer productivity is a misnomer really - it just means company profits increase thanks to a widening pool to hire from and even more crapware per dollar can now be squeezed from each worker.
That seems like a silly term for a Directed Acyclic Graph
I am so happy that you made this, legit. I’m absolutely going to try it whenever I get a chance.

I’ve wanted to do the same thing you did but with coding notebooks (e. Jupyter) for a while now. It frustrates me to no end that the only native software for notebooks is JetBrains IDEA (and even that’s only an “I think it’s naive” lol). Hopefully I can take what you learned and documented and apply it to my app ^-^
Not just Lisp, but any language that has strong support for either literal in-language data expressions like JSON or YAML, or meta-language support like Ruby, Elixir, JSX/TSX (or both!).

Every time you write a React JSX expression, terraform file, config.yaml, etc., you're using a DSL.

I once wrote a JSON DSL in Ruby that I used for a template-based C# code generator. This enabled a .NET reporting web app to create arbitrarily shaped reports from arbitrary rdmbs tables, saving our team thousands of hours. Another team would upload report data to a SQL Server instance, write a JSON file in the DSL, check it against a tiny schema validator website, submit it, and their reports would soon be live. One of the most productive decisions I ever made.
re: FPGA, the Analog Pocket with an Everdrive also works great. I use it to play GB/GBC/GBA games on my TV via its dock. Sadly, those don't support sleep and stuff but that's worth it.
He wanted to be CEO and they said no. He went a different American company that said they would let him be CEO, but he realized he didn't want to be the CEO there.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wEh3ZgbvBrE
This is a truly strange idea. It's some kind of AI system which uses crypto exchanges and web sites to autonomously launch meme coins.[1] Apparently it makes money.

Underlying this is something called "pump.fun".[2] This is a very sketchy site, banned in the UK, which allows launching new meme coins with minimal effort. If they achieve enough market cap, they get listed on an exchange. It's basically scamming as a service.

"Zerebro" is supposedly an AI system which blathers on Twitter, crypto sites, etc. hyping meme coins it creates. It's supposedly a fully automated pump and dump system.
The creators claim they have turned it loose to do its thing, and they are no longer controlling it. Unclear if this is true.

[1] https://blockworks.co/news/zerebro-actualizing-creativity-in...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump.fun
I disagree, those are all technical issues that are typically blocked by socio-technical and organizational problems.

Retrofitting an API is a context specific problem, with few things that generalize but the above aren't the hard parts, just the complex ones.

I am going to point you to a Public Policy book here, look at page 32 and their concept of 'wicked problems', which applies to tech but doesn't suffer the problems with the consulting industry co-opting as much as in the tech world.

https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/f3358d25-56c0-47f2-90...

Obviously most companies won't accept the Amazon style API edicts that require Externalizable interfaces and force a product mindset and an outside in view.

Obviously an API is still a "Cognitively complex problem" as defined by the above.

But what makes most API projects fail is the fact that aspects arise that result in ‘wickedness’ A.K.A intractability.

API gateways, WAFs, RESTful libs with exponential backoff with jitter....etc... all exist and work well and almost any system that you have a single DB you are concerned about killing is possible to just add a anti-corruption layer if you don't have too much code debt, complicated centralized orchestration etc....

But these general, but difficult tasks like adding an API almost never fail due to tech reasons, but due to politics, poor communication, focusing on tech and not users, unrealistic timelines, and turf battles.

You are correct that "APIs require thorough documentation or they're useless" but more importantly they need enforceable standards on contract ownership, communication.

The direction of control, stability, audience, and a dozen other factors effect the tradeoffs there as to what is appropriate.

Typically that control is dictated purely by politics and not focused on outcomes.

That is often what pushes these complex problems into failed initiatives, and obviously this is far more complicated. Often orgs can't deal with the very real uncertainty in these efforts and waste lots of project time on high effort, low value tasks like producing gantt charts that are so beyond the planning horizon that they can only result in bad outcomes at best.

The point being is that unless you are on the frontier of knowledge and technical capabilities, it is almost never the tech that causes these efforts to fail.
Original source paper (4 points, 12 days ago, 1 comment) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42466105
Buried in an image halfway down the page is someone’s Apple Support outcome:

“Apple are aware of the issue and it will be fixed in an upcoming update.”
Equal consumption of all the miners on an ore patch. The opposite ore loading, unloading at an equal rate so trains spend the minimum at a station (probably the more critical part to balance since you can solve the input side with buffering). Taking multiple less than full lines down to fewer full lines in a way that is evenly distributed, either to conserve space or, in larger bases, UPS. On Fulgora, with uneven recycler load, balancing the flow of an unfiltered belt before you separate it. Those are examples I just pulled from my current play through but I could probably find more.
Obsidian is the only Electron app I don’t despise.

VSCode is close to counting… but it absolutely sucks on RAM usage, so I try to avoid it when I can.
As a DM since White Box, I have absolutely no problems with D&D being more inclusive. I think it is primarily a bunch of basement-dwelling incels that seem to be upset about it.
How do you save them? I would love to save every page I go to automatically since storage is so cheap and between sites disappearing and the web being so huge it can be impossible to find something later.
There are also companies like Analogue who are producing high quality clones which will keep gamers (mostly) happy for at least another generation.
Tell HN: Happy New Year
2024 has been a wild year, both in technology and within the wider world, and 2025 could yet be crazier, so I wish everyone here on one of the real great forums of the internet the best successes in their aspirations and goals in the new year! Long live HN!
bit late innit
Assessing IT Project Success: Perception vs. Reality
Exceptions aren't bad because of the name. Exceptions are bad because lower stack frames unwind higher ones, without giving those frames any opportunity to do something sane with any captured resources. Calling it panic/recover doesn't help anything.
Mystified as to why NDR (German TV station) would have wanted to record an English language performance of this sketch in 1963.

Would they not have preferred a German version? Was there a lot of English language TV being broadcast in Germany at that time?
All of this effort is like putting Lipstick on a Pig.

Imagine if we ran the electrical grid this way... with inspections, certifications, and all manner of paperwork. That world would be hell.

Instead we carefully capabilities at the source, with circuit breakers, fuses, and engineering of same so that the biggest circuit breakers trip last.

Capabilities based operating systems limit capabilities at the source, and never trust the application. CapROS, KeyKOS, and EROS have lead the way. I'm hopeful Hurd or Genode can be our daily driver in the future. Wouldn't it be awesome to be able to just use software without trusting it?
Fight the Time-Scarcity Mindset by Building Small Habits
Out of curiosity, do you feel just as strongly about very prominent social justice programs for humans?

Especially those that target extremely small slices of population (some would say at the expense of other larger, mostly neglected groups)
What is a free speech plugin? were there political discussions in these threads? If so it seems like they did the correct thing removing such political plugin right?

> basic utility program decided to become political

looks like they wanted to avoid it, isn't it?
What % of the money that is injected into Mozilla annually is paid by Google?
Putting FSD Safety to the Test – Tesla [video]
Oh whoops! That's an embarrassing mistake, and I didn't realize I had that point twice.

They're not running at a loss. I'll fix that.
Maybe you talking shit causes some of us to experience stress which results in medical issues that impacts society.

We could go on that merry-go-round forever. Just ridiculous.
I'd love to read a semi-technical book on everything that we've learned about what works and what does not on LLMs.
Same here. I have a few patches in the Linux kernel. If I am ever like this guy, please tell me.
Not the OP, but here's one I feel quite uncomfortable with: https://quran.com/en/an-nisa/155/tafsirs - "The Hour will not start, until after the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims kill them. The Jew will hide behind a stone or tree, and the tree will say, `O Muslim! O servant of Allah! This is a Jew behind me, come and kill him".

Other examples from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An-Nisa include "Men are the protectors and maintainers of women", "whoever fights in Allah’s cause—whether they achieve martyrdom or victory—We will honour them with a great reward". The list is kinda endless.
> Some of those GPT-4 models run on my laptop

That's an indication that most business-sized models won't need some giant data center. This is going to be a cheap technology most of the time.
OpenAI is thus way overvalued.
Two ways they are extraordinary:

First, the great majority of 'civilizations' [1] do not achieve anything like what the Incas did. Perhaps your perspective is distorted by survivorship bias - you know about the biggest successes, not the 99.999% that you've never heard of, like someone who thinks FAANG are typical of computer businesses. There are (or were until recently) societies in the Amazon, for example, no larger than a village and living in neolithic conditions. That is how far they made it. So there is the common question - why do some 'succeed' on such a large scale and some don't? Jared Diamond's famous book, for example, looks at this issue.

Second, the Inca did it with unique limitations: "Remarkably, the Inca managed to forge this vast society without the wheel, the arch, money, iron or steel tools, draft animals capable of ploughing fields or even a written language." That's from the OP.

It's mysterious to me that the OP spells out this question, but nobody in the discussion seems to understand it.

[1] I'm not sure that's the right word, but I'm not going to define it to precisely
Tenstorrent Wormhole Series
> On iOS iirc they don't even support adding PWAs to the homescreen?

You've been able to add websites to the home screen going back at least to the iPhone 5 in 2012. Is it the "PWA" part you're questioning? iOS definitely does have PWA support, although with a few notable limitations that may be deal-breakers for certain apps. Oh, and apparently Apple recently disabled PWAs entirely in the EU.
Related

South Korea's parliament votes to impeach President over his martial law order (81 points, 17 days ago, 23 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42418871

South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift (611 points, 28 days ago, 662 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42306020
But also the highest potential for mass disaster. Even the so-called "safe" designs like pebble bed reactors have had issues with dust from the pebbles grinding against each other.
I think that would be trivial to model in Factorio. Honestly every factory beyond beginner size is dealing with that, not always in a principled way of course.

Personally I find the new DLC with compact design on space platforms to be really fun that way. Back pressure has been a necessary mechanism to create to prevent all sorts of deadlocks for instance.
Tell HN: Ask your AI of choice for a review of your 2024
Thought of this one to close out 2024.

I'll ask for recommendations for 2025 tomorrow on New Year's Day.

Mine said that I spent a lot of time working through some big data problems and 'demonstrated intellectual curiosity' by asking it a lot of random questions. Seems it's mastered a bit of politeness there, haha.
As a DM since White Box, I have no problem with D&D becoming more inclusive. Obviously, DMs are free to change anything they don't like, but I think a default of PCs having more options (they are exceptional heroes, after all, so most norms wouldn't need to apply) is good. You can be the rare half-orc wizard on an equal footing with the elf.

The only people who seem to be bent about it are the basement-dwelling incels that fueled things like Gamergate.