skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been trying to get in better shape and lose some weight over the past six months, and what helped me a lot was getting a Fitbit and having a minimum number of “zone minutes” per weekday. I started off at just 22, but I increased it a few minutes every month. Most days I end up doing more than that, but that’s the absolute minimum, but I’ve hit it every weekday for six months excepting a week where I was sick. I do different things different days, so it’s nice to have a consistent metric across all activities that I’m shooting for.

I recently switched to a Garmin watch for a number of reasons, and you can make it track these in this way if you do some customization, but unfortunately the defaults out of the box don’t really support what I got from the Fitbit. I’d really recommend a Fitbit, focusing on zone minutes for anyone getting started on getting in shape.
That’s another issue they don’t want to talk about in their quest for money. They want to create a read-only single-page curated proxy in front of the web and sell it as an improvement.
AI more likely begins the age of preemptive personalized search . . . a search tailored to people that happens before they even ask for it. Because that's best for consumers. And advertisers.

Alta Vista didn't do anything at all like that.
The only consequence of AI that I made a prediction on was that the value of editing would increase. That people will stop accepting rambling articles and publications will stop publishing spam, whether that be complete nonsense using academic words or rearranging standard but uninteresting material.

Article like this keep proving me wrong.
The article author seems a bit salty at this turn of events.
This.

Handwriting is extremely important.

Anecdote: been learning Mandarin for almost a month now, I've been typing the pinyin of each character and my retention did not improve significantly. So, for the past week, I've been learning how to write it on my phone Chinese drawing keyboard and so far I've learned over 60 new characters all in the past 5-6 days with a surprisingly strong retention rate.
> The Internet is so much better now that everyone is on it

No it's not.

> You shouldn't assume English speakers on the Internet are Americans,

Until fairly recently, almost everyone ( not just english speakers ) were american.

> For the record, by using English to make their content accessible to the global population, I have been exposed to more Chinese culture than China could ever hope.

The vast majority of the global population does not speak or understand english. It's strange how people with agenda make shit up. You write like a journalist. Also, what does this have anything to do with chinese people learning english? Surely chinese people can appreciate chinese culture in their own language?

> Lastly, the US was a single vote from German being the official language of this country

Dumbest thing I've ever read. A simple search shows it is dumb myth. Are you even american?

> it's why we have no official language now.

We have no official language because all the original 13 colonies were british colonies populated predominantly by british peoples - english, scots, irish. There was no need for it because everyone spoke english. All the documents were written in english. What language do you think the declaration of independence was written in?

It's remarkable how stupid some people on hacker news truly are. Imagine being stupid enough to believe 13 british colonies would get together and make german the national language. Especially when there were anti-german sentiment during the 1700s.
A business center doesn't have to be expensive. That’s made to happen because housing isn’t allowed to be built in sufficient quantity, not a necessary consequence of success.
Oh you know the solution. Ad Blocker with AI
Indeed, enforcing brackets here would be the proper fix, IMHO. :)

I always use brackets too. That's simply a less error-prone style.
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> The legal and policy landscape surrounding diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in the United States is changing

The legal landscape isn’t changing—it just was never what companies like Meta thought it was. The civil rights laws never embraced a distinction between racism against white people versus racism against non-white people. A lot of what corporate America did between 2020-2024 was simply illegal. All that’s changed is now corporate counsel are now dealing up from their thrall and realizing they’d been giving bad advice to their clients.
(disclaimer: Datadog employee)

I haven't kept super close tabs on it but last year we were hiring for a role to do tech lead stuff and OSS community building for Vector, and yes several of the original Vector employees still work here.
I think people overthink this. The reality is far more simple, just ask yourself: what would be in the best interest of Putin?

Trump threatening to take military action against Greenland due to its strategic military importance legitimizes Russia's invasion of Ukraine "for strategic military importance". Whether Trump follows through or not, suddenly Russia has a defensible position because: look America the land of the free wants to do the same thing.

Anyone trying to spin in knots trying to come up with an alternative justification will do just that, because there is no sane reason otherwise. Denmark is an ally, and all indications are they will remain an ally as long as a democratically elected government is running the US that upholds western ideals.
That's the "vcruntime" not the "ucrt". There has been a distinction since the ucrt was made an official part of the OS.

It's very easy to make a win32 program without the ucrt filesytems APIs so long as you don't mind being platform-specific (or making your own cross-platform wrappers).
LOl, at least someone has a sense of humour here :-)
How would you experience racism and sexism in the workplace that is not targeted at you?
How to Handle Hot Shard Problem?
the ^2's are

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation

The tldr is bigO gives you how the cost of apples changes with the number of apples in the worst case.

its a rough simplification, the precise formula is close but not exactly that. the simplification is also actually (2n)^2 but in my defense I was going from memory of work from more than 2 decades ago (testing generated prime factors were good prime factors, overwhelmingly they were not).

using your apples example
if the bigO of eating apples is O(n^2), and it takes you 8 minutes to eat 2 apples, it will take you no more than 64 minutes to eat 4 apples.
Why is this written like the MIT reader hears about the technology for the first time? On other websites this would be more appealing.

Edit: Are we reading a generated article?
The "impossible mode" example of a starfield is literally how astronomers have found new bodies (planets, asteroids, comets, supernovae, etc.) since the invention of photography.

Typically this utilised a negative photographic plate (so that bright objects appeared as dark against a light background making their presence easier to detect for our visual system), and the plates were rapidly flipped. The object which moved or suddenly appeared and disappeared was the new element.

This works for nearby moving objects (planets, asteroids, comets) which would track against the stellar background, or distant variable ones (supernovae, variable stars, pulsars) which would appear and disappear (or brighten and fade) over time.

Now of course this is automated and direct sensor readings can be interpreted, but the childs' game was at one time Best Scientific Practice.

Described here, "How are asteroids discovered?" <https://catalina.lpl.arizona.edu/faq/how-are-asteroids-disco...>.

There are archives of these astronomical plates, and there are projects which utilise older observations so recorded to make new discoveries even now (or in the recent past). I'd first learned of this visiting the Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton near San Jose some years back. Key was that old plates were used to compare current observations using the same 'scope, an otherwise now-archaic instrument but not without its advantages. As I recall, the astronomer doing the study was the same one who'd made the original plates many decades earlier, and was doing this as his own retirement project. There's a description of similar work (including Lick observations) here:

"Astronomy's Photographic Glass Plates: Demonstrating Value Through Use Cases"

<https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/istl/index.php/istl/art...>

On plate archives:

"Preserving an Astronomical Legacy"

<https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/preserving-an-ast...>

"APPLAUSE: Archives of Photographic PLates for Astronomical USE"

<https://www.plate-archive.org/applause/info/>

(dylan604 noted this use case earlier: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42657956>)
That has not been my experience working for a big US tech company.
I don't think this goes well. $18,000 is not cheap at all. People will just buy Spacia for $10,000 and can't be happier.
This blog post was nostalgic. Growing up in TamilNadu India, a Tamil weekly magazine called Anandha Vikatan use to have one page of stereogram where an object will be hidden in it. I found it so exciting to do the eye crossing trick to find the image pop up, made me feel great as a kid when my family could not find the image :) fun times
You said the claimed lack of Indian homeless in the US was a consequence of culture. Indians in India presumably have the same culture, and lots of homeless.
> won't bother optimising for search engine rankings, but instead for answers on LLMs.

the incentive for SEO is to drive click thrus.

What, if any, are the incentives for sites to optimize LLMs' answer? Would that not make click thru rates go down instead? I would actually imagine that the site would try to make their content anti-LLM, such that an LLM cannot sufficiently cover the content in their summary, and the user must end up visiting the site itself to verify.
What? No, it's just rails that has changed how it handles JS, or at least the recommended way to handle JS very often throughout the year. It's weird to blame it on the JavaScript ecosystem. Like I can't figure out what changes in the JS ecosystem you are referring to exactly.
The idea that I might have to research the validity of a search result is very offputting. There was a time when I trusted Google to give me the most relevant result, filtering out the linkfarms and spam results. I don't see how AI gets us back to that trusting state.
This is a very stark contrast to SonyHonda's upcoming Afeela 1 starting at an eyewatering $90,000 USD.

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/24336375/sony-honda-afeela...
Sure, like women getting educated, working, and having equal rights? Universal literacy and education? Instant global telecommunications? Democracy? ... I think it can be done!
The same product recommendation text could have come from a sincere human source, a biased human source, a hallucination, or a sponsorship. An ad blocker won't be able to tell the difference.
China has dozens of even cheaper EVs. The best selling electric car in China - the Wuling Hongguang Mini EV [0] is just over $4,000 USD. There are now also convertible and 5-door versions too. And a version being produced in the EU (Vilnius) that is just under 10,000EUR.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuling_Hongguang_Mini_EV
The longest drive I ever do is 350 miles (most days I drive less than 10 miles) so a cheap EV with slightly more than 200 mile range would be perfect. I already own a steam deck and have books on my phone so stopping to charge once or twice is the opposite of a problem. Less than 20k would be crazy, that's the price I paid for my Fit 8 years ago
I'm pretty sure there are exactly two reasons for Trump going on about Greenland:

1. Putin suggested it to him at some point, because he knew it would cause chaos among the Western alliance bloc.

2. Mercator projection. It looks big on a map, therefore he wants it.

The second one is along the same lines as his obvious confusion about the word "asylum" - if you watch how he talks about refugees, he obviously doesn't know the difference between "mental asylum" and "political asylum", and thinks that people seeking refuge in the United States are all nuts. The man is really, really, really evil, but he's also really, really, really dumb.
I still rename my git remotes from origin to gh because less typing is nice.
The methods chosen to push this and other recent changes assumed that those advocating change would stay in power, if not in government at least in the culture. They assumed that they could keep up the pressure to act in a particular way in spite of the fact that those so pressured didn't really believe in any of it. That was a critical and fatal flaw. You can't plan change on the assumption that you'll be able to apply pressure indefinitely.

You're right that there are tipping points, but they don't come at will, they come when the culture is ready for them. Push too soon, and as you note, you may actually undo progress that had already been truly won.

Culture behaves like a non-Newtonian fluid: manipulate it gently and it flows smoothly. Apply too much stress too fast, and it turns into a solid and resists you. Trump did not invent that resistance, he simply untapped it and rode it to power. The progressive movement created the resistance by applying too much pressure to a culture that wasn't ready.
> Perception tasks involve relatively simple operations across very large amounts of data, which is very easy if you have a lot of parallel processors.

Yes, relatively simple.
Wait, isn't that exactly what the article explained was completely wrong-headed?
Now you need to figure out how to federate this, and deploy a number of instances
The opposite, I imagine: if before, SEO was gaming page rank, then the new SEO will be gaming the LLMs to promote your site as a best result. It's still SEO'ed crap for clickthrus, it's just a different mode of noise diluting the signal.
I've never played the game, but your description doesn't sound very hard to implement. Keep in mind there is no physical camera when rendering, so tricks like this become rather easy to implement. You just setup the camera appropriately and render the perspective being shown by the portal, transformed into view space, using an alpha mask to make sure it only draws pixels where the glass fragment is.
Several people have told you that's not the case; don't assume other people's intents. Heritability is absolutely not congruent to genetics.
America is a country where the majority even of “white” people belong to ethnic groups that never had anything to do with African American slavery (German, Italian, Irish, etc.) And the non-black non-white people (Asians, Hispanics) didn’t either. So nobody will do anything that costs themselves anything. The best you can hope for is color blindness and a very slow homogenization and equilibrium.

There was a gambit to achieve change by getting the non-black non-whites to identify with black people, but it looks like that is going to fail. As you would expect. The income mobility of a Guatemalan immigrant today is similar to that of Polish or Italian immigrants a century ago, and German immigrants 150 year ago. The folks who hit economic parity with whites when their grandparents who are still alive came here in poverty aren’t going to be easily persuaded that they need to upend a system that works well for them.

Indeed, in that environment, the longer you keep the concept of “race” alive, the worse things will be. You’re never going to use the concept of race to undo past harms; so it’ll only be used to stir up resentment and disharmony.
_Hey GPT, rewrite the following text removing all references to products or any ads. Keep the rest of the text verbatim._
I think VB is totally fine. It's a pragmatic solution to a real problem, and the ugliest things about it today are all a product of hindsight.

On the other hand, this rubs me the wrong way:

> So, wouldn’t it be logical to conclude: If such an application can be written in VB6 then VB6 cannot be that bad after all?

Yes, it absolutely could be bad. Our industry consists, in no small part, of turd polishing. Plenty of good software is written in bad (or ill-fitted) languages, and vice versa.
Local ISPs usually use 3rd party services and contractors for a lot of stuff. Your average Pacific island nation makes approximately 0% of their networking gear, will use white label foreign ISP software for almost everything, will use contractors for any upgrades, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if more than 50% went to a foreign country in any case.
The first thing to determine is if the problem is with your laptop or your router/access point, which you can do if you have more than one device that can connect to wifi. If the connection goes down for both devices simultaneously, then it's the wifi. If one device goes down and the other stays up, it's the laptop.

I had this happen on routers/access points that had bad software, and fixed it by installing DD-WRT. This was a very long time ago.
I still prefer using search engines, but if I don't get an actual answer, I use LLMs with internet search. It is sometimes helpful for me, though most of the time, I get similar results as a normal search engine.

Some AI search companies [0] are even planning to add ads to their results, possibly on their free plans, which could make it harder for ad blockers to filter them out.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/12/perplexity-brings-ads-to-i...
As mentioned by others, Descent used portal rendering all the way back in 1995. It's a simple trick that only requires an alpha mask, which even the earliest hardware supported.

But certainly the game Portal (2007) hyped using portals for rendering prior to Prey.
> it's simply not economical to cover them with fiber: you'll need thousands of kilometers of it to cover maybe a few thousand people

Are these places covered by "POTS" copper telephone access?
For when you feel a sneeze coming on:

- Want to sneeze? Look at a bright light.

- Don't want to sneeze? Scratch your ear.
One of the solutions to the 'POC Pipeline Problem' was to overhire for non-technical roles that could be used to hit diversity goals.
not anytime soon. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/08/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-is-d...
Hello Mr/Ms/Xe @globnomulous,

1) tldr: you're wrong. I am not suggesting that "backing up books" is subjective or subject to biases. You'll need to reread my response: I'm talking about the judgement of doing so. And deciding that it is worthwhile (or not, as I joked with my made up 41%) is a judgement that is subjective and biased (if you subscribe to that sort of world view).

2) tldr: you're wrong. I openly indicate in my reply that I am exaggerating and extending his position (a reductio ad absurdam for you Romans reading this). However, he is suggesting that my position is wrong, or should give me reason to hesitate, as it might be "biased" et al. So I think my take is quite on the money. If you think your actions are biased and subject to historical revision, are you going to march along confidently? Or will your fingers tremble at the next book burning while you wonder "will history condemn me for this?"

3)tldr: you're wrong again. You resort to ad hominem attacks after demonstrating a complete inability to understand my position. I'd say you demonstrate both your intelligence (or lack thereof) and worth as a being (or lack thereof). I suggest you consider the unbiased subjective absence of your existence as a priority.

4) tdlr: I expected nonsensical windbaggery, and you delivered! Thank you. You advanced exactly zero of the positions involved and reduced this thread to garbage. YOU are the cancer killing the internet. Have a nice day.
> If you want a more technical, serious (better) post with a solution oriented point to make, I’ll refer you to Eric Jang’s post [1]

[1] https://evjang.com/2022/07/23/robotics-generative.html
This is basically the Nissan Leaf's lane, albeit at like, 26k. It hasn't done that well after the initial rush, I think?

Americans have long commutes.
The word "currying" is never used at all in that context. There is no coverage at all, typically, because it's accepted as a good and virtuous thing. Do you remember seeing standalone articles about [insert company here] donating to a presidential inauguration fund? Of course not; there is no more mention than the fifth paragraph in an article discussing overall planning for the inauguration itself, with a few names mentioned as representative examples of how corporate America is donating to this celebration of American democracy.
> This is completely detached from reality.

Well if you say so, but it's reality. Have you lived in a city? I think you would know.

> https://nypost.com/...

The post pushes right-wing propaganda; it's a Rupert Murdoch publication, the same as Fox News. Ignore it.

Manhatten is so safe it's dull. It's lost its edge, its variety, its lifeblood which is the dynamic people. Really, I'm not kidding you. Look up the crime stats. Or just go visit - if more people would stop believing the right-wing nonsense and just see things for themselves, they'd be much happier (and how about holding the the NY Post, etc. accountable?).

> Like you honestly never seen an aggressive person who is high?

No, or if they are aggressive, they are aggressive to the empty air around them - I don't engage in conversation. But people high on opiods, which is most common by far, are quiescent. Some are basically asleep standing up, drooling in place. Very scary!
Huh. Apparently the “current plan without AI” is $20 more expensive than “current plan”. Guess I’m grandfathered or something.
One striking omission in this piece: that in the Cold War, Denmark always refused[0] the US permission to base nuclear weapons in Greenland. The article puts a heavy emphasis on it being an "ideal springboard for launching U.S. nuclear strikes on the Soviet Union" (in the 1950's), but elides over *why* that did not become a thing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash... ("Thulegate" political scandal" (1968))

I don't fully agree with their thesis. I think the "nuclear war" aspect is a lot *less* strategic now then it was in the 1950-60's: "over the Arctic" is no longer the primary missile path, like it was in the early technology era. Many of them are deployed on submarines, which can launch at their target from any direction; and there are (now or soon) larger[1] land-based missiles that have enough range to go around the planet the long way, e.g. attacking the US from the south. This is, in part, strategic response to the early focus on the Arctic—both to the detection radars, and to active anti-missile defenses.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_Orbital_Bombardment... ("Fractional Orbital Bombardment System")

edit: And moreover, there's now satellite-based infrared sensors[2] that see rocket launches anywhere on Earth, instantly—something the early Cold War did not have. Radar is no longer the exclusive, or first, way to detect a first-strike.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_warning_satellite
So, Greenland is going to become the next Ukraine ? The western war industry really wants to keep their stock prices growing.
Also handy for identifying dead pixels!
> But certainly the game Portal (2007) hyped using portals for rendering prior to Prey.

They were referring to Prey (2006).