skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a good summary. It's worth pointing out that there's technical writing and literary writing. They are related but different enough that it's worth calling out the difference.

Technical writing is a skill you can learn. If you have somebody pointing out what you are doing wrong structurally, you can learn to do it right every time. I had a Ph. D. supervisor who taught me that little life hack thirty years ago. I was a bit depressed with my lack of progress when he pointed out just four or five things that I was doing wrong a lot. So, I fixed those things and it got better and developed the skill of spotting my own mistakes.

The whole process took something like six months or so to get to acceptable levels (by review committees for conferences and workshops). Learning to communicate is a big part of the process of getting a Ph. D. A master degree won't quite get you there (depending on the field). Especially computer scientists seem to have a few blind spots for this. Anyway, if you can't talk about your findings in a coherent way, nobody is going to bother listening to you.

Literary writing is more free form. Technical writing skills are merely the starting point for that. But it's like any art form where somebody that has mastered rules and skills start bending the rules in intentional ways; or even change them. Some authors I like make that look easy to the point where I wonder whether I could do that. But doing that well is not easy.

And there's also the notion that it's not just about the style and form but about the content. After a life of ignorance about Greek mythology, I read Stephen Fry's Mythos over the summer. His writing is wonderful. But it also drove home the point of how ignorant I was of Greek myths influencing basically every popular movie or book I've ever liked. I like the Matrix, for example. There's a reason Morpheus is called Morpheus (Greek god of dreams) and that whole business with the blue and red pills relates to that. That whole movie is dripping with Greek mythology references and it's not like they were subtle about it. I kind of knew of course.

Movies and books don't just come out of nowhere. They are variations of stories that have been told and retold over and over again by countless people for thousands of years. And the better authors tend to know their mythology, philosophy, work by their modern peers, etc. Learning to write involves a lot of reading so you can refer to that and be original and intentional.
Pretty sure S1 of AiB was out around a year earlier than SG, in 2020.

They both seem to go back a ways though - AiB is based on Manga that was serialised starting in 2010 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Borderland

And SG was apparently first written in 2009.

And yes, I agree it should get more attention! There are obvious similarities, but AiB appeals to me more in its mysteriousness.
> Amish in a very good study found that no Amish born children had autism. A rate of 0

Source? Are the Amish regularly screened for autism?

Also, the Amish are (a) far from the only unvaccinated population and (b) different from other Americans in other major ways. (The one that comes to mind is air pollution [1].)

[1] https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/air-pollution-linked-with-incr...
Ignition!: An informal history of liquid rocket propellants - is a pretty great read, full of (literally) explosive twists.
I believe the layer you’re thinking of is ‘glaze’:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceramic_glaze
I remember a few years ago Taylor Hawkins of the Foo Fighters rock band died unexpectedly and the cause of death was not immediately revealed. I was disappointed to learn sometime later that the cause had been heart failure. If I were a member of the Foo Fighters and had to die at the relatively early age of 50, of course I would have wanted it to be in a bar fight. Come to think of it, Bar Fighters might be a good name for a tribute band.

So is starting a tribute rock band an ok alternative to reading books?
There's always a TV tropes page with a much more complete list

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeadlyGame
Well, it would be less useful in a roll. This way you keep the laptop form factor. It's probably the best approach.
Not only that but Squid Game is literally the “real live adaptation” of Kaiji; the creator has said that it (the initial concept, the premise, etc) is based on Kaiji (he said it’s inspired by a manga with the same theme).

The card game with the slave (I love that one) and the “waza” in the background when the main character doubts himself are some iconic missing adaptations. :)

Here is an online adaptation of it: https://e-card-kaiji.netlify.app/
Running man (1987) was an important film in this genre
Same, Battle Royale always seemed anti-government to me where Squid Games is very explicitly anti-capitalist.

I know there was a reward for winning and the fundamental reason for the Battle Royale was economic, but I always got the vibe the government was the problem.

Like, the kids in Battle Royale weren't exempt if they were rich, right? It was a lottery. Squid Game only appeals to people struggling under capitalism.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DeadlyGame

This dates back to at least Ancient Rome, where slaves would fight each other in the Colosseum for the amusement of spectators. Many people volunteered (actually seeking enslavement) because being a gladiator led to glory and riches.

Flamma was granted his freedom 4 times and refused it every time! He refused to quit and ended up dying in his 30s. The idea that someone would voluntarily rejoin the game show of death is very realistic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamma

That being said, many gladiators didn't really have the skills to pursue a different career after retirement.
>aren't connected to the "cloud"

Yeah they just need an an app.....which is connected to the cloud lol
Tell HN: Thank you HN. Thank you America
I was born in India in the 90s. I'm not very smart. I got rejected by YC every single time that I applied (3 times)
My parents are simpletons. They brought me into this world not knowing the things I know. It wasn't necessary.

They were refugees in the 3rd world city that I'm living in, and I'm fortunate that my father read Ayn Rand and worked hard to make himself a millionaire.

I grew up delusional, spoiled, and ambitious, and in the latter part of my 20s, I fell on my face with my rebellion and overconfidence

I finally learned to see reality and its perfection

All you HNers, all the cognitive overhead that each one of you puts yourself through to tribalize on this platform—thank you. Thanks for sharing the things you do, for teaching me to be better and giving me a chance to experience the joy of learning how to do things in the right manner

I love the spirit of this platform and have learned more from this platform than any single person in my life

Even if I never make it, thank you for giving me a chance at it!!
Using UTF8 internally and converting strings for W API calls is a way to gain some performance.
Bugfix, because earlier some particles were immune to the forces: https://tiki.li/run/#cod=dVPbboJAEH3fr5ikSaNtoEutDzbab+i7MQ0...
I think people keep conflating agency with agents, and that they are actually two entirely different things in real life. Right now agents have no agency - they do dot independently come up with new approaches, they’re mostly task-oriented.
I had to do a quick search again, this is the guy:

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

Here's an interview on the subject, which includes the initial experiment (which had him having a slightly over 24h rhythm) and subsequent ones (where the 48h rhythm showed up)

https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/30/foer_siffre.php

The interesting thing about going down a cave is that it removes a ton of other possible cues like temperature variation (or side effects of trying to mechanically account for that)

My pet theory about human beings generally having slightly longer than 24 hour circadian rhythm is that it gives margin: with a 24 sun cycle and a 24.5 rhythm you naturally get a self-correcting consistent positive benefit; otherwise you'd always be right on the edge and unable to recover when things go sideways.
it really is just astonishing how far behind iOS Android is on this front, in 2025.
I think it just demonstrates some new 4WD/suspension technology, that allows it to jump, and to quickly shift the weight from one wheel to another.
Yes. How is exactly what I meant, not "does it work" but "how does it work" which is why the word "how" was in there.

That IP will be protected by patents, it won't survive by secrecy the first ifixit teardown or one of the bill of materials calculation sites will remove that veil.
A very good comic. But it would be even better and more accurate if it changed "the people" in

"It's just that the people listening think you're an asshole, and they're showing you the door."

to "the unelected multinational corporation". Anyway I'll go tell Human Rights Watch [1] that it's just free association in action and that if Palestinians want to have their stories heard they should just build their own competing media platform with global reach. And the EU Commission should also have a copy of that comic sent to them [2].

[1] https://text.hrw.org/news/2023/12/20/meta-systemic-censorshi...

[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/eu-energetically...
This reads a lot like agents wearing different kinds of trenchcoats (or underwear). Can’t really see an evidence this separation works.
Neat! Might this even be useful to impute missing data for a sparse network of votes, for a system like this (pol.is) whose goal is to do dimensional reduction and visualise the opinion space of divisive social topics: https://gwern.net/doc/sociology/2021-small.pdf

200 voters on 50 statements would fall within the 10,000 sample threshold. This is well within the bounds of some existing conversations with open data, so it could be tested... Potential values on each statement are agree/disagree/pass (+1/-1/0)

https://github.com/compdemocracy/openData/blob/master/brexit...

https://github.com/compdemocracy/openData/blob/master/brexit...
One of the "hard things" I've come across was turn of the century explorations. The stories of polar explorers like Ernest Shackleton (chronicled in Lansing's Endurance) or tropical ones like "River of Doubt" detailing Roosevelt's exploration of the Amazon tributary are fascinating stories of how people's grit accomplished hard things.
Well, not just SUNET. It includes SUNET (Sweden), UNINETT (Norway), FUNET (Finland), Forskingsnettet (Denmark) and RHnet (Iceland), and was how the Nordic networks arranged internet access - before NORDUnet only Norway had internet/Arpanet access (largely due to NATO - the NORSAR connection from the early 70's was because the seismic array was a way of keeping track of Soviet missile tests), and only to a few institutions.
Full list of 12k apps:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ukgd0gIWd9gpV6bOx2pc...

It seems about 2.7k are iOS apps.
This came to my mind when I first saw it, but I see it as a good iteration/improvement on what we have done before (we as in humans).

I see this as hyped research, that's all, and it's good for everyone.
Whatcha doing tonight? ( ͡~ ω •`)
The article is responding to claims by CEOs of car companies, industry and business press, and other hype sources that keep predicting flying cars next year or so. It's predicting that, against this hype, it will not come to pass. Not sure why you've worded your comment in such a way as if the article was hyping up flying cars.

Not to mention, since we do have helicopters, the engineering challange of flying cars is almost entirely unrelated to energy costs (at least for the super rich, the equivalent of, say, a Rolls Royce, not of a Toyota). The thing stopping flying cars from existing is that it is extremely hard to make an easy to pilot flying vehicle, given the numerous degrees of freedom (and potential catastrophic failure modes); and the significantly higher impredictability and variance of the medium (air vs road surface).

Plus, the major problem of noise pollution, which gets to extreme levels for somewhat fundamental reasons (you have to diaplace a whole lot of air to fly; which is very close to having to create sound waves).

So, overall, the energy problem is already fixed, we already have point-to-point flying vehicles usable, and occasionally used, in urban areas, helicopters. Making them safe when operated by a very lightly trained pilot, and silent enough to not wake up a neighborhood, are the real issues that will persist even if we had mini fusion reactors.
Recommend Doom Guy as well, by John Romero. Kind of dispels a little bit of the mythology about Carmack. It doesn't downplay his contributions, but kind of frames them in context of the rest of the team. Masters of doom kind of portrays Carmack as a sort of wizard locked away in his tower while working on quake, when in actuality he struggled a great deal with the technology and personally, lashing out at the rest of the team. They hired some more experienced engineers to help take the load off of him for things like networking and other aspects of graphics. His major breakthrough with BSPs in quake was not the usage of BSPs (which he was not the first to pioneer; the technique had been described 30 years prior at AT&T), but caching mechanisms for the node adjacency graphs. Really humanizes Carmack a lot. There's also quite a few minor factual errors in MoD, but nothing major and nothing consequential related to Carmack
It only gives you the statistically more likely way a conversation would evolve after one party says "Write a hello world in Python." It only happens to be the correct one.

If I ask a 5yo "42 * 21 equals...?" and the kid replies with a random number, say, "882", and gets it right, it does not mean that the kid knows what multiplication is or how it works.
The _Path Between the Seas_ by David McCullough is really excellent. It starts with the French diplomat Ferdinand De Lesseps, specifically with the way his friendship with the king of Egypt enabled him to start the Suez canal project. It then details how he got the Isthmian Canal project off the ground and how, because he wasn’t an engineer, he became willfully blind to the realities in Panama. He made horrendously flawed plans (a sea-level canal through a mountain range, to be dug below the level of a massive river that flooded every year…), completely ignored all of the massive problems facing his company, and made press releases about how well everything was going right up until the day before the company was finally bankrupt. As a result, none of those huge problems got solved.

When the Americans finally stepped in 15 years later, they too made the mistake of appointing bureaucrats to run the project. The result was a shambles. Eventually President Roosevelt simply ignored Congress and appointed an individual to run the project. He was a railroad engineer named Stevens. Stevens was the first to realize that the real logistical problem to solve was not actually digging up the dirt, but disposing of it. The French had famously used steam shovels to dig the canal as fast as possible, just as they had in Suez. But once the dirt was loaded into train cars and carted away from the dig site, they used teams of men with shovels to empty them. Stevens calculated how fast the dirt would need to be loaded and unloaded, and set up a system of trains that could carry any quantity of dirt any distance, while loading as quickly as possible at the dig site and unloading it just as quickly at the dump site. Once he knew the numbers and had the system built, he could track exactly how quickly each train was unloaded and know which teams were working efficiently and which needed training to avoid falling behind.

Another good one by the same author is _The Wright Brothers_. It’s shorter and perhaps not as detailed as _The Path Between the Seas_ (but then it only took them 4 years while the canal needed 33), but it focuses on the actual tasks undertaken by the Wrights as they developed their first few airplanes. They first used gliders to test their wings and the control mechanisms. Then they built a wind tunnel to get accurate data about the lift and drag of a wing under specific circumstances. Then they built an engine lighter than any in use at the time. They designed their own propellers too, since nobody they talked to knew how to design one. Even for boats, the engineers who designed them just used heuristics and guesses and rules of thumb rather than any scientific processes in their work. The first few propeller shafts that they built turned out not to be strong enough and were destroyed. But they were methodical and driven, so they solved each problem one at a time until they had both a working airplane and a working knowledge of how to fly it.
"they", as if we didn't have potholes in the us/eu.
Does that mean they are going to push Europeans even harder, and do nothing to countries which are the real culprit?
Older thinkpads had ugly bulges for extra life batteries which doubled as "it's better for your typing at this angle" lift. You could (for instance) get quite a lot of less dramatically tight rolling in that. Or concertina it. Sinclair's "tape drive expansion" in the z80 days was reel-less free tape inside the insanely tiny cartridge. It just smooged the tape up in a giant concertina inside.
Those are good insights and I've probably written way too many words here already, but I wanted to amplify that your "age old" applies to the whole related "BUNDLE OF PRIMORDIAL QUESTIONS:", i.e. "What is a pointer (or name), anyway? and what do we want from it? and how do we want it? at compile/run time?" It's honestly a sub-part of Martin Fowler's famous Two Hard Things in CS joke, although I think that is more commonly (and shallowly) interpreted to be about simple identifier bike-shedding these days. There is probably some good blog post "What's in a Reference?" already written somewhere.

Different answers have different trade-offs in different settings and are variously (un)popular (e.g., x86 memory segments, LBA disk addressing, static/dynamic name scoping in PLs, "virtual" memory itself, ...). Besides the semantic/run-time/safety aspects of "referencing" you mention there are the syntactic ones I mentioned over in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42644009 . Because it is so hard to get one-size-fits-all answers, I think a lot of user-defined layering makes sense, but because of all the hazards you mention, systems support for safety & perf is often really ambitious which makes the user-definition harder (for some/all programmers in the collaboration).

As another attempted witticism in this direction: "Some Assembly Required" is the general context for almost all engineering, but "how much 'some' is offputting" and 'Wait - assembly by WHO?" are big open questions that crystallize around various axes in various human communities. Lately, my one-liner is "Delegation affords so much, but trust sure is tricky!".
> Kids that attended were not only coders, but musicians and artists as well.

Creatives are Creatives. Don't reduce yourself as a programmer purely to a scientist. There is an art in what we do.

Edit: if you disagree then tell me why I have a religiously strong opinion on spaces vs tabs
We could have better public transport and walkable cities, but instead we're inventing self-driving cars.
Can the "insanely cool" thing jump over climate change induced megafires?

Forgive my cynicism, but I dislike products like that because it represents the polar opposite of what the world needs right now.

Your assessment of anti-sinoistic sentiment is on point tho.
The Canberra milk kid?
I live in SF. The vast majority of new construction above 3 stories is reinforced concrete, including many high-rises such as the (infamous) 58-story Millenium Tower.[1] Seismically, modern reinforced concrete performs well.

As I explained in sibling threads, "speed bumps" are the most important thing here in CA. It's not about whether your structure can withstand a 1000-degree fire all around it. It's about whether your structure will set fire to three others within minutes of when it goes up in flames.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Tower_(San_Francisc...
> For instance, there were a lot of jokes and commentary about the rapid evolution of cellphones in the 1995-2005 era as they went from horrible bricks to trendy gadgets with cameras, software, multimedia, and e-mail -- all before the iPhone had even started development. People were not totally blindsided when Apple offered their streamlined version of already-existing ideas.

In my opinion, the biggest innovation by Apple with the iPhone was that the touch screen is glass and works with skin instead of with the finger nail / stylus. I understand apple didn't invent this but it made multi touch capacitive touchscreen popular.
How outdated information hides in LLM token generation probabilities
Thanks for bringing the community another example of a better way and a better time.

The word honorable is definitely applicable. But I’d contend that substantially similar values and actions are also effective: they’re also good business.

If you’re selling some innovation it behooves you to advocate for people being prosperous enough to enjoy your innovation. It behooves you to maximize the potential of the people working on the innovation.

Good treatment of workers creates effective workers who in turn are consumers: a wealthy and prosperous society is good for business if you take a long view.

This weird 5-20 year horizon around outcomes is just a small clique of serial killers who have captured the levers quite recently.

And it doesn’t matter how many blood boys that Thiel or Altman or whoever leech from: they’re going to grow old and die.

And so we should be optimistic.
BYD isn't in charge of road infrastructure to be able to fix it. That's the government's job.
Guide to connecting AWS Bedrock AI Agents with Apify Actors
Setting up AI agents in AWS Bedrock, especially when connecting to external data sources like Apify Actors, is not straightforward and comes with some challenges.

This documentation provides a complete guide, including code examples, known limitations, and debugging steps.
I cannot wait to jump over speed bump is school areas !
Definitely useful tech for people in a hurry like me
I guess getting this car registered with this feature built in will be difficult in most countries too.
I think that, if it were true that Waymo cars require human intervention every 1-2 miles (thus requiring 1 operator for every, say, 1-2 cars, probably constantly paying attention while the car is in motion), then it would be fair to say that the cars are not really self driving.

However, if the real number is something like an intervention every 20 or 100 miles, and so an operator is likely passively monitoring dozens of cars, and the cars themselves ask for operator assistance rather than the operator actively monitoring them, then I would agree with you that Waymo has really achieved full self driving and his predicitons on the basic viability have turned out wrong.

I have no idea though which is the case. I would be very interested if there are any reliable resources pointing one way or the other.
I was thinking more the getaway car of pros
I barely know any CEOs and I am happy when I can buy a product without knowing all political affiliations and personal opinions of the CEO that may or may not have an effect on their business decisions or on the business output.
Since we're talking about regulation here: Your site is accessible from the EU. You do not have a GDPR compliant privacy policy (or one at all). The GDPR does apply to you, if you allow Europeans to sign up.

The primary goal of your site is to store medical data. For this, you'd need a dedicated data protection officer (DPO). Article 37 1c applies to your case: https://gdpr.eu/article-37-designation-of-the-data-protectio...