skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the documentation is outdated given that C11 atomics [1] and threads [2] are available for more than a year now. Same goes for pretty much everything MSVC frontend related stuff (I've yet to try which C++23 features are supported at the moment, but they've secretly added support for C23 features like typeof and attributes, as well as GNU Statement Expressions).

[1]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/c11-atomics-in-visual...

[2]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/c11-threads-in-visual...
absolute amounts of emissions by country is an arbitrary division, more people = more (demand for) industrial activity; for the numbers to be useful and actionable, they need to be understood in the context of the people those emissions are for, no?
> an arbitrary person does something small that turns out to be on the critical path, and without it the big thing would not get completed.

I've been on a somewhat James Burke binge for the last 6 months or so. For the ones who don't know, Burke write books and makes TV shows talking about inventions/technology and how they're all connected, often by chance and randomness.

And the amount of discoveries we (humanity) made by pure luck/chance/coincident is incredible. So many things we find vital today can be summed up to be discovered when someone was bored and was randomly messing around with stuff, or they tried to do something that would never have worked, but accidentally did X and noticed something strange.

Just a random example I can recall: In 1928, Alexander Fleming was researching influenza when he noticed that some mold had accidentally contaminated his petri dishes. Looking into it further, he noticed that the mold seemed to be killing the bacteria. Because of that, this particular species of mold became world famous ("Penicillium notatum") and Penicillin became the world's first antibiotic :)
Another book about survival there: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_of_the_Gods When I have a bad day I think about this book and intellectuals in hell.
> An explanation I heard ~10 years prior is that doing so exposed bugs in CRT and nobody wanted to fix them.

What I've heard is that the issue is not with the CRT, but with applications using fixed-size byte buffers. IIRC, converting from UTF-16 to any of the traditional Windows code pages requires at most two bytes for each UTF-16 code unit, while the UTF-8 "code page" can need three bytes. That would lead to buffer overflows in these legacy applications if the "ANSI" code page was changed to UTF-8.
The Last Viking - a biography of explorer Roald Amundsen

The Wager- a book about a ship by the same name which wrecked in the Drake Passage.

Eccentric Orbits - about the Iridium constellation.

The Great Bridge by David McCullough - goes into a pretty good amount of detail in the engineering and sub-problems of construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.
The stated base case is never the base case. This is an economic fact. When the government says employers have to pay 10% of your wages as payroll tax, employers pay you 10% less. When Amazon says free shipping unless your order is under a certain amount, they raise prices on everything else. When your bank gives you 3% cashback on your credit card, every merchant pays a 5% credit card interchange fee and raises their prices 5% to pay for that. And when we parole people at half their prison sentence, the sentence is twice what we think they deserve.
> but you make it sounds like the vast majority of people are under such impressions.

I don’t known what the vast majority thinks. I haven’t talked with them.
The initial GIF is a bit lackluster, as it looks like it’s just walking around dragging a tail. The full video posted later in the article is much more impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8DJ1a3sLIc

The article itself is worth a read too imo, I found the bits about toes for easier balance and jumping to takeoff energy efficiency interesting.
Unorthodox suggestion - look at the documentaries and lit on mob tactics.

The mob is basically a corporation, held together by a charismatic CEO. In its later years, violence was (I think?) less common, so politics and deal-making became the norm. However, given the subject matter, they likely wouldn't whitewash the reality of it.
Military contractors have been producing teaser videos on the subject for maybe fifteen years now.
BTW, one can download Coherent as a VM:

https://www.icl1900.co.uk/unix4fun/coherent/ftp/vms/

Additional Information:

https://www.icl1900.co.uk/unix4fun/coherent/

http://www.nesssoftware.com/home/mwc/
hint: the sign-in-required "type of developer" is another of those preliminary optimizations that may throw baby with the water..
_The Biography of Ottmar Mergenthaler, Inventor of the Linotype_ by Carl Schlesinger

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3648638-the-biography-of...

c.f.,

_Tolbert Lanston and the Monotype: The Origin of Digital Typesetting_ by Richard L Hopkins

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17140645-tolbert-lanston...

For background on how difficult/apparently impossible this was, see the story of Mark Twain's investment in a typesetting machine:

https://twain.lib.virginia.edu/yankee/cymach6.html

One of the more memorably moments of my life was visiting a local newspaper back when they were still setting type using a Linotype machine --- it's just incredible to watch one (or the competing Monotype) work.

If I could, I'd have a Monotype machine in my shop along with a printing press, but first I'd need a shop, rather than a workbench at one end of the basement laundry room...

It's my understanding that for a long while, the U.S. Patent Office refused to consider patents for intermittent windshield wiping mechanisms because none of them worked --- the actual story of the invention is far more sordid:

https://thehustle.co/windshield-wiper-inventor-robert-kearns

For us folks interested in computers, there is of course Charles Babbage who tried and failed, yet still managed to create many of the concepts underlying our modern computing devices.

While the story of a team, Tracy Kidder's _The Soul of a New Machine_ is a classic which I would highly recommend:

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7090.The_Soul_of_a_Ne...

and for a more recent spin on things, look at the folks who crashed and burned such as Jerry Kaplan:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1171250.Startup
Climate change will wipe trillions from the economy between now and 2050, so you'd have to assume some of what you describe is related and the negative economy impacts are already real.

What do you think the hit to the tech sector will be from the fires in California?
Most electronics fluxes aren't particularly toxic, but rosin is a sensitiser - repeated exposure will cause an increasingly severe allergic reaction. Working in a well-ventilated room is probably fine if you only solder occasionally, but anyone who is soldering regularly should be using a good fume extraction system.

https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg249.pdf
I really don’t think it’s that simple. The violence we’re talking about might be most easily defined as a particularly extreme form of coercion, one which causes deep trauma and/or physical harm. Doesn’t this capture the nature of a lot of violence? Isn’t it also evident that this wouldn’t always require physical contact by the aggressor, or even a single, tangible aggressor at all? I’d argue, for example, that whether or not hitler personally pulled the trigger on holocaust victims, he absolutely did violence against them. The level of indirection doesn’t preclude this.
Definitely agree on that last point, and recommended folks read Jerry Kaplan's _StartUp_ which tells the story of how MS wiped out Go Corp. and eliminated PenPoint from the marketplace:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1171250.Startup
Oh man. I remember laughing out loud at “It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers” and then hooting at the end of that paragraph.
Back in the day, when authors were afraid of negative (public perception) pushback, they used to write and publish under pseudonyms.

Not sure it'd work today, everyone and their mother seems so focus on building their "personal brand" and attaching their name to everything that it seems impossible for an author to not take credit for something that would surely make big waves.
Copy all photos / videos periodically to my linux server where everything important lives and gets backed up. Everything else gets nuked.

If I change phone I log into Google, start from scratch and download the apps I need / log in wherever I need the first time I need to.

I'm not very happy with using Google / Gmail for contacts and as a login manager, I've been postponing de-googling for 5+ years. The only promise I made to myself is that I'm not giving them a cent (and I keep living with 3% free space).
This month in Servo: dark mode, keyword sizes, XPath, and more
Showstopper is a must read for anyone who is interested in living a pure engineering life. David Cutler is one of my heroes and I'll quote:

"What I really wanted to do was work on computers, not apply them to problems"

I'd also recommend listening to his interviews on YouTube. There are two long interviews, one by David's Garage and the other by CHM. Both very long and inspiring so I keep going back to them when I'm driving.
Intel Compute Runtime 24.52.32224.5 Brings More Battlemage Optimizations
Yeah, my bad. Too late to edit it now
Once I was high and thought of hallucinations as "noise in the output". From that perspective, and the fact that LLMs are probabilistic machines, then halving the noise would probably involve 4x the computation needed. Which seems to track what I observe. Models are getting MUCH larger, but performance is practically at a standstill.
Isn’t there a point of diminishing returns? Let’s assume they hand over $70B to Waymo today. Can Waymo even allocate that?

I view the bottlenecks as two things. Producing the vehicles and establishing new markets.

My understanding of the process with the vehicles is they acquire them then begin a lengthy process of retrofitting them. It seems the only way to improve (read: speed up) this process is to have a tightly integrated manufacturing partner. Does $70B buy that? I’m not sure.

Next, to establish new markets… you need to secure people and real estate. Money is essential but this isn’t a problem you can simply wave money at. You need to get boots on the ground, scout out locations meeting requirements, and begin the fuzzy process of hiring.

I think Alphabet will allocate money as the operation scales. If they can prove viability in a few more markets the levers to open faster production of vehicles will be pulled.
And just following up: Even though there is a significant amount of random chance, that does not mean you are randomly sorted into success and failure.

Even if you move from 0 to success with a very-small positive bias on your random walk, even the lower-bound on most of the results will be increasing with sqrt(n).

Don't let randomness dissuade you from effort, even maximal effort, because every thing you can do it increase your "bias towards success" will have an effect over long time scales.

Also, start early - stretch the time scale.
I typed a reply and deleted it but I've had the same experience. Also you don't need to OCR with the phone app typically you can snap a picture.

Beyond books, it's really awesome at finding movies even with super weird things I happen to remember - I assume it's trained on quotes, scripts and maybe fan knowledge from IMDb or something.

Song lyrics it did the same thing. yes it was for a niche melodeath metal song but the lyrics are very distinct and Google/bing can't seem to do exact string searches anymore but GPT was confidently incorrect on what band it was.
No, sounds like you are being mitm for them. Though the domain appears like a legitimate CDN.
Also research the development of the pallet and the pallet jack, which had similar effects.
An enormous payout from a guy who built an app as a side project? Ok, you could push the guy into bankruptcy, but I doubt that you will ever see an "enormous payout"...
Finally, the same tragedy of the commons which brought us excessively bright headlights can now ruin the wireless spectrum.
I've found the opposite. One of the reasons I switched to kagi was that Google would not give results for NZ stores even though it had that location set, whereas kagi puts NZ results at the top
To be clear, buying back stock is one of the ways they can invest in Waymo (and other business units).

Since Alphabet buybacks mostly just offset employee stock compensation, the main thing they are getting for this money is employees.
Such a range would really increase the necessity of improved WiFi security.
They Let Bring a Camera into a Top Classified US Supercomputer El Capitan
Because they're two orthogonal problems. It's not like you do select distinct from program variables group by scope in your frontend programming language.
enjoyed seeing bill gates mentioned here (in this context). i had no idea msods was essentially bought until very recently (mentioned in a book i've been listening to - "fancy bear goes fishing" for those interested - which shines some light on security practices, or lack thereof, by microsoft)
Do you know the number of atoms in my coffee cup right now?

If you say "No, I don't" then you're already way ahead of any LLM, even the biggest ones. Remember, I asked about how many are in there right now. The only correct answer is "I don't know", because I haven't even told you whether my mug is full or empty.

Here's copilot's answer:

how many hydrogen atoms are there in my coffee cup right now
Copilot said:

That's an interesting question! The number of hydrogen atoms in your coffee cup depends on the volume of coffee and its composition.

Let's assume you have a standard coffee cup that holds about 240 milliliters (8 ounces) of coffee. Coffee is mostly water, so we can approximate the number of hydrogen atoms based on the water content.

Water (H₂O) has 2 hydrogen atoms per molecule. The molar mass of water is approximately 18 grams per mole, and 1 mole of water contains Avogadro's number of molecules, which is about (6.022 \times 10^{23}) molecules.

1 milliliter of water weighs about 1 gram, so 240 milliliters of water weighs 240 grams. This is approximately ( \frac{240}{18} \approx 13.33 ) moles of water.

Therefore, the number of water molecules in 240 milliliters of water is: [ 13.33 \times 6.022 \times 10^{23} \approx 8.02 \times 10^{24} \text{ molecules} ]

Since each water molecule has 2 hydrogen atoms, the total number of hydrogen atoms is: [ 2 \times 8.02 \times 10^{24} \approx 1.60 \times 10^{25} \text{ hydrogen atoms} ]

So, there are approximately (1.60 \times 10^{25}) hydrogen atoms in a standard coffee cup of 240 milliliters. Keep in mind this is a rough estimate, as the actual number can vary based on the exact composition of your coffee.

If I wanted an explanation of how to approximate it, that's what I would have asked for. You could very probably figure that much out.
A type-safe JavaScript library to build Bluesky automations
That works for description searches id imagine, however I'm the type who'd remember "book with a boy who had a yellow ball" type things that only happen on one page of a book.
How do you stop so you don't go whizzing past Alpha Centauri at near light speed? :)
I wonder if those 8 bit machines also had compilers available

They did.
Same old story: Meta is too big to care. What will happen? A fine? Sure, they can pay.
You’re welcome. I’m the author if you have any questions.
Canadian 'Super Scooper' plane grounded after hitting drone over LA fires
I am reading a book about it right now and as I learn more it seems too crazy and unbelievable to sustain (and im quite gullible person), especially part about living on full ocean in small boats with no food, water and heat, in extreme cold, still travelling those 100s of kilometers.
Electricity in batteries isn't great for trucking, but it's going to win anyways.

Because it's far cheaper than diesel or hydrogen.

60% of the cost of trucking is fuel. A reduction in that provides a massive competitive advantage that will push out other trucks. Trucking is a highly competitive low margin business.

Green hydrogen uses about 3X the electricity per mile as a battery powered truck, it can never be competitive on cost. It may be better in every other way, but cost is primary.
Am I the only one who wishes supercomputers had some visible feature indicating what it's doing? These photographic murals are quite boring. I'd prefer labels such as "compute", "storage", "memory", "GPUs" that at least indicate what's inside it.

We already know a lot from the press releases.
https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-don...

...atleast on firefox.
Power Broker
But isn't AI very competitive right now? And also have more direct access to the "secret sauce" of the company?
It seems like the biggest difference is that the book is about bone people and is actually called Bone People.
> If I could buy a 5k (retina) 120hz 27" monitor that would be endgame for me, I believe this finally has the bandwidth for that.

The recently-available Asus PA27JCV is 27" 5K, but unfortunately not 120Hz:

* https://9to5mac.com/2024/12/26/asus-proart-display-5k-review...

Currently selling for US$ 800 (less expensive than the Apple Studio Display):

* https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1850479-REG/asus_pa27...

I'm considering it for a replacement for my aging 27" 5k iMac (paired with a Mac mini I guess).

LG recently teased a 32" 6K with TB5:

* https://www.macrumors.com/2025/01/07/lg-unveils-ultrafine-6k...
The enterprise plan and I believe the API too are more expensive
And how Bill mom (IBM board member) helped him to win the contract for... IBM, despite better options on the market. Thanks to that we were all rewarded with such gems like Windows 98 ME or Windows Vista.
> According to one ranking, by EF Education First, an international language-training firm, China ranks 91st among 116 countries and regions in terms of English proficiency. Just four years ago it ranked 38th out of 100.

That doesn't make much sense, unless millions of people forgot a language in 4 years.
YouTube supports 8K@60 at 300Mbps. I think most cat videos should stream without buffering.
Learning how to think with Meta Chain-of-Thought
He’s gotten a lot of press attention and it’s great, but it’s not something new. The researchers who do GBM work are always looking at developments in the parallel tracks of other cancers. It’s not really the case that they haven’t looked at melanoma work. That’s sort of a news spin on the nature of this work. There’s always cross-pollination because the genetic underpinnings of cancers are almost always related. For example, IDH inhibitors (the most recent advancements for glioma patients) are relevant for several kinds of cancer, not just gliomas.
> And case-sensitivity is still applied, stupidly enough, using locale-specific rules. (Change your locale, and you change how case-insensitive filenames work!)

AFAIK, it's even worse: it uses the rules for the locale which was in use when the filesystem was created (it's stored in the $UpCase table in NTFS, or its equivalent in EXFAT). So you could have different case-insensitive rules in a single system, if it has more than one partition and they were formatted with different locales.

IMO, case-insensitive filesystems are an abomination; the case-insensitivity should have been done in the user interface layer, not in the filesystem layer.
I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?
Big-Endian RISC-V
I find their critique compelling, particularly their emphasis on the disconnect between CoT’s algorithmic mimicry and true cognitive exploration. The authors illustrate this with examples from advanced mathematics, such as the "windmill problem" from the International Mathematics Olympiad, a puzzle whose solution eludes brute-force sequential thinking. These cases underscore the limits of a framework that relies on static datasets and rigid generative processes. CoT, as they demonstrate, falters not because it cannot generate solutions, but because it cannot conceive of them in ways that mirror human ingenuity.

As they say - "Superintelligence isn't about discovering new things; it's about discovering new ways to discover."
In the 1930s Phyllis Pearsall (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_Pearsall) walked 3000 miles of every street of London (23000), collected house numbers, to create a street atlas to sell. Took her 4 years of 18 hour days. The book title is "Mrs P's Journey". The whole history of early map making is fascinating.
I have been using search for engines for 30 years, my queries are not vague, i put as many keywords and "inurl"s and whatnot in as i can manage. I dont use kagi blocklists. Google results for my specific queries are garbage. I am much happier with kagi. If you are happy with google, thats fine too. Perhaps we are just in different bubbles and mine are not well served by google.
Android Adb Desktop App
I've tried the downloads from there a few times, and never got a working result --- I'll keep an eye on it and keep trying though.
They might be using neither
SWE Quiz
Congrats on your release. What is the best way to share feedback? I would like to share with you what I believe to be a challenging problem that this may help with.
Nature optimizes. The bigger you get, the more you need to eat. The harder it gets to fly. Fruit bats eat fruits.

Look at the food source and you'll understand the evolution.
is it illegal to download and use their isbn file? like what is wrong with having that information?
Vault Assault – Original, Mechanics Based, 3D Printable Board Game
The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll might be interesting to you. Its a story about how he tracked down a spy starting from a few pennies missing in a balance sheet. A very pleasant read and a good audio book too.
How convenient for the largest classical computing company in the world.
I think I know what has happened.

The PSU manufacturer has cheaped out on the capacitor in the input, in hope that the circuit which switches the primary coil would still be able to extract enough power even if the instantaneous mains voltage drops to something as low as 30V (which it does twice every period). So, on a pure sine wave input, they only need to cover this (relatively short, below 3%) below-30V gap twice every period.

But with the UPS feeding the circuit, the situation is different: most of the time, the rectified voltage is 340V, however, there is a significant period of exactly 0V that still needs to be covered by the capacitor.
Goldman Sachs downgrades AMD as competitive pressures intensify
It shows what they want to show, which is mostly how much of the world books they have. Hierarchical has nothing to do with it.
if (dflag)
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if (fflag)
prtype(files, "Files");
if (lflag)
prtype(links, "Symlinks");
if (cflag)
prtype(chars, "Character special files");
if (bflag)
prtype(blocks, "Block special files");
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At least a Kagi search (for FAST Service Acronym) gives me:
"FAST (free ad-supported streaming TV) is a business model. It is, as the name implies, a streaming TV service that supplies programming for free. Period. Almost all of the FAST services offer linear channels and on demand options."
Thanks for ringing some bells. It's been a long time since I used that equation.
Like "the US expanding NATO" haha. No one is coerced into joining NATO, ya goofball.

Yes, dictators who express imperialist ambitions and who fashion themselves after former emperors tend to engage in empire building. Ooooo so complicated!
I recently came across Barricelli reading Labatut's book "The MANIAC"
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42651007