skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Found a real-time VC investment tracker–so much data to explore
Of course its positive news. Of fourse we cant go back in time. Its still good fun to poke at US for being so late on these discoveries.
Somebody wrote that in the 1800s you'd probably hear a particular orchestral piece once in your life (and if you're a peasant probably never), having made arrangements to see a performance when they happen to be playing near you.
Have you or the other co-author ever worked with/in Forth[0]?

0 - https://forth-standard.org/
Maybe a week. Or maybe after a week you end up with a nice batch of chocolate chip cookies.
Ultimately they'll flashbang you on a Sunday morning, put you on a no-fly list, and circulate warrants, at least until you add heavy geoblocking and start framing them right so they'll be the socially awkward side. They won't ask you for a list of clientele, they can look that up, they're after contents.
I have a family member who buys supplements off YouTube video recommendations because they straight-up cure cancer.

I really with hen would be more distrustful
As a metaphysician, I would say that they do not own the rights to use that name.
Scientists call on UN to help solve Earth's space junk problem
>If you look at the image closely, you’ll notice a ‘skipping ads’ button on the bottom left, which gives us clues about what could be happening. While none of these users have disclosed whether they are using an ad blocker, the second image clearly shows one in the works.

>It’s possible that if you are using an ad blocker, YouTube is able to detect it and present you with an absurdly long, unskippable ad. There’s also a possibility that the ad blocker itself is glitching out the ad and its duration. Some comments have mentioned that the ad blocker could have blocked the ‘Skip’ button from showing up and subsequently failed to block the long ad, worsening the ad situation.
100% of my projects, including the Zig compiler itself, have only the license file at the root of the project tree, except of course for files that were copy pasted from other projects.
I'd be delighted to see PG behind a paywall so I would never have to consume his content again, but I have the feeling the man is too affluent to ever need the side hustle.
Oh, the stories that could be told about travel agents and the trips they booked!

Delegation sounds great and sometimes is, but be careful what you wish for, especially when the your delegate is actually working for somebody else, as will be the case for most LLM agents and was the case for most travel agents.
My experience in Manhattan is that when it gets really congested, it turns into a giant game of chicken with everyone jockeying for position. This has got to lead to a lot of accidents (although probably mostly fairly minor)
The new sfo terminal too
In some sense, I'd love to be able to hang onto my dad's record collection, and bike collection, not so much his magazine collection, when he goes, but even though it's comparatively small, I know I'll have to pick a subset of favorites and find a way to get rid of the rest, and thankfully he's still got a few decades.

Collecting stuff feels like a remnant of gen x, but in my family probably comes from my dad's greatest gen parents, and the idea of having even a modest amount of extra storage space for my own crap (like an extra coat) is becoming more and more distant, at least in my city where it seems the current cost of living space is $1k/sq ft (CAD). I'd choose the location over the stuff any day, but it seems a bit silly how dramatically cost escalates, as in a hundred thousand more just to have some space for full-size sofa and a bedroom in some cases. Won't even get any land for that price, just imaginary land in the sky; for a townhouse or something I'd need to increase my hypothetical budget by $500k, which are some expensive records!
It’s not that simple. The brain is a very complex system and once you get other components of your brain to a neurotypical baseline or even better ADHD is a gift.

Those regions being sensory motor cortex and prefrontal cortex. But simply its a system of networks and attention regulation.

Those networks can be trained and I have experienced it first hand by reversing engineering my own brain and training it beyond normal baseline. This training is called neurofeedback and it transformed my ADHD into a super power.

During my evaluation my ability to focus(was measured) was worse than the average ADHD person. Afterwards it was above even normal people.

I need don't even consider myself someone with ADHD and everything just seems to come together naturally. ( Deadlines, managing details, time management and planning- all prefrontal cortex) The networks in my brain have been training to switch normally, and hyper focusing is just focusing but on anything I really want.

It was the cure I’d been searching for my whole life and it actually worked.
The "Youtube vs users" battle about how complicated they can make of for ad lockers has been frustrating to watch already.

But if they follow through and just cut us off at some point then fine. I ditched the habits of Facebook and Twitter, I'll learn to live without YouTube.

And before anyone argues to just pay up, I'm already subscribed to enough creators directly. I'm not giving Google one cent.
I'm all for positive change too. But as someone who isn't delusional, I have to account for practicality rather then dreaming about an unrealistic future.
Its the continuation of the echo chambers but platform specific instead of say the algorithm on a platform focusing content your way. Or potentially a super concentrated version since you have both a platform that leans one way, so the the content selection via recommender is limited by its range.
I hope you're right!

But that assumption is precisely a goal of OpenAI and Anthropic, and it's useful to continue that train of thought to see the bigger picture of where things will go if they get what they want.

The article did a very astute job of that.
This seems cool and all, but wouldn't it likely violate ToS of your carrier by doing something like this -- especially if it gets to be of any appreciable scale?
What I want to know is why when I'm using a logged out browser all of the shorts on the home page are effectively softcore porn.
"As a large language model, I cannot provide you with a design for a nuclear weapon. How about some nice cookies to bring to the diplomatic table? Eating together helps people form bonds of friendship. In past negotiations, this cookie recipe has helped smoothed over..."
I have this insatiable addiction to food and shelter. If I could get over my addiction, not only wouldn’t I care about money, I wouldn’t be working.
The author focuses on the pace of technological change as a big insight. I had the same experience in 1970 when I read Alvin Toffler's book, Future Shock. The theme of the book was the impact upon humanity of the ever increasing pace of change through millennia.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock

Reading Future Shock shaped my world view like no other single event in my life; and it sparked a life long fascination with, and love of, technology. It's how I spend almost every waking hour of my day at the age of 72.
And with the immunity decision he doesn't even have to worry about going to jail for it. I hope we are wrong. I hope people come out of the woodwork to tell that fool where to shove it. But I am afraid the tech oligarchy + right wing media has such a hold on information sources for a majority that half the country won't even know what's happening.
Slide ?42? (https://hawksley.org/img/posts/2025-01-08-past-present-futur...) also hints at some level of disconnect, what's the number of users accessing GitHub via Linux?
thanks, it doesn't seem like it's the direction it's going at the moment. If you look at the robots.txt of many websites, they are actually banning AI bots from crawling the site. To me it seems more likely that each site will have its own AI agent to perform operations but controlled by the site.
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It would be nice if the README made it clear toward the top
that this is Mac software. The screenshot and mention of Xcode give that vibe of course, but I kept reading anyway and felt a bit bummed to only confirm at the end.

Looks like a cook project and wishing y'all the best. Let us know if and when the Linux support drops :)
Another cool thing in the article that I didn't know personally: Caltrain runs on 100% renewable power!
> I have never come across an undefined behavior for which there was no practical work-around in reasonable time.

How would you know? You don't generally find out until a newer compiler release breaks your code.

> I have also never seen a language specification that answers all questions, not even Pascal or Ada.

Maybe, but I haven't see "upgrade your compiler, get a new security bug" be defended so aggressively in other languages. Probably more cultural than legalistic - obviously "the implementation is the spec" has its problems, but most languages commit to not breaking behaviour that most code relies on, even if that behaviour isn't actually written in the spec, which means that in practice the language (the social artifact) is possible to learn in a way that C isn't.

> I agree that implicit conversions are an unfortunate feature of C, but I think the same about all languages where you can easily assign floating point to integer variables (or vice versa), for example.

So don't use those languages either then?

> Cross-toolchain and cross-platform experiments are a constant activity with all the programming languages I use.

Sounds pretty unpleasant, I practically never need to do that.
> It’s way quieter, the cars have nicer interiors, and it is running faster and more frequently than before.

Not that electric isn't a huge step up for all the usual reasons but most of that is just because it's new and hasn't been worn out yet.
I hadn't though of zero-knowledge proofs. That is an interesting idea.
Perhaps we humans are not seeking corporeal warmth but spiritual warmth through a dialogue with the machine.
Possible, just connect ad-viewing hours to people's social credit score.
Fair enough, thanks for the fast reply!
fully agree here, using a browser for everything is the dumb way. You just usually use it to circumvent the blocking and then reuse the cookies to call the endpoints directly.
It's great, but it took more than 20 years to get here due to environmental reviews and shaky funding. ...and this was just re-fitting an existing, relatively short stretch of track!

We (as Californians) have GOT to do better than this! There are huge infrastructure projects that we need to undertake in the coming years. We have got to cut the red tape and properly fund projects.
Not especially relevant to the OP, but as a very light facebook user, I've noticed the same thing with reels in my feed. I assume they don't have enough info other than "male" to target me with.
There’s more than one kind of authority. There’s “I can fire you” authority, and “everyone trusts Steve more than they trust Tom”.
Web of trust would be interesting if phones could automatically trust other phones they spend enough time nearby.
I am talking about what is now, why would I care if my comments will become obsolete?

The facts and claims in this article too will have changed, come to pass, or be realized.

The author speculating that AI will solve interacting with user interfaces is something that has yet to be seen.

They are making a gigantic leap from (not verbatim quotes, just making a point) "I saw one example of Operator doing (what Claude computer use did back in October, and other projects before that)" to "I think advertising is blown" and "I think search is doomed" to "Sadly I think the open web is about to die.".

Also, people have been talking about this for a few years now. Is there any evidence of it happening yet?
Even after a 555 number was provided they still kept responding without questioning it. Are at least some of their responses automated too? Kind of funny to think of 2 LLMs negotiating with each other.
I really love firmware for this reason. Each instruction you send to the CPU means something. If you want, you can rip back all the abstraction and just run raw assembly. Sometimes the compiler can be very wrong and you get to embed the correct assembly in your C and suddenly the program is 10x faster. True story!

Trying to fit my application in 1kB of flash and one hundred twenty-eight entire bytes of RAM taught me a lot as a young programmer. It really makes you confront the physicality of the machine your code represents. I don't think nearly enough programmers have that experience
The weapon is the easy part. Doable by most countries nowadays given enough enriched U235. The only slightly difficult thing is the trigger system, for which you can find measurements and designs online.

But the deliver system is a whole different story. Missiles and jet engines are much more difficult to develop from scratch.

That’s why non-proliferation focuses on preventing countries from enriching Uranium and preventing countries from developing rocket booster technology.
Except for the last one in your list, the others are quality of life problems. I have no problem if police interfere with either. Even the last one, is at best borderline. If there is a weirdo making machine guns in my neighborhood and I have kids, I sure as hell want police to interfere.
Not all LLMs are cloud hosted censorship machines.
Back in the '90s I would customize my development environment to within an inch of its life, but after going from one machine to the next, one toolchain to the next, one operating system to the next, year after year, culminating in one ridiculous six-month period when I had to pave my dev machine and reinstall everything from scratch every two weeks (yes, this was stupid; yes, I knew it was stupid at the time; no, I had no way out of it, not if I wanted to keep my job) - I learned that adapting myself to the defaults was a lot less work than adapting the settings to me.

Or, to put it another way: every step you take away from the mainstream has a cost, so you had better know how much you are willing to pay and budget your quirks accordingly.
Why so negative? Given that the served population is conservatively a quarter of either of those areas, doesn't seem like a fair comparison.

More to the point, I've been favorably impressed with the transit options since moving here, and in terms of reliability it's been better than NYC, though obviously there are fewer trains/branches.

I'd love to see BART open later, like NYC, but even Tokyo trains stop at midnight.
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The plans are bad for light users. Something like a non-renewing $3 day pass would be better for me. (And better for Google as far as profit from me is concerned, since I currently pay them nothing.)
That paper is not saying it's small "in comparison", it's saying it's small for a filesystem. It's silly.

> You really wouldn't recommend an average user change that at all.

Yes I would. If they were stuck with ext4.

In general I'd recommend something with checksums.

> reserved %

Oh god definitely change that, it should cap at 10GB or something.
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You don’t do deletes. The log is append only.

If you want to get rid of an entry, you create a new entry that negates the existing entry.
It's nice to see someone that gets it, and can explain why all of these generative-AI tools are completely pointless so well.
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Wouldn't they just have jurisdiction in the transit area though? Like it's not like a BART employee could pull you over for speeding?
This is the best rabbit hole I’ve gone down in awesome. Thanks for sharing!
You can literally do all of this in Neovim. Just use a distribution if you wanna outsource config (Astro, Lazy, etc), which is what Zed is. I use LLM in my Neovim, I get autocomplete in my config.
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I don't think you can trigger by a label/area and also retrieve which device was the trigger (groups had that issue).
Yep in my case I have 11 * 450MB executables that take about 8 minutes to compile and link. But for small iterative programming cycles using the standard linker with g++, it takes about 30 seconds to link (If I remember correctly). I tried mold and shaved 25% of that time, which didn't seem worth the change overall; attempted wild a year ago but ran into issues, but will revisit at some point.
How is safety these days? The last time I was in a BART station, I had to intervene in an uncomfortable situation where a (possibly high) man was bothering a young woman. It felt surreal because everyone around hadn’t helped her at all and was just ignoring what was happening.
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Oh, really? Not that I don’t believe you specifically, but do you have a source?
Working RPN requires a substantial increment in intellectual capacity compared to applying a sequence of elementary operations to an accumulator. An operand consumed by a given RPN operation can be quite distant from it in the syntax, such that it's not obvious which one. A valid RPN expression could consist of an initial sequence of N operands, where N is limited only by stack depth, followed by a sequence of N-1 operators to decimate the operands.
The pause itself is temporary. But if a study section is canceled, the next possible date is likely months in the future. Tens of busy professionals from other organizations are probably not willing to drop their other commitments. Especially because the cancellation was your fault, not theirs. If decisions are delayed, funding will also be delayed. And if funding is delayed for months, some projects will be canceled and some people will lose their jobs.
Meta to spend up to $65B this year to power AI goals, Zuckerberg says
> The most respected and well paid senior engineers and managers at my company are all ex-ticket crushers.

The problem with this is that because of salary compression, it’s usually better to job hop.
I've been blown away by amazon/gcp/azure whose uis progressively waste more and more space. I actually measured it, and on a normal (11"?) laptop screen the list of vms occupied something like 15% of the screen space, the rest being sticky pannels, banners, sidebars, toolbars, etc. Combined with "resizable" panes that are restricted to max 30% of the parent area size I can see between 1 and 2 lines of results. Not desktop/laptop, they don't even work on laptop.

I reported it in those offline "please rate the new ui" feedback popups, but it's clear that they have no idea who use their UIs.
The reason I made ordering not matter is so that multiple peers don’t have to worry about keeping the exact same order when appending to each other’s logs.

The log entries do have timestamps on them. You can sort by timestamp, but a peer has the right to append an new entry that’s older than the latest timestamp.
Are the "ads" just a random youtube video?

The pictures seem to indicate that and I really doubt somebody is uploading a 2h52m ad to youtube.
> at least in my city where it seems the current cost of living space is $1k/sq ft (CAD).

Even in Canada I don't think rent is this high :) ... Curious what you meant, or was this just hyperbole?
Be careful, you don't want to start a religious war about ZealOS' use of 32-bit colour.

I mean, look at the East-West schism. The stated reasons for the split are just as stupid.
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Dude, I was looking for something like this earlier today. Thank you.
Made the same reply elsewhere. You can do everything he desires and stick with Neovim. He just pretends he never heard of Astro or Lazy. He uses Packer though, so he might not keep up with the state of the ecosystem or something. I caught myself wondering if this was marketing.
We called it a ledger since we stored financial data and basically used the “ledger” format from plain text accounting, initially.
“Either change the environment or change the environment”
BART is better than it was but still bad. Caltrain is totally fine though.
It’s not terribly high transaction, yet. If it becomes that way, I would partition the one by entry type so all the high transaction stuff gets stuffed in a particular log, and then ensure it can be summarised regularly.
I use Neovim with Copilot assistant plugins all the time for work
Train technology is so behind compared to road electric vehicles.

Companies that build train batteries have been trying to sell to us (car OEMs) lately, and we look at the battery specs and battery management system capabilities and go uhhhh…

On the motor and control fronts as well.
It also needs a much bigger emphasis on transit oriented development. In Japan the best place to eat in town is often in the train station or within a few feet of it. In the US the stops are often some of the worst places like parking lots or run down parts of town. Rarely have I seen good shopping/dining/living integrated into BA, or even US in general, transit systems.
> Suno on the other hand to me has basically been a complete joke. The training data is just not wide enough to do anything interesting and new.

Hard disagree, Suno is terrific, but likely depends on what you define as "new". Of course AI models can't explore outside the data they are trained on, but they can effectively generate within the parameter space, including areas unexplored directly by the content it was trained on.

Have done some really interesting mashups of styles that people aren't doing and the results are great imho.

If you are trying to make it do very specific things like you would another instrument, it's not the right tool.
My thoughts exactly. The AI gatekeepers will also become gatekeepers of consumer choices in a similar way as Google is now. That goes for both sides of google's business: search and ads. If you're asking for "the hest car brand", who is to say the AI cannot he swayed by some sweet advertising dollars? Of it books you a guided tour directly, you'll not even notice of one tour guide is preferred.

That may sound pessimistic, bit honestly I have zero confidence that in Trumps's USA, OpenAI will have to give a flying fuck about users' best interests or honest advertising or any of that stuff...