skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some notes on how to ship fast and why it matters. This is from my perspective as a indie dev and a startup founder, but I think some lessons here for everyone.
Just to nitpick, that difference is still above 6.5 ms.
The sentiment is good but our OP here is not making their argument well (and is incorrect about terminal development btw).

Mike Perham also talks about a dynamic language in an ecosystem that was just as obsessed with left-pad-like lunacies like the Node.JS ecosystem still is.

The sentiment is not wrong but doesn't apply to Rust. Be honest: would you roll your own HTTP and WebSockets server from scratch? Also how likely do you think it is that a business will allow you this huge downtime during which no moneymaking activities will be performed?
The problem is when a model returns a premade answer that the developers put there, those aren't very convincing or good arguments. It would be better if it returned a dynamically generated response adapted to your question, so this isn't about sides but neutering the models ability to respond well.

Its like when a human stops engaging and thinking, and instead just returns a tribal message, at that point the human isn't worth talking to, the same thing goes for these models. You don't want them to return tribal copy pasted messages like that.
No, just Fidelity and Vanguard (and S&P themselves) have to do due diligence for this sort of thing. In reality though, if $100 billion fines were on the table for companies like uber, that diligence would be priced into the stock and it would be far more effective.
Lsp server for finding ES statements that throw
As a very specific example, I can go to a bank with my W-2s and credit history and get a mortgage. That’s a complex and valuable decades-long relationship they’re facilitating.
they standardize transport, verification, encryption at least, consensus too iiuc
Some of the largest shareholders include pension plans and every day peoples retirement accounts
The actual problem is that it's a stupid law.

You effectively have two options. Option one, Uber signs up as many drivers as they have customers during off-peak hours and then if you want to drive only during peak hours to take advantage of surge pricing you can't and if you want a ride then there won't be enough drivers, because they won't sign up any more if they'd have to pay someone for 8 hours to have them only drive for one. Option two, there are that many full-time drivers and then they sign up some additional part-time drivers to satisfy peak demand, but the part-time drivers are part-time and they're not getting paid during off-peak hours.

Which one do you want? Notice that there is no one better off under the first option; the people who don't want to work part-time still have the option not to under the second option, the first just prevents them from doing it even if they want to.
NYC crime only really fell in the 90’s, that’s in living memory for a large chunk of the population and there where noticeable improvements up until COVID.

Though you could be right with how many young people moved to cities after things improved.
When I try to Sign Up with Email. I get.

>I'm sorry but your domain is currently not supported.

What kind domain email does deepseek accept?
I read a lot of negative/pesimistic comments, but just to put things in perspective, this phone was developped by a middle/high school guy when he was 13~16 years old… come on guys…
> With AI, the insights (or "insights") depend on what questions you ask

Which is an interesting place to put the human. You can be fooled to think that your question was unique and special just because it led some blackbox to generate slop that looks like it has insights.

This explains why we have people proudly coming in and posting the output they got their favorite blackbox to generate.
This is an honest question. Do you have any examples?

I have always been a GNU user but have been using Chimera Linux. I ran into differences with ‘sed’ and read about a regex difference with “find’. Really curious what flags other people are using.
or maybe you don't write clearly?
This is an excellent opportunity to tell our friends and family: It's time to consider switching to

--==[[ LIBRE OFFICE! ]]==--

because:

1. It's a very good office suite that isn't subject to "fashionable remakes" and other Microsoft shenanigans.

2. over 100 million people use it - mostly on Windows and many on Linux and Mac.

3. No AI! And it certainly doesn't keep track of what you do, and it doesn't call home to tell anyone about you or share a copy of your private documents.

4. No logging into anything or managing licenses.

5. You can download and use it for free: www.libreoffice.org (and it's on Chocolatey and WinGet too I think, if you're in Windows-land) . But of course it helps a lot when people also donate.

7. It has good community support; and there are also options for paid support, training, transition and deployment if you're in a business or organization.

8. There are also written guides in several languages for those who like that format, and there are some video tutorials etc.

and finally:

9. It is managed by a democratically-run public foundation with members from across the world. There are no large companies or governments pulling the strings or calling the shots.
Show HN: SimpleSearch – Just a list of search bars
I made this site for myself, SimpleSearch.info, as new default browser page. I’m not sure if it actually _saves_ time or clicks (though, for me, it saves at least one click per search), but I find the search experience more pleasant. On desktop, it’s nice to just have these search bars as the first thing that pops up in a new window or tab vs clicking bookmarks in the toolbar or elsewhere then searching. Similarly, on mobile, I like just clicking on one icon for all my searches. The vast majority of my web browsing begins with a search or LLM query.

I’m curious if this is helpful to anyone else and if there are any additional features I might add to make it more useful. Thanks!
> Do you think cash will still be a thing a hundred years from now?

Do you think you will be alive hundred years from now?
Nitpick: it's sap the battery, as in sapping energy.
I don't think that's true on modern platforms where the compositor (Mutter in the case of Gnome) is always responsible for presenting the frame.

Gamescope's direct scanout bypasses this.
I'm not into gold or crypto but gold jewelry has a tiny bit more of a track record than nfts
Buybacks are functionally accepted as an alternative to dividends, but are not really equivalents. An important distinction is that buybacks not only benefit the shareholders like dividends do, but also benefit the perception of the company's performance by boosting per share financial figures, due to less shares remaining following the buyback. This incentivizes the leadership of a company more towards buybacks, as it not only potentially increases the value of their largely stock based compensation, but it also makes their performance look better.
Huawei has a new chip to rival Nvidia's AI GPUs – Ascend 910C
If you control what goes into a distribution, you can not drop support for stuff that's working and already implements those needs in favor of whatever you pull out of your butt.
Anecdotally, I completely agree that consumption of media has shifted since the pandemic and could reasonable explain this gap
I really wish there was "regex for prolog", ie: when pounding away in JavaScript be able to do:

let options = { foo: 1, bar: 2, ... }
```prolog
$X :- fromJson( options )
Solution = Optimize( $X )
...
```

...like writing a whole web app in prolog sounds terrifying (same as writing a whole web app in regex), but recognizing and having some excellent interop between "modes" is obviously useful for regex, sometimes sql is supported in other languages, but even with the usefulness of prolog outcomes, there's almost never been that convenient "this section is logic" in the same way that we've universally adopted "regex" for string matching.
Yeah I think i remember stories about that, that said, a failed attempt doesn't mean future will not be different (nobody seeing programming languages evolution as comparison point). Neither will it means that a decentralized event chain store is the solution.. just saying it kinda felt like an interesting "small logic global network application layer" .. which felt way more efficient than the litany of different b2b apps.
People do have to walk from their cars too (for any city I've been to)
It's easy to make crime statistics go down. Much harder to make actual crime go down.
There might’ve been only 2-4 others mining so yeah, they mined for themselves through information asymmetry
The company that makes the cereal is a low margin business. In fact most food that isnt high end is low margin. Somewhere they have a lot of costs to cover.
To quote G.B. Shaw: "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place"
Most of the human-made slop you'll see is going to be, at least on its surface, high quality and well produced since that's what goes viral and gets shared. To that end, I agree with you.

It is worth noting though that the other 99% of human-made slop doesn't make it to you since it never gets popular, hence why hard to filter human-made slop can seem over-represented just through survivorship bias.
Google will buy them to reduce chance of legitimate competition probably…
Thanks for sharing that update. I had to imagine that this would violate their terms of service.
> The reason why gold has been the choice over most of human kind's history is that it has properties that make it suitable for money. It's scarce. It's difficult to make more of it. It's difficult to fake (until recently). It's easy to "hold". It's durable. But above all, it has a history of social consensus that it is the asset that is globally agreed upon to serve this purpose.

"It's easy to 'hold'" is literally true for precious metals, without quotes. And unless someone taints your stash with radioactive fallout or atomizes it, it's also relatively difficult to lose via Act of God.

Crypto?

It might just be the hardest asset class to "hold."

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Also, all it takes for Bitcoin to lose literally all value is for miners to stop. While you might think the risk of this is zero, the risk is most assuredly higher than the risk of gold going to zero, which would only happen if all utility for gold disappears even outside its use as a store of value.
Much less red tape thanks to political support, plus the fact that new housing now coming online in Austin were largely financed in the 2018-22 period.

Don't underestimate the collapse of financing for residential construction. That's a bigger reason why there aren't as many new developments plus those that are prioritized tend to be priced much higher than to be affordable.
Proof of stake doesn't require that kind of investment. Ethereum for example has a large decentralized set of validators like Bitcoin, but runs on regular computers with the energy usage of a few hundred average American households. It's similar to any other internet protocol.

Economic value is whatever people are willing to pay for, and I do mean "pay for," not "invest in." If you want to use applications on the Ethereum network, you have to pay ETH to do it and the ETH gets burned. As long as people keep doing that, the economic value is demonstrably there. Whether that equates to any other kind of value at this point, I won't try to argue, but for significant periods after proof-of-stake rolled out, ETH has had a P/E comparable to some high-growth stocks. This does not apply to Bitcoin, which doesn't have the burn mechanism or much in the way of applications.

ETH and BTC are the two cryptocurrencies with ETFs available. It's unfortunate that even now, so many investment professionals don't understand their differences.
That's the point--their utility wasn't obvious at first, until a new market showed up.
If you think that a public leger on the public internet is somehow not controllable, I have a crypto bridge to sell you.
From an earlier similar story, a comment (to the article, not HN) observes:

I’d like to point out that a lot of our young men are currently attempting to do the exact same thing as was described above for the Afghani translators who served with the US Army even at tremendous risk to their lives. They have sponsored them for visas since their lives, and those of their families, are increasingly at risk back in Afghanistan because of their work with the US. Many of these Afghani and Iraqi translators saved US American soldier lives, and made it possible for the our soldiers to work with the local populations when this was critical.

Unfortunately, even as American soldiers are working hard to bring their translators they worked with, along with their families, to the US, they’re running into a lot of red tape back in the US, even though we’ve only filled a fraction of the visas that Congress allotted for Iraqis and Afghans who served with the US Army and other branches.

<https://tacairnet.com/2015/08/20/a-south-vietnamese-air-forc...>

That was called out in an HN comment: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17992951>

I'd like to point out that following events of the 20th of this month, that red tape has turned into a solid wall as the US has frozen all asylum and refugee actions, including those of people already cleared to enter the US, many with flights already booked for entry.

This includes "more than 1,600 Afghans cleared to come to the U.S. as part of the program that the Biden administration set up after the American withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021". That group specifically includes those who assisted the US during its campaigns in Afghanistan:

Many veterans of America’s longest war have tried for years to help Afghans they worked with, in addition to their families, find refuge in the U.S. Many were prepared for a suspension of the resettlement program but had hoped for special consideration for the Afghans.

<https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-administration-c...>

The long-lasting harm this does to US goodwill, reputation, and the willingness of those abroad to help and assist the US in future remains to be seen, but will likely be severe.
Ah, well that I totally agree with. I think it's a cultural issue in a lot of the West tbh. It is considered impolite or improper to discuss financials with friends, neighbours, even family sometimes. You also see that aversion in Westerners discomfort with bargaining in marketplaces. Like with most of our ills, I blame the British.
Never heard of the cloud act? Snowdon?

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

How many wars is China currently involved in?

Which country has illegal torture, rendition, imprisonment without trial, spying on a global scale and is currently openly threatening Canada, Panama and Greenland, and has provided all the means for the ongoing ethnic cleansing in Gaza?

I'm not a fan of the Chinese system - but green houses and stones...
There were only few others mining, so they mined many blocks for themselves through information asymmetry.

Would’ve been different if there were way more miners from the beginning
Yes, you could trade options on Bitcoin futures, or options on Bitcoin ETFs. You could buy calls and puts, which would make you "positively exposed" to volatility - i.e. if people's expectation of volatility goes up, the price should go up. By "delta" hedging them every so often you could "realize" some of that volatility - you would be buying when the price goes down, selling when the price goes up.
Of course, this is all baked into the option price itself, so its not "free money" - its a bet.
I'm sure there are a new wave of stealth startups furiously working on schemes to turn real estate investing into something closer to casino gambling. I mean there's already speculation in that asset class but the slow rate of actual transactions makes it less like gambling than stocks / options / currency / commodities. (I'm not saying this will be a good thing, just that it seems like the next logical step in enabling gambling on everything.)
Ive Seen this the other day and practicality is unknown but it’s great and uplifting at the same time. I enjoy seeing the product of what people enjoy doing without any external forces or financial incentives.
Inflation is down and the economy is doing better, but what's the point when poverty rates just skyrocketed to over 50% of the population [1]? Will it "trickle down", like it never did anywhere?

This seems not true. The poor in countries with high gdp per capita are much better off than in countries with low gdp per capita. They are also better off than the poor were in prior times when those countries had lower gdp per capita. So some kind of trickling down must have happened.

It might be more convenient for your sense of moral indignation if it were otherwise but facts are facts.
Whatever. This ( https://eqbench.com/results/creative-writing-v2/deepseek-ai_... ) is intelligence in action, from an entity with an internal world model that's at least as valid as mine.

Either that, or it's witchcraft.

(Either that, or somebody with both time and talent to waste is taking the piss and pretending to be an AI.)

If anyone ever does succeed in updating weights dynamically on a continuous basis, things are going to get really interesting really quickly. Even now, arguments based on relative complexity are completely invalid. A few fast neurons are at least as good at 'thinking' as a lot of slow ones are.
If you're earning 6-figure salaries in tech, of course everything seems OK, even if food prices double and the cost of housing gets further out of control.

A lot of people had a very different experience when the post-covid inflation hit hard.
> And by plugging in a Motorola MA1 one has Wireless Android Auto on a car that never supported even the wired version. Sweet.

I find wireless Carplay, especially when using Google Maps, drains the battery like crazy. I always plug it in anyways to charge for any ride longer than 10 minutes.
How much of gold value is honest commodity value and how much of it is speculative value? I think you will determine speculative value is something above 80%. If that is the case, then arguing that there should be a huge disrecepency between price of BTC and price of gold is intellectually dishonest, since 100% speculative value and 80% speculative value isn't THAT different.
I also have no ideas how it works, but my guess would be that is actually translates exactly like that into games. Why would the mouse on the desktop have a latency that games do not have. Linux does not have a real fullscreen mode like Windows has (that I do not use anymore anyway for faster alt-tabbing). So my guess is, the cursor or mouse input gets into games very much the same way as it gets in the desktop.
Yes, it should use hardware cursor by default on most hardware. But I don't think that RPi's VideoCore (in the linked article) supports hardware cursor or multiple planes. The difference between X11 and Wayland might then be that the cursor isn't vsynced as part of the composite process on X11, where it is on Wayland.

Mutter definitely throttles cursor updates on Wayland, too, which will contribute slightly to latency even with a hardware cursor. In general, with Wayland, the compositor is responsible for cursor updates, and I'm not sure which other ones throttle. But that would be where the difference comes from when using hardware cursors.
Th smartphone is the greatest mass surveillance device ever conceived, although AI monitored camera networks will probably exceed it very soon.

There are basically no countermeasures. Which means freedom is truly at the discretion of the powerful, because once the government goes North Korea there is no going back.

I actually think the biggest threat to humanity in the Great Filter sense is authoritarianism, more than nuclear Armageddon, grey too, or super AI.

Nothing can stop by he centralization of power that AI provides to the powerful, and the fact the elite have been brazenly antidemocratic and anti- institutionalism in public and podcasting platform is this election cycle is frightening.
Rust is nowhere near the craziness of left-pad and it saddens me to see how many "I agree" comments I've read in this thread with zero accounting for nuance.
I meant at the server. We have no way to know that is running there.
Apparently the article doesn't help either.
you really should be aware of pay in the US. this maybe okay in the UK. even then it is low for a top researcher.
> given that LLM generations hue towards the preference

I think this is "hew". But the error gives me slightly higher confidence that a human wrote this.
I’ll look into it, but it used to be a choice in the game settings that bypassed the drawing display server entirely, and caused that full screen flicker you might recall when tabbing back to your desktop (and the switchover of rendering control, and subsequent huge performance loss of the running game).

I wasn’t aware that this changed, but you could be right. Its definitely the same on Windows as it always was, which is the platform I most developed games for.
BitBurner: Programming-Based Incremental Game
Using China's DeepSeek free challenger to OpenAI's o1 on your PC
If your Application is 50/50 in CPU / IO at a 100ms request. Getting 30% Reduction in total response time would mean the request is now only 70ms, DB stays the same at 50ms, your CPU is now only 20ms. That is 2.5x speed up compare to the 50ms previously. Exactly inline with the 2-3x IO-less benchmarks.
Right, there are definitely perverse incentives afoot from a reporting standpoint on the part of police departments. Additionally, my allusion to the opiate issue is meant to convey that - while a horde of drug addicts at the train station may not actually commit a crime, they certainly make the place feel less safe, which is what people actually experience.
Simple and reliable are engineering friends.

Simple does not have to mean basic.

Take Systemd for example. Chimera Linux was to implement the same functionality and be full featured. It wants to do this with a simpler, more modular, more understandable, and more maintainable design.
Nice add https://chat.deepseek.com and move https://claude.ai to main list
Looked up the mouse to see how fast it updates and read that it is wireless. Kind of disappointing and might explain some of the variance. Although if X11 is consistently faster the test should still have some validity.

Would like to see a test with gnome and the wireless mouse removed from the equation.
Dropbox reversed its stance on this. It added support for ZFS, XFS, ecryptfs and btrfs:

https://help.dropbox.com/installs/system-requirements

They say ecryptfs is only supported when it is backed by ext4, which is a bit strange. I wonder if that is documented just to be able to close support cases when ecryptfs is used on top of a filesystem that is missing extended attribute support and their actual code does not actually check what is below ecryptfs. Usually the application above would not know what is below ecryptfs, so they would need to go out of their way to check this in order to enforce that. I do not use Dropbox, so someone else would need to test to see if they actually enforce that if curious enough.
Have you tried Beyond All Reason? It's a modern take on Total Annihilation, known for having a lot of "player comforts" that reduce the need for micro.
> Homes are out of reach for most young people - which did not used to be the case.

That's been the case for most of my adult life, after the recovery from the Global Financial Crisis concentrated people into cities where it's against the law to build more housing.
While I agree with the quote, I also believe that Bitcoin can have value as a currency with unique properties. The fact that it is driven by flat hierarchies and is not limited to national borders (decentralized) makes it an asset that could have overall value. Thus it's something people may see as worthwhile and want to invest in, whether for personal financial gain or to support its broader vision.