skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Controlled impedance took me a long time to wrap my head around (...) When you flip on a switch, to turn on anything, send data, morse something etc, how does the circuit know how much current the load at the other end needs?

This kind of thing has always been my hurdle when learning electronics. Whether through tutorials or high-school level physics, all the explanations I read tend to simplify and omit things in exactly the way as to break down when you start asking questions like this. My pet peeve are various equations that people flip around seemingly arbitrarily to calculate just the thing they need at the spot, from the two "knowns" that happen to be unknown at the same spot a moment later. Everything is obviously affecting everything else, but no one thought to mention feedback loops and how to correctly deal with them (even if by simplifying them away).

Or maybe I'm just a naturally imperative thinker, and I don't feel comfortable with declarative explanations which I can't "step through" mentally to understand the underlying process. Which, in case of electronics, involves voltages propagating around the circuit at finite speeds.

In programming, this hit me wrt. non-deterministic programming in Prolog. Usually explained as magic. "You can assume program will compute X, because it's structured so that if it wouldn't, it would hit this 'can never happen' statement, and because that - literally - can never happen, it magically must take the correct path".

Became immediately obvious to me once I realized that the runtime is just hiding a big fat loop that takes every path for you, and the magic instruction just tells it to silently discard the current path and try another one. Overall, the moment I felt I finally understand Prolog was when I realized the runtime is doing depth-first search in the background.
This is pretty annoying - almost as bad as trying to rename Turkey to whatever non-ASCII atrocity they came up with.
In "The Man in the High Castle" (Amazon TV series at least) the Nazis in the U.S. launch a "Jahr Null" initiative where they start the calendar at zero and purge a bunch of symbols of the old America (like the Statue of Liberty) and replace them. I feel like this is a kind of corn-pone Jahr Null.
I'm aware of that, but if your selling point is speed, you'll have to sacrifice the efficiency, CO2 emissions be damned...
Freedom fries for maps. Very idiotic.
The Go HTTP stack is not optimized for raw performance though; there's a number of alternative HTTP stacks written in Go optimized for performance, like fasthttp (https://github.com/valyala/fasthttp). (source: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/)

Likewise, the standard library NodeJS http stack will not be as performant as a performance optimized alternative.

That said, if raw performance is your primary concern, neither Go nor NodeJS will be good enough. There's many more factors to consider.
In Sweden, all evidence is admissible. If you have a warrant for say drugs, and you accidentally find someone who is kidnapped in that house, you can still use that evidence to prosecute the kidnapper.
Food delivery, is, on the face of it, a service that makes little economic sense. It's expensive to do and faces big timeliness challenges given that cold food is less appealing. Trying to do it at an affordable price means exploiting people.

Hustling people has become a big part of entrepreneurial "genius". Sure, it creates "jobs", but some jobs are awful and degrading. That's the sticking point.
Oh man, I'm not within the EU. And even if I was, why should anyone have to get a lawyer over something like this.
Sorry you must work for a bank or something?

How am I raging? I’m passively telling people ways to better their lives. They can choose to use the info or not. You are the one raging against the idea of a better world with happier people. An extra $50 certainly does help people living paycheck to paycheck. The point of my commentary is that people should be optimizing their finances more and we should be discussing options publicly. Your insistence that it’s futile is mind bogglingly stupid.
talk? maybe ytalk?
I ultimately support the exclusionary rule, but it seems entirely fair to call other people not doing their jobs a technicality. If there were an exclusionary rule in permitting or something, where I can be permanently denied a building permit because of misconduct by someone involved in processing the permit, I’d definitely call that a technicality.
it’s a distill, it’s going to be much much worse than r1
It feels like we've been tip-toeing in the direction of multi-host Olympics.

For the Paris Olympics, the surfing was on the other side of the world in Tahiti (French Polynesia).

The LA Olympics bid decided they didn't want to build any new facilities, and most events will be at existing facilities around LA, but softball and canoeing events will be in Oklahoma due to better facilities that exist there: https://la28.org/en/games-plan/venues.html

Doesn't seem like much more of a stretch to have a USA-hosted Olympics with events around the country.

The big downside of course being less interaction between athletes from various sports, but I think at this point, where you've got over 10,000 athletes, you could still probably split that into several cities and have big, joyous celebrations in each.
This is fascinating! Code generation is a thing that's solved a couple problems for me recently. The way I do it never feels great. Whenever I want to cache a big dictionary literal, I tend to generate the code as a string and write it to a file. I've yet to find a compelling upgrade that checks all the boxes. (The generated side has run in the kneecapped .net for unity, although the generator doesn't necessarily.)

I'm going to dig into your implementation.
We (industrial societies) didn’t know for a long, long time that eventually, more energy usage (especially the type of energy usage we practice) would impact the planet the way that it has. Now we have the choice to put more effort into finding better ways to use the energy we have and develop newer energy tech, but populist politics and entrenched energy interests actively work against that.
This is exactly right. I'm not sure who should get to decide what the name of the gulf should be, but it shouldn't be Google.
Google does this for a lot of places, for example Kashmir. In India the law mandates that any non-historical map must show all of Kashmir as part of India. Similar law for Pakistan. So Google Maps shows Kashmir as part of India if you are in India and Pakistan if you are in Pakistan.
I admit that ensuring consistent moderation quality is the harder problem than the moderation coverage (sleep pattern ;-) ) problem.

Nevertheless, I do believe that there do exist at least partial solutions for this problem, and a lot of problems concerning moderation quality are in my opinion actually self-inflicted by the companies:

I see the central issue that the companies have deeply inconsistent goals what they want vs not want on their websites. Also, even if there is some consistency, they commonly don't clearly communicate these boundaries to the users (often for "political" or reputation reasons).

Keeping this in mind, I claim that all of the following strategies can work (but also each one will infuriate at least one specific group of users, which you will thus indirectly pressure to leave your platform), and have (successfully) been used by various platforms:

1. Simply ban discussions of some well-defined topics that tend to stir up controversies and heated discussion (even though "one side may be clearly right"). This will, of course, infuriate users who are on the "free speech" side. Also people who have a "currently politically accepted" stance on the controversial topic will be angry that they are not allowed to post about their "right" opinion on this topic, which is a central part of their life.

2. Only allow arguments for one side of some controversial topics ("taking a stance"): this will infuriate people who are in the other camp, or are on the free speech side. Also consider that for a lot of highly controversial topics, which side is "right" can change every few years "when the political wind changes direction". The infuriated users likely won't come back.

3. Mostly allow free speech, but strongly moderate comments where people post severe insults. This needs moderators who are highly trustable by the users. Very commonly, moderators are more tolerant towards insults from one side than from the other (or consider comments that are insulting, but within their Overton window, to be acceptable). As a platform, you have to give such moderators clear warnings, or even get rid of them.

While this (if done correctly) will pacify many people who are on the "free speech" side, be aware that 3 likely leads to a platform with "more heated" and "controversial" discussions, which people who are more on the "sensitive" and "nice" side likely won't like. Also advertisers are often not fond of an environment where there are "heated" and "controversial" discussions (even if the users of the platform actually like these).
You can in fact hear super sonic flight above you even at 30 to 40k feet, think of the noise that spacex falcon rockets produce, but it's hard to compare legitimate explosions going off every millisecond to a needle piercing the sky.
> And that's a really important strategic advantage China has versus America, which has such an insane fixation on pure(ish) free markets and free trade that it gives away its advantages in strategic industry after strategic industry.

> Some people falsely infer from the experience with the Soviet Union that freer markets always win geopolitical competition, but that's false.

The data we have is 500 years of free markets in the western world and the verdict is overwhelmingly: Yes, more freedom means more winning.

Just invite some incompetent bureaucrat over your house to dictate how you should cook and you'll quickly agree.
That's a misunderstanding then. They found a weapon and are claiming a connection, but you should not believe a connection just because the police claim it.
> AI models are right more often than they're wrong

lol, what models are you using?
> Supersonic flight will never be more efficient than traditional flights

Efficient by what metric? Fuel use? That’s the new master of our existence, our six-proton czar?

If there is one way to kill sympathy and support for climate-change action, it’s by not only insisting but actually hoping that living standards don’t improve (or regress) because it reduces emissions.

Instead of seeing a new super-premium air-travel market that can pay for the scaling of synergic jet fuels, you’re essentially hoping that technologies that could e.g. single-handedly eliminate the organ-transplant geographic mismatch problem do not exist. I’m surprised there isn’t an element of shame to such views.
The things they believe are quite possibly internally consistent and not insane at all, just so far outside the overton window of an ordinary person so as to sound insane. Rather, they are the fringes of the fringes of political ideology and in my view the prime cause of falling prey to these is social alienation.
To be snide, .NET was copying Java, Java was copying C, etc etc etc.

I don't understand your comment when you should know copying proven features is a good thing.
> I guess the other odd thing about this is how quickly the change appears to have been adopted.

Silicon Valley is fully on board with the Trumpian "vibe shift."
Ask HN: I have $5k to spend on a local AI machine, what should I get?
I would like to run local models as large and as fast as possible for around $5,000 USD. Is an Apple machine the best choice with their shared memory or is there a particular GPU that would be more cost effective? Thanks!
I'm assuming large here because that's what the tickets will cost for super sonic flight.
For me, it's much more about my workflow. I spend a lot of time in the terminal anyway, and running things there means a lighter context switch. Moving between apps (=panes), zooming, copy-pasting, all works the same.
Grandpa mode on: Geez, I remember paying a few hundred dollars for an 8GB IDE harddisk...
I guess its just the power of advertising but its amazing to me that GoDaddy continues to be a popular solution for hosting, domain registration, etc given their absolute toilet of a reputation.
> Perhaps there's some important principle of rights that's eluding me.

Convicting the guy is one alternative, but there's another (non-mutually exclusive) option: punish whoever conducted an illegal search. If a warrant legitimised the search, punish the judge instead. If the judge didn't know any better because he was deceived, punish whoever lied to the judge, and so on.

"Might not get a conviction" is a negligible deterrent against police overreach.
Completely agree. There are so many additional layers of electrical costs (and other costs) not factored in

The build/infrastructure costs. Especially the early models before the A100 and datacenters jumped on the bandwagon.

Training costs of the model being used

Training costs of failed models and tests

Training costs of previous models that have been superseded before their cost could be recaptured from users.

The actual energy used by AI is likely orders of magnitude higher than estimated here, but without really justifying all the numbers used and sourcing them its going to be a never ending argument between the pro and anti-AI crowed with the realists stuck in between trying to read the data.
Even when it is run some of these things like ballistics are a lot fuzzier science than they would have you believe and the "experts" can make a report say whatever they (or the police) want
It's an app for browsing lists of anime. How is this not a constant stream of attention grabs?
Aider has an architect mode where it asks one model to plan out the changes and another to actually write the code.
It was an option I considered, but the accuracy of the sensors was way worse than apple for the price.
Assume you'll make ~nothing. So it's not really a side hustle.

Yeah, no doubt. For me, the marketing aspect really is the biggest thing in terms of any financial return. If I do create any courses, it would be part of an effort to position myself and/or my company as experts in a particular area. And that would just be one part of a multi-pronged strategy that would include making Youtube videos, possibly writing (a) book(s), etc.
This whole 1% focus is just silly.

The Concorde was expensive because everything around it was expensive, not just the nature of high speed flight. They built 20 planes total and never actually capitalized on large scale cost savings. The planes also used afterburner and burned a ton of fuel doing it. There is nothing stopping current transcontinential flights from being supersonic. Heck, the time savings can lead to cost savings as well.
I didn't mean it as favour for China. Just that this industry is unfortunately like that.
TL;DR: No. Maybe? Depends.

It's probably reasonable to make a distinction between "Real Time" desktop/server OS (on CPUs) vs "Real Time" embedded hardware OS (on MCUs).

(Even aside from any hard-/soft- real time distinction.)

On the embedded side, in addition to FreeRTOS (upon which Pebble OS is built), I'm aware of others with reasonably high profile such as:

* Zephyr (Linux Foundation, C): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zephyr_(operating_system)

* NuttX (Apache Software Foundation, C & C++): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NuttX

In addition, there's also some "up & coming" Rust language projects which fall somewhere along the "framework" to "OS" spectrum (in part, via https://arewertosyet.com):

* Tock: https://github.com/tock/tock

* Embassy: https://github.com/embassy-rs/embassy

* Hubris: https://hubris.oxide.computer

On the desktop side, I seem to recall in the past, OS such as BeOS & QNX have been presented as a possible future for real time desktop OS that hasn't arrived.

As someone else already mentioned, PREEMPT_RT being merged for Linux is a recent development somewhat in this space which could have impact on both desktop & "embedded" situations but suitability varies dependent on, say, whether you're wanting to use it for audio production versus controlling some 10 tonne robot operating next to humans.

Hope this at least goes some way to answering your question. :)
This is a great example of how right people are to have a low opinion of news organizations over the rage- and clickbait that even ostensibly respectable ones are willing to traffic in for engagement. The entire basis for this article seems to be these four statements that Google posted on Twitter:

> We’ve received a few questions about naming within Google Maps. We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources.

> For geographic features in the U.S., this is when Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is updated. <https://www.usgs.gov/tools/geographic-names-information-syst...>

> When that happens, we will update Google Maps in the U.S. quickly to show Mount McKinley and Gulf of America.

> Also longstanding practice: When official names vary between countries, Maps users see their official local name. Everyone in the rest of the world sees both names. That applies here too.

<https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1884012692048166951.html>

(Side note: you know how I know this? Not because the esteemed folks behind this piece linked to their sources, as would be reasonable, given the affordances of the medium. I had to take the fragments mentioned in the article and track it down myself.)

Please:

1. Flag this article

2. Stop rewarding the professional writers, editors, and news organizations and other shameless sacks of shit who turn out/receive outrage pieces like this and say, "Yeah, we're fine with this"

3. Stop submitting this kind of dogshit here
They are the users of AI, not sellers of AI. Better and cheaper AI would benefit them, no matter who trained it.
Ask HN: Examples of platforms or products owned by PE that aren't terrible?
The implied incentives around a private equity investment depend on established sticky revenue streams and long term contracts, and then being able to optimize costs against those flows.

There are enterprise products and platforms owned by PE firms whose support is outrageously poor because it is a cost against limited growth, and the locked in contracts mean there are no market forces to pressure them to change.

I'm proposing a heuristic for IT purchases that treats PE ownership as a risk to be avoided, but I would like to find counter examples of PE owned products that meet expectations and don't suck.

A set of tools for managing migrations away from them to "de-PE" a company's infra seems like it could become a viable enterprise services play.
For those who aren't tempted to click through, the buried lede for this (and why I'm glad it's being linked to again today) is that "99% of the code in this PR [for llama.cpp] is written by DeekSeek-R1" as conducted by Xuan-Son Nguyen.

That seems like a notable milestone.
Stuff like this troubles me. I am in defense tech working with LLMs and I am here to tell you the guards and fences are down at the chow truck while commoners are using LLMs.
A judgement is by necessity subjective. Have a look at some sentencing remarks, for example this, point 19 forward: https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Wayne-Co...

Someone has to make a call. The weight of the call rests on the person's life experience, their understanding of the context and the cost to the society, their empathy to both the defendant and the accused, and their conscience. Treating it as a black box exercise misses the point completely.
Because OP used Deepseek not only to code the entire app. But also to generate his future roadmap.
Also, why is this not on the front page? This has over 110 points while a post about OpenVMS on the front page has 34 points.

While I agree that OpenVMS is cool, I think the fate of over 20 million lives (due to the suspension of PEPFAR) deserves more weight than an obscure 50 year old operating system.
Are we really going to go down this road of bad-faith arguing? I could easily say “what’s more important, a learning a hobby or having shelter and food?” (Besides, this goes against the HN guidelines of assuming the strongest position of the comment).

My point is not to claim one value system over another, but to frame the problem in a more appropriate light. I think, even taking your bad-faith stance above, it is still framed as “what adds more to one’s quality of life?”
> I was once told that a lot of executive level management was based off gut instinct more than cold logical decision making. It would not surprise me if this also applied to deciding who is laid off.

It would surprise me if it didn't apply to deciding who is laid off.
Curious question for those who pay for courses or paid in last year : What makes you pay for them when you can have any major LLM like ChatGPT teach you patiently?
I loved weathergraph. Was my favourite watch face on my pebble and garmin, until my eyes got too old and I couldn't read the smaller text anymore. Now I use a watch face for older guys like me, but miss the graph.
This interpretation is heavily based on the journalists choice of words designed to create drama. If Meta can recreate this success in llama, they just cut their power bill by 80+%. That deserves jumping on something immediately and not waiting for next half’s planning cycle.

Spun differently - Meta just reacted to take advantage of a new opportunity in just a couple of weeks. Completely reshooting an entire years worth of work for dozens of engineers. That sounds… appropriate? For an announcement big enough to chop $600M off nvidia market cap.

Come to think of it, I wonder how much meta spends on AI power. 80% of that number could be a billion dollars.
Out of the box experience and some extra scripts :-)
I'm sure the United Statesians didn't mean that.
I would, but I can't even access my account. Also, the campaign I created was drafted with the aid of their AI assistant. I have never ran anything illegal in the past. All I was promoting was my startup. I also used my personal card. And as for billing, I was using the free credit offered by LinkedIn themselves.
It’s false except for every time that it has been true
That's a bit different than the public nuisance claims.

I suppose you'd want to avoid a cannabis sauna if you want to avoid getting passively stoned.
almost nothing here .
From the article:

> The search turned up what police say is the murder weapon in the suspect’s home.

You can't just pull up a weapon from the suspect home and call it a "murder weapon". They has at least to be some connection especially that everyone and his dog has a weapon in America.
most quant money/employment is among market makers who are not holding for longer than a day and most trades probably complete within a few seconds.

regardless, high-flyer is an HFT firm
As can any vendor. Has OpenAI pulled a Google maps before, or is this just a generic worry about relying on any vendor, of which there is plenty of competition?
Eagerly awaiting the moment this gets renamed to "Gulf between promises on inflation and reality". Maybe plan it as an April's fools joke from the Gmaps' crew? ;-D
It is believable if you've experienced anything to do with moderation on Facebook. It's a dystopian experience that defies any ordinary expectation of normalcy.
Wait till defense contractors start using DeepSeek with Aider..
AMD advertised and enabled AVX-512 on all Zen 5 CPUs. You have to resort to workarounds to get AVX-512 working on Alder Lake.
> exploiting people

Anyone on DoorDash can leave literally any time. There is no contract whatsoever .

It's hard to argue in good faith that drivers are being exploited when they willingly, actively participate in the act.