skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is very specific clumping behavior on the I5 in Northern California I've noticed. It is a long, 2 lane highway often used by truckers. It tends to be fairly congested but not ever backed up.

What I see every time I drive it is a new clumping behavior that emerges: some big rigs tend to drive quite slow but do that thing where they want to pass someone going 54 and they are going 55 so it takes ages and the traffic in the left lane gets longer and longer, leaving a gap in the right lane.

At thing point, some drivers say "fuck it" and zip down the right lane and aggressively merge back in to shorten their wait getting around the blockage. As you are likely driving this route for hours (SF to LA) you see it happen more and more often and it becomes more and more prevalent. I find it exhausting because there is no way to veg the whole drive unless you are the slowest car out there because at best someone is going to jab in front of you at the last second and you have to mash you brakes to avoid them.

The interesting thing is that this is always how the traffic flows on this road, and nowhere else. It must be a precise combination of traffic levels, lanes available, traffic mix, differring speeds and even average distance travelling, so people notice and feel compelled to respond to the pattern.
I am as different from Cadillac Man as I am from Alex Honnold. Is nostalgie de la boue the right term to apply to Cadillac Man's yearnings? Or is that too harsh?

One often hears the claim that it is hard to get the homeless off the streets because they don't like the curfews imposed at shelters, nor do they like their access to street drugs constrained. But it seems that for Cadillac Man, he really just likes a minimalist, nomadic, contingent existence.

How many men and women among us leading conventional lives have a similar aspirational profile?
An interesting idea. Mostly it makes me want to start a museum of weird tools that never really caught on / worked.
The UK now has an offence of "failure to prevent fraud", but it seems to me that it doesn't include this case (it includes things like fraud by employees and associates who "act on behalf of" the organisation).

Amusingly the same legislation also mandates that "A company must not be registered under [the companies act] by a name that, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, consists of or includes computer code.”

So no more "drop tables" company names.
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Thanks for confirming that they're indeed extremist, right in point#1 of that link. "Nothing extreme about disavowing a human rights convention" my ass, lol
This looks really cool. A while ago I was thinking of putting together something similar but for very different reasons but this would enable bringing them to life much more easily.

Have you published as yet, how to create a new game on this?
Financial Protection? Why on earth would the cattle deserve that?
There’s the Valkey fork, which is now evolving independently.

Microsoft’s Garnet and Dragonfly are independent implementations that are pretty different under the hood.
You could do a very slow x86 interpreter.
We do that also. But this is MT state, not MIT.
> Does that mean they have cables physically connecting their AC grids to the European AC grid?

Yes, in the Suwalki Gap (border between Poland and Lithuania). Until this point, the connections were HVDC including to Sweden and Finland (across the Baltic Sea).

> Will they be buying electricity from Europe or selling electricity to Europe?

They already participate in the EU electricity market (through the HVDC lines), some hours buying cheap power from clean sources, sometimes selling expensive non-renewable power.
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Hank Azaria: Can Characters Come Alive Without People?
Yes, but it does mean they might not know what they are before they take said course.
If recursion is confusing to people then files are a great weeding out function for folks studying computer science. We have too many clueless people in the industry, why add more?

Bundles are just folders with a bunch of files in them. How does that invalidate the concept of files?
I’m 38 and from Northern Europe. We had a C64 when I was a kid. Tech spread slower outside the US back then I think :)
Wonder if this still works with x86 Windows 10
you mean America strategically did all that and then some…? :)
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RE: Why would a well designed language have only one or few ways to do the same thing?

So that you focus on solving the problem at hand, instead of endlessly arguing over decisions that are irrelevant to solving the said problem.
I tried it on benthos (redpanda connect) for which it seemed to create correct technical diagrams. This article discusses some limitations to the search agents of both windsurf and cursor: https://www.pixelstech.net/article/1734832711-understanding-...
I would expect that this is an area where both will see improvements in the future, so the article may be outdated already.
Mission Accomplished? Heat pump adoption has a long way to go
Good point. Urgh.

Perhaps he's a LISP programmer and has some spare brackets floating around :-)
Normally when you make banana wine?
> You were - and are - wrong.

Let me post the quote from your link from other users then:

A recent post

"
Beyond that, I still have the following issues (Thinkpad T14s 64GB):

Internal webcam not working
Internal speakers/mic not working
Suspend not working (only goes into suspend if not attached to a screen; it drains around 50% of bat overnight)
"

Another post from 4 days ago

"Is there separate bug-tracking for display related things somewhere? Currently I have the following issues:

internal screen: no backlight control
one 4k screen: cannot boot with it plugged in (hang after grub); but plugging it in afterwards works. Sometimes the screen shows only 640x480, but unplugging and replugging fixes it.
another 4k screen: no problems booting with it or with resolutions.
third screen (3440x1440): if the screen turns off (e.g. after time in idle), it never turns back on. However, swaymsg -t get_outputs reports it as connected and even as focused when I move the mouse there. Unplugging and replugging the screen does not fix this. The only way to get the screen back on is killing the session (gdm does manage to bring it back online).
HDMI does not work
[T14s, IPS screen, 64GB]
"
Linux wasn't really "ready" in the mid-90s.

OS X was the product of NeXT and Jobs returning to Apple, and those two weren't the only option. There was also Be and Gassee. Apple had to have compatibility layers for that transition, and the amount of work involved was far higher, making success less likely.

At this point, MS had been among the largest purveyors of developer tooling in the PC space, MS-DOS and Windows 3 were pervasive enough to have emulators on workstations, and Apple was nearly dead. When it came to microcomputers that were not workstations (so almost all by percentage), MS was king. They were pushing, for the time, a decent product at a decent price.

Apple coming out of nowhere with a solid product just wasn't likely. It would have been far more likely for the company to die. They did well, executed well, marketed well, but it wasn't likely. It was very risky. Facing down Microsoft at that time was Herculean.
Not sure if I'm just misunderstanding the article or not, but it feels like an overengineered solution, reminescent of SAML's replacement instructions (just a hardcoded and admittedly way better option --- but still in a similar vein of "text replacement hacks").

I know it's not the most elegant thing ever, but if it needs to be JSON at the post-signing level, why not just something like `["75cj8hgmRg+v8AQq3OvTDaf8pEWEOelNHP2x99yiu3Y","{\"foo\":\"bar\"}"]`, in other words, encode the JSON being signed as a string.
This would then ensure that, even if the "outer" JSON is parsed and re-encoded, the string is unmodified. It'll even survive weird parsing and re-encoding, which the regex replacement option might not (unless it's tolerant of whitespace changes).

(or, for the extra paranoid: encode the latter to base64 first and then as a string, yielding something like `["75cj8hgmRg+v8AQq3OvTDaf8pEWEOelNHP2x99yiu3Y","eyJmb28iOiJiYXIifQ"]` --- this way, it doesn't look like JSON anymore, for any parsers that try to be too smart)

If the outer needs to be an object (as opposed to array), this is also trivially adapted, of course: `{"hmac":"75cj8hgmRg+v8AQq3OvTDaf8pEWEOelNHP2x99yiu3Y","json":"{\"foo\":\"bar\"}"}`.
Multi platform is an awesome quality for a tool like that: when you do have a customization like that, it's a huge value-loss when it can't be passed on across system boundaries.

That being said, this appears to be an active mapper that needs to be running in the background. Classic "with great power comes great responsibility". I'd rather have something less powerful that only offers the customizations that can be loaded into the native keyboard mapping engines. On Windows, I am extremely happy with a few tweaks I've built with Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC). Mostly removing some of the worst pain points of my home language layout (German) that drive many of my compatriots to using an English layout (basically what nodeadkeys does on Linux, but with a few improvements like opting in to dead keys behavior with altgr+’). Would be super awesome to have a UI for setting up that kind of mapping that can output configurations for the native mapping mechanism across a range of platforms. And that only offers mappings that can be configured using the native system on all platforms supported, the intersection of capabilities.
Grok has entered the chat.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/us/politics/cfpb-vought-s...
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Yes, although usually when people are making these arguments they're imagining optimization across different entities and through time (relative to foreseeable events / probabilities). It then becomes much easier to write off conflicting higher-level subjective goals as not being actually valued in some imagined universal sense. The fallacy is rejecting the stickiness of human-made structure, even though that structure is all around us.
And the stack the heap with Cheney on the MTA.
Only vaguely related. I have been thinking about using the HDL language found in the NAND to Tetris" course to solve the Project Euler problems.
I remember reading some research that showed that bonus payments have no or even negative effects on performance for intellectual work.
I look at this through the following perspectives:

As a security engineer, this is pretty obvious - blindly handing over login credentials to AI agents? What could possibly go wrong? Feels like a ticking time bomb until courts start hashing out liability.

As a technologist, it really makes you rethink UI design. Do we even need traditional interfaces anymore? If LLMs handle backward compatibility so seamlessly, we might just skip straight to conversational AI as the default interface.

As an investor, there’s going to be a gold rush. Early movers won’t need perfect accuracy—just "good enough" to capture market share. Classic first-mover advantage.

And as a manager, this screams inefficiency. Expect something like Six Sigma 2.0 to emerge. AI driven quality control to fix AI driven errors. Irony is strong with this one.
Another feature of a well-designed language is how well it is able to separate features for library writers vs application writers. I have seen way too many smart coders end up polluting application code with unnecessarily complex features of C++ meant for library writers.
The site is down, so I can't see what they're doing with the MMU: that said, most virtual memory management works just fine from normal boring userspace. If wine can do it for running win32 on Linux, this thing can do it for running Linux stuff on win32, which isn't less powerful when it comes to virtual memory management.
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The Super Bowl halftime show used to be legendary—from Janet Jackson redefining "wardrobe malfunction" to Prince turning a rainstorm into pure magic. But now? It’s become a corporate-safe, overproduced spectacle where the music takes a backseat to marketing. From Justin Timberlake’s 2004 controversy to M.I.A.'s infamous middle finger and Maroon 5’s awkward shirtless moment, we’re breaking down why the halftime show just isn’t what it used to be. Is there still hope for a comeback, or is it time to scrap it altogether?

Drop your thoughts in the comments!
I’m not sure where “out here” is, but $0.11/kWh is not the national low for municipal power costs.
I saw Azaria interviewed on a sports channel, and they asked how Moe the bartender felt about the Yankees.

And he improvised a whole Moe-the-bartender monologue about hoity-toity upscale fans "with your fancy imported beers and your shelled peanuts and your barstools with backs on 'em..."
TLDR: He wants to create a Trump-brand ETF.
Doesn't Golang use concurrent GC anyway, and shouldn't that lead to significantly lower latency compared to more traditional approaches?
> (re-reading this, it sounds just like AI!)

That's what an AI would say!
$0 paid = $0 worth of guaranteed correctness. Paid software = implied guarantees of functionality. As it should be.
yeah sure my autism is real cool and all until I forget my sunglasses or my headphones die at the grocery store. cool or uncool aside, seems like life must feel considerably more comfortable than for those of us with all the senses cranked to 100 24/7.
It would be cool if you added a Wikipedia link for each of these. I find myself wanting to learn more about some of them
> We have the technological ability to cripple world now and we don't have the technological means to prevent it

Humans have prevented it many times, but not specifically by technological ability. If Putin/Trump/Xi Ping wanted a global nuclear war, they'd better have the means to launch the nukes themselves in secret because the chain of command will challenge them.

If an out-of-control AI could discover a circuitous way to access nukes, an antagonist AI of equal capabilities should be able to figure it out too, and warn the humans in the loop.

I agree that AI development should be made responsibly, but not all people do, and it's impossible to put the cat back in the bag. The limiting factor these days is hardware, as a true AGI will likely need even more of it than our current LLMs.
Yesterday I installed Karabiner Elements to get a jk chord mapped to escape globally. I’m a bit disappointed it’s not actually a chord, it’s a simultaneous press with a 100ms window.

Does Kanata support chords like jk to escape with a configurable timeout on when k is pressed, say 80ms or so?
landing page is super aesthetically pleasing. for my last project, i built v1 as a discord bot, and my conversion rate from "yes i'll try it" to sign ups was abysmal. kept asking and finally realized it was because people didn't want to use discord or slack or some third-party service to access the tool. others have touched on it, but if you want to expand beyond corporate book clubs, would probably recommend building it out as a standalone service, or maybe into imessage or whatsapp?
I think it'd fall somewhere close to a "social" need, i.e. right smack in the middle of Maslow's hierarchy.
> The society is holding together by some level of trust others. Over emphasize individual self dependence is not helpful IMO.

The maintenance of social trust is entirely conditional on the ease with which people can revoke it or transfer it to others. The ability to exercise the right of exit is the primary thing that mitigates fiduciary risk and allows trust between individuals to be established. Society is a network of relations among individuals, and it only exists as a consequence of people exercising individual autonomy.

People having the means to do things for themselves in a pinch is precisely what enables them to trust others without fear of being abused.
In my experience, anywhere there is heavy semi truck traffic will have significant problems once there are enough cars around ("enough" being far less than it should be). 2 lanes, 3 lanes, 4 lanes, hills, it's all bad. But yeah, only 2 lanes per direction makes it comically awful. Happens on sections of I-81 too.

I think the specific pattern you're talking about happens because when a truck is passing slowly but infrequently, it makes some sense to be polite and line up behind it. When trucks are passing so frequently, and so incredibly slowly, being polite is useless. There needs to be a zipper merge happening behind the truck being passed. But the left lane people feel they've paid their dues by waiting in line, and half the right lane people don't even care. The right lane people also stay so close to the truck in front that they can't safely merge left at highway speeds anyway. People also tend to not fill back in to the right lane between truck passes. I'm not sure that would even help, but it does make people who do seem like cheaters to the people who refuse to.
No, you don't. Re-read my previous comment.
I believe you can turn off all the movement animations and configure the switching time to be near instant using `defaults`
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Kveik beer yeast often works well far above 35C. Some reportedly tolerate into low 40s.

I don’t know of other yeasts that can do this though.
> personally not like to call whatever that is science

A counterargument written pre-LLMs: https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.5466
For anyone interested in what the Americas looked like before and after Columbus, I highly recommend the two books, 1491[1] and 1493[2], by Charles C. Mann. I finish the first one and I'm half way through the second one and really openend my eyes. Great reads!

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39020.1491?ref=nav_sb_ss...
[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9862761-1493
Thank you for giving your statement more context. :)

Asking the question: "How could they have done that?" is not dissimilar from asking "Why didn't we do that?" so occasionally truly curious individuals do step through the self-soothing cultural narrative.
I find it difficult to imagine a scenario where building a space elevator is possible but sea water corrosion is an insurmountable problem.
The first incident of an uncommanded nosedive in a MAX that later crashed was actually avoided by the crew, who disabled electronic trim before it overwhelmed the ability to correct the issue with the smaller manual trim wheels of the MAX. So there was a near miss before the first crash. The next crew didn't disable electronic trim in time, and the decreased manual trim wheel size meant they couldn't move the horizontal stabilizer back into trim.
The advantage of the original approach is that later, when you need it, you can just add more methods to a class that are private to them. In your approach, if you need a new function, you add it at the global level, which can totally be fine for one or two functions, but with any more you end up with a bunch of functions all at the same level that is no longer obvious the dependency between them.
As someone having experienced (and of course still experiencing) similar struggles as a person with ADHD, the Heureka moment for me was realizing that the difference is I'm overthinking it. In quite a lot of the situations, there's no right answer people are looking for. There's no strict protocol, people just say whatever random stuff that comes into their mind and it might not even be related to what the other person said, then the other person builds on from there or says their own random stuff. Sometimes they strike a chord, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they end up saying the completely wrong thing and then they may or may not attempt to correct the situation. Trying to attribute a system to it is mostly just my own desire for order that probably doesn't exist. Like most things in life, the system is so complex that it might as well be random in some aspects.
I assume that the use of the word "bullshit" on this site is at least in part informed by "On Bullshit,"[1] which is a pretty common undergraduate reading.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
Fixing Europe's broken patent system
Perhaps, but then the meaning of the word is in how it's used (something that, if more people truly understood, would cut the amount of dismissing LLMs as "bullshit machines" and "stochastic parrots" by half).

"Organic farming" may have initially been about sustainability, but the result correlated well enough with healthy food - and even more so with the naturalistic fallacy-fueled "healthy food" fad, that the latter application took over as it became a market niche. The niche being itself based more on a fallacy than reality is why "organic food" is such a bullshit fest it is - one product might be genuinely healthier, another is just worse and also ruins the land because it's sprayed with a nasty set of chemicals that are more "natural" than their strictly safer "modern" alternatives...
Wouldn't be the first time that a syndrome ends up having basically two opposite etiologies.

Abnormal synaptic density-- high or low) producing autism-like social deficits wouldn't be too much of a surprise.

Alternatively, starting with high connectivity resulting in a greater rate of synaptic pruning and overcorrection wouldn't be a surprise, either.

All are interesting things to think about and watch evolve.
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Atiyah is truly one of the giants of modern mathematics. I remember long ago I struggled through a reading course of his and Bott's Yang-Mills paper in graduate school. Like many great works of math it too had that paradoxical characteristic of transforming seemingly 'non-mathematics' into mathematics* by reversing the usual direction of application of one to the other, in this case, from physics to math. It would start a whole movement that'll produce much of modern geometries greatest hits like Donaldson's (his student) theorem in 4 manifolds to Witten's great papers.

* A reason I think modern LLM architecture as they currently stand with their underlying attention mechanisms will not produce interesting new mathematics. A few other ideas are going to be needed.
What I'm saying is I do not take Luna's word for it. I do not consider her a reliable source.
Android devices have started installing hidden app that scans your images
It's popular, but no party run with that agenda.
That transcends laughably unlikely and is instead impossible. At least it’s possible for ethics to come without law and it’s worth recognizing that.
looks more like JS Kaleidoscope to me
Attempts at bit-perfect playback from Creative Audigy and AC'97 cards (2004)
IQ is most definitely aware of that. Are you unaware of who IQ is?
Et alors ?? https://codepen.io/josetxu/pen/JoPzNGv
"Overthinking" stuff is good for you actually. It's just a phase of learning any sort of skill: 1. Unconscious incompetence 2. Conscious incompetence 3. Conscious competence 4. Unconscious competence. Step 4 is where you get rid of the "overthinking" bit.
Looking for his friends or people who knew him to make a video about this case, and who would be open to chat anonymously. I've a youtube channel with 60k subs, some of my videos are 300-500k views.
How to self justify that it was a good idea that the truck you just spent $100k on drove itself into a pole
I have never heard a serious argument that it is more efficient to sell and reinvest from a finance perspective.

The argument is generally that private companies are more productive than public services due to productivity improvements that are forced via competition. There's no such forcing function for a government-provided service, enabling (potential) waste and bloat, depending on governmental competence and oversight.

The correct counter-argument is that there needs to be competition for that to happen. If you have only one electric utility for customers to choose from, the argument is totally invalidated.