skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brick buildings don't do well with earthquakes. California also happens to sit on a major, active fault line. While it is technically possible to make a brick or stone building earthquake-proof, I would imagine it's cost prohibitive for large scale single-family housing projects. Apartment towers are already built with a multistory steel-reinforced concrete base that is built to withstand earthquakes, but it would increase costs significantly to build to the top like that.
College kids can be scientists. Anyone doing science is a scientist.

There are even middle-school kids doing science. Or random adults with non-STEM jobs collecting data as a hobby for Citizen Science.

We should be careful not to gatekeep the words science or scientist. The more mad scientists we have throwing spaghetti on the wall to see what sticks, the more things we can discover.
Seems like maybe antirez has lost the joy of coding, at least for a little while.

It's easy to get caught up in what you dislike about software, but you have to make yourself try new stuff too. There's always more delight to be found. Right now, I think it's good to embrace LLM assistants. Being able to sit down and avoid all the most tedious parts and focus purely on engineering and design makes every session much more enjoyable.

Software itself is better now than it has ever been. We're slowly chipping away at our own superstitions. Just because some people are fully employed building empty VC scams and software to nowhere does not damn the rest of the practice.
Maybe we should restrict code generation to the dumber models so that we can still use the more lucid models for debugging. ;)

(This is an allusion to Kernighan’s lever.)
There are a number of northern Illinois cities that have their own utility grids. Off the top of my head I can think of Naperville, Princeton, Rochelle, and Peru, with the last three having their own power plants.

Rochelle's municipal utility system also provides water and sewer, and fiber-optic internet. https://www.rmu.net/
I'm guessing they deal with it at the citizen level. Just investigate, raid the property and confiscate all the equipment.
Oh wow, I just got an answer from Smallthinker 3B Preview. It talked for a long time but after 6,900 tokens, it eventually got the 1.00, 2.17, 2.71 answer. No system prompt, temperature 1.00 (which is probably too high, but I didn't notice until the test was over).
Municipal utilities exist everywhere. I'm not sure why you're being all hypothetical about it. They work well and for many reasons discussed here, sound like a good fit for Walnut Creek.
Opposite anecdote, in the 2000s, I worked at a company that had dozens of computers running jobs, built out a server room with raised floors and built out a SAN to store a whopping 3 TB of data and we had a home grown VB6 job scheduler that orchestrated jobs across the computers running Object Rexx scripts.

We had our own internal load balancer, web servers, mail servers, ftp servers to receive and send files, and home grown software.

Now I could reproduce the entire setup within a week at the most with some yaml files and hosted cloud services. All of the server architected is “abstracted”. One of the things he complains about.

As far as backwards compatibility, worshipping at the thrown of backwards compatibility is one reason that Windows is the shit show it is. Even back in the mid 2000s there was over a dozen ways to represent a string when programming and you had to convert back and forth between them.

Apple has been able to migrate between 5 processors during its existence by breaking backwards compatibility and even remove entire processing subsystems from ARM chips by removing 32 bit code compatibility.
You're assuming that the issue is fact-checking, rather than cherrypicking in the first place. Plastic straws are not a major source of microplastics or plastic pollution, but you know what is? Clothing! Fast fashion, and harder plastics associated with electronic tat. You know what the NYT for example is all about advertising? Fashion! Random tat.

Even putting aside that more conspiratorial angle, there has always been a trend to steer the public away from understanding large, industrial, commercial sources of problems by having them micromanage their own contribution. It's ridiculous, but most people either don't have the time or inclination to think through these things, so they read an article and then get to the hard business of letting everyone know what a good person they are.

Plus: "Factors far outside of your ability to control or influence, such as the use of rubber tyres and waste disposal habits of China/India, are going to harm you," shuts people off, it makes them engage less.

"This is all your fault, and here's how" grabs attention.
This has more plot than all the seasons of star trek picard together :D
What a load of nonsense. Expertise in one field does not mean you're going to excel in a different field. There are plenty of people with relevant expertise and equal problem-solving abilities, but these traitors actively don't want them, because they aren't going to say and do what they want.
Amen! ZIP Codes (if referring to the US Postal Service) were only ever made for the purpose to sorting and delivering mail more efficiently. ZIP Codes serve the purposes of the US Postal Service, full stop. They don't respect any political or geographical boundaries - and they change at the whim of the USPS, as they were created and are maintained to suit their needs.

If used for other purposes they fall short.
Claiming "disinformation is subjective" and then cherry picking something to avoid all of it isn't even a credible attempt. Consensus isn't the objective, forwarding arguments that hold water is. You haven't disputed a mentioned single fact, so I take it you know they're indeed facts.
I absolutely agree, and the (possibly badly said) intention was to highlight that credit is not being given where credit is due. "scientists" being a way to obscure the actual people who pulled this off.
Dammit, my clipboard manager messed up the link I was about to post, and now it's too late to edit :/

For posterity: https://bford.info/cachedir/ is what I was meant to link to above. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Favorite thing recently has been using the vision models to make jokes. Sometimes non sequiturs get old, but occasionally you hit the right one that’s just hilarious. It’s like monster rancher for jokes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Rancher
Yeah I was expecting the article to give an argument to back up this claim by talking about the mechanisms behind LLMs and the mechanisms behind human thought and demonstrating a lack of overlap.

But I don't see any discussion of multilayer perceptrons or multi-head attention.

Instead, the rest of the article is just saying "it's a con" with a lot of words.
The biggest pain point with macOS spaces is how it handles multiple windows of the same app. It drives me crazy.
What is FlashSpace’s approach for solving this?
>Or maybe our mind is based on a bunch of mathematical tricks too.

Some people used to push the theory that quantum probability was where free will and the soul reside. That is to say, people will imagine how the hard questions of old neatly fit into the hard questions of today. Nothing won't with that, it's how we explore different paths and make progress. But I'm not one of those exploring experts, so I'll wait for stricter definitions and experimental data.
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A newish Air is relatively powerful, should be able to run an IDE. As always make sure you have at least 16GB RAM minimum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Shoup

https://www.shoupdogg.com/
I have 3 toilets in my house. One I was able to tap into the power supply at the light switch and install on outlet for a fancy Toto model. My other two bathrooms would require opening up walls and running new wiring through many studs in order to add a power outlet, so they get the cheap cold water models.
You're not an author, obviously. Do you put all - and I mean 100% - the code you write in the public domain?
I suspect that's actually what's going on, LLMs are finding patterns that apply to their question and figure out how to combine them in the correct way. However, I'd also say this is how vast majority of humans solve math problems. What I've seen from o1/R1 is that they are more capable at this process than the average human, more capable than the vast majority of humans.

We can say that they're not "intelligent" because they're not capable of solving problems they can't map to something in their training at all, but that would also put 99.9% of humanity in the unintelligent bucket.
Yeah that's my point, but I'm not sure if codec support is implemented outside of that.
Less than 20c per kWh for my local city power - https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/v/5/utili...

About half the price of PG&E. This is in an otherwise PG&E area. People should be demanding their city handle power. It leads to half the price.
It's not insane, the author has been bitten by their poor experiences with dependencies in other languages and is misapplying that experience to Rust out of hand.

Listen, I'd be as happy as anyone to have random numbers in the Rust standard library. Compared to the Rust developers, I'm a believer in stdlib maximalism, downsides be damned. But all this recent hand-wringing about dependencies is a tiresome moral panic.
Japan's Semiconductor Photoresist Monopoly [video]
Show HN: Script to deploy SearXNG easily on macOS
Yeah the "mixed" navigation option sometimes provides it, but with many caveats:

- it never suggests bike+bus, only bike+train

- it will only ever try to put the biking on one end of the train ride, never both. I guess it assumes I'd be parking the bike at the station, not bringing it on board

- you can't actually "start" the navigation for some reason. It will just show the route overview
This is akin to giving it a photo of the stars and asking it what it sees. If you want to bake pareidolia in to LLMs prepare to pay 100x for your requests.
Bees don't make hexagons, they make circles. The hexagonal appearance is a natural side-effect.

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep28341
Manning did not leak to media, who would vet the data before releasing it. She effectively directly dumped diplomatic cables on WikiLeaks.
I'm a life long insomniac which got me into working in neurotech/sleeptech about 5 years ago.

People talk about CBT-I, sleep anxiety, etc etc.

From what I've found, this may be great for people with transient insomnia, where the stress is the cause of the insomnia. The key for these people is often the CBT, which helps the I, not that the CBT is to treat the I.

I've come to asking chronic insomniacs "is there something you like about being awake in the middle of the night", and I've had many responses such as "it's my time to think", "I know I should be sleeping, but my mind is enjoying the peacefulness".

I'm not a very stressed person, and I can meditate in the middle of the night, and yet still be awake.
Who is “we”? The forces eroding software quality are disproportionately caused by short-sighted VCs.
If prices were sane, anybody who bought a house ten years ago currently has enough equity to pay cash.
Linus, as someone far removed from LKML, seems like he hates external visibility of what he wants to be effectively "internal" discussion more than anything else.

Not in the sense of "he wants the mailing lists private", but in the sense that "he doesn't want public complaint about private discussions", which feels like an evolution of "technical merit should win", as a position.
These don't sound like the UNIX philosophy. My impression is that UNIX is more like what's outlined here:

https://web.stanford.edu/class/archive/cs/cs240/cs240.1236/o...
This is some insane spin. Most of these "facts" are coming directly from Musk (a consistent liar) and Trump (a consistent liar who tried to overthrow the last election). Stop ingesting partisan media — it is evidently rotting your brain.

> Note that DOGE announced today they'd go try to clawback hundreds of billions of funds stolen by corrupt officials.

And I can announce that I'm the President of Earth. Every time Musk posts some "evidence" of "corruption" on Twitter, it turns out to be a blatant lie based on surface level details, e.g. all the shrieking about Lutheran charities and Politico subscriptions which turned out to be a massive mischaracterization of those expenses. (This behavior goes back to the nothingburger Twitter Files. Same exact strategy: the headline is what matters.)

> Of course the leftist media will carefully spin their stories to not mention the gigantic amount of fraud (both stolen funds and stolen elections) already uncovered by DOGE.

What leftist media? 75% of the MSM is owned by Republicans and oligarchs. Where are the receipts, the evidence? Why should I trust a 19 year old hacker to determine whether something is a legitimate expenditure or not? Is anybody experienced actually auditing this team?

> It's no coincidence that the only states where the dems won in 2024 are those that not require any voter ID.

Are you seriously suggesting that Republicans ought to be winning 100% of the country? Do I really need to explain to you why this is absurd?

> I actually don't know why anyone would be against this.

Because they're lying in service of accruing dictatorial power. If you take things sociopaths tell you at face value, you will find yourself led around by the nose.
> It's not a pet theory when there's proof they have engaged in it through five eyes

What proof? You would think after all the leaks there have been, some proof would exist. Instead, you cling to a conspiracy theory based on a misunderstanding of an agreement.
I can only hope that the tech stack for server-served apps will be much more sane in a couple of decades (for the developers of the future; it’ll be too late for me). We are really in a very bad place now in that regard.
May be using a symlink or a junction to redirect the folders?

mklink /d link_src target_dir

mklink /J link_src target_dir

This has good discussion on the plus and minus of both. https://superuser.com/questions/343074/directory-junction-vs...
The grown ups do sometimes get angry at children that lie about their capabilities and equivocate with bullshit excuses.
As a student of history I wondered why I had never heard of this guy. What he did was something out of a super hero movie. Very sad story as he was denied a Navy cross because of his race and then died at 37 of alcoholism as he struggled with PTSD.
Maybe, but it's also clear that rural electrification was a huge error. People should live in clusters of at least a handful of structures where it's practical and affordable to provision electric lines (and telecommunications), or they should be off the grid altogether. What we built in the 20th century was the worst possible thing: mile after mile of transmission and distribution equipment serving dispersed houses in forests. This should never have been built and we should not perpetuate it with subsidies: https://www.google.com/maps/@38.4638277,-120.656418,3a,75y,3...
Sam Altman Sidestepped Elon Musk to Win over Donald Trump
What makes you think certifications can’t be gamed? Brain dumps have been a thing since at least 2008 and just like you can have a dozen AWS certifications, it tells you nothing about whether they could actually be productive in the real world.

Have you ever done any of the various IT certs?
The approach of "cutting funding and then observing whether anything critical fails or is impacted" only works if outcomes follow a normal distribution.

This is far from the case — many areas are characterized by heavy-tailed loss distributions, where extreme negative consequences could really ruin the day and erase any efficiency gains.
The only way I can see it getting solved is the OS sandboxing everything behind the scenes, redirecting everything the application spews in random locations to The One True Profile Folder per application. Even then it wouldn't be without challenges, off the top of my head some method if you actually wanted an application to get out of its sandbox and look at the real documents folder, another method for App1 to look at files in App2's sandbox (and detecting when this is desired), or what to do if an application is able to change how it identifies itself to the OS (new versions?).
Nope, it's implemented in the browser engine. I honestly find it funny that, for example, Opera, Edge and Chrome are supposedly different browsers, even though it's all actually Chromium and there is no meaningful difference.
The forests are supposed to burn.

They mitigate by building fireproof homes and leaving when the fire comes. Or just not living there.
Very odd to hear that from Golang co-creator. I don't really see how Go actually could compete with C++. Maybe in few cases, when people have accidentally chosen C++ incorrectly for their projects.
I have not seen anyone else claim that Ukraine is not an European country.

As for chance / motive to invade other European countries - for some reason Baltic states feel very threatened by Russia. Try to understand their reasons why.
I know we always had a hot water tank in or near the bathroom so hot water was nearly instant. I honestly can't tell you if it's widespread or not though.
A company exists to make money. If you can’t describe how your work either makes the company money or saves the company money? Why should they care?
Burgers by Percent
I mean, you’re the CEO of an AI company.
Yep you literally get half price power if your city does it - https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/files/assets/public/v/5/utili...

I’m lucky enough to be in such an area. Note the city takes a bit of the above as profit too. Not that that’s a bad thing but it just goes to show how beneficial it is and how much more you’re paying by not doing it. Every city should do it asap.
This immediately suggests what you want is a gradual migration process from one language through several intermediate languages to your target language.

i.e. instead of a big bang C++ -> Carbon migration, instead you want something like:

C++ -> C+++ -> Carbon-- -> Carbon -> Carbon++ -> Rust

(Basically fake names for more gradual transitional intermediate languages, assuming Google would like to have everything in Rust eventually.)

The key idea of "targeting automated migrations" makes this kind of thing feasible
Here is a little-known (but very useful piece of information).

The US Postal Services has a team of people that handle address updates. This team is localized to different regions so that they generally are aware of local nuances. If you need to talk to the USPS about getting an address issue resolved simply go to this USPS AMS site and enter your zipcode to find the team that handles addresses in that area:

https://postalpro.usps.com/ppro-tools/address-management-sys...

If they don't answer, leave a message. They have helped me thousands of times in my last 14 years working with address validations.
Yeah, it'll work plugged in. Since the dashboard mode locks everything down until restart, you can leave it connected. Though keeping it constantly charging might turn your battery into a spicy pillow eventually - maybe chuck it on a smart plug to charge for an hour every few days if you're worried about that.
They didn't because that's not a Show HN, it just has Show HN in the title.
> No, it is not the entire point. No one is really doubting whether you can write a driver in Rust, C++ or Swift. The whole experiment is whether you can slowly move in to existing mature kernel subsystems without being too disruptive.

Which Chris did doubt, as a way to gatekeep Rust (as you misrepresented, and which is clearly visible in the LKML thread).

regardless, back to the other stuff:
First point: Which is what was suggested as well in the LKML and still does not really solve the problem, which is not TECHNICAL but POLITICAL.
Second point: Obvious, and wasteful, and again is thus a political move which is the entire point of this entire saga. It isn't about drama, its about the political aspect of the kernel dev being tiring and wasteful.
wow congratulations to you. I hope you weren't in a foreign country at the same time! I can understand why you might be a creature of habit and an unplanned bus routing is definitely a monkey wrench
Ask HN: Secure use of LLMs for analyzing customer data
I would like to use ChatGPT / Claude / other "off the shelf LLMs" to analyze financial & operational data that prospects submit to my business as part of our quoting process.

We current receive data in Excel files and assign it to a team of people who take weeks to review it and prepare a proposal and estimated savings.

I believe we can do this much faster and cheaper with LLMs and that the speed trumps the accuracy (and in this case it's okay to not be 100% right)

My question: what is best practice when using ChatGPT / Claude for analyzing these files? We sign NDAs with prospects (though it doesn't specify that we would share with a 3rd party like ChatGPT). Is it enough to do a Temporary Chat?

To be clear, we have NOT done this yet - which is why I am asking. Thanks!
Britannica
> sovereignty, in political theory, the ultimate overseer, or authority, in the decision-making process of the state and in the maintenance of order.

Merriam-Webster
> a: supreme power especially over a body politic
> b: freedom from external control : autonomy
> c: controlling influence

Wikipedia
> Sovereignty can generally be defined as supreme authority.[1][2][3] Sovereignty entails hierarchy within a state as well as external autonomy for states.[4] In any state, sovereignty is assigned to the person, body or institution that has the ultimate authority over other people and to change existing laws.

None of these match Germany. Maybe you have your own one that does, and I'm fine with that.
A trained LLM can learn from a few examples.

A human takes 14+ years until it's intelligent, also requires extensive training.
I got downvoted too in my original post. I saw it grey, so that means downvotes, but the comment was just saying something trying to help, not even criticizing anything. People that were already young adults (or in their late teens) when the PlayStation 2 came out, and that reads HN today, very possibly know about the IBM PS/2 PC as well.
Anyway, it was just a minor comment, I will stop here
Generative AI models are known to amplify prejudice – can they be fixed?
> When your objective as an engineer is so broad that you need to worry about customers and the product, then the engineering itself suffers... that said it might not suffer to the extent that it matters but that is the point here

If you aren’t writing software with the customer and business in mind, why are you doing it? That’s what you are getting paid for.
I know enough C++ to understand that "member access operator" example, but not enough to have ever seen that before, and my first thought is just "big yikes".

I'm sure there are cases where this will mean you can write more general and flexible library code, but is it really worth the cost? C++ just seems so full of this three-starred nonsense.
He doesn't mention that many people have identical handwritten "u" and "n" (both written "и").

This barely matters at all; context will tell you what symbol is being used, just like it does in prose, and most material is typeset.

It really is a very bad idea to use lowercase Ls, though.