skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny picking a year on FreeBMD and seeing what names were popular then. At the moment old fashioned names are really popular - I met a little toddler called Margot last week! But I have to think that names like Sylvia, Lisa, Karen, Sharon, etc. might take quite a few generations before they come back into fashion.

In the Victorian era names were pretty creative and different! Lots of ones that haven't come through as 'classics'. My great grandmother's name was Rosina for e.g.
It's not. It assesses road-worthiness (aka safety), not reliability.

That article is often quoted in sensationalist media to smear Tesla. Look for actual mileage data and they are one of the, if not THE most reliable vehicle.
When you’re Patrick McKenzie, it’s just the truth.
It would be very difficult for many new companies to get the word out about their new product. Innovation would suffer.

If you can't advertise for the AirFryer, how do you get people to know about this new product and what it can do? Mouth-to-mouth is too slow and inefficient for most products. How often do you drop by a kitchen store just to check out if there is any new invention?
Where's Java Going in 2025?
The math simply never works out in favor of lower salaries/publicly funded healthcare for high paying US roles like software engineering. Even taking your (high, assuming family of 4) premiums and 0% employer contribution (very uncommon), that’s an additional $43k a year, pretax. US SWE salaries are double, sometimes triple international with absolute numbers at $50k+.

This doesn’t even factor in general higher tax brackets abroad
The realtime Whisper demo is amazing.

How can I understand what's in the compiled JS though? Is there some source for that?
> or this (ps ax | grep ffmpeg)
>
> Get-Process | Where-Object { $_.ProcessName -match "ffmpeg" }

The way to write that on the command line Powershell would be:

ps ffmpeg

Whereas your longer example is what you put in the PS1 file.
You are correct, I am just another "no one" (with a few viral hits).
I suspect that's a reductive "just-so" story that happens to fit into some popular feminist narratives, though coming on the heels of some adjacent theories popular among men in the 18th and 19th centuries that misconstrued the legal history of coverture.

It's difficult to find credible information using Google these days, but I would guess that the giving away of the bride is a custom more tied to exogamy--the practice of marrying outside one's social group (tribe, town, etc). In cultures that practice exogamy, it's typically either the young men (male exogamy) or the women (female exogamy), but not both, who would leave the group to marry. Giving away the bride seems more about relinquishing social and familial ties in the context of female exogamy. In some cultures, e.g. traditional chinese female exogamy AFAIU, the bride and her old family (or whole clan?) were strictly forbidden to communicate after marriage.

If women were just chattel (or something approximating chattel--there's a hole spectrum in-between, and overusing "chattel" this way diminishes the gravity of actual chattel slavery, IMO) then we wouldn't expect to see dowries (the bride's family giving the new couple money and gifts), but only brideprices (the groom's family giving the bride's family money and gifts). Yet AFAIU dowries were more the norm in European culture, notwithstanding there were times, places, and contexts where brideprices also existed, exclusively or in combination. And nobody says the groom is "chattel" just because the bride's family is transferring assets.

Interestingly, while I think female exogamy was historically much more common around the world, modern American culture seems to skew toward male exogamy, at least along some dimensions. It's never discussed in those terms[1], but you can arguably see it in statistics showing how the proximity and frequency of contact with extended family skews very heavily toward the wife's family.

[1] To the extent it's discussed, it's in feminist narratives and termed "emotional labor". It's not mutually exclusive with the anthropological concept. Male/female exogamy is value neutral, and feminist discourse is just slapping a value on it, in this case a negative value.
Oh I guess it was just a tweet, but still.

https://www.404media.co/ceo-reminds-everyone-eightsleep-pod-...
Despite the punchline, the USB floppy spec is actually incredibly restrictive and only supports 720K, 1.25MB and 1.44MB formatted capacities. This means, ironically for a spec partially written by a friend of Raymond Chen's, that you can't read the Microsoft 1.68MB DMF floppies used for software distribution with a USB floppy, but it also means that it's impossible to support the older 400K and 800K Mac formats. To be fair, those formats also require a special drive mechanism (the disk spins at different rates depending on which track you're reading), but there's no way to expose them within the USB floppy spec. There's an entirely justifiable argument for manufacturing a separate Mac drive with different functionality and requiring its own drivers.

(Edit to fix capacity)
shoulda invited https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Heymann to the unveiling
Your detector seems to have given up before the end.
No, the sovcit movement is sourced from actual, literal paranoid schizophrenia and spreads via social media.
Agreed! In your experience how developed are the 18/19 year old's executive skills? (Time management, goal setting, etc.)
I generally just work for nothing anymore. The personal finance bookkeeping is much simpler: I make less than the federal poverty line, so my minimum mothly payment on my student loan package is zero. As soon as it reaches as much as the poverty line, my minimum monthly payment jumps to $2500. An unrealistic amount. In a few more years, my 25-years will be up, and it all goes away. Of course, I'm already well-past the age that anyone would hire me for my engineering skills, software or hardware. My last advanced degree was awarded in 2006. I got by on community college degrees until rather late in life, and nobody wanted to believe my knowledge was current.
I wish I could go back in time and stop being aware of who egg boy and Horowitz are.
I believe the deepest we've ever gotten is 7.5 miles. So 0.1875% and we're only a few millennia in!
See that and raise you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgfna12Rt-k
>I’m working on a USB-powered microwave oven.

>This USB grill is joke, right ? I mean how much power can you draw from USB port (500mA at 5V = 2.5 Watt) ? Maybe it’s for cooking mini-burgers for the anorexic geeks.

Did anyone try a USB grill yet?

https://www.amazon.com/Gourmia-GBQ330-Portable-Charcoal-Elec...
If it's only reasoning randomly how do you know when anything has been reasoned properly vs just a generated simulation of reasonable text?
The Art of Managing Skunks
Scary presentation! And nice to see some of the so-called “party of math” pushing back against the trump tax cuts. He still mostly demonizes the democrats, but it’s interesting that not once did he mention raising taxes on the very wealthy. Why does America need billionaires?
The trip to Mars is probably survivable.

What comes after this is less so.
So it's not reliability assessment but safety check.
Unfortunately, I can only find material from the marketing department on that issue. But if I understand correctly, both coils have a ferrite core (and yoke), but there is a small air gap where the rotating side is separated from the stationary side.
I love how this movie starts ...
The only way of knowing whether such differences are big or small (or whether they exist at all) is by performing a scientific analysis.

To insist that nobody should look into it because what they might find could upset you is just bizarre.
The specification is open, if you want to make your own implementation you can.
It looks likely that they are taping-out a TPU style design, based on the resume of the lead designer. This could either theoretically give them Google-class cost efficiency, maybe much larger context windows, or it could simply be a tool to fight NVIDIA with for cost of future bulk purchases.
Ha, yeah it's f=ma not f=ma^2.

The main point is that going faster requires more energy, and this is the primary limiting function of air transport speed.
In these systems it might make sense to have the image start with GC disabled, and the application will turn it on past a certain point in its initialization, and do a full GC at that point to compact everything to the mature generation.
You don't really get propaganda the same way in the west because due to free speech rules you have people saying all sorts of stuff, people saying the usual Russia is bad, the likes of Tucker saying he hopes Russia wins. In dictatorships it's more one sided because they imprison those that say the wrong thing.

I mean some try in Russia. Here's russian historian Alexander Skobov saying how it is before probably spending the rest of his life in jail https://x.com/Kasparov63/status/1880337652806722043
Interesting setup for Fetchfox.

I’m not sure avoiding specific phrases because the general populace has stigmas is helpful however. I don’t view employee-owned or coops in those ways at all. For example, your growth rate should be attributed to the quality of the product. The product quality should be attributed to people’s interest in their work. Good compensation/benefits such as ownership should be the incentive of a quality product.
Breaching the Perimeter: Using AI to Compromise 23 Healthcare Organizations
My college campus store sold colorful translucent floppy disks as recently as 2009. They felt anachronistic.
It's because Apple fixed the issue on all affected devices with OS updates released in July 2023.
For your amusement, another take on that riddle: https://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/stories-with-holes
> Sure, if you hit the jackpot and join Facebook, then you're set for life.

Back in 2008 when Yahoo was laying off people, joining Facebook was something people did out of desperation.

That was an 85k/year job with an expectation of "all work, no life".

It was not seen as a good option, but most of the time the only place that was hiring during the Great Recession.

A decade later, it was a completely different thing. Yahoo was dead, Google+ (Orkut) had failed & FB had Instagram & Whatsapp.
That's a good article. It's here too: https://archive.ph/eJoqA.
Yes. Have you actually read it?
> Theres at least two sporting good store is employee run and for some reason my brain can't remember the name (it insists its DEI)

It's REI, and it's actually a consumer co-op owned by its members, not employee-owned.
I was thinking the smart contract part would just be the periodic disbursement of funds, nothing complex. The hope was that using a cryptocurrency and smart contract would make periodic disbursement untamperable. If smart contracts can be tampered with, then I see no point in their existence. The untamperability of a disbursement process for cryptocurrency would depend on the implementation. Maybe it's not possible to do that. Has anyone tried? Maybe the money could always be shut off at the source, but that could also take down all payments (something the Democrats are currently threatening to do). Bugs in such a system could be a big problem, they might initiate things that would be very difficult to stop. Ultimately the input to the system, the laws passed by Congress, would affect the correctness of the system. Laws are not always logical, which could be an issue, though they tend to get very specific where money is involved.
Well in that case, the way you get a 50 char summary is by iterating grapheme clusters, then counting up to 50 points and discarding the broken cluster. It's quite trivial if the language exposes an interface for iterating both clusters and points, and without such an interface the problem is much harder to notice. Hence why the language shouldn't prefer clusters to points or points to clusters. It should expose all relevant representations without prejudice.

Even if ASCII is appropriate in some situation, this should be stated within the program. Requiring people to be explicit about the data they produce and consume is important and useful. A user might decide that UTF-16 best serves their need (or be working on the Windows platform) in which case code which works with strings as linear sequences will be able to operate on their strings without issue. Code which assumes a UTF-8 byte representation will require an the entire string to be allocated, converted, then reallocated and converted back. Huge overhead and potential incompatibility for no reason.
I mean, it's perfectly fine if the way `--help` communicates that you shouldn't be using double-dash options is by... giving the help text that has all single dash options. That seems like pretty solid communication?

I don't care at all which type the program likes. I just can't remember which programs like which styles. So I ask them. And I prefer if they don't insult me when I do.
Good idea. And if users tracked how long things took on the app, then the personal AI could better schedule your time by having accurate estimates of how long an assignment might take you.
I'm sorry, but I just can't make any sense out of this.

> This presenting it as a trivial "if you don't like it, leave" is a deliberate and bad-faith oversimplification

This is not an oversimplification, this is a fact that you don't like and prefer to ignore. It doesn't disappear when you close your eyes though.

A grumpy person made an open source project that by chance became successful. He didn't force all these people and corporations to use it and fund it, it was a free choice on their part.

What is he supposed to do now, change his personality to please random people on the internet? Why? How do you even see this happening? Or you think grumpy people should have been prohibited from writing code in the first place?

Furthermore he does not hold anyone hostage as you try to present this. Linux is not Linux Foundation. You can use and develop Linux without funding the Linux Foundation. It's just more convenient like that but again you are free to exchange patches outside of it.

People who walk in and say "nice project you have here, now you comply or we take it away from you" don't have my sympathy.
I thought it was quite good, although maybe it should have been a series rather than a single book. That might have given Stephenson time to flesh out the end, which felt a bit rushed.
I think a lot of this is because the economic pressure is weak right now both on the side of labor and consumers, due to decades of severe upward wealth transfer. A lot of these companies are not improving or even maintaining their productivity or quality of service, and while there are probably some productivity gains for engineers, I suspect based on what I'm seeing that this is going to burn a lot of people out, as there is significant social pressure both from peers and employers to exaggerate this somewhat. People can have too heavy a workload for a decent amount of time before breaking.

There's just no countervailing force to make these decisions that immediately painful for them. Sectors are monopolized, people are tired and desperate, tech workers are in a basically unprecedented bout of instability.

The situation is super dark from a lot of angles, but I don't think it's really "the overwhelming usefulness of AI" that's to blame here. As far as I can tell, the biggest thing these technologies are doing is providing a cover story for private-equity-style guttings of various knowledge work verticals for short-term profit, which was kind of inevitable given that's been happening across the board in the larger economy, it's just another pretense that works for different verticals.

There are cases where LLMs seem really genuinely useful (Mostly ones that are for and by SWEs, like generating documentation or smoothing some ramp processes in learning new libraries or languages) and those don't seem to be "transformative" at scale yet, unless we count "transforming" many products into buggier products that are more brittle and frustrating to interact with
The crypto token “liquidity” feels off.

Do accredited investor regulations not apply to this market? Is the crypto token a registered security since it apparently represents stock in a company?

I’m turned off because it sounds like the company wants to play fast and loose with money in a way that is more than just “move fast and break things”.
Mercurial Source Control Management
And POSIX has man(1) instead of --help: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/m...
I think the actual "scale up" is when customer demand picks up right? Not the engineer.
> But it is weird that we stick with these being emulators for stuff most people here would never have touched in their life because they are not at retirement age yet.

It's a standard that works, keeps a massive trove of software from being obsolete, and gives you backwards compatibility for free.

Case in point, I recently installed Gentoo on my desktop from a VT320 terminal given to me by a friend. After a simple config line to tell the init system to put a shell on my serial port with the right options, I was working with modern Linux tools in 2025 on hardware from 1987.

https://jimm.horse/img/vt320.jpg

It's a testament to the value of maintaining standards and emulation that this terminal can be saved from e-waste. Everything mostly "just worked" once I got the TERM/environment set up right. Oddly seems like you need to set options to vt300, not vt320, for the best compatibility.

It's a joy to use. The keyboard feels very nice to type on, very good for rubber dome. The amber light is easy on the eyes. I find working on the terminal makes me less prone to distractions, and it's also prompted me to get back into learning vim better. Any cases where I had trouble with control codes etc. were a good opportunity to learn more about the ecosystem - helps that that was my mindset going into installing Gentoo in the first place.
Panel gaps on most utilitarian family car mean near 0, esp. around reliability.
because I know nothing about the way licensing about programming languages work lol
Having had a bit of it with my wife (she changed her name) my policy is to make the check out to the person who is not changing their name.
I think in an employee owned model the CEO is less visible and a different role, that role is then incentivized to actually drive the business instead of creating hype in the market to ensure valuation for investors/stock markets.

The value of an employee owned business is that you can vote the CEO out if they’re not working in the best interests.
The report from Tony Blair institute is pretty good, unfortunately they write:

AI capabilities, however, are fast evolving. The next wave is expected to be “strong” or “general” AI (AGI). AGI applications will exhibit more autonomy, be able to adapt to different contexts and not be limited to specific tasks – similar to human capability. Beyond this, AI systems smarter than any individual human (“artificial super intelligence”) and systems smarter than all humans (“the singularity”) are possible further in the future.

For the purposes of this project, we exclude these more advanced versions of AI because their disruptive potential is so great and they are still thought to be some decades away.

Anthropic released some related economical analysis today: https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-anthropic-economic-index - looks interesting.
Holy shit! Thanks a ton
> I don't see a route where I could reasonably have much more than say 10 million 10 years from now.

You have to ask yourself this- how much is enough, and how hard are you willing to work/risk for it? On the low end, how much is the minimum, and what pros would make that acceptable, quality of life, risk, anxiety levels, etc.

Your way forward will be much clearer when you know what your parameters are, even though life may happen between now and the end date of your plans.
TikTok is now distributing its Android app for installation via sideloading
I don't think hypochondria is the problem as much as there is a degradation in the overall health of the population and they do feel unwell, but the system is unable to diagnose them because they aren't "bad" by any quantitative standards medicine operates on (ie bloodwork/weight/etc being off).

It's like how the tech world did not notice or address "the website is slow" in the 90s until folks started writing about how the 95th, 98th, 99th, 99.9th percentile times affected user experience. Once we could link 95th percentile page latency to revenue/profit, all of a sudden, investing in performance became a priority.

I'm not sure that we have managed to link and make a case of linking GDP (or some other metric) to overall health of the population at the fringes.
Earlier Voodoo cards didn't need to worry about video BIOS because it wasn't the primary video card. It used this wacky passthrough system where you still used your normal graphics hardware for ordinary 2D stuff, and then it switched over to the 3D card when you ran 3D software, which had to take over the entire screen. Nvidia and ATI cards handled normal graphics functions, not just 3D, so they needed to be able to come up at boot time. Later 3dfx cards added 2D and also needed Mac-specific firmware.
This is awesome! Any plans to release a self-hosted version? I would love to spin an instance up on my own stack.
Appreciate the note. The production configuration still thinks it is in Tokyo, and I did all my reviews on a laptop that knows it is in Chicago. Will fix.
Grep is from an ed editor command: global (g) to apply a command to all lines that match a regular expression, a regex surrounded by slashes (/), and print (p) to display those lines. Or g/re/p for short. This proved a useful enough operation that they made it a separate command in the early days of Unix.
A lot of this movement continued to happen under the previous Trump administration; we have no idea what is going to happen, there are good arguments that it may go away, but also ones that argue it will accelerate or intensify. We’ll see.
A lot of startups don't ever get a YC seed round or $20M valuation. There's a significant risk that your equity ends up being worthless.
When people we know are getting married ask us for our address, I explicitly reply that we are not to be addressed in that manner (I find it somewhat insulting).

I can tell if the couple is doing addressing themselves or if they're having an older relative do it by if our instructions have been followed.
"If any such differences exist it would be, at a population level, two highly overlapping normal distributions with slightly different means, well within a standard deviation."

Overlapping normal distribution, yes, but slightly different means, well within a standard deviation seems to be overconfident.

"Therefore you still have to treat people as individuals because the ancestry provides little signal."

No contest here.

"So then why is there so much interest among skeptical, contrarian, anti-woke, scientific racism types on this question?"

Because the difference at the extremes would be significant, and would explain overrepresentation and underrepresentation of certain groups among, say, top scientists.

The competing hypothesis, which explains differences among groups by discrimination and/or poverty, doesn't fully explain why heavily persecuted groups such as Jewish or Vietnamese refugees still manage an academic rebound within a generation or so of arriving into safety, even though they are still targeted by racial hatred. Taken globally or even just in the US, the correlation between academic success and persecution/power status is weak enough that it makes people doubt the "discrimination/poverty" explanation and motivates them to seek alternatives.
This sounds like a fun business to start