skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A car from the '60's could do 0-60mph in ... an age. I'm 54 y/o and not off of the '60's but old enough to remember lead in petrol (gas). My modern EV can do 0-30 rather rapidly and 0-60 quite rapidly. It tops out at 120 or so.

The US freeways are able to sustain high speeds but their older off ramps are proper old school and way too tight. Older bits of the German autobahns have the same issue - far too tight bends on "Ausfahrt". In France and Italy, Spain and well the rest of the EU I recall mostly decent on and off ramps.

I think the UK has the best efforts - we generally have massively long and large slip lanes but I will grant that we have some horrible exits from A roads, which are dual carriageway and so look like motorway. For example A303 whilst running through Somerset.
I have invested in hedge funds as an individual. Your proposals would be great for me; less competition. I’m sceptical of the public benefits, though there is absolutely a political bloc who will like the optics of banning public investments in HFs and PE.

> private equity, which is a high fee structure built to hide losses over long term periods

Empirically false.

The problem with PE is the same as HFs: fees and dispersion of outcomes.
It was definitely the case prior, though, so you're not completely off base :)
Buffalo: /? buffalo ecosystem impact : https://www.google.com/search?q=buffalo+ecosystem+impact

Wolves: /? wolves yellowstone: https://www.google.com/search?q=wolves+yellowstone ; 120 wolves in 2024

Beavers: "Government planned it 7 years, beavers built a dam in 2 days and saved $1M" (2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42938802#42941813

Keystone species: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_species :

> Keystone species play a critical role in maintaining the structure of an ecological community, affecting many other organisms in an ecosystem and helping to determine the types and numbers of various other species in the community. Without keystone species, the ecosystem would be dramatically different or cease to exist altogether. Some keystone species, such as the wolf and lion, are also apex predators.

Trophic cascade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_cascade

Ecosystem service:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem_service :

> Evaluations of ecosystem services may include assigning an economic value to them.
Sigh. What Norman Mailer said.

Someone should make a movie where Cuban snipers, Anti-Castro snipers, CIA snipers, KGB snipers, Mob snipers, Oswald and whatever conspiracy is hip today are all in Dealey Plaza shooting at each other and JFK gets hit by ricochets.

RFK Jr’s daddy literally put Oswald’s first assasination target into a mental asylum: https://engelsbergideas.com/reviews/edwin-walker-deep-state-...

Bet you’ve never heard that one.
This was a beautiful comment to read. Thank you.
The R1 paper did it as well. Agreed, it's always very interesting.
In that case, the tail on the J is just a decoration of an I, and we can write Iack Iones.
Since it's a python library, my guess is that they meant a JavaScript or WebAssembly package would be useful.
> You honestly sound a bit unhinged.

smh. Is that the best you've got or do you have a useful answer to my initial question?

Do you always walk around insulting strangers? It seems like you need the grass you love to recommend so much. It will help you more than anyone else.
People are already building fences out of PV[1]. At least in the US, my instinct would be that building codes might not consider them to be adequate as siding, however.

1: https://justwe-gpi.com/solar-power/solar-panel-fence/
a bad rescue means you need to send in 4*n personel where n is the number of rescuers + original patient.

I feel the gp is just trying to win an argument in comments and not actually understand anything.
> I remember as a kid in the 90s you could do a little metal detector, and sometimes not even that, and get on a plane.

I took flights in the 2010's that didn't feel all that different from boarding a bus. You went to the desk to check in and to give them any checked baggage, walked to the waiting area to wait with a couple of dozen people, then went outside to board the plane. Any plane that would eventually connect to an international airport would have passengers go through security, but otherwise no.
The Innovator's Dilemma is about new, disruptive technologies causing large, established, incumbent firms to fail. Are the Chinese EV makers developing new technologies?
I think it can be fine if it's more of a marketing thing that I'm only going to view once and that doesn't have too much reading. Think of it like a promotional video that I can view at my own pace. But you have to have a good reason for it, cause there are lots of downsides.

And never use it for anything important, or that I might want to go back to multiple times.

This site is probably an example of a bad use case, cause it's the front page and I can't access the links without scrolling. Not to mention that it's broken on my device.
I have often wondered about this as well. I think the answer is, where else are you going to find a very small town, in the mountains, on a passenger rail line? For good measure throw in extensive local history (including historic sites), modern internet and cellular coverage, and maybe also some onsen.

Certainly there are a few to be had but (my impression) pretty much none in North America. Probably some places in Switzerland and Austria that tick most of those boxes which people seem to find similarly fascinating.
This is likely oversimplified, but an intuitive approach is:

1/3 = 0.333 repeating

3/3 = 0.999 repeating

1 = 0.999 repeating
The neon signage of our time
It’s a good proxy for care taken and fs given during production.
> entirely legally.

Hypothetically, would it be legal to fund a president whose policy was "let's nuke everyone"?
This is a cool and important one. I was happy to see the article celebrating the young scientist. This is well deserved. Congratulations to him. And I hope this inspires other undergraduates as well.
I don't think Bernie fits here. You can disagree with him, but he basically makes political / policy comments (the same ones he's made for decades too.

AOC falls a bit into the twitter-feud commentary, but Musk and Trump are on another level of embarrassing, lie-filled, garbage (also at all hours of the night, I think which tells you something too)
More likely: Trump lets him slash and burn, then turns on him and throws him under the bus to the American public. Very typical Trump playbook.

Maybe he also takes a page from Putin’s playbook and puts him on trial in a very public and humiliating way, sending a clear message to all the other oligarchs.
You just didn’t know there was a Sky Legionnaire up there ready to mess you up if you started anything.
I find the reaction to this to be interesting, because it's obviously arbitrary, and there are thousands of geographical features whose names vary widely between countries, and not only for the obvious language reasons. So, each country clearly has the right to call international water bodies whatever they want. Personally, I don't care what it's called, but the new name is fine.

But because Trump did it, some Americans find this inherently problematic, in a way I doubt anyone would have if that had happened to be the name given 300 years ago. And I doubt any Mexican ever felt the old name was inappropriate.

If anyone has an argument that I'm missing something in this assessment, I'm happy to listen.
Well higher ed is one of the biggest lobbyists for the H1B program.

Foreigners come here on student visas, pay the universities international tuition rates with no aid, get their degrees, and then convert to H1B. So it would be interesting to see how that plays out.
I can handle some name-calling, but not the bad faith arguments. They can be whiny man-children all they want so long as they act like rational adults when it matters. But they can't even muster that anymore. It's all self-indulgent performance all the time. And just enough people are willing eat it up that it keeps reinforcing the behavior.

We are being shitty parents to our billionaire class. Billionaires need boundaries if we want them to grow up and turn into respectable adults.
If you are wanting to do business in a baksheesh culture (ie., doing things that could be interpreted by others as bribery), then, not doing things that could be interpreted by others as bribery, works out to not doing business there, period.

The complication is, sometimes your head-office country local culture says "go for it", then down the line (+some years) says "you were evil".

Not saying if that's good or not, but just saying...
Putting aside that LLMs can’t replace people that way, it would be infinitely cheaper to just license one vs buying OpenAI. And you could say “but Elon wants government money”, but it’d take so long to make it back because inference is so cheap (and probably running
at a loss if you’re OpenAI).
User name checks out?
One corner they are cutting is replacing radar with the camera. IMO that’s ridiculous, but it’s certainly made a few million extra.
> this link specifically celebrates the user interface of the later versions of non-OSX MacOS. This doesn't really have a relation to the stability of the OS.

"Very pretty but can't do much" was a general take on the Mac OS cube of the day.

The lack of a fan or any decent cooling, the "lack of a floppy disk" (for those of us who didn't use Zip drives), it was pretty to look at but hard to work with.

We had one to run FrameMaker on, but beyond type-setting (& fonts), it was a shiny thing which was treated like a sunday sports car.

Where I was, the Tex user group is what eventually materialized into a Linux User group and there was simultaneously love for the screen, rendering and fonts for the Mac, but near hatred at having to use it to professionally typeset things.

Math publications quickly jumped ship out of Adobe due to OS 9, but very few came back to the OS X versions until years later when Apple started making really good laptops with fast hardware.
Chase online deposit was fine with it for us. I'm pretty sure quite a few of them were "and" and some were probably "[me] and [my wife's completely made up name]". (She doesn't go by her legal name, first or last, though now that we're married she intends to go through the legal process to update.)
asymptotically close as you add 9s, but 9 repeating means you DO add an infinity of 9s, so it equals 1.

The reasoning that persuaded me initially was 1/3 is .333 repeating, 2/3 is .666 repeating, and 3/3 is .999 repeating.
That’s exactly the opposite of the Innovator’s Dilemna. That’s the startup bros definition they use in pitch decks. But not Clay Christenson’s definition

It’s about products coming into the market at the low end that are “good enough” when the current leaders “over serve” the market - “low end disruption”. Examples are PCs -> mainframes, Linux x86 servers -> Unix boxes, digital cameras/phones -> regular cameras and even smart phones to PCs

Surprisingly enough, another facet of the Innovator’s dilemma is that low end disruption partially happens because the companies involved are not vertically integrated like Tesla and each part of the supply chain focuses on optimizing their components and have scale efficiencies because the low end market has more volume.

We see that now with Chinese ODMs in the EV space. We saw that before with x86 PCs vs Macs and to an extent with smart phones. Apple is kind of unique as a vertically integrated company. But even they don’t make their own processors or manufacturer their own devices
I'm so confused trying to imagine exactly what you prompted. What did you prompt?!
The (US) government generally does not have fingerprints for the majority of people who have never been arrested.
Ask HN: Is AI just a Blockchain investment bubble v2?
I know this goes against current worldwide sentiment, but it feels like AI/LLM's potential near-term impact is being hyped beyond its actual capabilities?

We're being told that AGI is just around the corner, but each new product release from the major AI players feels like the amount of hallucinations it produces increases with each new version. I used to fear that AI would replace my job, but now it feels like the code it produces simply can't be trusted to actually function, let alone solve the issue given to it.

It feels like we're being sold a calculator that tells us 1+1=2 but sometimes also 3.

Given the amount of investment being poured into AI (e.g. the US government's $500 billion Stargate program announcement), and most SaaS's trying to shoehorn an AI chatbot into their offerings despite it not necessarily being a good fit (let alone providing correct answers), I can't help but feel we're watching Blockchain v2 investment hype mania again.
So Rich Hickey is Richard Richard.
September? It's early February. You really think it'll take 7 months?
Honeypot have gotten less effective as bots have moved to using headless-browser agents vs simple POSTs.
Apparently, the answer is "yes"
I have vivid memories from childhood hugging my grandma before flying right at the gate. Unfortunately people have a short memory. Kids these days will have no memory of how free of a country we lived in even 25 years ago.
Funny thing is, people think their bank account number is private, but it's printed on every check they write.
Nocc – A Distributed C++ Compiler
One more bit of feedback! It would be great if I could delete a word from my deck. Thanks again!
And yet you missed the self-deprecating humor in acknowledging FF users is such a small number, it's me and one other person. Did you think that was a literal number I believed to be true?
Yeah, I can't find the link but apparently a lot of the improvement in x/twitters results are due to xAi paying x to advertise.
NYC buildings now have an "efficiency" rating they're required to post on the front of their building. Doesn't give you a $, but maybe a gist of what your energy bill might be like.
I told it is was possible, the worst case runtime characteristics and asked it to figure out how you would achieve it. I also gave it some hints from the paper.
Thinking about it, I consider it possible that pg is afraid of the Trump administration. He rightfully called David Sacks names for his actions in the Parker Conrad case. It might be subjective, but I believe that since the election, his language on his Twitter feed has changed significantly as well. I believe he wants no further conflict - the paypal mafia has too much power to harm him now.
I get "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" on a Japanese connection.

This stuff is obviously pointless and silly but it's nothing new. I'm sure Google Maps shows UK and French users different names for what I would call the English Channel.
Demanding that the ABA treat the Imperial Presidency folks the same as normal mostly-law-abiding citizens is affirmative action for despots and criminals. It's "both sides" taken to an absurd extreme; anyone who really cares about the rule of law (however imperfect that law or its administration might be) would reject that idea.
Gulf of America is a more inclusive name anyway since both USA and Mexico are part of North America, but since it's Trump everyone hates it. People can't really even articulate what's wrong with it in a vacuum without mentioning Trump.

I don't even like Trump, but this "renaming" is neutral at worst, inclusive at best.
What was the rationale to do it. Was it in the name of accuracy? Does it further US national interests or have any other benefit?
This is a good summary, but getting down to exactly what I meant: there aren't any hash table authors or maintainers in the business who have been stopped from trying something because of Yao's conjecture. So this result is not going to unleash a wave of practical innovation.
If you are actually tying the solar-panel into your house's "grid" couldn't you also make additional mods between your electrical-panel and the meter to prevent backfeed?

Or, maybe an inline battery that the solar panel tops off.
The Proto-Indo-European language is usually dated to something like 6000 years ago, well before any writing.
> because Trump did it, some Americans find this inherently problematic

Paired with the tariffs on Mexico and Canada, I think it’s more a reaction to what it says about America’s view towards its neighbours.

American power is overwhelming. Theoretically, it should have been balanced by now. It hasn’t because we’ve been a good steward of our alliances. “Gulf of America,” Mare Nostrum; at what point does it become rational for Mexico to seek a security guarantor against America?

“Speak softly, and carry a big stick.” Xi forgot the first part and may have squandered what ought to have been China’s century on account of it. The pushback to a needlessly-provocative imperialesque renaming is American society doing what China’s couldn’t.

(Broadly, I agree with your point. A lot of people are perpetually on Defcon 1. The renaming is dumb. But it isn’t going to undermine America.)
They are not one-sided by taking one side. GOP is wrong.

It's like saying that the priest is one sided because he is not giving Satan the same treatment as Jesus.
I think there's a habit amongst people who didn't vote for trump to catastrophize his every move, which helps him by distracting people from maybe the more consequential decisions he makes. Interestingly he didn't name it the Gulf of USA, the Gulf of the United States, the Gulf of Florida or The Gulf of Freedom and Bald Eagles, but after the continent itself, which Mexico is in fact a part of.

What's the expression... "don't take the bait"? There are far worse things happening in the White House for people on both sides of the aisle right now.
You're not wrong, but if you just want to kill large groups of airline passengers, it seems like the TSA line would be the easiest place to do it.
I'm not sure what "(North) America" means and what Trump thinks "America" means are the same thing.
I’ll pick a prompt such that the range is vast so that if it gets the answer right the probability is so small that it must have arrived there by reasoning.
I mean, in this case it would be the Saudis.
In the "which keyboard shortcuts do you use" section I was sad that Ctrl-D was labeled just as "EOF" when i'd suggest "Disconnect" is just as important. Pressing ^D to close a shell, including say, a shell in a container, an SSH session, or just to end the whole terminal session, is my favorite keyboard shortcut and I'm always surprised to see people typing out "exit" and pressing Return.

Hopefully one person sees this and saves thousands of keystrokes over the next few decades ;)
I’m wondering under what definition he “founded” Tesla rather than being the investor who took it over years later kicking the founders out?

I’d give him SpaceX, but it definitely did better when he was paying less attention to it.
I kind of like how the retro Zoom has separate windows for each participant. It’s pretty frustrating how little control Zoom (not to mention Meet or Teams) gives you over the layout.
How did you choose 60% as the brand value ratio?
Do they think you're going to hijack the train?
Implement all this jazz with s-expressions and I am on board!
Given Musk is currently pissing off foreign governments, there is a real danger that one of those governments will just send in a nice looking person with some tea to have a quiet chat with him.

After which, he will look very tired, and suddenly stop being "turbulent", as per the meaning several judges have recently noted in Trump trials was once infamously said by a king of a priest.

Then I will be sad, because I would have liked to have gone to Mars.
> Is it racist to know the fact that say, zero schoolteachers from Iowa with no history of travel to the Middle East have ever hijacked a plane, but quite a few people from Saudi Arabia and Iran, or who have contacts there, have? And to allow the teacher to bypass the whole mess? I'd say that's efficient.

Iowans have committed significantly more homicides per capita than people from most European countries (or Saudi Arabia, for that matter). I don't think it's problematic if European airports screen Iowans more heavily than Europeans and Saudis. Do you?
shock-and-awe presidency. Create just enough chaos over meaningless things to help distract people from higher impact legislation (and to slow down court opposition to them, by keeping the courts busy dealing with other nonsense)
That is called Shoshin, or Beginner’s Mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin
Gulf of America just makes more sense. Calling this the "Gulf of Mexico" would be like calling The Black Sea "The Gulf of Turkey".
If you're rounding to 0.05, you don't even need to break ties - any price ending in an integer number of cents can be rounded fairly to the nearest 0.05, e.g.

1.00 -> already round
1.01, 1.02 -> round down to 1.00
1.03, 1.04 -> round up to 1.05
1.05 -> already round
1.06, 1.07 -> round down to 1.05
1.08, 1.09 -> round up to 1.10
1.10 -> already round
The original wording was "You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat."

I think there's a good argument that the intended interpretation should be the favored one. If he doesn't use the knowledge to always reveal a goat, why did they bother specifying that he has the knowledge?

But it still doesn't quite explicitly say that he's not picking randomly.
This is all, as the title suggests, good fun, but I wouldn't use it for any real code. Instantiating the parameter struct on a separate line adds only a small amount of extra boilerplate at the call site, in return for which it's a million times easier to read than any of these tricks.

FooArgs fooArgs;
fooArgs.y = 4;
foo(fooArgs); // Didn't set .x so it has default value

Three lines instead of one seems like a lot of overhead, but in practice you would only bother for a function that takes loads of arguments so the extra overhead is really much smaller.

----

Smaller points:

Are the fields in FooArgs really initialised if they're not explicitly set? I can believe they are, after all it's brace initialisation. But IMHO that code isn't super obvious. I'd be more comfortable if they had default member initialisers, i.e., "int x = 0; int y = 0;" in FooArgs. In my version above, you really do need these (unless you remember to brace initialise).

It took me a while to see why they bothered to have a string template parameter for TypedArg in the first usage. It prevents mixing up two arguments: if TypedArg didn't have that, then you could call foo(y=3, x=2) and it would compile but have the effect that the parameter x would be 3 and y would be 2.
Nice result!

<rhetorical> Hmm....I wonder how such research gets funded?... </rhetorical>
I can't stand websites that do this kind of thing. Just distracting and adds nothing.
Just put regular columns next to each other.
The problem with Indus script is that the inscriptions are all very short. This gives you very little information to go on.
My washer/dryer had to be replaced, and I was able to convince my landlord to split the additional cost of a heat-pump dryer. (The QoL improvement is great since there's no vent in the unit, though it's unclear if my energy bills are actually lower).

But he's just a single-unit condo landlord, and I'm a pretty good tenant, so we have a good relationship. I can't imagine a multi-unit corporation doing this.
> The fact that it's worth more than all the other automakers combined.

"Tesla stock price is too high imo"

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 1, 2020