skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A pipe is a pipe, it's not a store. The buffer amount is not defined but usually you only get to write something like 512 bytes into it before it blocks.

(you could probably do the same thing by persisting state into a file, though)
> auditing government spending

Pretending like anything Elon Musk is doing is legitimate auditing is absurd. Do you recall when he/DOGE gutted NIH and research funding on a whim, and he didn't even know? (https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1888575713629925769)

> super-competent outsider

I'd disagree about him being particularly competent at anything other than venture capital, and auditing ≠ venture capital. Regardless, why would I trust the richest man in the world to decide what the citizens of the country need and/or want from the government?

Honestly, I can keep going if you'd like, but I think this is enough to demonstrate that Elon Musk should not have illegal access to the government through his immense wealth and power (if that was not already self-evident.)
some of us do but the adoption is too low for any meaningful network effect
Using passive radars and satellite signals to detect airborne threats [video]
What features are Teslas missing out on?
Sure, it's better to frame it as "reintroduction": for those early attempts to be succesful with Soviets pushing on the other side as well, it is a strategy that works the fastest.

Thanks for the funny incidents as well, and my empathy for the not so funny ones!
It's worth noting that it was a growing trend even before the pandemic and lockdowns only put the proverbial foot in the door for the general public.

I took my first remote role in 2015 and even back then it wasn't my only option. What's more interesting is that organisations which were remote first only doubled down on it after 2020, as e.g. cutting flights was a great way for them to save money.

All that being said both then and now promotions are more likely to be dispensed to those who show up.
And get to one of their live shows if you can! I recently saw them in Helsinki, great club show. Live guitars and drums and lots of retro tech on stage

https://mbrserver.com/
In Germany we have Self HTML (https://wiki.selfhtml.org/wiki/SELFHTML) since 1995. I learned all the web dev basics with it as a 12 year old. It was the kickstart for my career, and 28 years later I can safely say I was successful. And it all started with that.

Keep up the great work with such a guide, maybe you kickstart some careers with it!
I think you're focusing on one paragraph to the detriment of the rest of the article.

Also, not sure what was going on with your word salad there, but it really started to make no sense around this point "hyper hyperbolic information layer (emerging and part/parcel of human consciouness)"... maybe this is some Lesswrong insider slang?

That's my most charitable interpretation.
to-do-list presumably.
Jeep was bought by Stellantis, so I'm giving Jeep the benefit of the doubt. I imagine this terrible, horrible, no good idea, was their idea. The people with the money rarely come up with the good ideas.
Indy Pass, the Anti-Vail Seasonal Ski Ticket, Is Gaining Fans
I've only had marginal success even getting it to work. It doesn't work on non-english emails and when it does work, requires two outgoing requests. So much for being local.
> $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt

deal was reported: Monday, December 16, 2019

Just like a programmer complaining about some atrociously bad code only to learn she has committed it herself.
I'm aware of at least one card which did this, which was a custom OEM design (specifically from Asus) which put two Geforce 7000-series GPUs on a single card: https://pcper.com/2005/10/asus-n7800gt-dual-review-7800-sli-...

Thankfully, I've never seen something like it since then.
Amen. Lost art. All those years of shared libs and inetd, brilliant concepts, clobbered and forgotten by big daddy containers.
This is pretty much how I began developing my own websites back in the early 2000s. Except that it was Notepad on a Windows 98 machine, and it was customary to write HTML tags in all uppercase. Layout was done with <TABLE> tags. The hosting was done on 20m.com which provided a free subdomain and 20 MB of hosting space. Remarkably, that silly website is still up at <http://encoders.20m.com/>!
Holy shit, you will have to pay me a lot of money to accept this in my car.
Nreversal of fortune: the thermodynamics of garbage collection
Never there was a better time to short it.
Had they received the same grant money as Boeing ($4.2b vs $2.6b), it wouldn't have been such a close call.

I'd also note that they were also late by 3 years or so: this did not produce miracles, it was just much cheaper and better in the end than what Boeing is still trying to do.
God no.

Articles are (re)posted at a rate of like five or ten a day, but many articles will receive zero comments and few articles will have any comments of note. Also, the admins effectively deactivated new account creation a while back.

These days, it's a link aggregation site for two robot "editors". I can't stop chuckling every time I think of how much money it caused its various acquirers to light on fire over the years.
In the early days there was so much effort to allow transitioning systems (booting could take 5+ mins tho lol)
Firing programmers for AI is a mistake
It's a strange hill to die on brother.

But you do you.
Deutsche Telekom and Scytáles Awarded by EU Commission for Age Verification
Scytáles AB, a Swedish-based digital identity specialist, in partnership with Deutsche Telekom AG, via its subsidiary T-Systems International GmbH, has been selected by the European Commission to develop a revolutionary age verification solution. The contract for an Age Verification Solution is a landmark project that advances the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA) initiatives and sets new standards for digital identity management. The solution will encompass a privacy-centric approach that ensures personal data is protected while providing a robust method of age verification.
Maybe they should skip the vehicle's console and just beam the ads directly into my visual cortex.
I feel like there is already a movement, "thinking from first principles" along this direction.
Yes, super rare and short in Berlin. I'm originally from a rural area where overground high voltage lines between villages are common. There it's typically 1-2 hours of outage every 3-5 years or so. The local utility company has some truck-mounted generators to help out in smaller outages.
wouldn't micro-, nano-, mini- be diminutives?
I'm not sure turboprops would be efficient for a long-haul flight. They cruise at lower altitudes, which makes sense for short-haul (no point climbing to FL410 if you're going to immediately begin descent for arrival), but for a longer distance I think that would hurt efficiency.
Eh, if they were being compliant and merely building modules ontop of and called by BusyBox, they could get away with Mere Aggregation [0]*, but from a little looking around it looks like they were called out years ago for distributing modified BusyBox binaries without acknowledgement [1] and promised to work with the Software Conservancy to get in compliance. [2]

[0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation

[1] https://lists.sfconservancy.org/pipermail/ccs-review/2018-Ma...

[2] https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/may/18/tesla-incomplete-...

*but I would argue (a judge would be the only one to say with certainty) that Tesla does not provide an infotainment application "alongside" a linux host to run it on, they deliver a single product to the end user of which Debian/BusyBox/whatever is a significant constituent.

(P.S. to cyberax: if you can demonstrate that Tesla is still shipping modified binaries as in [1] I think it would make a worthwhile update to the saga.)
Yep. It's the feeling of being in constant high alert the whole way through the airport. I regularly take a 40 min flight and it leaves me exhausted because of this. My theory anyway!
> 0 evidence to support these nonsense claims.

Either you've been living under a rock or you're trolling. In the very least, beyond the very public way he repeatedly did the Nazi salute and was very unapologetic about it, you can't ignore away how Musk went way out of his way to support a neoNazi party from Germany.
Nope. It has been like five, maybe eight years, so I do not remember. There have been more since then, but after seeing how Google manages the Go project, I pay as little attention to it as I can possibly get away with... so I do not remember any details about them.
Oh, come on. Anyone can use a hash table. What this man did is not even comparable to that.
Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Training AI on Torrented 82TB Dataset with Pirated Books
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you still need a programmer
> the image is not cached at CDN109 when the user requests it, CDN109 forwards the request to a nearby PoP. The PoP then forwards the request to the load balancer in a datacenter region, which retrieves the image from the storage system.

Say I want a 1MB image, wouldn't it be faster to serve me the 1MB image over a slow connection with 100ms latency, than going through multiple hops of increasing latency, with multiple round trips?

Say I request the image directly:

me -- 100ms --> datacenter

datacenter -- 100ms --> me

Say I now go through Meta's system, assuming that goes to the same Datacenter in the end, and there's no FTL tech:

me -- 10ms --> CDN

CDN -- 10ms --> PoP

PoP -- 90ms --> datacenter

datacenter -- 90ms --> PoP

PoP -- 10ms --> CDN

CDN -- 10ms --> me
According to [1] Jeep is the 24th-best-selling car brand in Europe.

Their sales of 11.4k cars in October put them just between Mazda (12.3k cars) and Porsche (10.3k cars) with roughly 1% market share.

But they are at least competing in the market - some brands like Chevy, Chrysler and Subaru don't even make the top 25.

Of course many of these brands are ultimately owned by the same multinationals. Stellantis-owned Jeep, Dodge and Ram brands aren't doing well in Europe, but their Opel, Peugeot, Citroën, Vauxhall, Alfa Romeo and Fiat brands are selling just fine.

[1] https://www.jato.com/resources/media-and-press-releases/volk...
You seem like the target audience for security theater
Digital non-smart meters don't run in reverse. Or at least mine doesn't.

I've ended up with three dumb meters: one main one, one that measures energy off the solar panels (used for feed-in-tariff), and one that measures heat pump consumption (which was a surprise of the installation, I think it was fitted for a subsidy that doesn't currently exist).

When the panels are backfeeding the main meter just puts a red LED on and stops counting. The solar installation is hardwired, not a balcony one.
Agree it's a non-sequitur; as is any idea of "game-engine" code in C++ (as the post I replied to mentioned), hence the argument.

And 100% out of scope of C++, like the std::thread?? I've worked on many an embedded system that has no concept of threads, yet the C++ committee decided to add the std::thread as a part of the STL in C++11 instead of agree on a standard ABI. So why not GUI's, or sockets, or any other more "common" modern idiom?

If you don't want to imagine what a GUI library designed by committee would look like, I'd argue what a language like C++ looks like designed by committee (6 versions in 10 years).
Friends don't let friends drive Jeeps.
Discussion (1254 points, 3 days ago, 921 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42971446
Actually they propose two algorithms: Funnel Hashing and Elastic Hashing. Funnel Hashing is "greedy" and defeats the Yao's conjecture that concerns greedy hash mechanisms. Elastic Hashing is "non-greedy" and provides a better amortized time than greedy algorithms.
> This will also be more responsive than 95% of the websites out there.

Except it's really not.
LLMs and Code assistants always were primarily a means to copyright-wash all available things so they could be freely incorporated into commercial products without the problems of having literal copies of stuff you shouldn't have in your code.

Of course this has to backfire.

However, I'm of the opinion that this is a good thing. Copyright is a sham and needs to be abolished.
"Let AI replace programmers" is the new "Let’s outsource everything to <some country>." Short-term cost savings, long-term disaster.
Those are infuriating, whichever country is applying them. Either you're serious about making the transition happen or you're not.
No, but the parent company is huge and makes some of the most popular brands - Citroen, Peugeot, Fiat, Open, Vauxhall.
This is really cool! I've spent the last few years debugging lots of PDFs while working on DocSpring, so I'm always looking for new tools to make this easier. Thanks for working on pdfsyntax!
So happy to hear the designer of World Quester 2's user interface have finally landed a job in the automotive industry. I wonder what happens to the Jeep when you accidentally open up your Space Inventory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gy9hJauXns
Imagine paying thousand for a product that is ad supported. I guess their target market is idiots
The "just below average" caught my attention, and it looks like that that's probably not true about most countries in the world..?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_human_height_by_countr...
This seems to be worse in every way to Optional.

The throwing of a checked exception is ludicrous. It's a classic case of abusing checked exceptions for flow control. The right approach is an isPresent() or isEmpty() call followed by a get() when you know it's present. Static analysis can ensure you don't screw this up.

Similarly, using then and thenMaybe instead of map and flatMap means it now has its own terminology different from Stream.

Being able to iterate it is dubious. You can already .stream() an Optional (to an empty or 1-element stream). You can also if (o.isPresent()) { o.get(); } which is hardly burdensome. I'm trying to figure out how a for-each loop is an improvement. But if you must: o.map(Collections::singleton).orElse(Collections.empty()). Or o.stream().toList().

I applaud the author for experimenting with different API designs, but this one is just not good. It causes more trouble than it solves.
If all of the latencies to the main memory and L1/L2/L3 caches have been only increasing throughout the years, is picking the right data memory layout more or less important than before?
It's the same reason I always recommend people to start with CodeAcademy if they want to start learning web dev. The interactive, live preview is perfect and the UI is nice enough to outsiders. There are other sites with preview boxes but they look very code-y. Once they can see how setting a background colour or adding a new <p> works in real time it helps the beginning of understanding.
Another one of my favorites, grimalkin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimalkin):

grey + Maude + kin = grimalkin.
The second icebreaker pictured right below the snowmobile picture was commissioned in 1989 so it's there just for illustrative purpose?
Much harder to hit though, except with modern precision bombs if you happen to know where they are.

That said, I also doubt that bomb resistance was the main reason for underground power lines. The sentiment in Germany at the time was, and mostly still is today: "No more wars!"
In a way which is a lot more boring than than it first sounds.

We've had non-"AI" self-replicating code for many decades.
This is a really tough problem. I don't think ignorance is the answer, but it's also difficult to set aside things that seam legitimate and go down a rabbit hole of reinventing something on a hunch. I guess the saving grace is that it's impossible to know enough about such a wide swathe that it's often a problem. With large models that conceivably can encode the collective knowledge, though, we have to be vigilant about creating an orthodoxy that ultimately constrains us.
Sell your items fast when relocating
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> I believe the idea was constant linear velocity recording was "better" than constant angular velocity, by virtue of right-sizing the recording density across the entire surface.

Yeah. If you think about it, the outer sectors on a disk rotating with constant speed are flying under the head much faster than the inner ones. So the slow inner sectors basically decide what magnetic density your disk has to have, as the bits will end up really close together there! But the disk will have the same magnetic density on the outer sectors, over a much longer distance. This will go wasted, if your drive reads the bits at the same constant speed (because the gaps between the bits are much larger, meaning you don’t get to use that high density).

Drivers like the C64’s 1541 employed workarounds like still keeping a constant rotational speed (300RPM for the 1541), but divide the tracks into 4 different “speed zones”, which determine at what speed the bits are read off the disk.

So, on the outer tracks the bits are read off faster, and there are actually more sectors than on the inner tracks.
Honestly feels like the definition of `user` is being stretched here..
I don't think this is based on a real analysis of German electricity wholesale prices.
Translation:

LALIGA maintains its commitment to combating audiovisual fraud and the consumption of illegal content through various initiatives and legal actions. Now, thanks to the coordination of a specialized team, LALIGA has successfully and immediately shut down DuckVision, a pirate platform that provided illegal access to live sports content, including the Spanish league, to more than 200,000 people in Spain alone.

DuckVision consisted of a web application that encouraged users to download an Android app, which had over 200,000 active users in Spain during January 2025, according to data.ai. It was concealed by the services of the U.S. technology company Cloudflare, which intentionally protects criminal organizations for profit.

The website also provided access to pirated content and was complemented by an IPTV system and Ace Stream to distribute LALIGA’s content, which was illegally taken from broadcasters such as ESPN, Movistar, DAZN, Sky Sports, Ziggo, and Bein Sports, among others.

The illegal content offered by the pirate platform was promoted through Telegram channels with over 13,800 users and on DuckVision’s website, which had nearly 70,000 unique users in Spain as of December 2024, according to Semrush data. The shutdown of the platform and its channels adds to the closure of other well-known extensions such as Luar, Kodivertido, and TVChopo, which announced their immediate shutdown, as well as the closure of Cristal Azul, Spain’s most significant illegal streaming channel.

This action taken by LALIGA will be repeated in the coming days to disable other platforms and pirate content services. Meanwhile, the promoters and developers of DuckVision will be reported to the police and judicial authorities in the coming days, with all the gathered evidence.

Google, Cloudflare, VPNs, and other entities involved in piracy bear responsibility for the illegal activities they enable and profit from. LALIGA, backed by the law, will not stop defending football and the interests of its clubs against criminal activities related to audiovisual fraud and its laundering.
It's all a huge game of chicken.

They're copying a technique from the minimum wage employer playbook, where you would lay people off, replace them with whoever (or no one at all) and rehire your original staff once they softened up while firing those new hires who proved problematic.

Of course companies don't do it in concert, so weirdly it's easy to both get hired and fired in this space, but net effect is that people keep getting paid minimum wage.

And therein lies the crux of the issue - our employers are pretty well synchronized in their layoffs so they're not worried that their projects will stall for a few months, as everyone else's will as well.
I'd forgotten about the weird 30 series case, but the 40/50 series ones are the PCI spec connector.
A 3600-ton aircraft with a 340m wingspan (900 ton for a small, less commercially viable version). Must have been fun to study, but you can imagine why it wasn't feasible regardless of being nuclear-powered.
You don't need to apologise for every accusation you get. You should probably address a widespread belief that you are making very offensive gestures, clarify what you meant and apologise for the confusion.
Also could you define "wokeism" for me? Everyone seems to be using a different definition so its hard to know what people actually mean when they say it
Great way to see it, papers should not be your first point of contact.
Yeah, I would.

On a quiet day I measured 7 minutes from stepping out of the bus and being through security.
Maybe we could have satellites laser project ads everywhere. Though on the other hand the Kessler syndrome might prevent this. But hey, there's a silver lining to that as well. The large amount of tiny space debris could be used as background to project from the ground. Think, your night sky would be full of ads.
I think the 0.95 figure for Robin Hood hash tables is rather optimistic. Robin Hood helps in a few ways: it allows for early termination of failed lookups, and it reduces probe-length variance (thereby making the performance of any one hash table operation more predictable). However, it does not reduce the average number of probes needed to perform a successful lookup. The hash-table benchmarks I published last year (https://jacksonallan.github.io/c_cpp_hash_tables_benchmark/#...), which test various hash tables in the 0.44-0.875 load-factor range, show that the performance of Robin Hood tables ("ankerl" and "tsl" in the article) deteriorates rapidly as the load factor climbs high, just like conventional linear- and quadratic-probing tables. This is in contrast to the SIMD and hybrid open-addressing/separate-chaining tables, whose performance is much more stable across the whole load-factor range.
Ugh. Why? To make copy/paste programming easier? To make query generation easier? When you're writing code to generate queries, it's worth doing it right. Just about every programming language has an easy way to take an array of strings and add a separator between each element. Like PHP's implode: implode(', ', ['foo', 'bar', 'baz']) == 'foo, bar, baz'.

Every time I see a trailing comma, I think "is this a bug? did they forget an element?".

Edit: as a reply to the comments below: that's a lot of hassle to save you hitting backspace once. There's premature optimization, and then there's single keystroke optimization.
Does SpaceX have any investors other than Musk? I thought he bootstrapped it.