skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Waiting for 2 minutes, idling an engine pumping hydrocarbons into the air, because you won't walk a few minutes (often a shorter walk in time than the time you're waiting) is absolutely lazy and a waste.

People with legitimate handicaps are the minority of cases (and are eligible for handicap placards entitling them to spaces closer to the entrance), and winter is a strawman. The majority are fully mobile people on summer days in a Walmart or Costco parking lot waiting minutes in a car to save fewer minutes on foot.

I grew up in the midwest when it snowed every winter and the number of times there was actually enough ice on the ground to be significantly more risky walking than on the dryest summer day was at most a few times a year. The areas that get snow know how to plan for snow and ice - especially businesses who don't want to get sued by litigious people.
To support the grand-post but reword it: we're on the verge of AI becoming a "great creativity equalizer". It used to be that each individual had a "skill level" on a scale from 0-100 for each practice, where very few people were above level 60. But now everyone can be a level 60+ artist, if they want to be. This lower limit will keep rising and, at a certain point (and maybe were talking 1000 years) it will be hard for anyone to differentiate any everyday media from human- vs AI-generated.

Maybe equality is good? For utilities like locomotion, that sounds great. But for creativity?

I think what will happen is a later generation will grow up bombarded by level-100 art and music. I guess that sounds net positive...right?

As a musician, I can tell you one thing: part of what gives me drive to make music is knowing that what I'm creating is a scarce resource. (For example, if I realize one of my songs sounds like another existing song, it stops sounding good to me.) If it comes that AI can generate new songs for me, all of that value I assign to creating music is lost.
I'm not talking about this philosophically so you can call it whatever you want sentience, consciousness, self-determination, or anything else. From a purely practical perspective, either the AI is giving itself its instructions or taking instructions from a person. And there are already plenty of ways a person today can cause damage with AI without the need of the AI going rogue and making its own decisions.
Thank you! I think it was the just one standard deviation part that you've now clarified for me.
If they're not your words, which you've just admitted they're not, then it's slop and sounds and reads like shit. I can't believe someone would use AI for translation given how easy it is to peg it as LLM generated and how grating and pseudo intellectual the crap coming out of an LLM is.
if we go by useless endpoints, let's compare apples to apples.
on fiber network equivalent to cell tower will be probably splitter. i guess it has sub 1ms latency
It could take all dev jobs and all knowledge jobs, but leave most of the rest of the economy untouched. You know - the people in shops, fixing your car, patching up your house, etc. Robotics I think may be actually difficult (Moravec's Paradox) and take a lot more time and change a lot more slowly. There are physical constraints even if we know how to do it which means it will take significant time to roll out (expertise, resource for build, energy, etc).

i.e. all the fun creative jobs are taken but the menial labor jobs remain. It may take your job, but you will still need to pay for most things you need.
If there's an artifact here it's probably seasonality.

E.g. a proper comparison would look at what the results were for just January over the past few years.

It's easy to imagine that benchmarks in January might sample more from cheaper Christmas present laptops, while the rest of the year has more powerful professional purchases spread throughout.

Or after Christmas upgrades, people get hand-me-down computers and disproportionately benchmark those to figure out what they're good for.

You can invent a million scenarios, but it's extremely plausible that January results could be an outlier every year.
Care to provide examples?
I am reasonably confident that "time for the cycle to repeat" is the cycle of purchasing a new drive and moving to it.

Whether that's right or wrong, when I talked about 5% failure chance per cycle that's what I meant. And 5% is probably an underestimate.
What evolved intelligent life is processes that intelligent life has the power to erase.
Same. To answer some of the comments, I am sure that I have the RSUs instead of options. The offer letter said so, the RSU agreement letter said so, and the esop platform said so too.
I mean, I expect as time goes on the number of people who get the reference goes down. Things get diluted.

It slowly goes from a "Here's some very cool esoteric thing, that you can use" for people that write business systems in prolog, to "here's how to connect workaday language with workaday db in a slightly unique configuration".

edit: I looked at the videos. 10 years ago the talks were Rich Hickey and "Production prolog".

Did Douglas Hofstader ever speak at strangeloop? I know he doesn't actually like computers.
You're basically just finding a path through the stochastic parrot's numerical maze whereby it will articulate the solution matching what you already have in mind.
I do declare I thought it was a cheeky reference to those tomato plants that grown down by old railroad tracks.

You see a long time ago, someone at a tomato. Could've been a slice in a cold sandwich. Could've been a fresh one, maybe with A little cheese and pepper. But chili just won't do. Neither would spaghetti.

Then, before we had such regulations as we do today, they deposited that tomato seed, post digestion, in the train lavatory toilet. Being back then as it was, the tomato seed and associated fertilizer was dropped from the train car to the track ballast below where it germinated.

It's the same process where researchers deposit tomatoes on new volcanic islands.

You know what they say: when you gotta go, you gotta go.
> How are these "large-scale reductions in force" different from recent mass layoffs in big tech?

One is eliminating people in necessary to functions the executive branch is legally mandated to perform, the other is not.

> Are both equally bad?

Certainly not for the same reason; they are generally unrelated.

> I work at a startup - they can terminate my employment at any time, for any reason. Do you think it's unfair?

Whether private sector at-will employment is unfair is irrelevant here, so its just a distraction to even discuss it any significant way.

Executive branch officials are not the managers of a private sector firm, and the legal, ethical, and other constraints on their behavior are different. Aside from the fact that the government is limited in way private actors are not (public employees have a property interest in their employment and the government as an employer is still the government, and sondue process failures related to property interests of their employees, who are people and thus possess 5th Amendment rights, are a Constitutional violation), executive branch officials are generally given less leeway in law over employment (other than of narrow classes of mostly top executive officers) in executive branch departments (outside the Executive Office of the President) than is the case for private managers under the governing rules adopted in most private companies.
Simply calling write() on a C struct can do that, if there is any padding in the struct. Then, of course, there are bugs.
Agree with others, editorialized misleading title. Should be fixed.
IIRC I used the imapsync --maxsize option, then hand-processed the relatively few (in my case) emails which had larger attachments. In my Google Workspace mail, I believe I searched emails using larger:19M has:attachment.
The chart also shows that single-thread performance hasn’t improved that much in the past twelve or so years, compared to Moore’s law. And this is compounded by Wirth’s law [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
Stamp in passport is the obvious one. And then you're really screwed, because now you've lied on your application too.
Cuts to Science Funding and Why They Matter – Sean Carroll
This is a very informative, and impressively apolitical talk on the impacts of the enormous cuts to science funding in the USA.

There is a full transcript at the link above if you don't enjoy the audio format.
>While this is HN so any automotive conversation inevitabely becomes an ideological war between EV vs ICE fanatics, this didn't play as significant a role in the failure of Nissan and Honda's merger.

I cant stand Teslas, and tesla look alikes, they feel like sitting inside of an iPad. I think GWM has the right of it. Just pump out hybrids and EV's that feel as much the same as an ICE vehicle as possible. Let the customer decide.
The OP said link. The NFC/NFD issue remains if these are part of a path name or query parameter.
Same question here！
It's interesting how different people's experiences are.

Outside of my home (where I admit I'll never give up my 10 Gbit fiber), I'll always default to using 5G. It's always faster and more stable than any kind of "free wifi" at a coffee shop or hotel or anything, if I'm working out of home, I'm tethering to my phone, racking up 120 GB/mo or so of usage.
But what else could definitely or potentially be done? It is an interesting question.
Fleet has a "smart mode" that can load an intellij backend for IDE like features. But that only happens if you enable it. Thats why it can do Kotlin even though Kotlin doesn't have an official LSP.
Have you considered that perhaps the increasing levels of vitriol and outright hatred directed at him by the left might have had something to do with his rightward trend? They seem pretty correlated.

I struggle to see how doubling down on the hatred is going to convince anyone other than _already hateful_ people of the righteousness of your cause?
Still pissed they removed the Jazz from the australian market. It was honestly my definition of perfect small car for 10 years.
This is an odd comment.

> Mazda sells an order of magnitude less cars than even newer companies like BYD. Even less than isuzu.

Mazda sold 1.1M cars in 2023[1]. By comparison Nissan sold 2.9M, BYD 2.6M (obviously this is much less than an order of magnitude difference.

> Mazda is a huge outlier in manfacturing because they are small, but have motorsports calibre/history (meaning they have a history of homologating sports cars.)

Plenty of manufactures have motorsports history. Mazda has a Le Mons win, but apart from that nothing particularly of note. Notably Peugeot and Subaru both have much broader motorsports history and are smaller, and Renault has much much more impressive motorsport pedigree and only sells slightly more cars (1.4M in 2023).

> [Mazda sells an order of magnitude less cars than even newer companies like BYD. Even less than isuzu.] Because of this, they can more tightly control investor expectations, profit/loss. The stock value rarely changes, nevermind grows, so investors are confident in stability and dividends.

This is an argument that is rarely (never?) made, and not born out by the evidence.

Mazda's sales, profit and stock price have all been falling. Their stock price is down from 1700 Yen in 2024 to 1034 Yen today. It's difficult to say "the stock value rarely changes"

> If you invest in mazda, you know you're gonna be able to sell at any point without much worry.

Well if you don't worry about losing money I guess..

[1] https://roadgenius.com/cars/statistics/sales-by-manufacturer...
No uninitialized values, same as Java. You don’t get junk values that are whatever were in that memory previously. It’s actually a lack of ambiguity in that an int will always be 0 when initialized, not like 19692847376 sometimes.
Man, HN is downvote-happy these days. To state what I thought was obvious, I'm not saying I approve of this state of affairs and in fact I'd love to visit Syria, but until the US drops their policy, I realistically cannot.
He sets up a conspiracy theory, where the system knows he's the only one out of sync and forces him through anyway.

If you are reasonable instead of rational, the slippage that occurs within that week is fine. It's expected, as he notes, because the jewel doesn't replicate neurons constantly dying, so it can't be a "perfect" copy.

Adolescence is typified by feeling like everything is happening to "me", for the first time ever. It fits the theme to have him solipsistically dramatize a normal experience. You can see this in the last line, where he wonders if the person him ever felt as "real" as he does.
There are other possible approaches to LLM watermarking that would be much more robust and harder to detect. They exploit the fact that LLMs work by producing a probability distribution that gives a probability for each possible next token. These are then sampled randomly to produce the output. To add fingerprints when generating, you could do some trickery in how you do that sampling that would then be detectable by re-running the LLM and observing its outputs. For example, you could alternate between selecting high-probability and low-probability tokens. (A real implementation of this would be much more sophisticated than that obviously, but hopefully you get the idea)
Another aspect to consider is that St. Thomas was an O.G. Dominican friar, the order which was founded with a mission to answer the heresy of Albigensians and Catharists, who were going extreme ascetic, believing the human flesh and visible world were inherently evil, and ceasing to marry and bear children.

The Dominicans wearing white and black answer that pleasures can be enjoyed in moderation, and were given by God to help ease our suffering and make life enjoyable, and it's not universally wrong to enjoy rich food, or start families and grow them. Or harness lightning and take minerals from the ground and make them into new things to serve or benefit the human world.

So Aquinas' own confreres wouldn't be shy about describing his stoutness and ability to devour geese twice a year, and it wasn't for nothing that an army came later to massacre the adversaries and quell the heresy from spreading for a few hundred years. There were contagions to deal with and masks to be worn.

Jubilee Years began again in the 14th century after Thomas and before Martin Luther. Jubilees are still decreed and proclaimed every 25 years, plus extras.

Such as 1525: https://gcatholic.org/events/celebration/1524.htm#839

Francis I of France ran into trouble against Spanish Emperor Charles in those days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_I_of_France#Military_a...

1925, 1950, 1975, 2000, etc. See Old Testament for examples among Hebrews and Judaica. Or listen to The Police's greatest hits: https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/The-Police/King-of-Pain
There is no way that "15MBs-1" is more clear than "15MB/s", especially in an environment which lacks the ability to give text superscript styling.
New GPUs are quite a bit better than previous ones but perf oer dollar has been flat for a while now.

Also, if you're talking gaming GPUs old ones work fine given there has not been a new PlayStation or Xbox in many years. Min spec for many games is 5 years old tech
>Gave it a look and unfortunately, I don't think I have seen the similarities?

I was specifically thinking about this https://www.roc-lang.org/platforms

I'm not an expert. I haven't actually used it, but I have been following it a bit. Roc splits things into apps and platforms. When you implement a platform you're responsible for implementing all (or the subset you want to provide) of the I/O primitives and memory allocators.

>Discussions about efficient code kind of avoid the topic, I don't believe we are in a situation where multithreading is relevant, the bloat is on another level

Case does talk about other kinds of bloat. Things like structuring things so blocking operations can be batched etc...
The article keeps snapping back to the top as I scroll. (iOS safari, latest version.)

Why does anyone ever implement JavaScript that tries to mess with your scroll position? Like, ever? Can we stop this madness?
That seems like the current model in tech, to the point that companies are eventually renamed for their only product (RIM -> BlackBerry, Sun -> JAVA, dotCloud -> Docker), but there are also a few Asian megacorps that have their fingers in seemingly everything, think of Yamaha and Mitsubishi.
There's a big opportunity to build apolitical uncensored clone of YouTube. Current alternatives lack funding and don't function well
With all of the continued complaints about SwiftUI I almost wonder if,
the specter of the Google Graveyard aside, Flutter would be a better bet. Yeah, it might be a second-class non-native citizen on iOS, but if you’re gonna use a half-baked cross-platform solution why not use one that can also target Android?
Does that mean you need to click on the next song to play ever ~3m ? Because that sounds worse than having to flip the vinyl every ~5 songs.
Does anyone else find this article's writing style to have some hints of AI?
Given that it's a house phone, have you tried enabling Wi-Fi Calling (VoWiFi) in the carrier settings (if you have that option), and then putting the phone in Airplane Mode with wi-fi enabled? AFAIK that should be fairly less impactful on battery.

(Alternately, if you don't have the option to use VoWiFi, you could take literally any phone/tablet/etc; install a softphone app on it; get a cheap number from a VoIP number and connect to it; and leave the app running, the wi-fi on, and the cellular radio off. At that point, the device doesn't even need a[n e]SIM card!)
How is that related to a new YouTube design?
Six well-paid Google designers trumpeting a new…gradient.

Maybe I’m too curmudgeonly for my own good, but that is quite underwhelming.
We need more bored people.
On Mobile Safari the page scrolls up to the top every few seconds. Adds a novel bit of interactivity to the article.
It may have been decades ago, but there was a time when it did not seem awkward or even unusual to just...call someone's house, or to simply stop by.

There was usually a purpose in this that was more profound than just being bored or lonely or something, but none was really required.

And maybe the person they were trying to find wasn't home right now, but that was OK. It was not weird to talk to whoever for a minute, or to hang out for awhile.

Nowadays, the ubiquity of personal pocket supercomputers means that the closest most people ever get to that kind of generally-welcome (if unexpected) interaction is a text message.

"Hey, I'm in front of your house. Are you home?"

And maybe that works more efficiently between two individuals than knocking on the door did, but otherwise this present way of doing things mostly just serves to further increase our social isolation.

Sometimes it seems that the closer it is that our technology allows us to be, the further it is that we actually become.
Linux kernel work is being done by countless embedded outfits all around the globe. Rust is completely misaligned with the embedded skill set and attitude; there will be a clash and backlash. Embedded people don't want to be told, you can't shove that value obtained here into there because of some cockamamie language rule.
Former Convoy CEO Dan Lewis Takes New Role at Microsoft
It depends. In short, in that workflow, yes. But that's normally because I'll think of a song or get one stuck in my head I want to hear, as I don't listen to music all day.

You can also multiselect files or folders to open as a playlist, if that's your thing.
The future looks bleaker than ever for scientific thinking in backwards-christian North America.

Actual, but too long, title of the article is:

"Evangelical education nearly ruined me. Now the Christian right is coming for public schools"
The least they could do is write up something as unhinged as that old Pepsi design strategy document.

https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...
Is that the right analogy? This sounds more like a free speech and free speech exceptions type of issue.

(Commenters keep moving the goalposts making for a complex thread where each node in the tree litigates a very different hypothetical situation. Ah HN!)

Similar to publishing say... the Anarchists Cookbook.
A comment I made when I started noticing the magenta gradient at the end of the progress bar: it's a bit anxiety-inducing for those who remember needing to degauss their monitors, because it looks almost exactly like when you mess up a CRT with a magnet.

(Aside from that: not a fan, it makes the chrome of the video player more distracting.)
Ask HN: Does o1 (not Pro) respond unnecessarily with JavaScript?
I haven't tried Pro yet. But I find it hilarious how often o1 responds with Javascript unnecessarily. I prompted for help replying to an email and got back this -

Reasoning:

For drafting an email, JavaScript code doesn’t apply. See the contradiction? Stay focused on responding word-based, not code-based.

I’m working to craft an email while keeping JavaScript coding examples in mind, ensuring the code meets the request’s intent.

I’m thinking through how to blend the drafted email with JavaScript code, like incorporating a snippet to print or handle the message.

I’m mapping out a recommendation to pair the drafted email with a JavaScript snippet that effectively prints the message, ensuring it meets the request’s intent.

```
// Storing the response message in a JavaScript variable
const responseEmail = {
subject: "Re: Service Request",
body: `Hi Sanjay,
...
```

So funny and unneeded--the prompt was a simple variation of "draft a reply to this message"
120 PeV is 0.020 of a Joule, or 20 milliwatt-seconds.
1. Off-topic

2. There isn't a big opportunity really. The current alternatives are reflective of that lack of opportunity.
> Mazda sells an order of magnitude less cars than even newer companies like BYD.

In Australia, Mazda has been the 2nd highest selling brand (across all models) for a number of years. Not sure about last 18 months.
If you think Google had underpaid for this, imagine how much they got to underpay for this:

https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/29/10868404/google-reveals-h...

That guy is ridiculous! Could have made $50 million or more probably, if he had used a different registrar than Google itself.

He mentioned that Microsoft also let their domain lapse and that one was actually going to the open market... and what's more, they didn't even care when he contacted them! Oof:

https://www.theregister.com/2003/11/06/microsoft_forgets_to_...

Here are a few other doozies:

Apple forgot to renew their certificate for the entire Mac App Store, and didn't care much:

2014: https://www.macrumors.com/2014/05/25/apple-software-update-i...

if that wasn't bad enough... they did it again in 2015:

https://osxdaily.com/2015/11/12/fix-app-is-damaged-cant-be-o...

and almost in 2016:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/227787/75628
This is incredibly aggravating, and I cannot read the article. It scrolls, even if I’m holding my finger on the page.

To make matters worse for some optimizing reason or another reader isn’t able to capture the whole page text
These designers are grasping hard to justify their existence. Second part of the article harps on the importance of contrast yet the background is so overtly salmon it's almost impossible to read.
Ha, yes that is also a way that I have done it, prior to learning about imapsync.

Although according to the peer comment, it sounds like that's the last standing method.
Now it looks like Tinder.