skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is where tariffs come in to offset low price dumping. Inefficient, but it's better thought of as insurance premium on future geopolitical risk.
Oh it's worse than that. Some classes and even supervisors I've had, forced me to read documentation, over and above actually doing stuff
c is the new BASIC.
Exactly! Several different sorts of folks have an interest in product architecture, and each group needs the story told at a different level of abstraction. So inevitably one has to maintain a few different flavours of the diagram and associated story.

One way I think of it is that the architect needs to market the architecture, at least a little bit. If you ask a marketing team to deliver a message they immediately start crafting multiple delivery methods to meet people where they are at. Architects shouldn't think they can somehow escape that basic requirement of effective communication.
> that I learned I likely had an autoimmune condition

“Likely” had?

I read your post and comments last week when you copied it across a lot of subreddits, but I feel like the specific details of your story are still changing.

I understand you want to promote your side project, but the way you’re vaguely promoting it as having solved a medical mystery is playing a dangerous game with people who are desperate to hear answers from your tool.
Exactly. It's fairly affordable. Although for me there were other co-factors for me to feel the effects in my brain (almost surely Coq10) so I felt better when I took this and ate food (which normally did also have some meat in it).
The founding fathers of America thought a standing army was a greater danger to it's own people than to external enemies. Something they did not anticipate was how ineffective a long term standing army becomes as technology flies far beyond and it is only discovered in the next war.
All of that Lua-meets-Jansson setup code is indeed boilerplate!

A python script that embeds data in a "static const char*" is boilerplate!
> Overall, we saw a slight lean towards augmentation, with 57% of tasks being augmented and 43% of tasks being automated.

I'd like to see a comparison to the data 6 months ago, before Sonnet 3.5. I suspect the automation rate will track up over time, but that may mostly be captured by API usage which isn't in the dataset.
Why visit a rheumatologist, because his main symptoms are joint and muscle pain of course
I'm with you - I like Rust for the overall pros/con balance, in context of with its alternatives. Safety is one thing. The tooling, error messages, type system etc you mention is another. Having mutable references as function parameters is another big one, shared by surprisingly few alternatives.
A corporation is a group of people with very specific legal ramifications.

If you're going to claim it's "the people making up the corporation" deciding what to do or say, then why can't I sue[0] the individuals who make up the corporation if I think that what they do or say is harmful to society?

And conversely, if the group of people thinks that what they're doing and saying is so valuable and normal, why are they forming a corporation to do it, rather than just working together as independent citizens to do it? Because a corporation has a specific legal meaning, and that meaning does not, in any way, fundamentally include "being a legal person", regardless of what Supreme Court justices with obvious glaring holes in their ethics have said.

[0] And expect not to get thrown out immediately because of limited liability. Yes, pedantically, I know you can sue for basically anything; that's clearly not the point here.
What is the difference between APL and all the various APL-like languages like BQN, J and K? Which one should a beginner start with? Which has the best tooling for debugging, type checking, etc.?
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Government propaganda IS fascism. Let people be free.
I'm sure it makes the gear ratios easier to calculate for the power-frequency-synced gearing on those old electric clocks.

But now? It's pretty much just an implementation detail.
Razib Khan did an excellent write-up about the latest research on this:

https://www.razibkhan.com/p/current-status-its-complicated
That does sound interesting. Forgive my ignorance, but how could this be used to detect watermarks? Could the same method be used to detect signatures?
AI companies: But don't worry, AI chatbots will create a UBI utopia where we will not do any work and we will have a future that will give us more time back and would never have to pay for work or food again! /s

Here's the reality: You are getting displaced.

Companies like Anthropic and OpenAI screaming about AGI are repeatedly lying to you as they raise more money while Meta (who are laying off staff today), Salesforce (announced layoffs as well) [0], Klarna (not hiring), etc are admitting this in front of us (and laughing at all of us).

Do you get it now? I'm giving you a 5 year head start of their plan before it becomes a complete catastrophe for the market. [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42975813

[1] https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-repo...
The fact that you have to get up at 4am tells you one aspect of how much faster it could be.
So there is a language war going on in the industry and some of its justified and some of its not. Take 'agents' as an example. I have seen an example of where a low code / no code service dropped in a LLM node in a 10+ year old product, started calling themselves an 'agent platform' and jacked up their price by a large margin. This is probably a case where a debate as to what qualifies as an 'agent' is appropriate.

Alternatively I have seen debates as to what counts as a 'Small Language Model' that probably are nonsensical. Particularly because in my personal language war the term 'small language model' shouldn't even exist (no one knows that the threshold is, and our 'small' language models are bigger than the 'large' language models from just a few years ago).

This is fairly typical of new technology. Marketing departments will constantly come up with new terms or try to take over existing terms to push agendas. Terms with defined meaning will get abused by casual participants and loose all real meaning. Individuals new to the field will latch on to popular misuses of terms as they try to figure out what everyone is talking about and perpetuate definition creep. Old hands will overly focus on hair splitting exercises that no one else really cares about and sigh in dismay as their carefully cultured taxonomies collapse under expansion of interest in their field.

It will all work itself out in 10 years or so.
> Plan 9 [...] was pronounced dead around a decade ago.

9front would like a word.

Come to that, R9 would too.

https://github.com/dancrossnyc/r9

If anyone were brave enough to grasp the nettle, I proposed a fairly simple doable set of changes that could make it more useful in this talk last year:

https://archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3...
Huh? The TSA has sovereign immunity.
Yeah, I noticed later that the example sentences used the correct translation. Presumably that's because it's easier for translation software to differentiate among the various meanings of "used" when it's in the context of a sentence.
Well yes, I am mostly supplementing with a large amount of methlyated B vitamins and yes it has helped dramatically. Took me years to figure out.
Minor correction about C++ SSO: different C++ implementations have different small string capacities. In clang and libc++, you can store 22 bytes of short string when the data structure itself is 24 bytes. This is more than what MSVC or gcc can do.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240510-00/?p=10...
Air travel can be revolutionized with a pod-based boarding system to reduce travel times and enhance safety. Passengers would have individual pods with built-in luggage compartments under their seats, allowing for fast, automated boarding and unloading. This system would eliminate the need for overhead storage and flight attendants, streamlining operations. In emergencies, each pod would feature a deployable parachute, offering increased survivability. By minimizing human touchpoints and maximizing automation, airlines could drastically cut boarding times, improve passenger privacy, and enhance overall efficiency in air travel.
That and the Tokyo train network slime mold experiments have always irrationally angered me.

They haven't found the most efficient paths, for humans in the real world, at all. They've found short-ISH paths that are efficient for a slime mold attempting to conserve energy.

Just look at the god damned photo!

What the hell is wrong with people?

Do they honestly believe that building an interstate highway along the actual, literal, spine of the Rocky Mountains, practically from peak-to-peak along the most mountainous and difficult terrain in North America, is "efficient"?

Slime molds are not intelligent.

Slime molds cannot make decisions.

Slime molds do not hold any insight into the human condition, especially when it comes to engineering.

Slime molds are simple biological machines who have been selected over billions, yes billions, of years to grow in the most sustainable way possible.

And don't get me started on the Tokyo railway one. Only the highest of the most stoned biology students could look at that picture and say, "this resembles what humans built". It's like looking at a cartoon rendering of a stereotypical Saguaro cactus and saying, "this looks like a man holding his arms up just put a cowboy hat on him and call him Tex".
IMHO we would be better served reducing the amount of time it takes you to go into an airport and board a flight. Right now they recommend 2 hours prior to takeoff but if you're in the right airport and know what you're doing then that time could be as little as 30 minutes (or less).

Rather than trying to take time out of the "middle" of the journey (ie when you're on a plane), we would be better served as a society to take time out of the "ends" (before takeoff and after landing).

But nevertheless I still think it's worthwhile for us as a species to look at ways we can cross the planet faster. I think eventually (maybe in our lifetimes), the idea of taking a flight that takes you into outer space won't be too far fetched. While I don't think the time savings going supersonic will be worth it, I think the savings when going into outer space will, assuming we figure out a economical way to get people up and down from outer space.
Man wants to buy tip where he lost Bitcoin fortune
Yes. And Microsoft is already hosting multiple DeepSeek options in Azure. That’s quite a hedge.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/deepseek-r1-is-now-av...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-studio/how-to/dep...
Many airports (in the US, at least) make much more money from parking fees than everything else. On top of that, at least some operate their retail in a royalties model too (ie 20% of all sales goes to the airport, before any costs).

Thus, there is very little incentive to keep you in the airport less, and multiple incentives to keep you there longer.
> Due to the the time it takes at either end, there's a fixed minimum time cost to flying. Maybe three or four hours counting both ends.

To be fair to airports, the arrival side hasn't really changed post 9/11. If you check bags, that's on you - it's going to be slow to get your stuff.

But yeah - having to budget time to get through security is a pretty poor user experience. Especially during busy times of the year, when it's more uncertain just how much time is required.
>Maybe more frequent smaller flights

That's sort of happened. Witness the relatively little appetite the airlines have for the largest planes, e.g. A380.

But, yeah, I'm an hour to the airport even early morning, arriving at least 1.5 hours before flight time. For London, I usually have a change in Newark. TSA actually doesn't take me long and London's usually pretty fast at immigration these days with biometric US passports. But then it's usually about an hour to my hotel in London. So supersonic trans-Atlantic wouldn't do a lot for me in the scheme of things.
Thank You for the summary. Saving me time to read the article.
Thanks for pulling that out! And apologies for my quick post.

Another book you might like is “Mathematical Magick” by John Wilkins, one of the founders of the Royal Society [1]. In those days, quite a bit of scientific inspiration came from previous works on “natural magick.” There are many books like this at the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam! [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_Magick

[2] https://embassyofthefreemind.com/en
Ada has ranges and subtypes.

type Angles is 0 .. 360;
subtype Acute_Angles is range Angles'First .. 90;

Subtypes can be used with the parent type without conversions.

Pascal only has subranges, iirc.
Security does. But a lot of what we go through these days is security theater. The whole shoe removal thing, belts, etc. It's the most pathetically over the top form of security, and totally unnecessary. It does not in any way shape or form provide any extra level of security that can't be covered by something much simpler, less invasive, slow or antiquated.
Sounds like reasonable regulation would amount to "okay, but in use-a-gun situations, you must be supervised by someone who holds a Handicap Assistance gun license". Maybe add a few "blind person must demonstrate safe gun & ammunition handling, including loading and unloading, and ..." fiddly details.

But it also sounds like nobody at all favors reasonable regulation.
> I don’t know what exactly all of this is pretending to prevent.

Pick your fallacy:

- We've spent billions of dollars on this stuff. Surely we wouldn't have done that unless it worked.

- We've spent billions of dollars on this stuff. It'd be a shame to let that go to waste.

- The TSA isn't perfect, but for every 30 handguns they let slip through they also successfully catch 1. That one could have taken over a plane.

...
It's one of the features of the specific German private pension I pay into. It allows me to keep contributing if I leave Germany, and to withdraw it under more flexible terms as needed.
You can't remove the part where you have to travel to an airport, generally out of town.

Security also seems to be variable enough that you need to add buffer, and then there's the built in incentive to have people sitting around in a shopping mall.
A toy mental model could be e.g. a function that takes OS/IO/GUI events and produces actions (which are then executed by the caller) and then iterate it as long as the program runs. This function in itself can be pure.
Yeah, I take a bus trip regularly between cities for work. It's ~3.5 hrs from downtown to downtown and, even though the flight would only be just over an hour and about the same price, it ends up being not worth the effort.
Headline editors gonna edit

You could also think about sitting at a train station trying to code, or that feel when you lick a battery
Ohhh thats encouraging! Was it also for mock data generation or did you make it handle other annoying tasks?
The tool should probably suggest which clinical tests should be conducted next.
rayiner is a lawyer, I believe with experience in and around DC and government agencies. I always appreciate his takes because they're often counter to call it the HN zeitgeist.
Iroh – library for building on direct connections between devices
Well, it's true. They aren't allowed to control his legitimate power.

Question is, what is his legitimate power? Often, that's what the court case is deciding - Trump claims X power, and the court has to decide whether it is legitimately his.

And this isn't something new. The courts have been doing this for decades, maybe centuries. FDR famously had a bunch of his New Deal declared unconstitutional - that is, not legitimately within his power.

In the last few days, a number of people seem to be pushing for removing judicial restraint from the power of the president. They need to be very careful there. They want to remove the constitution, but it's the constitution that gives the president any power at all. Without it, he's just a loudmouth real estate developer from New York. So if we're removing the constitution, let's remove Trump with it.
A lot of these guys travel - they book a hotel conference room, you go and pick your fabrics, they take your measurements, and you get your suit in the mail.
I still don't understand what the marketing budgets of coke or pepsi or any other business has to do with innovation or consumer choice outside of potentially spurring it? I read lots of stories of founder/entrepreneurs (like the one who wrote this blog post from my research) who can't build a business and then blame it on everything except their own failings to understand the fundamentals of business.
The author never used the term chronic fatigue. Maybe they had such severe fatigue they couldn't move, but there's no reason to think this his the case.

As for Post Exertional Malaise, again maybe this was a complaint of theirs, but they only mentioned slow recovery times.

If their symptoms are severe, they're really underselling them with their descriptions.

>That changes the equation such that spending more than the computer hardware is worth is now worthwhile.

The worthwhile point of that particular analogy is comparing invasive procedures. Doing invasive procedures like wiping the hard drive and reinstalling the OS vs non invasive testing.

You get to a point where invasive testing is only worthwhile if the symptoms are severe enough because of the risks involved in invasive procedures.
Elite Lawyers Working for Elon Musk's DOGE Include Former Supreme Court Clerks
damn this actually works this is cool
That assumes you want to optimize time and quality.

I was blessed with using the product of MSFT the other day, where pressing the "Save" button in the settings dialog resulted in 403 from the backend that the app simply didn't see. No error message, the loader is still spinning. It wasn't the dark corner or rarely used functionality.

People are okay with shipping shit and spending infinite amount of time on it.
This has also been presented (in media with a certain slant) as "evil people will break apart families and put mommy and kiddo in different cells in Gitmo). In reality, the only people who have a chance of seeing the inside of a Gitmo cell are MS13 and Tren members. And why shouldn't they?
I wouldn't expect Anthropic to have any special knowledge/insight in this area aside from the data they have on usage of their own tools. As such, I'd be much more interested to see some "Google Trends"-like data about Anthropic usage. Unfortunately, since AI is dynamic and competitive industry, I don't think anyone will be sharing information like that for a long time.
I understand why all of this happened in the first place. 9/11 was truly shocking. Maybe more so because I was a kid, but watching those planes hit the buildings, the buildings collapsing, the Fallen Man, the recordings for United 93…it was a lot.

It really broke the spell that America could fuck around in the rest of the world without finding out.

It seems like there are two problems:

1. No one wants to be the person who rolls back regulations, because they’ll be blamed the next time something goes wrong.

Even if the previous regulation wouldn’t have stopped it (again, TSA internal tests of people getting knives and guns through), that person is getting blamed.

2. There is simply a ton of money in this crap. Those companies have lobbyists and donate to campaigns.

Given (1), these congresspeople aren’t going to change it anyway so I don’t actually think corruption plays as much into it. They’d never vote to remove the regulations; campaign donations are free money.

Engineering orgs have similar problems. I remember at Stripe seeing the 12 years of accumulated processes. Every bug or incident needed a new process or automated checker to ensure it couldn’t ever happen again. None of these were ever reviewed or removed.

As an EM, even if I knew something was a net-negative when comparing dev velocity vs. risk x magnitude of a bug, no chance my manager would let me remove it.

It takes confident, independent leadership willing to make tough trade-offs to change these things. That’s pretty rare in my experience.
I always thought it sounded super cool but it just doesn't exist in the problem spaces I work in. Like kdb+ was specifically designed to be run on bare metal without a full OS in the way of things going fast, and in quant environments where you're trying to shave off nanoseconds on the computations because your company's gone and invested in a dedicated fibre line to trading servers.
Tell that to the Potomac victims...you cant can you?
How far from the earth is "space"?
My assumption is that 90%+ of those come from 1. bots 2. old people 3. third world. I don’t think this is the target audience most valuable advertisers are going for, and this type of slop probably makes other audiences want to leave the platform. So in the short term maybe it’s great for engagement metrics and stuff like that, but I don’t think it’s financially sustainable.
IMO it's a mistake to get too caught up in the (admittedly self-described) goal of modelling AI's economic impacts.

Instead, this is a super rare and valuable look into who/what/how folks are doing with Claude across millions of conversations, nicely categorized by function and task.

The economic impact data (i.e. wages) that they might overlay onto that usage data is a separate thing that -- of course -- is more subjective and likely to be part of some PR machinery about the public value of AI etc.

But as to sharing the raw usage data itself - we should applaud it! What a useful window into how this stuff is being used in the real-world.

Will OpenAI release similar data? Why or why not? I hope they will. It elevates the discussion for everyone, and frankly would be 'good business' if it gets people thinking about who/how AI could be used at their organization with more granularity.
Did we get like to a commoditization of flights?
Ah, nah.
> What I've realized is that the fame of the book is closely related to how interesting and unique the "elevator pitch” of the book.

Really? I don't find that at all. It certainly helps, but books that have enduring appeal are, usually, ones that are good, within their niche at least. Especially books that are actual bestsellers, not books people are "forced to read" in school or something (they can also be great books, but they continue to be "popular" for reasons other than "people chose to read them").
I largely agree. But if you're anything like a regular traveler you get TSA-pre for not a lot of cost or effort and that pretty much all goes away.
Thanks so much!!! What did you like about it?
> the kind who could debug kernel panics

But we don't need a kernel team and we can get by without a support contract (which would cost more than a gray beard).

Tech is more willing to pay for senior talent for their social engineering skills to organize junior devs to solve business problems.
One might equally ask why cars have barely gotten faster in the same time period. I think these systems settle into a (maybe local) optimum of safety, cost, pollution, infrastructure requirements etc, and are then very hard to adapt.
I always suspected it was commercial/government pressure. Hard to argue against "doing something" for safety.
Pattern matching is in all functional languages, afaik.
And who pays for the highway? The people paying their ISP bills - who did so because they wanted to watch the BBC/ Netflix etc , or shop at Amazon, read a newspaper online, bank online or play online games, or work from home - or the content you consume - all of which doesn't require advertising.

Sure Youtube and tik-tok consume huge bandwidth - but I'd argue if that was the only thing available on the internet then people wouldn't be paying their ISP bills.

The internet was growing massively before Google worked out how to make serious money with online ads.