skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You might have missed the cold war in your summary. Mass nuclear anxiety really characterized that era, with a number of near misses that could have ended in global annihilation (and that’s no exaggeration).

IMO, the Atoms for Peace propaganda undersells how successful globalization has been at keeping nations from destroying each other by creating codependence on complex supply chains. The new shift to protectionism may see an end to that
Title shortened from:

Elon Musk describes limestone mine used for processing federal workers' retirement papers: ‘Like a time warp’

This is not made up, Washington Post in 2014 "Paper mine pushes ahead, but still behind the times":

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/03/22/sinkho...
I watch shorts on my TV sometimes. They're short enough that my resistance to clicking on them is low. The long form stuff I have to really think about whether I care enough for a 15 minute video where I'm going to have to scroll past sponsored segments.

I rarely watch several in a row, but I typically watch one when I scroll past the Shorts section.
I dunno, it makes conceptual sense. Networks infrastructure is largely commodity utilities where duplication is effectively a waste of resources. e.g. you wouldn't expect your home to have multiple natural gas connections from competing companies.

Regulators have other ways to incentivize quality/pricing and can mandate competition at levels of the stack other than the underlying infrastructure.

I wouldn't expect that "only a single network" is the right model for all locations, but it will be for some locations, so you need a regulatory framework that ensures quality/cost in the case of a single network anyway.
Not a great analogy. If

- there were a range of expert opinions that P(destroy-the-world) < 100 AND

- the chemical could turn lead into gold AND

- the chemical would give you a militaristic advantage over your adversaries AND

- the US were in the race and could use the chemical to keep other people from making / using the the chemical

Then I think we'd be in the same situation as we are with AI: stopping it isn't really a choice, we need to do the best we can with the hand we've been dealt.
Removing parking requirements doesn't ban parking, it just lets the market / builder / business owner decide how much parking to provide, instead of wildly over-estimated minimums.
Humans overtrust machines in life-or-death decisions
Unless you're multitasking, the OS on a separate thread gets you about 5-10% speedup. It's not really noteworthy.

Unless you lived through the 1990s I don't think you understand how fast things were improving. Routine doubling of scores every 18 months is an insane thing. In 1990 the state of the art was 8mhz chips. By 2002, the state of the art was a 5ghz chip. So almost a thousand times faster in a decade.

Are chips now a thousand times faster than they were in 2015? No they are not.
Jonathan Blow on Open Source Software [video]
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Eradication of an ideology is not the same as eradication of people. It's also a stretch to say Michael Knowles, a famous shock-jock, speaks for the Republican party.
The voices are excellent, but the app needs work. It lost my place in a book a few times, so I switched back to VoiceDream (don't use VoiceDream, it stinks unless you're a legacy purchaser).
a quarter pound is pretty dang close to a tenth of a kilogram (0.113 kg, to be more precise). We have a little-used prefix for that: A 'hectogram'.
The question here isn't between static paper and e-ink.

It's between glowing LCD panels and e-ink.

Advertisers are already cycling their ads on LCD panels at bus stops, on the subway, etc.

Going to e-ink just makes the advertisement much dimmer, it can't handle video, and it becomes washed out. Why would avertisers ever prefer that?
Cosmic rays [1], and no this is not a joke. Alternatively, there have been instances where routers and switches had bit-flip errors that ended up corrupting packets that passed through them. Or DNS caches that cached DNS responses for far longer than the specified TTL values - these are a real PITA for modern loadbalancers and are probably what caused your misdirected requests.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2944445
Did people really hate Tesla drivers? Aside from an extremely niche "rolling coal" sort, they were just a car. An innovative car that had downsides, but also had big upsides like insane torque and big screens (which were odd at the time, but pretty normal now). They were neat to tech sorts.

And notably the average loaded pickup truck -- the kind that fill every highway and road -- is more expensive than the average Tesla, so I don't think it has ever represented wealth, and the "people are jealous" thing has always been rather silly. One of the most common situations to see Teslas today are delivery vehicles and Ubers.

The honeymoon has worn off, though, and the blindness to the many design and build flaws of the vehicle, or the extremely anti-consumer behaviour of that company, has earned it a public sentiment that has declined. Now add that it is the primary wealth vehicle for one of the worst people on the planet, such that it started transitioning into pandering to let's call them bad people (the CyberJunk), and it's just a nameplate carrying a lot of negativity now.

>but I can't help but finding the 180 humorous.

The both-sidism thing is so incredibly boring. If everyone else didn't start making pretty good EVs, Tesla kept iterating and making better products with better quality and dealing with their customers better (instead of making ridiculous nonsense like their useless truck or robots or whatever else), and it wasn't associated with bankrolling a garbage huamn being, it would still be a beloved brand. But it isn't 2019 anymore.
South Africans clamor for US resettlement after Trump order
YouTube is the new television – but what is everyone watching?
Back in the day I'd use a WYSIWYG editor to design a front page and navbar and whatever, then split each part into header, nav, footer files and have code spit out the template HTML in the correct order with "body" file chosen by the URI

This is static site generation? I had another name, basically it was CMS for people that used ms word to type blog posts

Doing this again with a markdown step sounds cool

I think a real cms just has like tag engines and the ability to group posts and that sort of thing. But a site where everything is chronological; and otherwise only "wicked" - linked via potholes in posts is really all I need.

Maybe. I do need 2 blog sites here soon. I'll try templating for one and a ssg for the other maybe.
Give it another try. I switched to Linux in 2022 and have been using fb2k via Wine all this time, and it runs perfectly.
You are choosing to pick a nit with my phrasing instead of understanding the underlying point. The "intentions of their human masters" is a higher level concern than an AI potentially misinterpreting those intentions.
Lifetimes of the Soviet Union
You said "all this 'progress' is not leading to better lives." That implies lives were better or at least as good before "all this 'progress'."

If you say Room A is not better than Room B, then you should be, at the very least, indifferent to swapping between them. If you're against it, then Room A is better than Room B. Our lives are better--civically, militarily and materially--than they were before. Complaining about unfettered consumerism by falsely claiming our lives are worse today than they were before doesn't support your argument. (It's further undercut by the falling material and energy intensity of GDP in the rich world. We're able to produce more value for less input resource-wise.)
You'd figure that would incentivize cell operators not to market segment higher speeds behind higher prices.

It's like I'm paying them extra for the privilege of increasing their network efficiency.
A quick Google will reveal this "historical" date's significance
The money was claimed. The private key was correct but you have to know how to use it correctly. There was a bug in the link to the address, but that didn't affect the claim process. Sorry about that!
You can always fine tune with the corpus you have and then try in context on top the fine tuning even if it’s insufficient. Then with that - and perhaps augmenting with RAG against the corpus - you might be able to build a context that’s stable enough in the language that you can generate human mediated synthetic corpuses and other reinforcement to enrich the LORA.
Darn, I actually got this one like 15 minutes before the money left the wallet, but the wallet didn't have any ETH for gas, so someone who had some ETH ready sniped it out from under me. Kinda cool idea though, providing it can be a bit more 'fair' and lock out people so the claimant has a minute of breathing room at least :P
On MacOS, kitty shows an empty box, then an a for the "h󠅘󠅕󠅜󠅜󠅟󠄐󠅖󠅕󠅜󠅜󠅟󠅧󠄐󠅘󠅑󠅓󠅛󠅕󠅢󠄐󠄪󠄙a" post below. I think this is fair and even appreciated. Mac Terminal shows "ha". That "h󠅘󠅕󠅜󠅜󠅟󠄐󠅖󠅕󠅜󠅜󠅟󠅧󠄐󠅘󠅑󠅓󠅛󠅕󠅢󠄐󠄪󠄙a" (and this one!) can be copied and pasted into the decoder successfully.
Also, make sure to do with with Wills and Trusts. Going through probate is a nightmare.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/probate.asp

Also, if you can, just put your loved ones as joint users on your banking accounts. That way when you die, it just rolls over to them without much hassle. I know not everyone has that kind of trusting relationship, but if you do, this is one little way to enjoy the fruits of it.
Sounds like a great topic for an xkcd video
From the article, this is based on self-reported confidence, not some kind of testing or measurement of critical thinking skills. This could just boil down to feeling less confident with tasks you do less, which is sort of obvious.
After a while though, particularly on flakey connections, I end up with dozens of stale mosh sessions on each server, all listening for inbound connections that will never come.

The quickest way to clear them seems to be pkill mosh and then reconnect. It's a known bug with no anticipated fix.
Maybe it is. Building multiple networks for smaller populations comes at enormous cost though. In my country there have been a tradition for this kind of network sharing, where operators are required to allow alternative operators on their physical network for a fee set by government.
Interesting! Would be curious to know what that is like.
A key tenant of Catholicism (as well as Orthodox Christianity) is humility. If someone is running around yelling that they know better than the Pope, then they ought to take a moment to reflect on the parable of the Pharisee and the Publican. (And maybe also remind themselves of that thing with the camel and the needle.)

This is Catholicism used as identity and as an ideological cudgel. If these people are genuinely faithful, I fail to see it in their words and deeds.
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Rust-for-Linux (R4L) is an experiment, but it faces fundamental obstacles due to the Linux kernel’s monolithic structure, constantly changing APIs, reliance on GCC, and existing development model.

Key Challenges:
1. Unstable Kernel APIs – Linux kernel APIs frequently change, making Rust integration difficult without a stable ABI, which contradicts Linux’s development model.
2. GCC vs. LLVM Conflict – The Linux kernel primarily relies on GCC, while Rust requires LLVM. This creates fragmentation in the toolchain.
3. Dual-Language Complexity – Developers must master both C and Rust, leading to recruitment and maintenance challenges.
4. Memory Model Incompatibility – Rust’s ownership model does not align well with many kernel subsystems, requiring workarounds that reduce its safety benefits.
5. Monolithic Kernel Issues – Linux is designed as a monolith, where all components deeply interact. Introducing Rust without a complete rewrite results in complex dependencies and maintenance overhead.

Only Viable Solution: A Full Fork

A Rust-based kernel requires a complete fork from Linux, rewriting everything in Rust. However, such a project would no longer be Linux but an entirely new OS.

Thus, Rust cannot become a true part of the Linux kernel without fundamentally breaking its principles. The real question is: Should a new Rust-based OS replace Linux, or should Rust-for-Linux be abandoned?
Because competition drives innovation. 5G exists as widely as it does because carriers were driven to meet the standard and provide faster service to their customers.

This article is essentially arguing innovation is dead in this space and there is no need for bandwidth-related improvements. At the same time, there is no 5G provider without a high-speed cap or throttling for hot spots. What would happen if enough people switched to 5G boxes over cable? Maybe T-Mobile can compete with Comcast?
Three things are necessary then:

1. It must be well-run.

2. It must be guaranteed to continue to be well-run.

3. If someone can do it better, they must be allowed to do so - and then their improvements have to be folded into the network somehow if there is to be only one network.
I think this is a great idea for a startup.

As a scientist, I would definitely be a paying customer, and on top I could deduct that membership from my taxes or have my lab pay for it like we (like many others) are paying Overleaf just under $1000 a year only to have LaTeX run in a Web browser to collaborate on papers (now my most important online service/app).

We usually know where to find the talks and recordings for the conference venues of our own specialist areas, but if there was a general "ScienceTube"-type Web site, you could also check out talks from neighboring disciplines. God knows, this might be as useful/addictive as HN.

Should you want to launch this & need someone for the scientific advisory board, please get in touch.

EDIT: typo fixed
That's already happening - my kids have had papers unfairly blamed on chatgpt by automated tools. Protect yourself kids, use an editor that can show letter by letter history.
It's the exact same checks. I know this because I've had to fill out some of these compliance documents and implement similar sorts of procedures with the legal dept. In addition to background checks, candidate reference calls prior to onboarding are becoming a checkbox that must be ticked by various external groups.

And to clarify, it's not something I support or that I find it makes a lot of sense to me -- it's just an unfortunate situation of where things are currently at.
Does attaching a cost really make a meaningful difference? I'm paying for my trash pickup even though I'm not directly billed for it. The point if charging for public parking is more a rationing mechanism than a moral imperative. I think it's annoying to shoulder the cost on businesses which is why it's in practice being shouldered on the developers who get money from the state so large-scale I think it evens out.

I think public transport should be free, keeping on the Columbus track I have no idea why COTA even bothers to charge. They instituted a monthly price-cap that's at most $62/mo and (or at most $31 plus 50% reduction on the per-fare cost if you're broke). And while not an insignificant amount of money to the riders it's bottom-of-the-bag chip dust to COTA itself. Oh no, more people might use the nearly empty busses, the horror.
> Very interesting announcement. GPT-4.5 being the last non-reasoning model seems like a tacit admission that the old scaling paradigms are exhausted.

I am *really* hoping this is stronger than sonnet.
> Month day year makes sense because that's how people talk: I'll be there February 5, etc.

People also say "twelve past two" and yet you don't use 12:2:SS.
I get why one wants strict parsing rules but i don't see the point of closing tags. It seems nice enough to have [say] logs in json. Why would one need to add closing tags before consuming the json elsewhere? Parsing the entire thing is a huge waste of time if it is large.

I can use csv or html ofc.
citation needed. also, define plenty. 1% of git total user base is plenty in nominal terms, I agree, but it's still 1%.
I got Claude to get “the raisons play at midnight" from an emoji in one prompt and three uses of its "analysis" tool. (the X Y at mightnight is a snowclone that Claude has probably seen, but I randomly picked "raisons" and "play")

My prompt was "I think this emoji contains a hidden messaage, can you decode it? Use JavaScript if necessary."
I’d nominate either the AGI people keep telling me is “right around the corner”, or the NHI that seem to keep popping up around nuclear installations.

Clearly humans aren’t able to do this task.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3700594
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What companies are trying to “compete” in the browser space?

Apple has no reason to compete, it can just make more and more functionality for native apps as can Google if it doesn’t have to worry about Chrome anymore.

Microsoft doesn’t care about the browser anymore and just uses Chromium. Firefox’s revenue comes completely from Google. If Google doesn’t have to prop up Firefox for antitrust reasons anymore, why would they?
Well, 5G is unlikely to be built in my area for the next decade, meanwhile 3 operators are building networks in the slightly more populated areas.
I'd say they're not fundamentally at odds, but they're at odds with a "greedy approach". That is, it is much easier to scale out when you're willing to make constraining assumptions about your program; and willing to pay a lot of overhead for distributed resource management, migrating pieces of work etc. If you want to scale while maintaining efficiency, you have to be aware of more things about the work that's being distributed; you have to struggle much harder to avoid different kinds of overhead and idleness; and if you really want to go the extra mile you need to think of how to turn the distribution partially to your _benefit_ (example: Using the overhead you pay for fault-tolerance or high-availability by storing copies of your data in different formats, allowing different computations to prefer one format over the other; while on a single machine you wouldn't even have the extra copies).
I can relate -- without getting into too much detail, I lost my son at age 16 to an undiagnosed heart condition... same thing that took my mom when I was 7. It was genetic, and passed through me. I can't describe the depths of the grief I had, definitely changed me forever.

I'll pass along some wisdom that was imparted to me at the time. A friend told me: "Life is for the living". I'm still here. It's my duty to keep carrying on in spite of it all. It's what my son and mom would have wanted. Honor their lives by carrying on in the life you still have.
I'm a nearly 50 year old dude and cars are awful because I have kids and want to leave them a better city and planet.

They are massive sources of CO2 right now.

Even electric cars produce a lot of particulate matter from tires.

They crowd out housing and businesses when we require their needs be addressed first and foremost.

It's not so much a matter of a binary choice either for most people. You can use a car less and still have one for that occasional hiking trip or something.
This is a great example of engaging writing that fails to convey an appreciable message and even though I use tmux locally and I had a thought the other day that I should stop, I hope that the author can channel their energy toward a better formula for thoughts.
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>Just because it has not come to pass yet does not mean they were wrong.

This assertion is meaningless because it can be applied to anything.

"I think vaccines cause autism and will cause human annihilation" - just because it has not yet come to pass does not mean it is wrong.
I think the question is whether you are disagreeing for pedantic reasons or are actually trying to contribute.

If you are trying to contribute, you will use the phrase backward compatible as we always do: my old code will still run after the change.

If you are trying to be pedantic, you will choose a new way of looking at it: My new code will not work if you go backward in time.

I don't care. I will swear to never write a dangling comma for any engine that doesn't support it. Also, I will swear to never use an engine that doesn't support it if once that does exists... Just as I did with Javascript.
It is in vogue to be horrible to men as a sex because of some deluded belief that we have power and privilege over women.
It's also something you mostly see, incidentally, in the terminally online. People with actual lives and life experience know better.
I'm not certain of the balance myself. I was thinking as a counterpoint of the band The Beatles where the two song writers (McCartney and Lennon) are seen in competition. There is a balance there between their competitiveness as song writers and their cooperation in the band.

I think it is one-sided to see any situation where we want to retain balance as being significantly affected by one of the sides exclusively. If one believes that there is a balance to be maintained between cooperation and competition, I don't immediately default to believing that any perceived imbalance is due to one and not the other.
This may resonate with you:

https://crimethinc.com/2018/09/03/the-mythology-of-work-eigh...
'do the right thing' sounds like google are doing the right thing
The number of people on the flight deck at the time of launch is scary.
Agreed. The results look more Steadman-like.
May I ask what the bookmarking discussion about Pinboard is? I tried looking through all of the recent articles but find nothing about pinboard.

What’s your current solution for local bookmarks?
I don't see how that changes things. The end goal is the same. x86 and Arm are much further along, but that doesn't mean they "need" better lithography any more or less than RISC-V "needs" it.
Internet is treated this way in Germany, and it's slow and expensive. Eastern European countries that put their bets on competition instead of regulation have more bang for the buck in their network infrastructure
That's what I pay for FIOS internet 20 miles north of Philly. I suspect that's their standard rate for 1 Gb/s service everywhere in the US.