skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me 3G is still 100% sufficient for my usage.
Also the latency has not been a problem for me, but jitter is. The good thing generally latency is pretty much stable so jitter (which is derivative of latency) is minimal.
I already don't understand what 4G added to me, let alone 5G
I wonder why they don't give the US the same courtesy they give other nations and at least provide both names, one in parenthesis. Not that it matters much, this name thing is just distracting nonsense. I'll never stop calling it by its correct name anyway. It doesn't matter what Trump wants. He's not my boss.
Oh, apologies, I didn't realise you were asking for more specific information. You can find that in the link I posted above. There is a copy of a paper in the repo, here's a direct link:

https://github.com/stassa/ijclr_2024_experiments/tree/master...

The paper was accepted for publication but it's still in review and anyway I prefer to point people to the repo with the code so they can reproduce the experiments if they want.
> The UK is also sending eye-watering amounts of money to Ukraine without a problem, while everyone else is pulling out of the project.

The UK government has never been more obviously out of step with the rest of the West. Like it or not, the global stage is currently being driven by signals from Trump.

> There was also the plan go give the Chagos islands to a country that is ~2000km away and pay them billions for the privilege of using them.

Don't get me started on this. There is quite likely an amount of corruption involved there too.
Opperator: A composable agent to automate tasks on the web
What a load of b.s. in that quote. Why already coming into panic and dismissal mode? Because we really do need more than just a database that stores bunch of JSON and cannot properly do transactions when required.

For known attributes the model based on rigid tables having strict typing, with unknowns placed in one or more JSON fields works best for me. I mean for example there like 100 known attributes of a product, and the category-specific ones, the unknowns generated dynamically at runtime, go to the "product_attributes" JSON column.
Visual Reasoning in AI: Boosting Problem-Solving with Images
Tennis great Steffi Graf got bitten by pickleball's 'fun factor'
Why are they dead meat? It makes no sense to me. They have NPUs that have been reverse engineered for use in linux and basically have strong integrated GPU. I personally doubt local AI is worth at all. All good models require insane hardware. But even if you disagree the M* macbooks are very well equipped to run local AIs. Better then most windows laptops coming out currently.
Here's a nice continuous version that has multiple colors and parameters you can tweak. And it works in webgl: https://smooth-life.netlify.app/
My # 1 issue with wayland is it is Linux Specific, not protable.

I am hoping the *BSDs get together and keep Xorg maintained instead of having to port Linux crazyness into their systems.
That is the thing with capitalist exponential growth, it doesn't last forever, eventually it flattens out, where new goods only get acquired due to existing ones being replaced, or newer generations getting to acquire their first products.

Business should learn to earn just good enough to make by.
Parenting is one of the hardest things I will probably ever do in my life. I grew up in a middle-class family in SEA, and when I came to the West, I realized what a fantastic job my parents did raising me.

Here, things are quite different. Many upper-middle-class families struggle to provide stability, proper education, and a loving environment—things we always took for granted growing up. This isn't a denigration of Western society. More like an observation of how capitalism has made both parents work like crazy and still feel like they don’t have enough.

It’s not a panacea in the East. We had to deal with overpopulation. Absurd competition in schools, colleges, and universities scarred my childhood. But I'm thankful to my parents for what they endured for me.
I think the unit was more or less the shape/size of a VT-240. Is that right?
Review the Music
A huge number of developers started in HTMl/CSS/JS because it was a super-low barrier to entry.

I also know a huge number of professional developers that started off as teenagers tinkering with Linux. They started with Linux because the hurdle was so low. No accounts, no fees. Download an ISO and burn it.

These platforms are hurting themselves long term by increasing the barrier to entry.

I'm not going to spend a second on the Apple/Android platform if I need to fork out money/account to try it out (even if I can afford it).
Amazon's messy push to bring everyone back to the office
Everyone hate hypocrite and little kids especially hate hypocrites. You really need to be consistent with what you tell them and how your own actions. It’s so easy to mess this up so you need to humble yourself and explain that you’re not perfect either.
Divergence and Curl: The Language of Maxwell's Equations
A compiler invoked twice on the same source file is not mandated to produce the same binary, but it should produce a binary with the same functionality.

There are infinite number of binaries that do the same thing (e.g. just padding random zeros in certain places wouldn't cause a functional problem).

Nix is very good at doing functionally reproducible builds, that's its whole thing. But there are build steps which are simply not deterministic, and they might produce correct, but not always the same outputs.
Yes, for dirt I wouldn't worry at all... but e.g. rodent excrement is quite dangerous: leptospirosis (kidney damage, meningitis, liver failure), hantavirus, salmonella, LCMV. I know, chances are low but I'd be happy to reduce them as much as possible.
I have a minimalistic one (7 lines in Python) using convolutions:

https://c0stya.github.io/articles/game_of_life.html

### The code ###

import numpy as np
from scipy.signal import convolve2d

field = np.random.randint(0, 2, size=(100, 100)) # 100x100 field size
kernel = np.ones((3, 3))

for i in range(1000): # 1000 steps
new_field = convolve2d(field, kernel, mode="same")
field = (new_field == 3) + (new_field == 4) * field
Can't agree more. Might be the most crazy thing I have ever seen done in the browser.

It actually demotivates me to work on music and motivates me to work on some web app ideas.

I am not sure who the audience is though either. Reaper works wonderfully on Linux.

The issue is any DAW or really any musical instrument is massive investment in time to learn to be good. The money isn't really the bottleneck. I can easily get a reasonably priced flute on ebay. The reason I don't play the flute is because the amount of time involved to learn to play it.
Whatever estimate you came up with: double it. You think it will take 3 weeks, conservatively? No, it's going to take a month and half. If somehow you deliver earlier then so be it but give yourself ample space to do things properly and avoid burnout.

Another thing, which I'm still learning to do, is saying "No" to new projects until you finish at least one of the WIPs.
In web development, I've seen some systems that I can only call Singleton architectures, where horizontal scalability just isn't possible. For example, regular monoliths you can stand up multiple instances of, balance the load between them and they'll be okay... except when a monolith has session data stored in memory or some other business state data, or uses the file system directly for storing certain files (or even doing batch processing on them), or just any local data instead of relying on something like Redis/Valkey/RabbitMQ/S3 or even just a table in an RDBMS.

It's not that you can't make the code that runs in those systems perform pretty fast, but it means that a whole class of problems that could be worked around by more instances suddenly cannot be mitigated that way.

Your DB connection pooler has some issues under a lot of load? Too bad. Your app has some sub-optimal logic in it that slows down the whole instance when specific long running scheduled business processes are running? So sad. Want separate instances for internal users and other systems to integrate with? Not happening.

Essentially, horizontal scalability lets you sleep more soundly in a world full of inconsistency.
People seem to be willing to go out of their way to rationalize around having to take threats beyond a certain magnitude seriously. I think something similar seems to be happening with all of the discussion around Greenland (and Canada, for that matter); the idea of us actually getting into a serious territorial dispute with Denmark or Canada would be such a divergence from what anyone is familiar with that it's easier to just discount it as not being a realistic concern.
It really doesn’t matter what I did as you were the one commenting on but I’ll amswer

Did you choose a job where you didn’t have to go to work and cause carbon emissions?

yes, I am a contractor and have been working from home-office since 2007

You purposefully chose a job where you decided to drive into work. Did you buy a house close enough to work to walk or ride a bike?

yes, I also chose a private school for my kid which is nearby and we bike to school weather-permitting roughly 75% of the time

Whet sacrifices have you personally made to reduce your carbon footprint?

I drive EV. My wife and I donate 10% of all our pre-tax earning significant portion of which goes to Oceana. I installed solar panels on my house long before it was even remotely economically feasible… We try to do our part, even in cases where it is a bit of theatre more so than actual benefit (recycling for instance)
When did anyone with credibility say that?
Before marketing ￶(not ad) spend￶, meet with at least XX number of real decision makers.

Ask their reaction to your offer. Bring marketing people to observe and business/tech people for a short presntation and to answer questions.

You're going to be asking prospects for 15 minutes of time.
You know the world by what you experience. Infants and toddlers have a very small world (mostly their home); whatever that world is like becomes their expected reality.
Learn bicycle physics with interactive diagrams
Vision problems reported in patients taking Ozempic
Who uses an impact driver with Philips screws? I guess maybe if you're driving huge screws for framing something heavy but even then I've never felt the need for an impact driver.

And I usually use torx anyway
Many have already left South Africa. Unfortunately, it's very concentrated with the ones with the skills and finances to afford such a move. Leaving mostly the poor and roots-grounded individuals that are left.

At this point, South Africa is being consumed by a communist-flavored anti-white activist ideology, and it's practically a failed state. The only reason it isn't Somalia yet is due to the sheer amount of momentum by skilled individuals and capital that is still here and hasn't yet had a chance to extract value to a more stable country elsewhere. There will be a tipping point, and I hope this current round of sanctions pushes the racist policies out of government like they supposedly did in the 90's.
Yes I should have clarified that that was stock ticker (or found another actual example).
There are literally 25 sizes of Torx bits (the star shaped ones), plus some variants ("security", plus, ttap, ...). That's actually one reason people complain about Torx compared to, say, Robertson.

Unlike with Philips, you are less likely to use the wrong bit by accident though. One of the worst things with Philips is that there is a very similar and very popular drive called Pozidriv, and you sometimes find both on the same piece of equipment, adding to the confusion. Using the wrong driver kind of works, but with a good chance of stripping the head or damaging the bit.
I'm wondering: what will happen with the API? While they can give "normal" users the middle finger with shrinkflating model capabilities and opacity; I don't think businesses will be too happy sending prompts to the "super-intelligent" model that suddently is performing way worse despite the client not changing their prompts.

Or they'll keep that "weird" (not so hard to understand IMO) naming scheme for the API, which means any actual "power user" might choose instead to pay API credits and run their own Open WebUI (or any other ChatGPT-Like UI).
I think this illustrates perfectly why they should talk to a lawyer. I read through the link you posted. They don't mention anything about sec. 83(b) elections. It's a common strategy to avoid paying taxes until the RSU's are liquidated.

I know about it because my current employer structured the RSU's this way. Every ESOP and RSU plan I've ever participated in has been slightly different. Your link focuses on a very specific set of circumstances.
Likely place for them to be
FreeBSD already ported it, I don't know a about the rest. Why do you think it's particularly tied to Linux?
Better alternative : https://github.com/justinribeiro/lite-youtube
I bought into the N100 hype train because of Reddit. Sure its an amazing value, but I hope anyone reading this isn't convinced it's remotely fast. I ended up going with a minisforum ryzen for about 2x the price and 4x the performance.

I was a bit bummed since I wanted to use it as a kind of streaming box, and while it can do it, it is definitely slow.
> Git is up there with Python packaging and regular expressions.

Probably. And neither Python Packaging nor regular expressions will be replaced by anything in the next few decades, for the same reasons why `jj` is unlikly to replace git, for the same reason why rust won't replace C, and the same reason why, 20 years from now, people will still have jobs fixing Java and PHP code.

> But it seems like bad engineering and a lack of curiosity to look at the quirks in a tool and not ask if we can do better.

No one is demanding that we stop asking. But as engineers we cannot just consider "better", we also have to consider "practical". And in practical, pragmatic considerations, "technically better" simply isn't enough to displace an entrenched tool. That is a fact, whether people like that or not.

I like the ideas of jj. I cheer the development. Will I replace my git with jj in the forseeable future? No. Why? Because pragmatic reasons.

To replace an entranched tool that does its job and has wide adoption, a new thing needs to offer absolutely astonishing advantages that become "must-have" just by the merit of their existence. And even then, the ROI of these advantages have to offset all the technical and logistic pain of switching from one to the other.

> but the UI of Git (i.e. all the commands and surrounding paraphernalia) has a lot of incidental complexity.

There is no shortage of wrappers around git abstracting the nitty gritty to nearly any level of complexity desired. I use vim-fugitive for example. GUI abstractions as well as CLI tools and TUI wrappers exist.
If you believe it is a general tangent I would argue that it is highly topical and important not just to the general but centrally to hackers.
If there's unclaimed money [1] is the first step. More than likely Scambank [2] will have set monthly fees high enough to erode what most kids would have saved once they stopped using it after their school years. I don't recall if in the early 90s old accounts with over x amount ($500 aud presently) were required to be transferred to a govt based fund, but I'm fairly sure by end of 90s it was the case, when there was a definitive move by govt to try and restrict superscamulation fraud

[1] https://www.commbank.com.au/support.banking.what-is-unclaime...

[2] https://www.choice.com.au/money/banking/everyday-banking/art...
> I did not mean any ill will and apologize if that was how it came across.

Oh not at all, no I didn't think that. I'm enjoying the conversation.

It's interesting that you mention Smalltalk as I believe that some of the JIT ideas we're seeing in YJIT are borrowed from there.

As for all the "faster than C" talk here is very specific to ruby (or JIT'd) runtimes and overheads only in that context.

I think it gets mentioned because it seems so counter intuitive at first. It's not to imply C isn't orders of magnitude faster in general.

Along with the new out of the box features of Rails 8, the work on Ruby infrastructure is making it an exciting technology to work with again (IMHO).
Playing the victim is also another page right out of the Nazi playbook, thanks for bringing that one up too!
3G (which nowadays is 3.5G) is sufficient for you only because everyone else is on 4G or 5G.
That is hilarious. HackerNews was also the source of my blog's highest day of traffic. IIRC I quit a job and wrote about it and somehow a lot of people read it.

I often feel I _should_ blog more, but then I don't. And every now and again I go and read something I wrote ten years ago and feel a little embarrassed by my past self. But every so often I read something that makes me feel that I _did_ know a few things, or did some cool things, and even if no one else ever read about them it made me feel better ten years in the future and _that_ alone is worth it.

Also, my name is Tom and I'm also a juggler. Weird coincidence to be replying to your username... :-)
So GPT-5 will be about unifying GPT-4o, GPT-4o-mini, GPT-o3 and GPT-o3-mini into one single service which behaves similar in how OpenRouter functions?

> The free tier of ChatGPT will get unlimited chat access to GPT-5 at the standard intelligence setting

Fantastic! But what if I am not satisfied with the result chatGPT has provided? Can I make it understand that the model they routed my prompt to wasn't enough?
Notion locked me out of my paid workspace over an unjustified invoice.

I paid for Notion Plus in September 2024 for one user.
In January 2025, Notion automatically added a second user without my consent and started charging me an extra $85.26.
As soon as I noticed, I removed the extra user, but Notion refused to cancel the invoice.
They continued attempting to charge my card, and now they have completely blocked my workspace, even though I already paid for my original subscription.

I reached out to Notion support, but they keep repeating policy-based responses instead of fixing their mistake.
Now I am locked out of my own data and losing work due to their billing error.

Has anyone else experienced issues like this with Notion? This should not be happening.
I wasn’t shaming anyone for condemning DEI, I was shaming them for being bad at solving problems.
It’s 100% true. It’s heartbreaking when a toddler does something you don’t approve of and you ask them why and they point to something you did.
The blackboxing makes it tougher to compare with anything, and means they can say you're holding it wrong if the router brings you a second-rate response.
> reached that stage of no wanting the approval of those easily offended people.

He craves approval, the people that he crave it from are just as easily offended as anyone else.

Can you imagine the death threats if he pulled out a pride flag, or said he loved his transgendered kid?
Lunni looks cool. I hear mixed things about Docker Swarm. How has it been to work with?
Why would you think that a policy of “move fast and break things,” led by the richest man in the planet (who happens to have at least three major business related conflicts of interest) is going to result in a thoughtful, transparent policy?

You arrive at thoughtful, transparent solutions by talking to everyone in the room, sharing your learnings, being transparent with data and metrics, taking your time to understand the context you’re working in, and avoiding bulldozing everyone in the process.

Musk, with his conflicts of interests, stands to make astounding amounts of money off of better EV & driverless car incentives, government contracts via SpaceX, he gets to be in the room when big tech & social medial policy is discussed regarding Twitter, and don’t forget about his AI plays. It’s one thing to get advice from that kind of businessman. But you would NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS put them in charge of making the government more transparent and accountable, especially since he somehow has power to change agencies to do what he wants!

It’s like the most obvious recent example of corruption in American politics I’ve seen, because there’s nothing hidden about it. The conflict of interest is a plain, obvious fact, and we’re just going with the “trust me bro,” he’s not gonna do anything that might make him money.

Why the hell did he get involved with Trump and conservatives in the first place? Because he stands to get a lot of power and money out of it; a lot more than pretending to be liberal.
Tumbleweed Adopts SELinux as Default
Wow! adsb.exposed is an amazing site. The airbus vs. boeing map, showing the dominance in europe and the us, is particularly fascinating.
> My # 1 issue with wayland is it is Linux Specific, not protable.

Personally my #1 is just that stuff still don't work properly in a out-of-the-box Gnome+Wayland setup (on Arch). I still see weird things like a Firefox extension for making websites darker has a white line rendering through the pages when in use (probably something regarding aspect ratio?), some Electron apps like Obsidian sometimes have individual lines jittering up/down by 1-2 pixels (like it can't find the right/stable position), running nvidia-smi somehow introduces a 0.1 lag to seemingly my entire desktop, running it in a loop introduces that every run, and so on.

None of those issues happens with Xorg, and it just works without having set extra env vars for specific applications, or having to change the configuration just for Wayland to be used properly.

It seems to be less resource intensive, and smoother overall drawing, but all these issues make it kind of hard to start using daily over Xorg.
The biggest problem with AI is people with poor understanding of computer science developing an almost religious belief that increasing vaguely defined "intelligence" will somehow translate into godlike power. There's actually a field devoted to the rigorous study of what "intelligence" can achieve, called complexity theory, and it makes it clear that many of the problems that AI cultists expect "superintelligence" to solve (problems it'd need to solve to be "godlike") are not tractable even if every atom in the observable universe was combined into a giant computer.
I wasn't there but I think dollarization brought stability. There was no need to rush off to spend your money.

The "elite" don't really benefit from dollarization though. The currency was a way for them to rob everyone without even trying. All the big black market money dealing companies were ultimately owned by the big players in ZANUPF. So they profited from the difference between the official exchange rate and the black market one. They were able to use their influence to get dollars at the official rate and sell at the unofficial one.

So for that and other (more reasonable) reasons they have tried to reintroduce a currency. The place is so humped that I don't know if it can ever be fixed. This is what you get for electing demagogues. I say that as a warning to those of you who think national pride is a substitute for intelligent behavior.
I thought that SmoothLife was fascinating when I found it.

At the time I was doing a lot of simulation work, so methods for bridging discrete and continuous domains were interesting.

https://github.com/duckythescientist/SmoothLife
On what laptop and what distro? Does that PC lack an SSD? I have Ubuntu on a Thinkpad W520 and it does not take anywhere close to 6 minutes to boot, nor does the console lag but it also has an SSD installed.
skyscanner and other ticketing sites let you see 30+ days of fares simultaneously.
New General Catalogue
That still does not imply monopoly, just that they have got more money than sense.