skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
did you mean to say "wet"-dreaming in this context? Seems an odd addition to simply "dreaming"
I assume it's changes since then, but this is from 2021: https://atscaleconference.com/conveyor-continuous-deployment....

There's also a good paper on the approaches to configuration management here: https://research.facebook.com/publications/holistic-configur....
I would assume there are counter measures and detection. I strongly remember people discussing up-voting rings/puppet groups that pushed stories on slashdot and reddit, and the counter measures used to prevent that.

I don't recall if dang has ever openly discussed such security measures, through I do recall him saying that people can loose access to flag/voting if they are misused.
for interest, also posted in 2019 when it was published.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20577142
Legislature could have done this, the issue hasn't crept up on us. Unforunately, the system is broken (it can't identify and get support for clear wins).

I agree that government is all about setting, following and self-modifying rules, but that takes cooperation.
Whats educational here is to look into how Howard Hughes unraveled. Its not just a story about Howard Hughes, but how all the people around him who were mesmerized by him just went along for the ride.

The only difference is Howard Hughes was an introvert.

While Elon is an extrovert and in lives in the age of social media where likes/follower count amplify self delusion of the entire herd.
I'm not an American, but Australia has a comparable number of power outages. A big factor is cost, and population density is what causes cost to be a concern. The EU has a population density that's three times higher than the US; underground lines are three times more expensive than overhead.

Australia is of course ten times less dense than the US, comparable to Idaho, but we have a unique combination of moderately dense land in the east and south west plus shockingly sparse areas with little to no infrastructure at all.
Musk's offer to buy OpenAI has put Sam in a corner. Given that Softbank recently made a similar offer of $40B, it would be idiotic of OpenAI's board to pass on Elon's offer which is more than double what Softbank offered.
yea that makes sense - just bought a new jeep and seeing a pop-up ad would make me sell it at 30-40% loss to get one without the ads :)
Rust kernel policy – Rust for Linux
robotaxis :)
Plasma 6.3
Sockets has been in the work for the last 15 years. We almost got asio in the standard. There is significant interest in this, but also monumental bikeshedding.

A GUI proposal also was in the work for a while, then dropped because of lack of interest.

Threads definitely belong in the standard. Just because some platforms can't implement everything it doesn't mean the standard should be the minimum common denominator. Some embedded platforms don't even have malloc!

edit: but I think you are arguing in favor and I just failed at reading comprehension!
I never got into Civ6. The rules were too different from the prior games and I fail to adapt. My favorite is still civ5 but I also really liked 4. I did try playing civ2 again recently and it now feels too unstructured.
I live in Germany since 2014 and yes, I had ample example of both super-strict and fairly relaxed attitude about these cases.
Exactly. I love Rust. If I could write Rust with just a GC enabled / No borrow checker, I would never choose another language.
Aka the "Skip for now"/"Remind me later" button.

I suppose the "Fuck off forever" action is to crash the car through the window of the dealership...
Wait lotus sametime as in lotus 1-2-3?
It doesn't directly. These are malicious VS Code extensions. It's completely Microsoft's fault for poorly managing the ecosystem. They must curate extensions with security audits prior to publication and sandbox them with advertised entitlements. Without these, it's running untrusted code from the internet putting users at risk for ransomware, password and cc skimmers, data harvesting, and other malware.
Show HN: Computer screen backlit by concentrated daylight [video]
Hi Everyone,

Here's the first public prototype demo of a computer screen that emits daylight while preserving all the visual qualities of a regular display. (Technical demo starts at 3 min in the video)

The main goal is less eye strain and better health (for research references, see https://www.pixun.co/references), but there is also an energy efficiency advantage.

I first started with an ambient-daylighting concept, but soon realized the drawbacks that still make these solutions subpar compared to regular indoor displays in brightness and image quality. Using concentrated daylight through a fiber-optic collector eliminates these problems while providing the same comfort and health benefits. The system is of course hybrid, so an electric source can take over when sunlight is insufficient.

So far the project has been bootstrapped and now with a team of two we aim to build it further to become a proper product. It's quite early days so please let us know if you are interested in collaborating.

We are also interested in talking to people who would be positively impacted by such a product. All suggestions are much welcome, we'd love to know what features would be important to you!
and here I am still playing Civ II MGE

https://github.com/FoxAhead/Civ2-UI-Additions
OK, how about Stellantis (Jeep, Citroen, Vauxhall etc) introducing adverts every time you stop your car?

https://m.slashdot.org/story/438631
> I'd still want to have leading commas.

Real happy for you. Trailing commas support don’t prevent you from doing that.
The people dismissing criticism are the worst.

A fine case example is Cyberpunk 2077 at release - the game was ridden with bugs and several of them gamebreaking. That on top of failing to reach what it’s marketing had promised.

I enjoyed the game ok then and a lot more after a lot of patches - it’s a good game atm imo.

But the criticisms were more than valid yet there was no shortage of very vocal defenders. According to them the critics were haters, complaining about nothing, they themselves didn’t encounter any bugs (or maybe two in twenty hours) etc. It’s baffling how some people want to defend shortcomings in products - wouldn’t it serve them too if the products were better? (Some goes with any brand fanboys, not just games)
Of course.
And it's fine?
I'm a proponent of GPL for this reason, I see it as an ideology to which I subscribe, I don't see the problem?
> Perhaps Jeep is already perceived as a budget conscious brand.

I’d always thought of Jeep as an overpriced brand. There are cheaper off road vehicles available if you don’t care about the brand.
You will see their limitations when working with futures. That's really the number 1 pitfall in the language.
Why is it any different to do 4 recurrent passes than having a model that is 4x deeper?
> Elon is not known for his hate of Jewish people.

You might not know him for that, but people who pay attention do.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/17/business/elon-musk-reveals-hi...
We (at DuckDuckGo) shouldn’t have a lot of captchas and when we do (intended to keep away non-human traffic) they are completely anonymous, self-hosted, and not related to any AI or other machine learning. As such, I’d love to figure out why you are getting ensnared in them when you aren’t supposed to. If you want to reach out via email (see my profile) I will look into it.
So... to discuss this for real we should first admit how things look below the super-premium level.

Software engineering at Stripe, R&D at Meta and such... these are one end of a spectrum.

At the middle of the spectrum is a team spending 6 years on a bullshit "cloud platform strategy" for a 90s UI that monitors equipment at a factory and produces reports required for compliance.

A lot of these struggle to get anything at all done.
Even if disabling unit stacking for combat was the right choice, disabling it for workers too just made the game far more tedious. Workers constantly cancelling the routes they're building because other workers were in the way means much more micromanaging. (Not to mention, workers under automatic orders are far less inclined to build roads on their own in 5 than in 2, so that's even more micro.)
And what if you don't need to drive?

We could have transport funded by advertising - think of the captive ( quite literally ) market, and the ability to have full surround advertising for the whole of the journey.

The future is bright.
look into how it works for music production. nonsense top down
100% - most people will buy the brand they had before or buy the car because they like how it looks or buy the car because of the price/special financing... probably like 1% of the people will do some serious research, the rest is like "imma pay $850/month, what cool-looking thing can I get for that"
life = hope
Could this be an attempt to prevent Altman from turning OpenAI into a for-profit too cheaply? If I understand correctly, then turning a non-profit into a for-profit requires selling the non-profit's assets at a fair price. If Altman says he buys it for 40bn and there is no other offer, then who's to say that this is not a fair price. On the other hand, with a 90bn offer on the table, it will be hard to argue that the assets are only worth 40.
I think WFH is good for some people but not good at all for others.

For example, I don't usually do well at all. I get distracted all the time, my brain doesn't seem to feel it's in work mode and so on.

I actually prefer to commute (I take the tube, read and listen to music; my brain is gradually turning on) and work from the office, have some chitchat, meet new colleagues, enjoy the snacks and beverages and then once I'm done I go home and the commute back is like a shutdown of my work brain.

To each his own I guess, I highly dislike polarising opinions (WFH is the best for everyone! or Everyone should be in the office all time!).
The intersection of nationalism and archaeology can get _really_ weird, and depending on how deep in they are, well, you're probably not going to convince them. If nothing else, it's likely _emotionally_ important to them in a way that it probably isn't for you, the contrived nationalistic narrative being part of, essentially, a belief system.

For a particularly extreme example of this, see Great Zimbabwe, a ruined city in what is now Zimbabwe. When the country was Northern Rhodesia (a white minority ultra-nationalist breakaway state, somewhat like apartheid South Africa but moreso), any serious discussion of the nature of the site was essentially _illegal_ there, because its existence challenged the official narrative (the government insisted that it could not have been built by black people).
Remember when Bill Gates rehabilitated his image after he was the hated richest guy like Elon is now?
Yeah. I’m going to balk at the price too. For me civ is a “solitaire” time waster and not an epic journey.

And the real problem is Major Lords still exists. And that’s where I waste time.
They offered 40B investment at 260B valuation.
I have to admit that my initial gut reaction to Musk is also one of pity. And I don't mean that as a cynical rethorical device, if I had his (blatantly obvious) insecurities I would feel bad.

Would only be nice if his insecurity were dealt with in a way that didn't affect the rest of the world.
> Fuel efficiency doesn't prevent new designs working well for the same or lower speed. But we didn't manage to have those either [..]

We did, actually. Which is why the 777 is still being built, and the 747 is not.

> (and slow as molasses to be designed and created compared to the 1960s) new plane designs are plagued with tons of issues.

Actually, the rate of airline accidents and deaths has decrease drastically since the 60s. We can look at [1].

Average airline accidents over the 60-70 period: 65.5 accidents a year, for an average of 1400 deaths a year.

Average airline accidents over the 2011-2021 period: 20.1 accidents a year, for an average of 326.5 deaths a year.

So just on pure numbers, the improvements are undeniable. What is hidden in those statistics is that the world air passenger traffic increase more than 60 fold since the 60s.

[1] https://asn.flightsafety.org/statistics/period/stats.php
Elon Musk’s bid for OpenAI isn’t about buying it but about disrupting its transition to a for-profit company. OpenAI Inc., the nonprofit, controls OpenAI LP, the capped-profit subsidiary. To convert to a full for-profit entity, OpenAI Inc. must sell its technology and IP to the new company, with regulators determining a fair valuation.

The rumored SoftBank investment at a $260B valuation relies on this transition, but the current estimated valuation is around $150B. Typically, control premiums in such deals range from 20-30%, putting the expected nonprofit payout at $30B-$40B. However, Musk’s $97B bid for OpenAI Inc.’s assets sets a significantly higher valuation, giving regulators a strong argument that the nonprofit should receive much more.

If regulators adopt Musk’s benchmark, OpenAI Inc. would end up with a 62% majority stake, making the transition far more complex or even blocking it entirely. Even though OpenAI won’t accept Musk’s offer, the bid’s primary effect is to make the legal and financial process of going for-profit much more difficult. It’s a strategic move designed to frustrate OpenAI’s leadership, particularly Sam Altman, and potentially derail the entire transition.
I created an account for a product I am currently working on and got suspended after a week or so. Didn't make any tweet. Didn't even login or use it. Now when I open Twitter/X it just shows I was banned. I honestly wonder how that site it still in operation and still has real users after all of this.
Jeep is a solid car, now it seems it's just being mismanaged badly.
That's waymo.
softbanks offer was at a $260B valuation, but only $40B investment

src:https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/02/07/sof...
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wet_dream

An exciting fantasy; a very appealing, ideal thing, person, or state of affairs.
Ok so what's the algorithm? Ass article
> oligirlies

What does this mean? Oligarch girls?
Why are people downvoting your comment?
It's not against the guidelines, is it?

I strongly think you are wrong, and I strongly disagree with your points, but I don't see why your opinion should disappear, lest this thread turn into an echo chamber.
This ignores people who open ChatGPT.com or use the app
I offer 5 USD for X, please explain how this is bad for Elon Musk.
Brit Who Lost £620M Bitcoin in Rubbish Now Wants to Buy the Landfill to Dig It
I mean, Inquisition itself was terribe compared to origins.
False equivalence of the highest order.
Pretty sure most people would have a mental breakdown if given 50 billion.

Imagine if pretending to be your friend was basically a fortune 500 size industry.
Personally I find 2-3 days pretty much right. If I ever need to talk to someone I just have to hold it for tomorrow and chat in person. But still allowing for flexibility for the random stuff you might have to do (doctors appointments, rental inspections, etc)
Bill Gates dedicated to white-washing his image after MSFT antitrust case.

I mean, philanthropy is great, even more if it is sincere. But lets not forget the kind of business man he was before the 2000s.
What do you think full self driving is for? So that the now passenger is entirely free to consume ads.
True. He‘s more of an in your face one.
because as soon as there’s a real market Tesla isn’t that attractive anymore outside of a brand loyal niche.

can't be further from the truth. if you drive tesla and then drive all of the competitors tesla is faaar superior car. cars are great. the core issue here are margins - before competition tesla's could retain the huge margins on their vehicles. feels like in order to compete now they will have to drop the prices and hence their margins and with the forward p/e ratio of 1,000,129 that won't go well for the company's financials. and of course elon being a tool isn't going to be helping with this :)
He wouldn't have gotten his money playing saint, if it wasn't for backdoor deals with governments and hardware producers keeping competition (like linux) out of the market. Old grudges.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2025/02/11/here-ar...
Show HN: AI bullet point summaries for YouTube (Open-source Chrome Extension)
The point is that it doesn't matter, it all evens out in the end.
Musk isn't a sneaky weasel kind of asshole. Still, he is doing exactly sneaky weasel kind of shit here.
I think a few years ago it was all about longer lock-ins, now pass-throughs ...i mean come on its about as close to a setup as you can get!
Nah, the alternative that popped in my mind was "phantasizing", so I guess my wording aligns with my feelings. Whether these feelings are healthy is another discussion :D
Haha, Musk is probably fuming as we type.
Bill Gates rehabilitated his image

not sure in what world Gates is still not hated rich guy? :)
Current AI valuations are delusional, which sort of makes sense since so is the technology and everyone hyping it to hell and back.
Elon is not extroverted, he’s abusing ketamine and it’s upended his whole personality.
Yep, it's just a fun way to refer to oligarchs :)

https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/girlies-trend-online
Year, Month, and Day
Casual sexism, insinuating that men don't behave this way, but women.
I think of it more from the perspective that, there are likely people with far less material wealth than him who have achieved much greater heights happiness and lead a more fulfilling life.

All that wealth, power, and influence, and for what - if you can't even be happy about it?
I would like to see this being applied practically. Is there a video demonstrating this or is it still too soon? Is the algorithm secret sauce or will it be open sourced?
Is there data about this or is just your perception? Because my perception would be different, for example in my country countless bank branches closed and a lot of banking jobs do not exist anymore thanks to widespread home-banking usage (which I also know differs from country to country). This is also from the tales of people that had careers in banking and now tell how less banking jobs there are compared to when they joined in the 80s.

I wouldn't be sure that growth as an industry/business is correlated to a growth in jobs too.

Maybe I'm wrong, I would love to see some data about it.
But it ignores them equally throughout the year… It’s not an exact measure, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a useful metric. So long as the measurement is unbiased and captures enough of the traffic, it can still be useful.

The troughs in that graph are all during prime US school/college vacation times: Summer, Winter, and Spring breaks. And then magnitude of the fall corresponds to how long the breaks typically are. To me, that makes a lot of sense.
> this might be the most requested feature in SQL

Don’t forget to take into account the people not requesting this feature.

A lot of them don’t think this is worth the changeover.
Probably some novice playtester felt shafted by the terrain disfavoring them so the designers took an axe to it trying to assure some kind of "balance".
The problem with the traditional antivirus signature model is that it's reactive rather than proactive. Once it's been identified by human or automated submission for human and/or automated analysis, the damage has likely already been done if it ran on a clean machine(s) already. But that's only the fraction of malware that will ever be identified because a large but unknowable fraction goes by unidentified, perhaps for all time. (When I was a Windows SA 20 years ago, I saw all sort of customer machines infected by advanced persistent threats that used evasion without any sort of antivirus signatures because they were novel threats.) What may be scanned by N vendors and deemed "safe" today and/or 10 years from now could be in fact malware by behavior.

PSA: Never run untrusted code on important machines. This might mean forbidding the use of third-party extensions for common applications until they are audited, something Microsoft clearly isn't doing.
Thanks! And yeah, the data only goes back to the first (as far as I can tell) average that’s available—BESET.

There’s a couple of more quirks here and there that I’ve found-the NYT also tracks (for users that are logged in) the Unix time of completion for your Wordle each day.

I was originally planning on making a heatmap to show people’s completion time patterns, but since I was tracking my own times, I found that the NYT’s data on my completion times was erratic and occasionally incorrect (within the same day but off by hours) up until like 3 months ago? So it’s kind of funny to think that we can track bug fixes through simple data comparisons.
I would be careful with the 4d chess angle given how the twitter deal went through.
Seems like a bunch of go programmers really wanted to use go, no matter how impractical.
https://melatonin.dev/blog/code-signing-on-windows-with-azur... is the way forward if you haven't found a solution already.
> Code ligature thing has something to do with just seeing the characters that are actually there rather than a smokescreen, which IMO impedes editability because I can't place the cursor half-way through a ligature and so on

Why wouldn't that be possible? (The cursor thing)

It's still two characters as far as your editor is concerned.
Yes, but the user is using it in a derogatory sense, not the friendly meme sense. Referring to someone as “girlie” can be either. I would assume this is just a way of referring to a collective they dislike or don’t respect; they’re not just ordinary oligarchs, they’re oligirlies.
Tesla is a very very nice computer with a decent car attached to it.

In the best of times Musk's leadership brought us stuff like "Joe Mode" just because he saw someone complain on Twitter.

Now he's completely unhinged and we can't trust him even as much as before. He might just decide something crazy and force the factories to change it just because.
I see it more as calling Altman's bullshit, but yeah, that's not the only angle.
What's "okay"? My position is that the current state of affairs is far from ideal, but also not significantly worse than what came before, and so I'm suspicious of the motivations of anyone who's selectively concerned about public accountability now.

To to drain the swamp you probably have to dive into the swamp, or at least get your feet muddy. Every successful reform/anticorruption programme I can think of has involved giving a few trusted people some fairly extraordinary powers - special prosecutors, special judges, special task forces and the like. Sometimes the end result is no better, or is even worse, sure. But I'll take trying something that might work over letting the prior status quo continue indefinitely. And I don't think the system would ever have been capable of reforming itself while staying within its bounds.