skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has started long ago with the Cybertruck release delayed by two years and then not many wanted to buy it. The new roadster was originally announced for 2020, might come this year. The groundbreaking of Gigafactory Mexico has been delayed and I doubt the recent tariff madness helps. Level 5 FSD has been promised to be achieved in three years, that was 2013. With sales tanking, I do wonder if the $1 billion expected revenue in CO2-pooling[1] (from EU competition alone) will be at risk or if the EU can come up with some tariff in response to Trump's new attempt of tariffs on EU products. Also, after two failed attempts to get this massive compensation package as CEO approved by a court, will he try and fail again? Now that he's a squatter in some D.C. government building?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/stella...
P.S. dont blame bash for sed. Once you grok bash, other tools make more sense.
If you don't understand bashes escaping rules and options

echo x | sed "..."

Is doubly confusing.
What market is openai trading on?
Such an idea runs counter to the principles of individual liberty.
why would you talk to other passengers, just sit there and stare out of the window child
Isn't this what Firebase and similar solved a long time ago?

Having a local copy of a database slice, and hide the sync from developer at all.
But saying that Bluetooth is fine, it's just that every implementation is broken is a bit ridiculous. Sure, there's some value in distinguishing between irreconcilable issues with the standard and implementation bugs, but if those bugs are ubiquitous, the protocol as a whole is broken.
Same reason we haven't built any better planes since the 1970s (only barely incrementally, and with lots of severe issues, see Boeing, F35 and so on).

The skilled people are gone, and pointy haired managers took over.
> congressionally approved

You say that like it’s a good thing…
But how can you ever discover a novel solution without attempting to resow the ground?
China's new campaign to turn the world against Taiwan
A lot of new orders make sense, just not the important ones.
I think for most people this is a snoozer as we literally purchase Apple products to use their software and update to get new features.
The comments you're replying to aren't claiming that Rust is the only language that is fast enough for any use case. They're pointing out that Rust is the only language that is memory safe

> without compromising on speed

I was just trying to explain why that matters to you.

Nobody is saying you have to use Rust for everything.
Rather than discussing crazy Elon, I would like to hear insights on what this means? Why does he want OpenAI? Is there a chance to ever get this money back? Who is financing this after the twitter failure?
> Copyleft isn't how the world works.

How do you explain the success of software projects such as the Linux kernel?

> MIT and Apache and liberal licenses liberate ideas for reuse and practical application in the real world.

No. The likes of MIT and Apache allow for royalty-free commercial use of third party software. Aka free labour.

The likes of GPL arguably have a greater impact on the whole concept of reuse because they require consumers to also be reusable by third parties.

It's ok if your goal is to just use someone else's projects for your own commercial benefit. I do that all the time. However, it's not right to try to frame it as something else.
Well, obviously you can't run them so hot ...
Their ideal customer is the family - but on certain goods if you buy in bulk it's saved over going to a grocery store.
>the idea of taking a flight that takes you into outer space won't be too far fetched.

Reading this unlocked memories of the (after googling it) September 2005 National Geographic Kids magazine, which was centered around future life in 2035. One of the things in it was exactly this: travel time cut by launching into orbit and flying around the planet to cut travel time down to ~1h.
In what world is requiring someone to fulfill the terms of a legally binding contract judicial activism?
The funny thing about the name of the tool is that it's essentially named after a PHP linter I wrote while working at VK, called NoVerify. I did an internal poll for the best name, and noverify won, because the way to skip the checks done that linter was "git push --no-verify"...
Whose investment decisions are radical (and good) by your definition?
Most flashcarts have a UI that is shown on first boot; when a game is selected, the ROM for that game is loaded into the flashcart RAM, the appropriate bank switching or mapping logic emulated, the ROM banks remapped into the console address space replacing the UI code, and the console reset or told to jump to boot the game.

This doesn't work on the Atari 2600+ and 7800+ because those systems attempt to load the entire game ROM into their own RAM on boot and run the game from there. You might get the UI, but unlike in the actual hardware there is no rereading of the ROM directly. It's all done from what the system captured into RAM on first boot. So if a new game were to be loaded into that address space, the modern console wouldn't see it.
That's how the best discoveries are made.
That budget amount seems to include benefit costs as well, healthcare, pension payments, etc.

Fortunately payroll is public data! We can look at their pay bands and employee salaries.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/careers/pay-scales/

And data around who made what

> In 2023 the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) reported 1,282 employees making more than $100,000 per year; the average salary was $134,723. The highest reported pay for the federal agency was $259,500 for Janis Pappalardo, Miscellaneous Administration and Program. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in 2023 ranked 32nd in the nation among highest paying federal agencies and 43rd in the nation for overall highest paying employers.

https://openpayrolls.com/rank/highest-paid-employees/consume...

You may still think they're overpaid, but they're vastly under the 250k per head you estimated.
I'm the author of the article. How many comments are you going to write about how my usage is bad citing multi-threads when I said multi threading is out of scope? And how do you not understand this would be a how-to use thread locals correctly when you are dealing with multiple threads.
That may be all true. But maybe I'm not quite understanding the point or how it relates to Elon from the perspective of non-for-profit OpenAI. It could be "stranger X" and let me explain.

If the existing assets are worth $40b then for $97b as a board you could sell it, build another OpenAI (in fact you could build 2 new competitors) and still have change left over to pursue your mission. If your charter is to "produce lots of OpenAI accessible to everyone" this has to fit that mission - more AI competitors, more access to AI, etc. No matter what your feelings are of the characters in this story... by definition given their charter they have $40billion worth of assets (by their valuation) to achieve their mission - which includes the PV of all internal advantages/models/patents/etc they have developed. By accepting this deal they are ahead.

So:

- Either the assets are worth $40 billion and to further their charter they should take the deal (and by definition have more assets/firepower to do their mission) OR
- $40 billion is significantly undervalued which then raises other questions around governance, internal dealings, etc to try to convert to a for-profit by buying the non-profit's assets. If they go with the internal plan with the other deal on the table it could be argued as self-sabotage. I'm not sure of US law, but it could give rise to the validity of the deal legally. A non-profit converting to a profit is already a bit "hazy" from my understanding.
Of course I'm ignoring any needed system or firmware updates. For a while Sony's updates seemed magically synchronized to my gaming schedule.

Or try being an online gamer, buying a new game or expansion, installing the game and all of its update patches, and finding that there is a multi-hour queue to log on and actually play the game.

Fortunately remote play allows you to boot up your console remotely from your smartphone, install any updates, and get into the login queue. So when you get home you can log on and play for 5 minutes before the servers shut down for maintenance.
Coincidentally, I just checked the LinkedIn page of a colleague, and Vivaldi said it was loading ~30MB of data for that.
Kind of off topic, but I don't think it necessarily makes one a robot. Some people enjoy quiet moments and spend time organizing their thoughts, imagining things, thinking through problems, or just enjoying a relatively calm and thoughtless period. I suppose you can think of it as just a different form of entertainment driven internally rather than externally.

I really appreciate any moment I can get where I'm not inundated with stimuli.
No there's plenty of terrible and subpar food in Japan. Basically all cheese and non butter or yogurt dairy products not from a specialty store, anything from Akafudado, any food establishment run by an elderly person you weren't specifically recommended, most foreign food you randomly find walking around that isn't from China, Korea, or India. Spend more than a couple weeks there eating from the best places you found on the internet and it's very apparent.

Quality of chain food is usually down to how fresh it is, mostly from high turn over, and workers actually caring. Some of it is culture, but I taught college kids and many of them expected and got promotions to manager or corporate after working part time jobs during college.

Pizza in Japan usually sucks unless it's Italian style because they can't charge a premium on specialty buffalo mozzarella cheese and it's hard to get anything else of quality in bulk. I've had the discussion with Japanese living abroad about how there are obviously lots of dairy farms in Hokkaido producing quality milk and butter, but everything else is over priced and/or terrible. Pizza Hut, Domino's, and Costco can use their global sales to import or buy domestic in bulk. Sometimes the chains completely rework the product for the market. Domino's and KFC basically taste nothing like their US version. McDonald's is the same just often times fresher
No, but starting from first principles does work. And being unaware of previous work helps you do this.
Ask HN: Substack article about 50 surprising mathematical observations?
Shared here was something of a listicle (brief 1 or 2 sentences) compiling 50 or so surprising observations of math or statistics. E.g., Simpson's paradox. I believe article was hosted on Substack.
https://javascriptwtf.com/

Arguably this is worse than C++ because for basic things/beginner to intermediate users, the footguns in C++ are more benign (e.g. performance related, rather than correctness) than the ones in JavaScript.
Please just use:
- https://techdevguide.withgoogle.com/
- https://www.freecodecamp.org/
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
Before learning about this, I watched an episode of Octonauts (a children's animated series) with my 2-year-old that more or less had this exact story. I was stunned to learn it's basically true!
What I see is it going from 58 to 40 (the scale is ???), and it’s only continued to rise over time. So that maybe a common use (~30%), but it’s not the only use.

Most of those kids will continue to use it as they graduate, having embedded it in their workflow (unfortunately many will probably fully outsource all thinking to it, having learned a lot less since it did it all for them).
Nice, so how is your special claim better?
> Most of the chronically homeless started off as transitionally homeless

Sure. Doesn't change the fact that someone "tak[ing] a field trip to [their] local river banks and highway underpasses" is going to see about 5x more transitionally homeless than chronically homeless [1].

> we can start by ending hunger in the "rich" world

It's a good goal. And we're making progress on it [2]. Starving to death in the rich world is largely a thing of the past; consider the meaning of our shifting our measure of food insecurity from starvation to hunger.

[1] https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/who-expe...

[2] https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/report...
Why would he want to be demoted to president?
This is a really good article - this is the kind of thing I would link to a person that wants to build a website. I'd hate to be a noob developer, and having to learn to build a react site as my very first thing.
A shift of liability for airline insurance and airport insurance needs.
No it doesn't. Service intervals are dependent on mileage. You should be detecting the problems and fixing them at regular servicing.

Ignoring brake checks is endangering life. Even though you have regenerative braking, brakes are used way more often in automatic and gearbox-free cars due to driving dynamics.

Just because there's no so-called stealership, ignoring brakes is not justifiable. So, I can mark Tesla as an irresponsible car company, with a bright and bold marker.

Thanks for narrowing my future car choices and pushing Tesla more out of my mind.
The problem is that when they don’t exhaust the queue, there are people there 2+ zones lower than the latest called out one.

So your best strategy when you realize this is happening is to get in line to try to time getting to the front roughly when your zone will be called.

Delta gate agents very frequently do this and it’s super annoying because it defeats the point of their bajillion zones.
This strikes me as something that many people probably figured out a non-rigorous version of and didn't think it was special.

It's kind of one of those resource management hacks you do when you're constrained and screwed by limitations. Splitting things up by priority is a common go-to for resource allocation. This is a spin on that.

I wonder how many other "in the trenches hacks" people have done that overturn widely accepted things the inventors didn't realize were a big deal: "well I usually have a bunch of deliveries to make and I've figured out a clever way to map out the quickest path... "

Don't get me wrong - recognizing it and then formalizing it, doing the work, publishing the paper - that's a lot of effort. I'm not taking that away.
If DOGE was serious about finding cost savings, they would start with the biggest budget hog, the one that has never once passed an audit in its entire history – the Pentagon.

US "defense" spending is so absurdly overflowing with bloat and waste, it would be like a kid in a candy store.

But instead DOGE started with a tiny department controlling ~1% of spending, one which has routinely passed independent audits and also happened to have opened an investigation into one of Musk's companies.

And the action taken? Preventing the release of existing supplies of medicine and food to literal starving children in third world countries.
It's been the primary and most annoying interop issue for us when we have to integrate C++ code into our primarily C codebase (= build some pieces of our code in C++, which necessarily has to interact with at least our header files).

(Second place: differences in available GCC/clang compiler extensions between C and C++ [our software does not support Windows/MSVC], third place: differences in what casts are permitted/how they are done)
Again. The specific hypothetical wasn’t the point.

It is what is called an“illustrative” or “hypothetical exemplar”. Ignore the specific example, focus on the point being made:

What limit is there to Trump taking things further? Because Trump has a track record of taking things further.

It is not a randomly improbable premature neurotic conjecture actually about Canada or “Beaverland”. Those are stand-ins for a larger point.

—

Also, a democracy is supposed to decentralize power. The more decentralized, the more each citizen has equal power.

But the US Constitution, with all its checks and balances, managed not to limit the power of political parties.

So the US system degenerates into only two viable national parties, with highly centralized power within each. Only two nationally viable candidates, neither chosen by an actual democratic process.

Just one more candidate, chosen by the powerful, than an autocracy.

We could call this “Minimal Viable Democracy”, as any less democratic would not be democratic at all.

Without experience with a better system, most US citizens are in a Stockholm situation. They talk about their “great” system because at one time it was a big improvement. But 250 years later it is just the flawed system they are stuck in. Better to keep calling it “great”, no matter how many re-centralizing-of-power dysfunctions accumulate without resolution, than get too depressed.
I'm the author. You don't exactly need the program to be small, you could do a lot with a small file (under 500 lines) being the only one able to access a global variable. People seem to think it's ok to leak data from your encapsulation when you're using a global which I tried to say is a bad idea in the article.
Regarding your third point, each of those things comes with tradeoffs, they aren't just simply better. If a smaller government could get all the same work done with less money and bureaucracy, I'd agree.
Well I went to a catholic school in Italy and getting out of class was an everyone or none kind of situation.

Going on vacation or even arriving late was very very frowned upon.

So, seems to depend a lot on the country.
Jesus, what a refreshing site. People are so terrified of getting their hands dirty with HTML that they've forgotten how straight forward it is.

Abstractions, frameworks, static site builders, etc. are all great but we shouldn't shy away from understanding the basics.
> `socketpair` is useful (and I think portable across platforms that support networking as we know it)

Windows is a notable platform not supporting socketpair.

Some languages offer socketpair on Windows, e.g. Python, but they are implementing it themselves using TCP loopback connections.

Somewhat irrelevant to this discussion given Windows lacks exec (starting a new executable requires a new process which gets a new PID), and in practice lacks fork too (the low-level NT API has undocumented support for forking, but most of the higher-level APIs get confused by it and break when you use it, making it unusable by the vast majority of applications)
Obviously you're right about what politician's promising being irrelevant. Things are different this time because of actions. To weigh impact you need to consider discretionary vs mandatory spending.

Mandatory is made up of things like social security, pensions, medicare, and so on. That's all automatically funded with no role played by Congress. The money that's left over after is what Congress actually decides how to spend in those thousands of pages long budget bills that nobody reads - that's discretionary spending.

In 2024 the discretionary budget was $1.7 trillion. Exclude the military (which is also discretionary) and you're down to $900 billion for all the projects people typically associate with government - transportation, education, infrastructure, and so on. USAID took up ~$50 billion of that. That's a major reduction!

This discretionary:mandatory divide is also why DOGE is going after the Pentagon next. Slashing mandatory spending is hard, though you might be able to cut e.g. administrative costs. But discretionary spending is just chock full of pork and corruption with negligible accountability.

I agree they're cutting ideological programs - I don't agree this is intrinsically ideological. They're cutting e.g. DEI and atheism propaganda, but not just replacing it with e.g. color-blind society and respect for religion propaganda. They're just dropping the propaganda funding altogether. I'd like to see this carried out everywhere, even in cases where the propaganda might align more closely with my own biases.
TSMC 2nm Process Disclosure – How Does It Measure Up?
Gotta put in a plug for QIT, which is very similar, but I think a little easier to understand:

https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9512022

and a more accessible version that I wrote a long time ago:

https://flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf
A related issue that we, software engineering people, ignore the design-implement workflow other engineering areas successfully use, mainly because that is not agile enoughtm.

Unless teams are bound by some ISO to have design documentation timestamped earlier than feature DoD, engineering process gets flipped on its head and design docs are quite likely to be simply braindumps of some uninterested party rather than formal-ish specifications driving the implementation.

> when we have plenty of mature tools and established best practices that people don't care to learn.

Hyper-fixation on agile and "move fast and break things" attitude is in part to blame here. You can't really put a timebox on "learn how to use mature tooling" or storypoint "design architecture", when only implementation is rewarded.
Exactly, the authors get to eschew the formalism required in papers. Often the core ideas of research are simple in themselves and the real complexity lies in formally proving the results.

Also, I'd not be surprised if someone already invented and used this funnel hashing technique in say the 80's in some game or whatnot but just never realized what they had stumbled onto. Not to diminish the research, it's very ingenius.
>>We got along great for almost 200 years without the DEA and they have a much larger budget. Hasn't materially improved anyone's life, or do you know someone who was better off from their action? Go after them first.

it is a valid question how DEA was unable to prevent opioid epidemic by Sackler family, and the current fentanyl epidemic, and I'm sure the effectiveness question will be raised.

while we are discussing DEA, I wanted to highlight CIA whistleblower Kiriakou's interview ( https://youtu.be/yaoTdbGbU1c?t=187 )

Afghanistan was net food exporter, but shortly after USA occupation, Afghanistan produces 93% of world's heroine, and DoD encouraged opium production because heroine was exported to geopolitical adversaries (Russia and Iran).

and DEA even shut down investigation by the CIA.

Very big questions are starting to arise
You're better off getting an original Atari, and a box CRT set, and enjoying the experience as it was intended without frame delay. (These games are a lot easier to play when you don't have to wait for the on screen response.)

The other thing is the original paddle controls are a lot more fun for games like Circus Atari or Night Driver than a gamepad.

If you don't like the classic joystick, then between the Commodore and Atari extended line of joysticks, you can find a suitable alternative.
Nothing but cat pictures, I miss the old internet.
What about a surname like ‘Collinson’ — if ‘Collins’ is issued from this process already, would this be another layer of it?
[UK here] It'd be great to have blanket permissions for 800W installs , but I've only a west facing two-story wall without a balcony. That probably needs permits and a small scaffolding tower rather than ladders moving your costs up and delaying your ROI :(
There are no entry-level oil rig jobs. They're out in the ocean. They’re dangerous. They want somewhat confident/trained/non-green people
Beta Release of Zonos-v0.1 (Realtime TTS)
(2021) for the paper itself

https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.12800
Most of the time being very good doesn't matter, when you're thrown into a process that's designed to extract mediocre work out of everyone, regardless of how good they are.
> Also what annoys me is how much friction airlines have added to the whole process.

I think they are colluding to make business class more value.

Like some sort of class warfare enshitification.
Look at the BLS salary numbers…
I'm always wary of any power solution that splits current over multiple parallel wires without some kind of way to limit or detect over-current in the remaining strands when one faults.