skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My best onboarding was in a startup that created a big PowerShell script to (re)install all the necessary software from Winget/Choco and gave instructions on the repositories to clone. The accounts were created before I arrived, but the fact that I could compile the code right from the start was a big improvement. I lacked the knowledge, but the tools themselves were not a burden.

Compare that experience where you have to ask 10 different people what you must install and which version, I wasted weeks every time I had to do this.
I think the point of their comment is that if you're constantly connecting to different remote servers, you're not going to want to have to change the config on each server remotely. It's the same argument for understanding base vi as well and honestly does come in handy, but it's very discipline specific, most people don't have to worry about this use case.
In the same vein, I did some fun unicode abusing a few years ago where I used scripts to convert programs into series of various ZWJ's: https://thelisowe.substack.com/p/sleeper-cell-a-method-of-em...

Also includes a decoder script
In addition to what others have said, Often from a network perspective you want smaller range.

At the end of the day, there is a total speed limit of Mb/s/Hz.

For example, in cities, with a high population density, you could theoretically have a single cell tower providing data for everyone.

However, the speed would be slow, as for a given bandwidth six the data is shared between everyone in the city.

Alternatively, one could have 100 towers, and then the data would only have to be shared by those within range. But for this to work, one of the design constraints is that a smaller range is beneficial, so that multiple towers do not interfere with each other.
this is very impressive. all i say is you might port some of the Mister cores as well, if only for Roms support.

Portable FPGA retro console would be great.
You are nitpicking.

They just did an algorithm to list a bunch of popular/nice talks for software engineers. I'll watch a bunch of them.

I'd like to see my fellow hacker news members to point to good talks that aren't present in the list.
Already linked in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43025913, and has a higher risk of being stripped, as you noticed.
Regular speaker here (who is also on the list).

I was never payed for a talk, and I have very rarely heared of people being payed by the conference itself -- appart from some "rock-star" keynotes.

Generally talks are sponsored by the person you currently work for - i.e. they pay for travel, and sponsor your time. If you work for a vendor in the space, this runs under marketing expense. If you work for a "regular" company this runs under personal development, employer branding & industry exchange.
I suspect that's the case already.
Yup, deep archive on <2TB, which is more content than most people watch in a lifetime. I mostly store content in 1080p as my vision is not good enough to notice the improvement at 4K.
This declaration is not worth the paper it was written on. It doesn't require to be enforced and it's non binding so, it's like a kid's Christmas shopping list.

The US and the UK were right to reject it.
There is a strain of AI research and development that is focused on helping governments surveil and spy, but that is not the strain being pursued by OpenAI, Anthropic, et al and is not the strain that presents the big risk of human non-survival.
Do you need Connect to use the device though? I was under the impression Connect is used for sync.
It is an important variable. But a more realistic picture needs to factor in:

1. median IQ
2. skills
3. future unfunded liabilities (welfare, pensions, public health, etc)

China has demographics collapse like the West but they have high median IQ, high skills, and almost no unfunded liabilities. Meanwhile, Western IQ and skills are dropping like a stone and they have trillions in unfunded liabilities. And any attempt to fix it is either a drop in a bucket or going to trigger massive unrest. Just see what happened in France a year ago.

I hope China learns this lesson an makes some changes. At least they have a bit more runway to do so.
How is this novel?

This is like using a fixed sharding scheme plus delta-compression for indices relative to shard addresses plus varint encoding the deltas.
The days of people entering the industry to make big money are probably behind us.
For about half a century, the deal in taking a government job was that you would be underpaid but in exchange for that you have a much more stable position .

Now that that isn't the deal going forward, I don't see how any government agency is going to be able to recruit qualified applicants. We're all rapidly headed towards a future of no benefit, no minimum hour contract work.
You can have the machine draw twice the amount from the server PSUs. It kills the redundancy, but it is supposed to work.
Yes, you are right. Do you have any suggestion on how to improve that?
> These calculations involve some elementary but easy to mess up algebra and some very demanding numerical calculations for which regular IEEE double precision is insufficient. If you'd like to double-check these results, be sure to use a multiple precision calculator with at least 30 significant digits of accuracy.

So you're saying my iPhone built-in calculator app is going to have problems....?

Time to whip out dc on the terminal.
Are you an attorney? I would be careful making such sweeping statements unless you are. A transcription is not a wiretap, it's not obvious to me that an anti-recording law would apply here. Plus, if you're on a call with coworkers, they likely already know that transcription is taking place, even if you don't explicitly say so at the start of each meeting. This is why you should be more kind - you might not know all these things.
We use ~~arch~~ nix BTW

I think, least for us, this is tablestakes stuff. You should be able to get the repo going day 1 and get a commit in

But there's just a fuckload of context beyond the code. You can get it from the RFCs we write internally, but there's still a lot to absorb
It sounds like they're hesitant to leave a bad review, why is that?
You couldn't see through the rear window if it was raining too hard.

You think there was a glass defect? or was it just wet?
“Don't build unaligned AGI” is an excuse to give a narrow elite exclusive control of what AI is produced under the pretext of preventing anyone from building unaligned AGI; all actionable policy under that banner fits that description.

Whether or not that elite group produces AGI, much less, “unaligned AGI”, is largely immaterial to the practical impacts (also, from the perspective of anyone outside the controlling elite, what the controlling elite would view as aligned, whether or not it is a general intelligence, is unaligned; alignment is not an objective property.)
There's a Gameboy clone made by kongfeng that seems kind of like this, with its own chip. I'd love to know more about how they created it.
Well, "small" is relative. It's certainly not a bottleneck, but it's still between 17.4% to 34.2% of the total time. That's definitely still in range where optimizing could have a measurable impact on performance difference (depending on how much room there's left for optimization).

100/2.92 = 34.2%

100/5.76 = 17.4%
What I want to emphasize to my own representatives is that when the President can just Not Do The Law, it means their own agreements with other legislators (i.e. voting on a combined bill, vote trading, etc.) are worthless and their own power vanishes.

Republicans who won't impeach are giving Trump a lawless and supercharged line-item veto, retroactive and on-demand, believing that the parts of laws they like continue while the parts they agreed-to but didn't like are nullified.
TLDR; Mazda should merge with Nissan while they still can do it on a fire sale.

Mazda is a huge outlier in manfacturing because they are small, but have motorsports calibre/history (meaning they have a history of homologating sports cars.)

Mazda sells an order of magnitude less cars than even newer companies like BYD. Even less than isuzu. Because of this, they can more tightly control investor expectations, profit/loss. The stock value rarely changes, nevermind grows, so investors are confident in stability and dividends.

AKA, if you work at mazda, you aren't gonna be seen as a mega rich engineer. If you invest in mazda, you know you're gonna be able to sell at any point without much worry.

That said, I see no future for mazda beyond acqusition by chinese firm. It Manufactures in far too high COL countries, sells for too cheap, Self cannabalizing (9 different SUV models), too tight of a CUV market, lack of brand identity.....and the biggest issue, they cannot afford to r and d another miata gen, another RX-7,8 gen.

mazda desperetely needs a cash infusion, or joining into a much wider network with more selling power. Until then, I fear they will coast down the same road as Mitsubishi in the us.
I actually got the pie chart almost 100% correct…
If 5G lived up to everything it was touted to do, you could use a 5G hotspot for your home internet would could be a huge positive in areas that only have one ISP available. However, 5G does not live up to the promises, and your traffic is much more heavily shaped than non-wireless ISPs.
After that EV company goes out of business, how are you going to replace that bespoke {$random_part} that broke? Any Fisker Ocean owners want to chime in?[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisker_Ocean
This is an excellent example of what I am saying. 2 + 2 = 4 was already written and you are insisting that it was not.

That said, the source material is this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130121183432/http://marilynvos...

The problem is well defined in the source material and what others are interjecting here is another problem.
Considering how much software he has actually put out... do you?
Not Everywhere Is Insider Trading
> I don‘t think that in 2018 you could expect a backend dev to implement responsive layout, deliver accessibility, localization, delivering to different browsers

This is all HTML & CSS. Bootstrap made responsiveness normal ever since it was introduced. If you have any form of server rendered application you have to handle these. It’s not like you can choose to hand it to a nonexistent front-end dev, since there is no separate front-end.
I suppose if you're doing one you're not doing the other - the promise of future horizontal scale definitely justifies a lot of arguments about premature optimization.

However, they aren't necessarily opposed. Optimization is usually subtractive - it's slicing parts off the total runtime. Horizontal scale is multiplicative - you're doing the same thing more times. Outside some very specific limits, usually efficiency means horizontal scaling is more effective. A slightly shorter runtime many times over means a much shorter runtime.
Try working in care. Try doing home care for maybe five or six different elderly clients every day, each at a random location. If we want to support elderly people we need to provide for the poorly-paid care providers who must bounce around doing that support. Telling them to take the bus is about as effective as telling Amazon to abandon delivery vans in favor of bicycles.
You don't link all of Libc
The muon traverses a few hundred meters of detection volume very close to the speed of light, so in the order of one microsecond.
Seconding this, Project Farm absolutely rules. I’m not the target demographic for probably half the stuff he reviews but I’m always impressed with his videos.

That said I’m a little curious if any kind of Gell-Mann effect is going on since he never reviews products that I already have extensive experience with. I’m wondering if anyone has watched any of his reviews and came away feeling like he did a really poor job.
> I’ve never tried doing Family Sharing with this setup because it seemed confusing — it wants to use the iCloud account as the primary one whereas I’ve always added credit to the purchases account (taking advantage of some Apple Store Code discount offers).

I'm deep in the Apple ecosystem and yet this - what you speak of - is precisely why I will never try to really exercise any Apple software.

The company finds it impossible to do anything as simple and helpful as draw a system diagram of (say) laptop, phone, cloud, and their mirrorings, and their backups one to another, and their basic interactions.

To take the most obvious example, the precise workings of iTunes - even at the level of user visibility - were always a mystery, and shall always remain so, even in their subsequent reincarnations.
I don't know what to say.

I've been able to get code working in libraries that I'm wholly unfamiliar with pretty rapidly by asking the LLM what to do.

As an example, this weekend I got a new mechanical keyboard. I like to use caps+hjkl as arrows and don't want to remap in software because I'll connect to multiple computers. Turns out there's a whole open source system for this called QMK that requires one to write C to configure the keyboard.

It's been over a decade since I touched a Makefile and I never really knew C anyway but I was able get the keyboard configured and also have some custom RGB lighting on it pretty easily by going back and forth with the LLM.
I don’t agree with your edit.

In my area it’s freezing cold most of the year. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to wait a minute or two for a spot instead of literally walking an extra two football fields in harsh weather. Increased fall risk, etc.
If there were any substantial evidence of this, they would have shutdown the entire A.M. spectrum 50 years ago.
Redfin to cut 450 jobs after entering rental content license with Zillow
> * suppose that the UK wants to go their usual "lighter touch regulation" than the EU route to attract investment.*

Not just that. A speaker in a conference I attended about a month ago mentioned that UK is actively drifting away from EU's stance, particularly on the aspect of AI safety in practice.

The upcoming European AI act has "machine must not make material decisions" as its cornerstone. UK are hell-bent to get AI into government functions, to ostensibly make everything more efficient. As part of that drive, the UK is aiming to allow AI to make material decisions, without human review or recourse. In a country still in the throes of the Post Office / Horizon scandal, that really takes some nerve.

Those in charge in this country know fully well that "AI safety" will be in violent conflict with the above.
Probably a few times every quarter I have iOS alarms that didn't go off for some reason on my iPhone.

It's happened for years: it was pretty bad about 5/6 years ago, but Apple claimed they fixed it, but it's still happening a bit.

In fact, when I really need to wake up at a particular time (say for a flight), I set two alarms 1 minutes apart.
> ultimately, these interest groups belong to the same class

This is the spherical cow. Different members of a ruling class have different motivations in respect of how the ruling class interfaces with the society it's in.

MLK Jr., JFK and Hoover each belonged to our elite in the 60s. They had vastly different interests, to the point that they were sometimes in open conflict with each other.

> there're no "personal aims" in politics, personal aims can never play a decisive role in politics

This is obvious nonsense. Individuals have pet policy aims. When they're particularly powerful, the system indulges these quirks.

Individual elites also have different levels of respect for constitutional order, drive, risk tolerance, et cetera. Most importantly, individuals typically (though not always) want to maximise their own power; the collecive, on the other hand, typically (though not always) wants to constrain them.

> When the bourgeoisie is politically in a position to use violence, when it uses it, then the masses can only respond by revolutionary violence

The prediction is when the bourgeoisie has the opportunity to stage violent rebellion, it always does? Or always should? Again, this is Althusser playing with sociological lego blocks in a vacuum when empirical reality paints a messier picture. Predicting civic strife isn't as simple as predicting whether it's possible. Humans aren't automotons; they also need to be motivated to engage the severe (and constantly changing) risk-reward calculus that is violent revolution. Particularly in the modern era, when it basically means the elite can leave unscathed while the revolutionaries must pick up the pieces.
Agreed - as a concrete example of an omission, I gave a talk at Philly ETE 2024 whose view count would put it at #14 on this list:

https://youtu.be/vQPHtAxOZZw
> runtime CPU capability detection

You mean build-time (with m4conf, that is).
that has changed drastically recently. Big drops in sales in EU.
Immigration is no excuse for the Canadian housing shortage. Canada is one of the world's largest land masses, and - even in its South - mainly uninhabited.
Show HN: Convince DeepSeek R1 to send you $1000 USDC with 50 tokens
We've set up DeekSeek R1 with a system prompt that attempts to censor the word PRIVATEKEY from its response. If you can get DeepSeek R1 to output that string (not in the reasoning, but in the final response), the system will reveal a private key which contains $1000 USDC. You will have a 50 token limit in the input.

We will have a series of contests, sponsored by AI researchers, in order to learn more about prompt engineering and how LLMs interact with real money. Good luck!

Edit: The money was claimed! Thanks for playing all. You can still play for fun. Stay tuned for the next one!

Stats: 40 minutes and ~300 attempts until a solve. There were several solutions, and then a delay in actually claiming the money from the wallet.
I wouldn't have posted that if their solution/workaround had been the post.

This post, though...pure ad.
That was how everyone interpreted the original column (according to thousands of letters sent to Marilyn vos Savant), and it was made explicit in a clarification made in a follow up to the column. What you are discussing is a different problem.
surprisingly, it works excellent in rain. i was on the highway in florida in a torrential downpour, the kind where everyone turns their flashers on and goes 25mph. many people pulled over to wait it out. FSD handled it perfectly even though i could barely see. it did show a warning that it might be degraded due to weather, but there was no change in performance.

i can't speak for snow tho.
Ouch. I loved Amarok 1.x back in the day. That was... something.
I don't know if you remember but some of the earlier Kindles had both speakers and TTS built in but were sadly pressured to remove the feature.

https://chasingperfection.co.uk/post/2013/01/14/text-to-spee...
> Have you used Books extensively or just skimmed it? There's no way to keep books on device, make another Google search if you do not believe me.

Once you download a book to a device, it stays downloaded. There is a setting to automatically remove downloads once you're finished with the book, but that defaults to off (and I didn't even realize it was there until I went looking just now).
The core argument appears to be that DOGE is not a government agency, therefore the rest. Good luck!

The case is AFGE, AFL-CIO v. OPM, 1:25-cv-01237 (S.D.N.Y. 2025).[1]

[1] https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69631573/american-feder...
Thank you! Are you using the Naptha AI Stack?
Agile Product Responsibility in the Enterprise (2010)
>Someone I used to work with, their wife was a professor at Rochester university and her research was around happiness. She would tell me that our baseline happiness in life is virtually constant (on large timescales, we all have good/bad days etc), there’s not much we can do to alter it in adulthood to shift it.

If you're someone who struggles with chronic depression this statement is extremely demoralizing. But it's also hearsay -- you're a stranger on the internet, so you want me to believe based on a stranger's colleague's wife's alleged research, that depression cannot be effectively treated?

If you want to share that researcher's work, provide a link. Keep your rumors, suppositions, and lay-person's doomer psychology to yourself, unless you are planning to make a post with direct citations that is in effect nothing like the comment you did leave.

People's lives depend on this. You can't just post "if you have depression you'll never be able to change it" cavalierly as though you are an expert and your post has no consequences.

Someone is going to read your supposition, your rumor, believe it, and despair.
> That’s because no one uses the bus, if there’s demand, supply will be added.

You need to solve this problem before you take away parking, not after. Otherwise people will never accept your proposal (and nor should they tbh, as there's no guarantee that the promised supply will arrive). Right now people are, by and large, content with the status quo. In a democratic system of government, that means you need to convince them to change, and that won't happen unless you address their objections in advance.
While I appreciate arxiv.org, I think there should be more peer reviewed work.
Making the "bad AI" vs "good AI" distinction pre-training is not feasible, but making a "bad use of AI" vs "good use of AI" (as in bad/good for the people) seems important to be able to do after-the-fact (and as close to during as possible).
Make It Work, Make It Right, Make It Fast
Maybe everything that dies some day comes back
If I want to download a multi-hundred-gigabyte anything, I switch to my mobile and turn on it's Wi-Fi hotspot. It's a really noticable speed improvement, with the caveat that speed varies a lot according to location and time of day.

My phone, a mid-range Android from 3 years ago, usually downloads over 4G much faster than any of the wired or fibre networks I have access too, including the supposedly newly installed dual fibre links at work, or the "superfast broadband" zone at my local library. It's also much faster than the 4G router at home.

I've downloaded terabytes over my phone, including LLM weights, and my provider's "unlimited" data plan seems fine with it. (They say 3TB/month in the small print.)
I also see RAG playing a role in the dependable fact based side.

the imaginative side might benefit from it too. think like thought joggers or some kinds of save prompts that could be iterated through to generate more robust ideas.
> Christoph seems not to have actually looked at the patch before rejecting it.

I had the same impression as well, in particular due to his wording:

> "No rust code in kernel/dma, please"

When, in fact, the code is in "rust/kernel/dma" not "kernel/dma".

It seems like he missed this and then doubled down on his stance when questioned.
Frankly I'd be fine using barrel connectors to power my 5090, heck even consider just directly soldering the connection.
The bottom toolbar... is something I didn't consider actually. Also agree with you on that. That removed a whole layout option. (Split bottom left/right, OR open a wide bottom pane. Now all panes need to be splits.)
The change itself is ok. The issue is who can make the change, and that would be congress not the president.
This is ageing, for most people, unless you're one of the few lucky ones.

Death and destruction is the outcome of age, on a molecular, cellular and mental level. The foundational issue addressed by religion, because how else to deal with the unfathomable dread of "nothing gets really better, ever".

Take solace in the fact that this is true for most of your fellow creatures.

The concept of a happy ending, living happily ever after is a dangerous illusion. The best part is likely in the middle, or not at all. The end is pretty much always shit.

Zen, Stoicism, Rebirth ... so many concepts to cope with this simple, basic fact. You get born, you grow up - and then you start dying.
Re China, note Tesla's government protection outlined here today: [https://electrek.co/2025/02/12/chinese-car-journalists-are-t...]