skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Connectors are actually extremely difficult to make.

- you have to ensure that the metal connectors take shape and bond to the wire properly. This is done by crimping. Look up how much a good crimping tool costs for a rough approximation of how difficult it can be to get this right.

- one plastic bit has to mate with another plastic bit, mechanically. This needs to be easy enough for 99.99% of users to do easily, yet it needs to be 99.99% reliable, so that the two bits will not become separated, even partially. Even under thermal expansion.

- the electrical contacts inside must be mechanically mated over a large surface area so that current can pass from one connector to another.

- it must be intuitive for people to use. Ideally user pushes it and it clicks right in. No weird angles either, it could be behind a mechanical component that's tough to reach. Also, user has to be able to un-mate the connector from the same position. It should be tough for a user to accidentally plug in an ill suited connector into the wrong slot.

- has to cost peanuts. Nobody will pay $3 for a connector. Nobody will even want to pay $1 for a connector. BOM cost is 15-20% finished goods cost. Will the end user pay $8, $10, $12 for a good connector? No.

- repeatable to manufacture (on the board and on the cable) at high quality. User might take apart their PC a dozen times, to fix things, clean, etc for the lifetime of the component. So the quality bar is actually very high. Nothing can come loose or break off, not even internal parts.

- physically compact. PCB space is at an extreme premium.

- your connector design has to live across many product cycles, since people are going to be connecting old parts to new boards and they'll be upset if they can't do this. So this increases risk by a lot as redesigning a connector means breaking compatibility for existing users.

Connectors are actually a very very deep and interesting well.

I'm not surprised at all that they are running into issues here, these cards are pulling 500+ watts. That is a LOT of current.

I think next gen we will begin seeing 24V power supplies to deal with this.
why are we still using silicon transistors?
If stack space usage is an issue, then it means that the struct is already being passed by hidden pointer (as opposed to using a register passing calling convention). Making the pointer explicit won't have any effect on performance (but it will on semantics).
I also don't think it was ever much of a problem for machine translation to begin with. Also modern conversational systems are already addressing the problem (with things like contrastive/counterfactual fine-tuning and RAG/in-context learning) and will just tell you if it doesn't know something instead of hallucinating. But I'm pretty sure op doesn't know the difference between a language model and conversational model anyway, its just the generic "anti-LLM" opinion without much substance.
He's pretty good at spinning his destruction of everything good in this world, doesn't change anything, he's still the same scumbag.
Sidepockets throw that difference off
> In order for a PWA to be normal and usable, it must be available offline, open in a window without browser chrome, have similar performance to a native application, be launchable via a shortcut on the host OS, and respond to the mouse and keybaord shortcuts the way you'd expect. I think I've just described... an Electron app?

You've just described a PWA. You can install them as a host OS shortcut, they run without browser chrome, should have performance equal to Electron.

Also if you really want extra bloat and faff, any PWA is trivial to turn into an Electron app.

Most of PWA criticism is based on misunderstanding PWA capabilities.
Same way he fights for freedom of speech.

Btw, I have a bridge to sell, interested?
> I'm pretty sure it won't work without tinkering out of the box

This worked OOTB:

curl -L -O https://github.com/sandreas/tone/releases/download/v0.2.4/tone-0.2.4-linux-arm64.tar.gz
tar xzf tone-0.2.4-linux-arm64.tar.gz
nix run github:thiagokokada/nix-alien -- ./tone-0.2.4-linux-arm64/tone --help

Which is nice because:

a) I didn't know about tone

b) I am in the process of sorting out some tagging of my personal music so tone looks like exactly what I need and will come in super handy

So, thanks!
>horrible performance

Cannot support it has horrible performance. Civ 5 and 6 were notorious for having minutes-long turn change times in later eras. Civ 7 seems to finally have fixed that problem for me.

There's some annoying things in it (and also the way they basically copied Humankind leaves a sour taste) but performance it's not, for me at least. It's finally a Civ again with acceptable performance and I hope it stays that way.
Someone's still got to dedicate a chunk of their disk to retaining a copy, though.

These folks send copies of all their archives to IA, so it's no less permanent than IA. And being focused on a specific niche (with deep-pocketed backers) means it's less likely to blow up for unrelated reasons.
This was an excellent article. Jane Jacob’s is my hero. But now I see the downside.
"At some point" is likely not in the near future, at least in the US, as any such legislation will simply be labelled "woke" and "anti-free speech" and it will immediately die on the vine.
Even the way they want to go public, as a Public Benefit Corporation, calls into question whether the board then would allow Musk to take a controlling stake.
Why would you defend either of them? Billionaire tech bros have enough shills already. It was the unwarranted adulation of these assholes that got us in this shitty situation in the first place, where they think they can do anything and stomp on whoever they want. Don’t fight for them. They would never lift a finger to defend you and would gladly sell your mother for a lollipop.
Humans are notoriously bad at extrapolating exponentials.
Nvidia also uses RISC-V CPUs in its GPUs like the Geforce range.

I wonder if, in time, we might see them use these learnings to develop a leading RISC-V processor at some point.
Interesting times especially considering they tried buying out ARM at one point.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-to-sh...
Lots of public bathrooms don't have hand dryers for some reason. So I assume they don't want wet hands?

Although even in toilets with hand dryers, I've seen many Japanese not dry their hands after washing!
But the question is, are we there yet? I have yet to hear of an AI bot who can eat up a requirement and add said new form in the right place, or fiddle with a layout. Do you know any? So all those big promises you read right now are outright lies. When will we reach that point? I don't do gambling. But we are not there, regardless what the salespeople or fancy journalists might be claiming all day long.
They have a big jump to the most expensive subscription. Gives you automatic freight prices asf
You can't easily take the pointer to an other member in a designated initializer. It's still a problem for members that are implicitly initialized by their default member initializer, but that can be sorted out.
And what happens with you as an author building up a sizeable amount if experience while writing?

Yes it makes you produce a book faster, but I feel you lose a lot of knowledge buildup along the way.
Most of that was from Republican climate change deniers trying to make a culture war out of EVs.

Musk switching sides on that seems a good time to re-evaluate who is making the predictions now and why.
There is a sub group of hEDS which are not that flexible, understand that someone like me who is extremely hypermobile could not get a diagnosis in any amount of time and the implication that has for people who are much less hypermobile yet clearly have the cluster of comorbidities of hEDS. The core problem is that doctors simply are not good at statistics, like unbelievably bad at it. It is a an essential component of their job and in my view being so bad at statistics is malpractice. When you’re good at statistics this stuff sticks out like a sore thumb - you can’t miss it.
> Why "BalancedI8"? Because now that we've removed this most negative number (to provide a niche) the remaining value is symmetrical, it goes from -127 to +127

Actually instead of just removing the most negative number i8::MIN you can appropriate its bit patter to denote "missing value" (or "null" if you wish) so that your new data type is symmetric and nicely "nullable".
I'm honestly surprised they don't include an rectally inserted attention mechanism to alert you to the ads being displayed TBH.
> They're the best of the bunch when it comes to PC parts

Not really, the PSU side isn't standardized at all and it's not obvious at all because the cables will happily fit when you plug cables from PSU A into PSU B and fry your entire build.

Theres no benefit to not having standards on that side, and the other side is all standard so they are able to follow standards there, "It's just the way it's always been" so they keep doing it
Wikipedia has "Jenkins" as "son of John".
The issue is not so much the user scores, but the delta between users and critics. It strongly indicates the publisher is paying off critics (for instance, with access if not cash.)

Hence "everything wrong with modern gaming"
Musk about to fire the whole team and hire more “hardcore” people.
Can you recommend some good books which explain "Mathematical Programming/Optimization" from the very beginning in a simple manner? Most books are notation heavy and seem to lack explanations for the beginning student. Long ago i was recommended N.S.Kambo's Mathematical Programming Techniques which covers a lot of ground but is very hard to understand.

The second question is, how (and where) are these techniques used in the ML/AI domain?
It might've got sponsored by Meta.
I'm going to make an argument centered around hygiene. Many people in this world have certain bathroom habits, but generally we believe a modern bathroom is probably the best place for us to handle things. Some people don't, some people find it perfectly fine to piss in a corner if they really need to out on the street. What are you gonna do?

We can easily show a lot of people why WFH is the correct way, but some people will ... you know, still enjoy a good piss on the street. It's like, something is wrong with them you know?

So we can't really consider the pissing on the street people's (in this case, the people that love the office) opinions too seriously. It's unhygienic.

RTO people are trying to make the world worse.
Why was this comment erased?

> Here's a topic I don't see people engaging with: I could in principle make the same kinds of completely abstract paintings Pollock did, but if I do it, it won't be art because I'm not in the art world. I have no access to galleries, I have no patrons, and I generally don't move in those circles, so I have no ability to be taken seriously for doing it.
Crazy. They almost certainly could lose the IP. Just shitpost. Or think about the novel and write at home.
No. I clearly said it must output novel things that aren’t part of the input.

In your example the book is the training data or aka the input.
You can build runtime reflection on top of compile time reflection, it's impossible the other way around. Compile time reflection is a superset of what runtime reflection can do.
Yup. And we programmed all that into LeGenAIs and LeGPTs and so on ... a splendidly perfect annihilation of all things evolutionary.
I'd be happy with an query editor that silently removes the comma. I write way more ad hoc SQL than what I deploy, and this would be a great tool for faster exploration of data (ditto for "FROM table SELECT columnA, ....")
> Precisely, for all the talk of efficiency last few years, how do we even begin to measure the total waste of effort and energy of so many smart people that this was? All that effort and stress for effectively nothing, or perhaps even net negative effect.

This comment is perplexing.

Reportedly Threads has 130 million monthly active users (and growing) vs. 550 million accessing X (and shrinking). This alone already places Threads as one of the top social media services in the world. It's projected revenue for 2026 is over $10B.

What exactly are you talking about?
This is a nice idea, in line with the Slow Journalism movement [1].

I subscribe to Delayed Gratification [2] since I find the slower, more considered reflection and summarisation much more satisfying than the overwhelming deluge of up-to-the-minute news alerts that flood my phone.

This seems aligned with that philosophy, nice work. I look forward to not hearing much from you soon!

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_journalism

[2] https://www.slow-journalism.com/
Disagree. Stacks can easily be moved as if they are a single unit. 1UPT requires micromanaging each unit individually.

Also it is fun to scorch an enemy tank with 100 kamikaze warriors.
And Lotus Notes
Thanks. The districts were a nice idea from Endless Legend, but I felt they were a bit rough in Civ. Refinement of ideas from VI sounds like a good start, good enough that I’ll not completely write VII off ;)

I honestly can’t remember much of what V was modless, only my first 300 or so hours were without some VP variant (the mod is still in active development, and has been almost as long as V exists), and I’m at 2700 hours now. When you need a break from VII, I can just wholeheartedly recommend giving V + VP a try, it overhauls a lot of mechanics, fixes a lot of things, and vastly improves the AI.
I think it's a platitude, but of course a "non-restricted hybrid" is the best choice, so when you want to work from home you just do, and when you prefer to go the office you go there.

Full remote is not for everyone. Full time office-based can be hard for parents or people living far away (or just suck if the office is noisy/messy).
And casual ageism, insinuating that children behave this way. Yet most kids I know are far more reasonable, willing to play together, willing to concede mistakes, etc..etc...
Yep, BESET (3/39/2023) is the first data point that’s available, as far as I can tell. Any reason you didn’t like HUNKY?
That's what I was thinking. Sometimes it's called join, like Enum.join/2 in Elixir.

Either you're cuddling the strings with your hands and it'll take time and care anyway, or you're doing programmatic massage, in which case most DB-driver capable languages has a bunch of functions that solve issues like these.
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I loved the Civ II world war 2 scenario, I played that more than anything else.
Pick a prompt with a wide codomain but a single answer. That’s reasoning if it can get the answer right.
Cute. Seriously though, it'd be cheaper to fund (or crowdfund) a super PAC to send out lobbyists to conduct political interference and gerrymandering in the desired direction. Giving out 1 kg gold bars apparently isn't socially-acceptable but lobbyists and "support" are okay.
It's mostly C++. You are right to be scared.
And most of us have retirement plans based on stock ownership (in the US at least) so we’re all complicit to some small extent.
> A lot of them don’t think this is worth the changeover.

I think nobody wants to make trailing commas mandatory to use
My complaint for precious versions was similar. Instead of making the Ai more lifelike they just give it unfair advantages. It creates impossible situations that just feel unfair.

I think given the price, the reviews, and the alternatives, I’ll be skipping this one. I’m still enjoying manor lords as my spare time game.
You can use nix on FHS OS as well
Sssh. Also, we're selling the Sun and the Moon for a special price that comes with a free bridge.
> You would think that by now they'd achieve at least 2x the speed with the same fuel load.

No.

The problem is not engine efficiency. To my knowledge, Concorde still holds the title of having the best engine fuel-efficiency at cruise. Close to 60%.

And although engine efficiencies at subsonic speeds have improved drastically since the 60s, the problem airplanes face when cruising closer to Mach 1 is that they start getting transonic effects around their wing and fuselage. And that greatly increase your drag. It is therefore more economical to stay below the speed threshold at which these effects start occurring.

A high Mach 0.8+ could probably achieve that. Aircraft builders have settled for about Mach 0.82 for airliners. Private jet builders, in some cases, care less about fuel efficiency, and still build airplanes flying above Mach 0.9, as for example, the Cessna Citation X.
> Gutted NIH and research funding

This is simply factually wrong. The twitter-engagement-bait driven nonsense like the OP in the tweet you linked is just so bad. I only got flagged about this when talking with an acquaintance working on medical research under NIH grants in the US. (I'm not from the US)

What has actually happened is adjustment of what they call the "indirect cost rate". This refers to the portion of funding you're allowed to chalk down to administrative overhead as opposed to direct research expenses.

For example in 2023, of the 35billion in NIH grants, 9billion went to administrative overhead (25%).

The new rule is them capping this to 15%. By the way this rate is around the standard in all private grant foundations.

Here is the primary source of information:

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-0...

Now, I'm not sure if all the DEI stuff the new government doesn't like comes under "administrative overhead". If it did, it would explain the timing of the announcement. But adjusting indirect cost rates is in general a very normal thing to do, and 25% is very high, even for a prosperous grant system like the NIH.

Here [2] is a university mentioning their negotiated indirect cost rate of 56%(!!!)

For comparison, the NSF from 2010 to 2016 varied their rate only between 16% and 24% [3]. The NIH rates are absurdly high.

News articles such as [1], that directly quote the above primary source and still misconstrue it, deserve jail time.

Also, it is really disingenous to say "cutting funds for cancer research" as if it's directly targeted at cancer research.

Engagement driven media like Twitter, news websites, etc, are truly the devil of the world. And the incentives are rotten, so no matter what Musk says X isn't fixing it in any way.

</rant>

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/02/08/nih-cuts-bi...

[2] https://research.umich.edu/update-on-nih-indirect-cost-rate-...

[3] https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-17-576t
Threads is odd. The thing about Twitter was its very high media profile; you'd see tweets quoted in all sorts of places like newspapers and TV. The sharp heel turn is in the process of killing that, especially by closing off the site to not logged in users, but you can still see people quoting/screenshotting tweets on other sites. Including bluesky.

I don't think I've ever seen a viral Threads post that escaped the network?

Meanwhile Facebook screenshots still circulate as memes (derisive, but hey, the motto of the modern era is that the world hating you is better than them not noticing you). And Instagram is fairly entrenched as a marketing channel.

Is Threads the new Google+?
He wasn’t hated by anyone but competitors (who aren’t supposed to like you) and programmers, which is a good chunk of the HN crowd but like 1%+ of the general population.
Yeah I agree that hybrid is the way to go, different people have different needs and preferences and that is totally fine!
You ditched NixOS for the very reason it was created. Not being able to run binaries with missing libraries is a feature. The idea is to make you aware of your implicit dependencies, and to force you to make them explicit.

This makes me wonder if you were subjected to false advertising.
Just search for "System 1 / System 2" and add word "researcher" there, filter by time <1y< and you'll find plenty. OP is right that a bunch of people made far-going predictions, & now doing mental gymnastics to justify they were right all along. Most notably, LeCun https://www.threads.net/@yannlecun/post/DD0ac1_v7Ij and Chollet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9WE1aOPjHc

Some argue they were kind of tricked into thinking that; see https://www.interconnects.ai/p/openais-o1-using-search-was-a... and some other writing by Lambert which has turned out pretty much on-point as far as RL and verifiers are concerned.
Maybe the fact you think making a game isn't too hard is part of the problem?

Making a game that people like is hard.

Making a game that has the kinds of fans who will even complain because you changed your internal scripting language will love is near impossible.

(and of course you're not required to like it: I'm strictly commiserating with the developers who have to deal with this type of "fan")
> Advanced users can modify the source code to disable things that get in their way. Anyone not capable of that is not capable of knowing when it is safe to turn off safety defaults.

Modifying a morass of C++ source code is not nearly the same thing as writing an extension in Javascript.

Mozilla is just fundamentally in the wrong here.
Gotcha, totally fair points. It is an inherently conservative approach to standards, to take workarounds and pragmatic solutions that are already available within the community, and provide slightly cleaner (perhaps debatable) baked-in versions. You're right it doesn't add much, but at the same time... I feel the ick factor reducing with each release and my enjoyment of the language has grown over the years. I would certainly love to see those features used in common libraries and frameworks, but for practical reasons I suspect they think the same way you do, which is entirely valid.
In my surroundings(EU), I see the opposite. Everybody buys their car only after doing serious research. Most people easily swap brands.

For most people, driving comfort (we have more/less kids or aging grandparents, so need a bigger/smaller car) is a primary filter. Next is cost, where people are very aware there is not only the price but also the fuel economy and the maintenance. People know very well the parking spots in the city are limited and polluting cars are not allowed in more and more cities, so also look at small size or good enough eco scores.

There are exceptions: People getting a car from work spend whatever money they can get, and rich people optimizing for status get a BMW or maybe a Tesla.
The problem is you used a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_question
100hr a week months on end. So 14 hour days 7 a week? 9am to 12am (assuming some kinda break). Every single day for 100 or so days. The fuck?

Add commute time... did it stink? Did people shower? Did they eat? Did anyone die?
Couldn't imagine myself playing it like that for more than 20 minutes at a time. Multiple hours must be complete agony.
More avenues to market failure than a cartel or a monopoly.

Here it seems that the moment LLMs hit the market in earnest, every C-level started asking themselves if they have the manpower to compete in this space and ultimately reached the conclusion that no, they don't, so they started doing layoffs, (correctly) assuming that everyone would have the same strategy.

We will all be rehired eventually, but the perception of our value vs that of AI is lower and that is reinforced by the number of people currently looking for a role.

In a sense the press was right - developers were replaced with AI - at least temporarily.

Funny thing is this happened to a project I was in back in 2017. The company figured that instead of building a huge system using a team of 40+ people they'll... use Watson.
This sticker is dangerous and inconvenient, but I do love Fig Newtons.