skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Comparing a physical count to permutation count doesn’t really compute me to. The only correlation that these two concepts have is the fact that they are numbers. One scalar’s magnitude has no bearing on the significance of another’s in an entirely different domain.
All those Ukrainians basking in that tremendous Russian empathy…

It only takes a moment for you or your loved ones to receive death or grievous injury, but not to worry because they’re “spending an exceedingly small amount of time engaged in violence”. Rape might be over in minutes! And besides, it only affects… how much of the population?

Those who are most confident about human righteousness are the least qualified to minimize “sentient suffering”. It is often said that one’s foes “only understand violence”, and the essential truth in that assertion is that indirect empathy is utterly insufficient compared with direct, personal pain as a motivator for changing behavior.
My bad, it's based on a fork of WebKit.
On the other hand, if you try to solve some problem by creating the code by using AI only, and it misses only one thing, it takes more time to debug this problem rather than creating this code from scratch. Understanding some larger piece of AI code is sometimes equally hard or harder than constructing the solution into your problem by yourself.
It's Britain, fighting damp is like fighting the ocean: you can win a battle but you'll never win the war.
Well, I guess there's always a silver lining.
This is LITERALLY the twitter layoffs playing out again. They fired people who had credentials and other things they needed so had to hire them back. Everything else aside why repeat the same mistakes? Just go a little slower and give agencies time to compile accurate lists of necessary employees
Just got for $40 on amazon cheap arm with servos and bearing at the base. "Robot Arm Kits for Arduino Coding". Not that I need it, just like putting things together. Arduino not included, but I have it already. Let's see if I can use Raspberry Pico instead.
It's the tech bro way
Dev doc index is here, includes links to articles about debugging: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/
30000 hours seems like a lot, more than enough time for anything you might want to do. More than that, there might be enough changes in technology and the world that something you learn in the first 100 hours might not matter in the last 100 hours etc. If you start taking all these complexities into account, it might be better to count at a granularity of weeks rather than hours. Or maybe even ignore time, and focus on goals and aims. You can always make more or less time to fit your goals.
The headline shown here is:

“US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago”
The knowledge gap of the modern js devs is funny, thinking MS-DOS has any concept of what a soundcard is.

Though even first Unixes "it's a file, just write to it" were better but just above the bare minimum
The food called "black rice" in the blog is called sundae or soondae (순대) which in South Korea they put glass noodles and such instead of rice. So it is not North Korean specialty. If you the author haven't tried, you should definitely try from South Korean restaurants too and there are a different versions of food with sundae; steamed, in soup, stirfried in spicy sauce... etc.
It’s because there was no iteration. There was only one attempt to actually use the discovery to influence society. There should have been at least one smart bad guy who used knowledge of psychohistory to search for conditions that would favor his preferred outcomes over Seldon’s.

There’s a smarter treatment of the idea in the John C. Wright’s “Count to the Eschaton” series.
Doubtful.
You have to squint your eyes really hard to see this "foreign agent" conncetion.
Most likely, there are just greedy idiots at work here.
What they think will happen:

> By not voting for Harris and making her lose it means next cycle people have to care about your opinion to get elected

What actually happens:

The party rationally writes off this flaky voting bloc as not worth the effort, and instead goes further to the right.
Aren't there also carbon neutral ways to make cement/concrete?
I'm a newb PM and at the moment I feel like I have all three... It's hard to coordinate when developers are all headstrong seniors with big agendas. The best I can do at the moment is nudge some of them, occasionally, into doing some of the work I need, while hoping their goose-chasing eventually produces something I can sell to my bosses.
And 4) individuals engaging multiple people or multiple people's worth of org resources into their initiative, only to get bored with it half-way in.

And 5), which is why we called this pattern a "do-it-cracy" in our Hackerspace - someone might do something and get 90% done before other people notice, and when they do, it turns out >50% of them absolutely do not want it, and would've objected given the chance.

(Then again, we've found that "do-it-cracy" can arise as a rebellion against excessive bike-shedding, which is something groups of people love to do.)
> > It has nothing to do with quality tradeoff curves.
>
> So do you think the claim that it's cheaper to build to looser standards is a lie, or do you think cheaper appliances did not play any role in motivating this order and only came up after the fact?

That's not what the government title claimed though. They claim cheaper prices. You likely know, cheaper production prices don't necessarily lead to cheaper consumer prices. Moreover, often reduced quality/efficiency actually results in higher lifetime costs, something which is often difficult to ascertain for consumers (one reason for regulations).
We’re at the start of a global resource war, but most people aren’t paying attention.

China, the U.S., Japan, and Norway are racing to mine rare earth metals from the deep sea—resources critical for EVs, AI chips, and military tech. Meanwhile, private companies and defense contractors are quietly investing in seabed extraction.

This is what we explore in The Frontier Below, a new podcast breaking down the high-stakes battle for the last untapped resource frontier on Earth.

Would love to hear thoughts from the HN crowd—how do you see AI-driven robotics changing the economics of deep-sea mining?

Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3tCYGOVxGa7ewg53kIVPVB?si=V...
This kind of thing amazes me. Radio is such a simple, yet omnipresent, technology that even something not made to listen to radio can accidentally catch and play the signal like an actual radio player would. I sure hope it's never going away.
The Verge article was incomplete and misleading because it says nothing about affiliates (doesn't even mention the word) and says the bookstore always gets all the profit from any referral.
And in fact it says "The Bookshop model is a simple one: when you use the website, you pick a store you’d like to support, and when you buy a book that store gets all the profit... For bookstores, the deal is exactly the same: you choose your store, the store can share recommendations and lists, and it gets the money every time you buy something. " Even if the link you followed came from a social media affiliate, not directly from the bookshop? Very unclear.

I quoted from a second article (can't find the link now) which actually states the commissions. (So if a bookstore make a sales from a link that came in via an affiliate, does the affiliate get 10% plus the bookstore gets 30%?)
Problem is, it’s not backfired - the example you cited “worked”, because it rapidly identified key personnel without weeks or months of subjective analysis and political posturing by workers and their supervisors.

I think in federal government the risks are much higher, and Musk is being an idiot by exposing the America public to those risks, but the feedback loop for him on these previous experiments has been positive, not negative.
AI energy use is a possible future risk if not addressed, but a much bigger problem we have is the massive wasteful fossils use in electricity generation (used for non-IT things) and transport.

We need to get everybody much below the Europe line here: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita

Tackling AI comes automatically from the required policy to rapidly ramp down fossils use. (For example cap-and-trade applied to electricity market transferring the emissions quota to electricity prices)
> exists by a large degree because the overlap between the people that control Nix and DetSys is big

No, it exists because of sexual identity politics. 11 out of 12 of the Lix developer team are transsexuals. Clearly the selection isn't about technical issues.
This is bizarre, wasn't Google the one who claimed the name and did it first?
Thanks for sharing! So great to learn more about this iconic game. Just recently there was a discussion about the Video Game History Foundation library — this feels like it could be a nice addition to it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42926076
A journalism article about the victims of sex slavery is absolutely not pornography.

Frankly, what a disgusting thing to think much less say.
Apple TV doesn't support embedding a web browser (WKWebView/UIWebView), which means that the client app needs to be completely re-implemented. For a small team of volunteers this can be quite a challenging undertaking, and will take development time away from other apps.
It was a really great article. A lot of work went into writing that and making it look good too. Peak Internet.
I don't see the article you are mentioning
Created: 23 days ago.
Move fast and break the nuclear weapon arsenal.
Problem is hes not new to the job
Microsoft removes Windows11 24H2 official support on 8th 9th 10th Gen Intel CPUs
Not much of a future, I tried that download link but my Android device wasn't interested.

Perhaps that's for next weekend?
Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it's four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-sentence/
Nuclear workers go where the work is…they are not going to wait around when there’s plenty of jobs out there needing their skills.
People should read Elon Musk by Walter Issacson. Here's an excerpt from the chapter on his "algorithm":

> [Step 2] Delete any part or process you can. You may have to add them back later. In fact, if you do not end up adding back at least 10% of them, then you didn't delete enough.

He thinks this is a feature, not a bug. Is he wrong? I don't think so.
A really impressive feature list but a pretty heavy system level dependencies. On windows chocolatey is needed for them.
https://cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-exposes-once-secret-g...

You can use Shodan yourself to verify.
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Move fast and break the nuclear weapons arsenal.

edit: OK, so parent edited to match what I wrote and now I'm being downvoted because I look like I copied parent?
US AID wasn't funding BBC News but BBC Media Action. You may or may not agree with this, but please get your facts straight.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Media_Action
> In 2024, X (formerly Twitter) reported profits of $1.25 billion, which is about double its highest previous profit of $682 million in 2021.

People believing what they want to belive.

Not to mention that you talk about revenue and users, because it's hard to deny that technically Twitter is still working just fine, and now even has some new features, while in the past they were coasting tweaking their html for years.

On this very websites, all the "experts" in the industry were bidding how quickly Twitter will collapse after Musk fired all these "irreplaceable" people. Same ones that after 15 year still don't understand how Bitcoin works, or how it can have beneficial impact on the energy market.
Thank you for fixing this!
The openAi version costs 200$ and takes a lot longer, not sure if it is fair to compare?
> This is the prototype for the soul of The Sims, which Will Wright wrote on January 23, 1997. [...] This code is a interesting example of game design, programming and prototyping techniques. The Sims code has certainly
changed a lot since Will wrote this original prototype code. For example, there is no longer any "stress" motive.

So they are basically drugged?
So much fun! Looking forward to more complex investigations.
Repomix: Code Compression with Tree-sitter
Maybe you should read my most, I didn't say that statistical mechanics is nonclassical. I said statistical mechanics does not apply to the discussion of a single particle rolling up or down a slope. Tell me which of the states has more entropy the one with the particle at the top od the Norton dome or the one at the bottom?
shred_and_fill "$HOME/.local/share/Trash"
shred_and_fill "/root/.local/share/Trash"

If I, as a sysadmin give root rights to my user, and that user deletes my (real root) files, even from the Trash or anywhere else, then the next step includes such a level of violence that's not compatible with any kind of Code of Conduct.
Except that's not the outcome, or how it happens in practice.

When merit is no longer an important metric, the competent leave first because they are no longer rewarded for their productive capacity, or effort. The people who thought t was an automatic meal ticket burn the house down for everyone.

The current offers going out for IT Architect work, decade+ direct experience is 40k/yr, no equity. No conversion rate on applications that isn't 1000:1 phone call.

For 40k/yr, you can go and flip burgers and not have to deal with the high stress involved in these type of positions. It would be a joke, if only it were not serious, and things will only get worse.

The creeping ruin has a way of coming at you sideways without you knowing until its too late.
Yes, because functions can’t be autoloaded and you can’t put variables and constants inside a namespace. But it isn’t hilarious, it is because of legacy.

Now there are proposals to fix function autoloading but it won’t fix variables and constants.

One way to do it better is to implement modules.
Funny. Who would've thought that a shitshow of an administration will bring instability?
As someone that actually wrote some assembly, including graphics in the 90s, I assure you that these games were waaaaay simpler than anything modern, also by necessity.
Great work! Recraft V3 does very good vector images. I wonder if you could use the SVG the model outputs directly in the plotter. Would save you a lot of time.
>AI-powered predictive suggestions when renaming a file

This is genius. Extend it to photos as well, no need for DSC_0001 when you can quickly analyze the contents and metadata and group things into folders with intelligent names. Maybe combine it with spotlight tags. There's a lot of similar untapped potential: a feature to look through your downloads folder and group things into folders, bundling all the stuff that's "junk" (e.g. zip files, dmgs, etc.) from stuff that could be valuable. And importantly in all cases it's ok if there are some errors since nothing is actually destroyed, it's just misclassified but still searchable.

In fact, do one better: spotlight is great, but sometimes you don't remember the exact wording. You don't even need a full LLM to do semantic search. And if you're going there, might as well go all the way and add a DevonThink like feature to show related documents. There's so much untapped potential to truly make the computer a "bicycle for the mind", that I'm surprised Apple hasn't bought DevonThink, integrated with an LLM, and shipped it (DevonThink could be integrated into finder, DevonSphere is a souped up spotlight, and DevonAgent would be perfect if they ever launched a search engine).
Where can I find the visualization? Skipping through I could not find it and I am not sold on it enough to spend almost 4 hours on this.
I have the same setup and TV works well but changing channel takes a few seconds. Not been able to work out why.

I have an Nvidia card which is more than capable of transcoding. How long does yours take to switch?
Speed matters (2021)
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Thank you for all your work on Firefox!
You can try the peace prize. They give it to everybody regardless of merit.
Those days brought us to successful blogs/websites to be acquired by bigger corp and then enshittified.

Moreover, what used to be a successful blogger is now a successful YouTuber, no? Because generally speaking, masses prefer to watch and listen to things rather then read.
Maybe it is the content. It is missing some very basic hygiene!

There is no hairnet, dogs in kitchen, touching food with face ("most epic BTS ever" clip), tasting sause then putting used spoon back to boiling sause...
Researching climate change like standing in the path of an approaching train
It only "worked" because the key personnel decided to come back. Had they decided to move on to greener pastures, the end result would've been very different.
This reminds of a Radiolab episode about how we perceive the passage of time. The episode starts off talking about someone having a poster showing all of the (average) weeks in a person's life. The episode is about how to make our lives _feel_ longer than they really are. You know how sometimes you are like "damn this day is going by real slow" and sometimes it's the exact opposite. The episode is about why that happens

https://radiolab.org/podcast/secret-long-life
A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate
> There's an (increasingly small) group of software developers who don't like "magic" and want to understand where their code is running and what it's doing.

That problem started so long ago and has gotten so bad that I would be hard pressed to believe there is anyone on the planet who could take a modern consumer pc and explain what exactly is going on the machine without relying on any abstractions to understand the actual physical process.

Given that, it’s only a matter of personal preference on where you draw the line for magic. As other commenters have pointed out, your line allowing for Kubernetes is already surprising to a lot of people
I'm still waiting for file upload API v2. V1 was only made EOL like what, 9 months ago.. Its totally fine to gut your company when all you need is maintenance mode.
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Can you explain? I must have the wrong impression, but isn't nuclear-related work specifically in the USA a declining or dying industry? Are there really plenty of jobs when Americans keep posturing away from nuclear? I knew no one from university interested in doing nuclear-related engineering for industry.
Just yesterday I watched a video by a disgruntled former academic physicist about the state of modern physics research. [0] Not sure of its credence, I don't really understand physics. In the fields I do have a bit of understanding, there does seem to be an amazing amount of fluff and bloat, but also still a significant amount of good and useful knowledge creation.

The bloat isn't really surprising: Largely inoculated from market forces, the way modern research is conducted has enormous amounts of inefficiencies, which in turn creates plenty of ways to game the system. Without university accreditation it is very hard to publish research, get grants or invites to conferences, so there is little reason for universities to take less of your grant. Why should journals not be super profitable? It is one of the very few "objective" metrics of success in academia, Nature could probably introduce expensive publishing fees tomorrow, and people would still fall in line. And universities don't really have to adapt, because going to one is basically required to get a good paying job.

I don't know how to fix that, it seems like a very hard problem. Just shutting everything down and leaving it to the private market as the Trump administration is aiming to do seems overkill, but sometimes it might also be necessary to break a stagnating system before rebuilding it better.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shFUDPqVmTg
Critics say new Google rules put profits over privacy
What a fertile ground the US becomes for Russian and Chinese agencies testing bioweapons.
I remember an interview with is it Wozniak where he said he took classes in business under an assumed name. And the professors lesions were often wrong or hopelessly outdated. Outdated like thinking business is like a 1940's toaster manufacturing plant.

Unfortunately Eddy is only managing to stamp 260 units an hour and his defect rate is too high at 2.2%. The average is 350 stampings and a defect rate under 1%. We need to get rid of Eddy.

Compare with a software guy that spent a month on a feature most of which was fighting broken tools, back and forth with the customer because marketing completely failed to understand what the customer needed. All the while getting pulled off to fight fires. It's amazing Eddy got it done at all. Then Eddy's bosses boss notices that Eddy only manages to close 1-3 issues a month vs the usual 6 to 10. Tells Eddy's boss that Eddy has to go and Eddy's boss freaks out because Eddy is his fixer.
I agree with the other poster. You are definitely on the extreme side here. Good for you, really, I would love to have your superpower, but you are not the norm.
Everyone wants to be an influencer, nobody wants to do the work to become influential in the first place.
DEI stuff will never hold up under legal scrutiny - it runs face first into the Equal Protection Clause in the Constitution, and orders will also contradict the Civil Rights Act. Again, this is how race based admissions in universities were deemed unlawful.

The legislation you previously linked is solely mentioning a series of grants specifically aimed at increasing diversity, with specially allocated funding totaling $23 million. That's not only going to be separate from the NSF budget, but would be ~0.25% of their budget if not. It's unclear of such things would hold up under the Equal Protection Clause, but it's largely irrelevant one way or the other.

A practical but immeasurable issue is the scale of impact. Encouraging diversity is good, impactful and systematic discrimination is not. There's a not entirely well defined line between the two, but I think a program at this scale would have few claim it's the latter.
That isn't much of a point because federal employees are much more likely to return than Twitter technical staff. Interesting approach, specially because it's not my country.
Kissinger was the last one awarded for merit. /s