skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
from the paper:

high chatGPT scores on the descriptions are generally correlated with high citation counts (which the paper uses as ground truth for quality)

despite being part of the training criteria, novelty claims in book descriptions don't lead to higher chatGPT scores, but they do correlate with higher citation counts.

books with indirect writing styles ("the author shows") in the descriptions tend to get lower scores.
I have no doubt they will argue the price increase as a result of tariffs, but market prices are and will always be about what the market will tolerate and rarely nothing else. This is why many other companies will segment the market with what often is the same product under different prices.

Acer is not selling laptop based on the cost of raw resources and then adding a fixed markup. Most costs are in development. A large shared of a high end laptop is share components among all of their products. Depending on specific, their most expensive laptop can be a loss or profit per when accounting for development, research and marketing. Flagship products are generally not about selling individual units.

Looking at Acer profit as a company, one can not add import tax to the end number.
Tactical Developments During the Third Year of the Russo–Ukrainian War [pdf]
How much of a price hike can actually being more assembly jobs back to North America? Or are they already brought back?
Great news for System76; and great news for if the tariffs stick around. We could use more computers made in Colorado.
Only about 15% of Apple’s iPhone production is in India with it expected to rise to about 25% over the next few years.

But the administration is likely to impose even higher tariffs on India, so that doesn’t help either.
From the article itself:

"Are cuts needed?

It is also clear that, as within other federal agencies, there is significant "bloat" in NASA's budget. In some areas, this is plain to see, with the space agency having spent in excess of $3 billion a year over the last decade "developing" a heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System, which used components from the Space Shuttle and costs an extraordinary amount of money to fly. In the meantime, the private launch industry has been running circles around NASA. Similarly, consider the Orion spacecraft. This program is now two decades old, at a cost of $1 billion a year, and the vehicle has never flown humans into space.

One could go on. Much of the space community has been puzzled as to why NASA has been spending on the order of half a billion dollars to develop a Lunar Gateway in an odd orbit around the Moon. It remains years away from launching, and if it ever does fly, it would increase the energy needed to reach the surface of the Moon. The reason, according to multiple sources at the agency when the Gateway was conceived, is that the lunar space station would offer jobs to the current flight controllers operating the International Space Station, which is due to retire in 2030."
A very impressive debut. No doubt they benefited from all the research and discoveries that have preceded it.

Maybe the best outcome of a competitive Grok is breaking the mindshare stranglehold that ChatGPT has on the public at large and with HN. There are many good frontier models that are all very close in capabilities.
And car salesmen (humans) might actually care, AIs probably wont, no matter the situation.
Are people actually satisfied by that? I personally find "chatting" with an LLM grating and dissatisfying because it often makes very obvious and incongruous errors, and it can't reason. It has no logical abilities at all, really. I think you're really underestimating what a therapist actually does, and what human communication actually is. It's more than word patterns.

I could see this being useful in a "dark pattern" sense, but only if it's incredibly cheap, to increase the cost to the user of engaging with customer support. If you have to argue with the LLM for an hour before being connected to an actual person who can help you, then very few calls will make it to the support staff and you can therefore have a much smaller team. But that only works if you hate your users.
Yep. When I hear goth I think Bauhaus, Joy Division....
Time tracking 101, you should never allow two time trackers to run at the same time (especially if you are planning on tracking and billing your time on a project funded by the government). Starting a timer should always stop all the others.
I've been saying hey google drive home (for GPS directions), and play music, to the phone mounted on my dash for a decade. I drive a rusty old stick shift and alligator clamped a $10 bluetooth to the speaker. So I'm not sure what you're envisioning that can't also work on any other car. There is also https://comma.ai that adds self-driving to hundreds of newer cars via just a ODB2-like dongle and equivalent of a smartphone.
Taking the engine out of the car to reduce weight and improve efficiency

No biggie... the effects won't be seen until a Democrat is in charge again, business as usual.
Starting a family at… 60?
I ascribe to the Rent Theory of Everything. People can afford to be weird, where they don't have to be perfect corporate people in order to pay rent.
I know one person who has a pair, they’re are an investor and were given a pair for free, naturally they have to tell you how good they are all the time as well.
This is the problem we're working on with https://freenet.org/ - a general purpose platform for building entirely decentralized services.

Our thesis is that the client-server architecture is a fundamental flaw in the world wide web's design, which inherently concentrates power in the hands of a few. Freenet aims to be a general purpose replacement for this in which all services are entirely decentralized.

The first non-trivial app we're building will be a group chat system called River[1].

[1] https://github.com/freenet/river
Sorry my " Social class " doesnt determine my tastes, and the person you referenced doesnt even do any kind of testing to determine this. Goodbye.
Gotcha, thanks! I've had similar problems with Traefik and docker compose actually, got it working well once, but then after changing some settings around it wasn't properly proxying to one of my containers anymore and I gave up trying to figure it out and switched to Caddy – since I'm not dynamically scaling services to run across many containers in a cluster or such, I don't think Traefik offers much of an advantage for me personally. I've never really looked back to nginx though, I quite like Caddy's sensible defaults.
$5000 monthly salary?

My heart goes out to all the oppressed programmers in the EU.
Where will I find this elusive append-only log? Will it be provided by the server? Will the verification be automatic?

Repeat after me: The server matters. A lot. Even if you don't want it to.
I'm skeptical of tariffs in general, but it seems like there's a clear strategic case for tariffs on a country whose market may become unavailable entirely when they begin their long-promised invasion of their neighbor.
Why is OBS pushing flatpak?
The unfortunate truth is that everyone can be manipulated and everyone can be conditioned.

It just takes time and/or the right circumstances.

This includes propaganda.
Software effort estimation is hard in the same way building anything is hard, but it's harder because:

- the tools can vary wildly
- there are few standard components
- the few standard components have a wide amount of variance in their use and results
- "there is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order of magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity"
- an in-house product is easier to write than a developer product others will use
- developers have a tendency to use up all available resources (software is a gas) which then makes it harder when the software needs more resources to function (scalability)
- most people who write software do not do design; thus the software is not designed before they start writing it, which (obviously) leads to an undeterminable amount of time until it is done
- again because of a lack of design knowledge, developers fall into common traps like the second-system effect and other design flaws
- the Agile Manifesto emphasizes a lack of planning, rigor, standardization, and documentation, all of which creates uncertainty
- most projects don't include staff to properly track progress and reorganize efforts to get back on track
- most people who write software were never properly trained (in methodologies, in software design, in system architecture, etc) and thus their work will be inefficient and unreliable, which adds time and expense
- most of the tools needed to develop software quickly and with high quality are not available at the beginning of a project, and are built by either the same team building the software, or a different team, which is a bit like trying to build your own scaffolding and power tools while building a building. this adds delay and cost

Things that make estimating building anything hard:

- the group of people doing the building vary in skill and experience
- the ability of the group of people to work together well varies
- the inavailability of materials when needed causes delays
- coordination of work is difficult
- humans make mistakes which creates delay and cost overrun, more when the mistakes aren't seen immediately

These things are all extremely well known and understood in our industry, since even 50 years ago. But because there is no standardization in the way our work is done, nor proper training nor roles to handle the difficult work of managing the work, it continues to be a crap-shoot whether you're working with somebody who knows what they're doing.
>The series has received critical acclaim.

>the first season has a 100% approval score with an average rating of 8.7/10, based on 22 critic reviews.

>Andrew Webster of The Verge deemed it to be "equal parts beautiful and brutal, and it might be the most original piece of science fiction of the year"

>In May 2024, the series was canceled by Max

This is so confusing. Making good art must not be profitable.
Unfortunately this year is well on track to be a significant increase in the casualty rate from commercial aviation even if nothing happens for the next ten months. While a lot of progress has certainly been made it is concerning that the trend is moving in the wrong direction.
Extremely lucky, probably not. More in the sense "under different circumstances, this would have gone into the folder Uninteresting Landings, never to be viewed again." Ubiquitous smartphones mean petabytes upon petabytes of boring photos and videos - the "unusual" part is just in the event itself.
DeepSeek wouldn't be able to train R1 without their ~600B parameters base model, so you should consider the cost of that model when you compare with Grok.

In any case, Elon won't win this race cause the best talent will not work for him. He used to have good reputation and a lot of money, which is a deadly combination. Now he only has the latter -- not enough when leading AI people can make 7 figures in other companies.

To be clear 1: I'm not saying that people who currently work on Grok are not great. It's not about hiring some great people. It's about competing in the long run - people with other options (e.g. offers from leading AI labs) are more likely to accept those offers than joining his research lab.

To be clear 2: I'm not talking about Elon's reputation due to his politics. I'm only talking about his reputation as an employer.

He has the vision and marketing skills but it's not going to be enough for leading the AI race.
"I am a happy Fedora user"

...why?
Richard Dawkins: "I have a very favorable impression of Elon Musk and his concern for the welfare of the world.

I have sat with [Elon] on a transatlantic plane and had a very, very long conversation with him. He's undoubtedly highly intelligent and knowledgeable.

I've had lunch with him on two or three occasions, and so I know him a little bit.

I have formed a very favorable impression of his intelligence, his knowledge and his concern for the welfare of the world."

The Poetry of Reality, November 17, 2024
"Push until something happens" is Apple's prime functionality when it comes to control switches/buttons. iPhone/iPad/Apple TV Remote etc. Terrible UI/UX.
Exo software – A distributed LLM solution running on a cluster of computers, sm
I disagree. Tools which need to be babysat, the way LLMs do, slow you down rather than speed you up. It's like having to mentor a junior team member, except a human will eventually learn and you can just let him work. LLMs are incapable of learning, so you can't ever leave the phase where they are a drain.
Because all you need to do is Bluetooth your iPhone to your 1995 Ford Ranger, and install Gemini to have a voice conversation with your cars speakers. But then your original comment doesn't make any sense about it being only possible with a Tesla.
Your account is not even one year old, dude.

Also, great way to miss the point: I am all in favor of teen pregnancies going down; but if it’s because everyone is culturally stuck in an extended adolescence, that should not be confused with maturity, and the effects of that will be felt everywhere. I say "worse" replacements because if people aren't growing up, they will just do the original problematic activities later, while having their immaturity affect their lives and other people's lives longer.
> If there's no smoke, no visible flames, and you can do so safely without obstructing other passengers' egress? I can see the argument, sure.

While there are no smoke/flames now or initially, that doesn't mean they won't appear "soon": planes have been completely engulfed with-in 90 seconds.
10% seems pretty innocuous to me.
https://www.soundaway.com/R19-16-UltraTouch-Denim-Insulation...
https://www.tmsoundproofing.com/RSIC-1-Low-Profile-Clip.html
https://www.amazon.com/Resilient-Metal-Hat-Channel-long/dp/B...
https://www.amazon.com/Green-Glue-Noiseproofing-Compound-Tub...
https://www.amazon.com/Green-Glue-RGG400200U-Acoustical-Caul...
https://www.amazon.com/Acoustic-Soundproofing-junction-switc...

These are the ones specifically for soundproofing. Do you also want a list of stuff for the fiber?
Touchscreens are a big step back in terms of usability.

I disagree with this as a blanket statement. This often comes up in the context of cars, which, sure, I agree. It's imperative to have physical feedback and have the controls in a familiar place.

I also think device makers are investing less in interface design. Just like you have have an intuitive interface with physical buttons or not, you can also have an intuitive interface with a touch screen.

In this context, where the stakes are lower than driving a car and you don't need to identify each control by touch to use the thing safely, if you can get more screen real estate by eschewing some physical controls for touch screen controls, I think that would make the device more usable as a TV viewing device.
Evolving intelligent life took billions of years, but less unlikely as predicted
My company's IT director, who's main function is cybersecurity compliance, wears these at work.

So much of the modern world has me feeling like I'm taking crazy pills.
Only if we have a corresponding and equal subsidy to protect laptop buyers. :-)
A gap year at that age would make no difference from that perspective. You’re not going to mature all that much between 18 and 19.
You mean assembled there? Or is at least 51% of it built in Texas?
ABS does break that path. And then because it's decreasing pressure it now has to have an electric pump to bring it back up.
Trae now supports Win x64
Like every other decimation that's happened, it will be whatever is politically expedient and have nothing to do with need, skill, capabilities, or job performance.
I like the new Freenet! I interviewed your founder, Ian Clarke, 2 years ago on my channel — discussing the original freenet, probably the first truly decentralized content network in the world. Here is the 2-hour discussion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWrRqUkJpMQ&t=12m0s

Look around the 12 minute mark when I start to discuss how “the capitalist system” produces centralized monopoilies that extract rents for their shareholders.
HN is mostly not hardcore fp programmers. There’s a good amount of fp programmers but they are not the majority. Plenty of go and c++ lovers here and people who don’t understand the guidelines above.

The point is I don’t want to argue about it with someone who doesn’t get it.
See USA in the year 2025 about those laws the founding fathers put in to place...
Had to check GitHub

"FFmpegKit is a collection of tools to use FFmpeg in Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, tvOS, Flutter and React Native applications."
The price doesn't make sense in conjunction with PyCharm's pricing IMO.
It’s a man. He seems very successful.
> but we certainly kept putting things into space (military and otherwise) and was much of that know-how not directly informed by the technology developed for Apollo? Building life support systems, the rockets themselves, etc.

It was _informed_ by it, but, for instance the Saturn V's kerosene and hydrogen engines, developed at absolutely horrendous, unthinkable expense, on the justification that it was the moon race and that the cost would be amortised over expected hundreds or thousands of Saturn launches in the future, were thrown away (reusing the hydrogen one occasionally comes up as an idea, but has gone nowhere so far).

Same for the Soviet stuff, to a large extent; the N-1's engines, also very sophisticated, were essentially abandoned (though a derivative was used a long, long time later in a Soyuz launcher). The Soviets did at least keep the Soyuz orbital vehicle (originally developed for their moon programme), but little else.

This all made sense at the time; there suddenly wasn't much money, so reverting to the less capable, less complex, arguably by then previous-gen launchers was rational. But it was really a demonstration that, by then, neither state took any of this at all seriously (even before Apollo 11, the Soviets had all but abandoned their programme); if it had really been seen as a matter of national security, the Saturn C-5N and N1F and all the rest of the planned evolutions would have launched in their hundreds.
I use them as an alternative to search engines for topics where I have some specific question where traditional search engines fail to find the needle in the haystack.

As a concrete example, I was recently playing with simulating the wave equation, and I wanted to try to use a higher-order approximation as I had never done that before. I'm quite rusty as I haven't done any numerical work since university some decades ago.

I still recalled how to deal with the Neumann boundary conditions when using the traditional lower-order approximation, but I was uncertain how to do it while keeping the higher-order approximation.

Searching for "higher-order neumann boundary conditions wave equation" or similar got me pages upon pages of irrelevant hits, most of them dealing with the traditional approximation scheme.

So I turned to ChatGPT which right away provided a decent answer[1], and along with a follow-up question gave me what I needed to implement it successfully.

[1]: https://chatgpt.com/share/67b4ab43-6128-8013-8e5a-3d13a74bf6...
Ok(Response::new_html(StatusCode::OK, Body::fixed(rendered)))

no thank you. if you like it good for you, for me this looks worse than

Body body = BodyFactory.newInstance(BodyConfiguration.OK)

which is still SHORTHER and less cancer
The vscode extensions path, unfortunately, would have been too restrictive for many of Scripton's features/technical requirements (tightly coupled REPL, minimal IPC overhead, ...)
Reading a few comments it occurs to me that these platforms e.g. Linkedin / Facebook are so big they have multiple uses. Linkedin is mainly buying and selling. There is a lot of sales going on there and programmers generally would not take kindly to that. As a means of recording connections and connecting with companies / recruiters it seems to work fine. In the same way, fb works fine as a friends list, photo repo, events organiser and marketplace. It's just ok, but it's free and has a massive userbase. All the other stuff isn't relevant to me and needs to be ignored at all costs. However for some people it is useful I guess.
> Creating a thread is already very expensive, in a sane program your ten TLS constructors shouldn't come even close to the amount of bookkeeping that the kernel has to do to spin up a new thread.

This is not true, at least on Linux. With appropriate settings (e.g. a small stack) thread creation can be extremely cheap.
I’m not sure if that’s the case. He’s obviously a smart man, but what’s truly unbelievable is that someone has so much resources that they can make something like this happen (what looks like) pretty casually.
i always though ETH was pegged 1:1 to the dollar?
itt no one actually talking about Signal's cryptography
So many for sale on eBay:

https://www.google.com/search?q=ebay+Sony+FX-300+Jackal&oq=e...

I thought they'd be scarcer.
That's a lot of presumption.
If it looks like a Nazi salute and is done by a Nazi to honor another Nazi while adoring Nazis cheer, why do I care that you think it’s not Nazi?
I could go into details (What are they doing to ensure data privacy? Can/do they exfiltrate data and run it through external AI models? What kind of security clearances do the children of DOGE have?).

But just on the surface, Elon has accused a journalist who published the name of DOGE employees of breaking the law. If it were up to them, even that would be kept secret. This is not a transparent organization.
Rotation around the

- longitudinal axis: roll, controlled by ailerons.

- vertical axis: yaw, controlled by rudder.

- lateral axis (through the wings): pitch, controlled by elevators.
Better learn to touch type or Meta will have all your passwords.
Indignation and fulmination is his shtick and gets him shared across social and the like.
Listening to an ATC recording of a major accident is always a masterclass in focus and stoicism. Those folks are heroes.
>Name a specific thing you would like to know about DOGE that is not publicly disclosed.

Why one of the guys working for it was running a dodgy image sharing website and has links to cycbercrime and CSAM?

and why Elon called the journos that revealed these links criminals?
A lot of US citizens are living incredibly comfortable lives. If that is threatened, for instance by food shortages caused by lack of people willing to work on farms for very low wages, then protests may happen.

But the reality distortion field around the current administration is very powerful. Fox and CNN are owned by supporters of the republicans, NYTimes and Washington Post don't appear to be reporting certain aspects of the government restructuring. Multiple social media sites are owned and ran by people who support the current admin.

I am personally worried that we're going to see the gradual yet continual escalation of rhetoric, more actions that undermine rule of law, and continued lack of critical thinking in so many people. That path appears to lead to extremism.

I have a horrible feeling that whoever "wins" in a couple of decades or so will have no time to savour their utopia as the climate catastrophe really starts to bite hard.
Incredible how everything about Musk is been censored and people don't care.
SLS flew around the moon. SpaceX Starship sent a banana to the Indian ocean. I mean come on, let's stop kidding ourselves.
For the low, low price of dooming Ukraine, rebooting Guantanamo Bay, and oppressing non-binary people :)
ETH is not pegged. Currencies that run on it can be "pegged".