skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I largely agree with Zitron but I think the angry-newsletter bubble he's milking is also going to pop sooner or later, lol. And I can't say I'll be sad when it happens.
Is that the correct video for CPS?
If only they had a stop blocking function.
Good way to teach other members of your house to use VPNs to bypass your censorship regime
There are a lot of houses near me without garages but with covered carports with space to park 1-2 cars. So, some percentage of those 30m without a garage would still be able to have at-home charging. No idea on what that percentage would be though.
This is very similar to an old approach to LISP garbage collection. All of memory is a tree of small cells. You need to walk the the tree and don't have space for a stack of the links that got you to where you are. So you store the backlinks in the forward links by XORing the forward link with the backlink. As the tree-walker backs down the tree, the links are XORed again, restoring the forward link.
Personal opinion: I think more sync work is needed even when remote. Making all work async makes things harder, not working remotely.
Being a caretaker for someone with Alzheimer’s has been a real eye opener to how critical working memory is. I think a large portion of our personal success in life is contingent on our working memory or the ability to manage it effectively.
The last record was 1066

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hastings
I suffered from chronic neck and shoulder pain for years. I had a cervical fusion surgery. I had a labral repair surgery. Neither improved my symptoms at all.

I slept maybe 3-4 hours per night for ~7 years.

Then one day I saw someone on Hacker News mention Dr. Sarno's book, and it changed my life.

I convinced myself that the pain was all in my mind. I'm still not 100% symptom free, but I now have far more good days than I do bad days.

I read all of his books and I try to re-read the first one at least once per year.

It become convenient for me to blame my problems on my chronic pain. I fixed all of that by simply changing the way I thought about the pain.

Now, whenever I feel the pain flaring up, I just make myself focus on my breathing rather than focusing on the pain. And then I simply forget about the pain.
Say what you will about the guy, he kept the training running on time.
For those not familiar with the author, Ethan Marcotte literally wrote the book on responsive web design (and coined the phrase). I point that out about because I think it is (or was) relevant that someone with such a place in digital design history had chosen public service.
Boxers get paid to fight. Totally different situation.
Another factor worth considering is that the cost of fuel is almost certainly going to go up substantially over the next decade due to dwindling oil supplies, ever increasing fuel taxes and possible global supply-shocks, but the cost per KWH of renewable power generation is effectively halving every year or two, so while the cost per KM traveled with an ICE vehicle will most likely range from remaining relatively the same to increasing substantially, the cost per passenger KM traveled of electric vehicles will likely range from staying relatively flat to decreasing substantially.

Personally I'd much rather buy an (electric) vehicle that at least has the potential for operating costs to decline year over year, than an (ICE) vehicle that's almost certainly going to see operating costs increase year over year as fuel prices inevitably go up.
You may think that ice is ice. I'm not going to disagree that Norwegian lake ice is likely the same as locally produced freezer ice. However, there are interesting properties to kinds of ice with unexplored culinary properties.

If cooled very rapidly, liquid water forms a glass e rather than crystallizing to hexagonal ice, for example, hyperquenched glassy water. [0]

0. https://water.lsbu.ac.uk/water/amorphous_ice.html

*. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phases_of_ice
I bought a new vehicle for 25% off MSRP, 30% off for a used one is not a good deal.
It's not a "layoff" if you were fired for poor performance/picking bad names.
Why do people put up with the Lisp syntax? I get that it's super simple for computers to parse, but it's definitely not pleasant for humans to parse, and humans are the ones reading/writing code.

I would have thought some very simple syntactic sugar would make it a lot nicer to work with. Has anyone done that?
Just give me the cheapest wine that’s single-origin and not loaded with mega purple
It's astounding that this is crystal clear, and yet you still have people like the sibling commenter trying to find ways of defending Musk. It reminds me of the quote comparing Libertarians to cats:

> Libertarians are like house cats in that they are convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand

People like that shouldn't be allowed to vote. I don't actually believe that, but it's hard to watch Idiocracy happen in real time and watch low-information people cheer it on.
that's funny, i just got out of the hospital for a case of dysphagia that turned into a perforated esophagus. small world!
What Happened (Dot-com bubble) – 2001 Documentary [video]
I believe that this documentary is a must watch for anyone in the tech industry regardless of the capacity.
Steve Jobs has 1114 patents. Apple has 16240.
You could go to reddit or the fediverse.
This is good for modding but don't be misled, this is the TF2-specific code which sits on top of the still-closed-source Source engine. For example you couldn't port TF2 to a new platform with this, at least not without reimplementing Source or wrangling it into working with one of the leaked Source codebases and dealing with the legal fallout of that.
Anyone with an opinion can be labelled biased. Also I’m not clear what you mean by Marcus “riding the anti AI wave” but infer that you mean it negatively. He has been writing informed criticism for several years and about cognitive psychology for considerably longer.
Elon isn’t trying to make the government more efficient.
I flew out of Toronto Pearson the day before this crash (after moving my flight a day forward because of the storms :-/ ), and noticed that flight attendants require passengers to remove any cross body fanny-pack type bags during takeoff and landing. I'm not sure if this applies to wearing it on the waist or not. I would imagine not.

This might not be new or exclusive to Canada - it's just the first I've noticed it.
> Really weird, because there's less stuff in it.

It's also not subsidized by selling your user data.
Ah, this is a great topic on its own.

The other layer of website same-ification is the technology choices people make. By and large, React Apps with Tailwind look, behave, feel, "samey" no matter how many tweaks one makes to the stylesheet.

Just like how you can immediately hear the sound of FM radio regardless of which station, you can immediately smell "modern tech stack." Its blandness oozes out between the cracks.

Old-school early 00s web applications were basically all bespoke and felt VASTLY different from one another for that reason.
People who buy into Grok are willingly submitting themselves to the far-right propaganda machine. I’m sure it’s nice and tidied up for release, but there is zero chance that Musk will not use this tool to push his ideological agenda given its reach and impact.
Speaking of not wanting DoH to exist on the local network, does anyone know if there is anything pre-existing that can hook into firewall rules to default deny outgoing traffic and only allow (until TTL expiry) in response to a DNS lookup? That way things cannot bypass your DNS filtering with DoH or hardcoded IPs.
Yeah, I'm with you on that. I'm in a profession that I chose because I was interested in it and I'm at an employer I chose because I was interested in what they do.
TSA? Security theatre?

> In 2015, TSA agents failed to detect prohibited items in 67 out of 70 tests, resulting in a 95% failure rate

Does this change your opinion on the bureaucracy?

https://www.vox.com/2016/5/17/11687014/tsa-against-airport-s...
I think shorts and minimal top would suffice lol
Sounds like plenty of time for me to get my bag, pull out my phone, and start texting
At this point we should accept the vernacular use of the word as correct.
It feels like any discussion about transporting ice from Norway should at least mention "the world's greatesr greatest publicity stunt" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_block_expedition_of_1959
I thought the same thing. It's a hard pivot from "async rust is hard" to "but if we add in Scheme it will be good!" With no real justification for it. I'm not a Scheme guy but I don't see the connection.
I wonder how much of an effect this kind of truly international (not in the same 'bloc') competition will have on budgets and speed of progress. Cold war tech race, etc.

It should be a good time to be an engineer.
For now. Current phones would be considered phablets 10 years ago.
AI inspired by AlphaFold can predict chromatin structures found in chromosomes
https://archive.ph/scN0V
Thanks anyway, I'm definitely looking into this.

Suffering from the occasional migraine myself (3-4x year) it seems a bit too drastic for myself... but my wife has very frequent migraines, anything that could possibly help is worth investigating
How do we fund road repairs and constructions with zero tax? Medical care for the poor who can't afford medical care or insurance? Public education in general?
What a century it's been...
Not to sugar coat a rough sport with a real history of terrible concussions and their consequences, but boxers get to punch back. They’re also rewarded for dodging punches when it gets them to their clear tangible goal: winning a match. In a real sense they have a lot of control over how and when they get punched.

None of that applies to this allegory. Dodging the punch got the protagonist put on a three-punch PIP. Who knows what punching back would have led to.
Many orders of magnitude less than either "how many people buy phones" and "how many people have laptops".

about 5 times over last idk 10 years i've almost bought an ipad for a particular game I play that has a mobile equivalent to desktop.

Every time I then "settle" for; "I can just get a 50 dollar android tablet"

Then; "well my phone can do it if I really like had a long plane ride or something."

Finally coming to not doing anything at all and being happy I never acted on the initial urge.
meta and X are both heavily censored so I guess it's censors all the way down?
What country do you live in? In the USA, you can say “I think person X is an idiot”. That’s protected speech. No one can sue you for expressing your opinion online or IRL. If someone punches you in the face for calling them an idiot on the street, then they are likely going to get prosecuted for those actions. Yes you run the risk of getting punched in the face but you are not in any trouble with the law.

OTOH it’s a problem if you say “Person X is a rapist”. Then you might get sued for libel. You can’t make false statements to destroy someone’s reputation.

Censorship online on a social media platform is not subject to any freedom of speech laws. Freedom of speech only applies to the US Government not restricting your speech. The social media platform has the authority to regulate speech however they want to on their platform.
Not a lawyer, but I wonder about this as well though more from the standpoint of trying to stay in there to be a witness to the destruction and to try to do what you can to slow it down. Though in this case, as he was still probationary he wouldn't have had that option. They (DOGE) found out that it's hard to fire federal government employees, but they found the loophole with probationary employees.
Next milestone is 69 minutes. No, not 60.
For sure there are - I currently drive a '96 Toyota T100, which I bought for $5500 a few years back. It is reliable as hell, but the miles take their toll, and one must keep up with the maintenance. Timing belt, water pump, brake calipers, starter motor, etc... they wear out, and it adds up; but it still costs less overall than a newer car would.

I've done plenty of wrenching in my time, out of necessity and enjoyment alike (used to do a lot of jeeping, then motorcycling), though these days I usually prefer to employ professionals. That's why I prefer older vehicles I can afford to buy outright: I can trade time against money, depending on which I happen to have more of at the moment, instead of being locked in to the fixed monthly expense I'd have with a low-mileage car.
Of course, but to start the uphill battle of calling out the bullshit, we have to at least know which bullshit to counter.

For me, the only charitable interpretation of DOGE is that they have accidentally figured out how to spread incompetence (not wholly unfamiliar to much of the government) to the small islands that fended it off (gutting 18F/USDS). The cherry was accidentally firing a chunk of the nation's nuclear experts to save a dime, and then clawing them back.

I think any claim of DOGE doing good work has to address those things in a convincing manner (in addition to why the existing processes are lacking; GAO). I haven't seen that attempted by anyone.
Anything that has Oauth2 integration with Github, Google, Facebook, etc. out of the box is going to win this by a country mile. That's by far the most annoying thing about setting up any website that has user accounts in my experience.
lol who is interested in this on hn? this has nothing to do with frameworks or training or inference or whatever. this is purely about "when can i infer statically XYZ property about tensor constants in a program". mind you, small tensor constants, because this thing is effectively performing actual tensor arithmetic and you don't want slow tensor arithmetic in your compiler.

also FYI they're not magically calculating closed form solutions to recurrence relations here (that's not possible) - they're basically just iterating the loop arithmetic.
No it’s pointless doing it because some guy on HN said it’s a long way off and therefore you are not allowed to be excited or enthusiastic about it.
i'm working on a project to do this with iceberg and sqlmesh executed via airflow at my job. sqlmesh seems really promising. i investigated multi-engine executions in dbt and it seems like you need to pay a lot of $$$ for it (multi-engine execution requires multiple dbt projects) and is not included in dbt core.
Why? It's a troll question. It's obviously designed to so the questioner can attack you based on your answer, whichever way it may be. It's about as sensible as a little kid's "what if frogs had cars?" except it's also malicious.
I saw the footage, and wondered if perhaps he knew he had a buddy filming him, and there was a “watch this” going on, decided to flare as late as possible, and he just flared… well, stick up after you hit the deck like a sack of potatoes doesn’t do much for you.
Just wonder if it matters? If Google spent 10x as much in the first 5 years of its life would it be a worse company now? Giant TAM, winner takes all (or most?), all that matters is winning.
There was an SF office of 18F -- IIRC it was in the building to the right of the Civic Center park as you looked at it from the Bart stop. They were great folks from every encounter I had with them.
Nowadays, people probably haven't paid off their car in 5 years either. Average new car loan is 68 month term.

https://tucson.com/news/nation-world/business/personal-finan...
Isn't a TV that permanently shows HDMI input a big monitor?

Weirdly they always seem to be more expensive than a TV though.
This was known problem in 2024 unfortunately: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d24PTLHEu_Q

Budgets are set a year ahead of time.
> Minimum of £0.55

Where are you getting this from? Just checked my nearest public charger and it’s £0.45
The TSA needs to be abolished, but that has no bearing on 18F or other government agencies.
> I get to drilling and after 25 minutes of learning how to keep it straight and the wonders of noise cancelling earphones, I have a neat 60mm hole with a plastic insert.

Pardon my nitpick but in case it helps save anybody else's hearing: noise-canceling headphones are not hearing protection! Hearing protection devices create a physical barrier between the noise source and your ears. Noise-canceling headphones use a microphone to listen to your surroundings and create an inverse sound wave. Due to their imperfect nature (latency, inability to reproduce certain sounds, etc) they are not adequately protecting your ears, especially for higher-frequency sounds like a drill motor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_noise_control

If you want hearing protection and music, you want something like these: https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/p/d/cbgnawus1754/

edit: also should have used some teflon tape on the threads of the washer hoses to prevent leaks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_seal_tape
The possibility that OpenAI, Anthropic or other companies in the space can lose their investors money does not make the technology a "con". As long as they do not try to pass their losses to the tax payers, how is this a problem? If anything, the history of tech has abundant examples of the first movers in a space not capturing the eventual economic value.

It is ridiculous to say that generative AI is a con at this point when it is by far the best way to search the internet (in spite of hallucinations).
There is something to that.

Some years ago, my jaw dropped and kept dropping further the more I read of what happened to Daniel Lee. <https://stanfordmag.org/contents/the-persecution-of-daniel-l...>
They turned it off specifically then. Just like the previous one at 1066. We used to do stuff like this in our labs as a joke. Or try and stop timers exactly on :00
Thanks a lot for this extensive feedback!

About performance: I agree, and I'm not even trying to make performance a priority in Cot. I mean, of course, it's nice to have an actual compiled language, but I think a bigger perk in using Rust is having *a lot* of stuff checked in compile time, rather than in runtime. This is something I'm trying to make the main perk of, and it is reflected in multiple parts in Cot (templates checked at compile time, ORM that is fully aware of database schema at compile time, among many others).

About JSX: I think that's the one I'll need to explore further. In my defense, the templating system Cot currently uses (Rinja) is much more expressive and pleasant to use than Django's, but admittedly, the core concepts are very similar. This one might be difficult to address because of an ecosystem of templating engines that is pretty lacking in Rust, but I'll see what I can do to help this.

About front-end integration: that's something that will be (at least partially) addressed no later than v0.2. Django REST Framework is a pain (mostly because it's never been integrated in Django), Django Ninja is something I haven't personally used very much - good to have it mentioned so it can be a source of inspiration. Generating OpenAPI docs is something that's even mentioned in the article "Request Handler API is far from being ergonomic and there’s no automatic OpenAPI docs generation" so yeah, I'm aware of this.

Deployment is indeed something that's super nice – and a part of this is that newer Rust versions generally don't break compatibility with existing code, unlike Python. I agree this should be highlighted, thanks for suggestion!
Starfleet Command just sent a Priority One message saying you need to provide a link to this sound, please.
> Google for some reason force projects from Google employees to be umbrellaed under their own organization for some reason, even if it's a personal project

I don't think that is true. Google employees can have regular personal projects. If you have a "personal" project that is done under the scope of your employment (e.g., you work on YouTube and you wrote a tool to, I dunno, manage Makefiles to help yourself and/or other coworkers, then that would be a "Google project" housed under `google` even though it's not an "official" product).
HN already had its ipod moment back in 2007. /.'s ipod moment was in 2001, not as longer before that as I would have guessed.

Re: Dropbox, from a well known user. It didn't age well and we've been asked not to repeat it because it makes the author with connections to this site's operator look bad.

> 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

the controversy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27067281
It's an obvious gotcha question. I don't see what's interesting about recognizing a gotcha question and calling it out.
I sometimes but not always get an aura before a migraine.

Which was pretty fun the first time i got an aura, as i was working in a chemistry lab. I described what was happening (loss of vision, flashes of light, rapidly oscillating black and white patterns) to this greybeard lab technician and within 5 minutes the entire lab was evacuated, out of fear of some weird chemical poisoning us all.
> You can't control when "someones" messages are delivered, only when "all" messages are delivered. I.E Signal servers control general availability, not selective availability.

this is the first I've heard this, got a source to prove this is actually true?

> Moving to a self-hosted service most likely introduces more risk at this point assuming you can keep the service and all related infrastructure up to date and monitored 24/7/365

That's not how threat models work, it's not 'more' risk. It's additional work. The risk is the same, signal has to do it, or 'you' have to do it. The risk and level of effort is the same. The only thing that changes is the direct responsibile party. Depending on configuration, it might reduce the risk if you can lower the number of parties you have to trust. I.e. I can verify my servers are up to date, but I have to just trust me bro, that signal's servers are always up to date.
Does that mean it's impossible to have steady-state operation? (And are stellarators different here?)
OK that's actually a pretty good one. If you didn't steal that from an X comment, I give you props.
Agreed! This is also something that I personally want to use in my services, so this will definitely be a first-class citizen in Cot very soon.
I spent a moment with my brain froze up apparently trying to remember when the first Terminator was supposedly deployed in one of the timelines.

Then I realized the reference was to the "Model T" car. Somehow in my brain the token for "Model" is actually necessary for the correct lookup.
Why is that the correct interpretation? It seems like another would be: "This is a ~33% improvement over a record set only three seeks ago. Innovation is rapidly accelerating to a point where plasma can be contained indefinitely."
Commercially viable likely also means: cost competitive with nuclear fission. Which might well never happen, since the reactor designs for fusion are orders of magnitude more complex (and therefore more expensive).

They also need a lot of ignition energy which requires a powerful separate power source, which limits where the fusion reactor can be built.

Moreover, there is the issue of the reactor core being degraded by the heavy neutron radiation which is produced by the fusion reaction. So the chamber has to be replaced regularly. Which may also be quite expensive.
I agree that for example when the phone is on a table or on a hard surface vibration can get really loud. Having it on your wrist it makes perfect sense
> done great harm in the world

Can someone enumerate the "great harm" that Elon is doing? I honestly don't see it.