skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe Zuck can team up with Larry to complete our transition to a surveillance/police state.

It’s insane to me that anyone would do this knowing how little Facebook respects privacy.
Not my idea, wasn't representing it as my idea; djb proposed it long ago (as other commenters in this thread mentioned), and as you pointed out as IPv4 mapped addresses. I was just describing how it might work, since it's a little confusing. In particular when I first started thinking about it I kept getting stuck on "Ok, so how do non-v4 mapped IPs talk to v4 addresses?"
Sortof a letdown that after 24 32Gb RAM sticks you only get 6-8 tokens per second.
"I like beans but I'm rich, checkmate". You're an idiot.

People do not grow up in isolated vats, and social class is one of the largest influence on one's life. Obviously there are exceptions, not 100% of your life is determined by that. If you can't even fathom how your social class might inform your taste on red wine and such then I don't see what more we have to talk about. Goodbye.
Yes, that sound indeed hard. Do you think it's possible by using memory usage patterns, GPU and RAM consumption levels, etc.? I didn't read this, but sounds interesting: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.15847?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Masa Son top ticks a market is somehow still news in 2025.
> I'm not buying a car without a handbrake for the foreseeable future.

Good luck. Most every car now has a switch connected to the computer that commands a motor to pull a chord that bonks the gerbil cage which starts running in its wheel that turns a fan by belt which blows the toy sailboat which bumps the hinged board that falls over releasing the bowling ball that runs down the ramp into a basket that pulls a rope which turns the burner on the stove boiling a kettle of water which blows the little turbine that pulls the brake pads tight. Cables and levers were too hard for them to install.
What percentage of train fatalities are non-passenger suicides? The statistical comparison isn't very fair.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43076710
Cot: The Rust web framework for lazy developers
the example of goths is to highlight an actual counterculture that is not determined by NYU think tanks, and that they are the example you should look to for how your society treats actual freethinking.

Think about what you just said there. How much "freethinking", is going on in either case if they are both demanding you look to them to determine how society treats, um, "freethinking"?

Shades of "People's Front of Judea" extolling the unauthentic nature of the "Judean People's Front".
Nit: musk is not a tesla founder. He bought his right to be called that for $6M
I like the way the humor of this joke travels along a spectrum from relatability to absurdity as time cycles. Using the weekly one as an example, I think it achieves peak relatability on a wednesday, because that's the best intersection of being deep enough into the week to feel like its been a long one but also not so far into the week that you're seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and feeling hopeful. Peak absurdity for most people would likely be the weekend. I'll not be hearing arguments for Thursday, as I could never get the hang of Thursday.
I'm hoping that's a design consideration!
I never understood why this would be a problem so long as a replicant has all the rights/lifespan etc of a human being. Those are usually the plot devices I suppose, especially in the case or BR where you're hunted down/don't live as long.
> If somebody sees a multi-billion dollar sink better than AI right now ...

I think if they could find a way to make their software good, instead of bad, like it increasingly is, that would be a good use of that money.
The main formats are plenty powerful with the formatting they support. The bigger issue is that ebooks need to render on a pretty big variety of devices, and users can override typefaces and font size. So short of using a PDF to override those choices, there's not a ton that an improved format could accomplish.

Also, ebooks do support links (I see them most commonly used for linking to chapters from the table of contents, or linking to appendix notes), so you could make interactive fiction if you wanted.
If I were the crusading type, I'd be on a crusade against single-button interfaces. It's so annoying to have "single tap to pause, double tap to skip to next track" because the timing seems to mess up intermittently. Did I just pause the track or skip? Is the next track just starting too quietly for this environment, or did I pause?

Touch-sensitive inputs, like those on the google pixel buds pro 2, are even worse. Any touch can have weird results as it might be detected as a swipe or a long-touch.

Kudos to the Jabra earbuds I was gifted recently, they can remap the single/double/triple clicks, so a single click for me is now next track.

And as I age, I get dry skin which sometimes doesn't even register as a touch.

I'd love to see a range of accessible hardware that has actual buttons that clearly state what they do, and have visual+haptic+audio feedback which can be configured.
These are the people too smart for regular cults?
I like to see word embeddings as a universe where words fly in spce like planets. The attention mechanism acts like the laws of gravity that govern in this universe. Learn all about it in this video!
LLMs can do weather prediction? There is no way that is true. Considering ChatGPT sometimes insists 2+2=5, I sincerely doubt it is solving PDEs used to model weather systems.
Given how fast-moving the field is, it's very difficult to confidently state how much inference costs. Perhaps he's under-charging, perhaps OpenAI is over-charging, one may be more optimised than the other, but new models come out and change everything in less time than is normally takes for actual costs to become public knowlege.
> A well designed embedded systems based on microcontrollers can be very reliable.

The objective measure of what qualifies as "well designed embedded systems" is inherently gray; and where industries have seen some semblance of consensus as a matter of unconditional need, it has always been accompanied with the tears of executives complaining of non-trivial expense.
It's an interesting idea, IEX basically did something non-random with introducing latency.

A consideration is once you do this, the business model of exchanges changes a lot (they make a ton of money on colo).

So they need revenue elsewhere, so maybe free retail trading goes away again, who knows.
I feel like 50/50 chance of his or your comment aging poorly.
> Government contracts can only flow for so long?

I wouldn't bet on that, given the undemocratic influence Grok's owner has in government.
And especially when it's the 57th such thread this week. (Not an actual count...)

I mean, look, you can at least make a case that we're in an unprecedented historical situation, and we should discuss that. But it shouldn't be as dominant a topic as it is, not here. If I wanted /r/politics, I'd go to /r/politics.
Which bootloader do you use?
You might have installed the bootloader to the pendrive. It might be easier for you to re-install and pay attention to the steps better while knowing which drives and partitions are which.
I enthusiastically recommend using signal for normal communication. So long as using a private messenger is reserved for "illicit" use cases, that meta information of using it is itself a dangerous to the users.

https://kmlawfirm.com/2023/02/28/its-not-what-you-say-its-ho...

I'll be blunt and say I don't trust governments to "do the right thing" so the only way past this is to normalize using it for all use cases and doing so protects vulnerable people.
#3 on the hit parade for a rant about how everything takes longer than you think? Slow news day, I guess.

What's next? The full text of If You Give a Moose a Muffin?

https://www.amazon.com/If-You-Give-Moose-Muffin/dp/006024405...
The rule of thumb I was taught for crosswind component based on difference between runway heading and wind direction was 60º = 6/6 of the crosswind, 30º = 1/2, 10º = 1/6. So if they're landing on runway 23, 270/28 would amount to (roughly) 4/6 of the wind as a crosswind component, or 19kt.
Leadership: Navigating Conflict
> The ORM is very lacking at the moment and the automatic migration generator only works with a small subset of possible operations,

I would have hoped that by 2025, new projects would have moved away from ORMs entirely. They really are a useless abstraction layer that always brings tons of trouble and usually makes queries harder to write.

Looking at the first example in the docs

https://cot.rs/guide/latest/db-models/#retrieving-models

let link = query!(Link, $slug == LimitedString::new("cot").unwrap()).get(request.db()).await?;

I really don't get the point, and that'll certainly get worse with any somewhat non-trivial query.

Why go through all the trouble of reinventing a new DSL when the SQL equivalent would be so much cleaner?

SELECT * FROM link WHERE slug = 'cot';
My fault, I incorrectly assumed there would be a paywall.
Yep, you'd be surprised by how many turn downright violent when unmedicated. Sometimes the violence is a big part of the reason why the family ended up having to send them to a nursing home.
The historical answer has generally been: it doesn't (at least, not well). The traditional recommendations were not to open multiple connections to the same file, and especially not to share the same file over a network filesystem. This remains the general advice, as far as I can tell, but it may be out of date against some newer features (like WAL mode) and better filesystems (like NFSv4).
I don't disagree, it's just that in UK people have plenty of options and can choose to make a political statement but I would be surprised if they still will do that if Tesla was such a good deal like in Turkey(in the Turkish case, the taxes on ICE are outrageous and as a result a Model 3 would cost about the same as VW Golf).
Every year seems like we get worse at naming things in non confusing ways. I am waiting for the o1-pro-max now, pro max ultra and pro max ultra plus.
A world full of sensors purchased from, developed and managed by a bunch of inept contractor corporate BS companies who usually have no idea what they're doing and use lawyers and MBAs with fancy college connections to keep their niche carved out.
Nobody has ever been punished for choosing IBM. It’s the same story here. Nobody is going to blame them for following the zeitgeist, but you bet they’d be punished if they didn’t and it doesn’t pan out.

The whole thing is like bitcoin. There’s too many people that benefit from maintaining the collective illusion.
The article says
"[being implemented in motorcycles] would also create a host of reliability issues, considering motorcycles endure far more than cars do.
On motorcycles, brake-by-wire would require a lot of redundancy and failsafes to make sure that the smallest malfunction wouldn't endanger the rider."

I don't see why that isn't the case for cars.
Why don't cars require redundancy and failsafes?
Oh yeah, I’ve only run into one serious bug in the past couple of years personally (sorting skills in a LinkedIn profile doesn’t work in Firefox).
But the only reason that makes you think that they belong to said right-wing forum is because they entertain this talking point, and their dislike of Marcan.

It sounds quite cyclical. They dislike Marcan because they're alt-right users leeching off this community's reputation, which is obvious because they dislike Marcan.

The people on the link you sent, they, uh, have a long comment history. No one is being "pretend-part" of the community here. Or am I missing some context?
Blog post date says 18th February 2024. Is this a 1yr anniversary post, or a typo? :)
Its very smart templates imo.

Its basically more time-consuming for me to get it to where I want the code than finish it myself. For some scaffolding in python green-field development, sure I save a few minutes.
Hmmmm it is hard to really place the issue. I am very much in the bullish on AI camp but I don't like writing for the sake of writing and some of the models (4o in this case) have very obvious tells and write in such a way that it takes away from what substance may exist.
Their ongoing operation is quite expensive, so even that is not assured.
Discussion then:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42824922

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42806063
For some more information:

There are two plugs that are in common usage for electric dryers (in the USA): a 3-wire (typically gray, with a "flat" cord) or the 4-wire (typically black, with a round cord). Older installs will probably have the 3-wire, while anything somewhat recent will likely have the 4-wire. They connect to the dryer slightly differently, but there should be a diagram to show how.

This is the same situation with electric ranges, except the plugs are slightly different from the dryer plugs so you can't just use a dryer plug on a range.
Cuts Target Next Generation of Scientists
Glad to see more language runtimes be available from Rust!

Looking forward to scheme-rs being able to benefit from the safety and speed Rust allows
Stop, drop, and roll.
Automobiles are also a much more public facing purchase. No one need see me eating lunch, everyone can judge me for what I'm driving.
If it makes you feel any better I worked for a company that referred to each of an internal tooling library, an externally-facing web app and an offshore consultant as 'Zeus'
Then you shouldn't get in a car. Bosch is the main manufacturer of airbag controllers and ECUs.
Presumably it helped that they crashed into a thick pile of snow in freezing conditions - I imagine that would slow the spread of the fire.

But still, that’s astonishing footage in the Reddit post linked above. Incredible that no one died.
Tbf I've always thought that AI could do a better job at managing our species than we are ourselves. Look at how we hate each other, how we kill and maim each other. How we let others go hungry and thirsty, without warmth or shelter.

Sure AI could be worse than we are; makes for a good movie plot. But it could be a lot better than we are and it's sad that it's such a low bar to it to exceed.
Yeah, this guy probably has a library of landing videos.
I’ll bite.

Theory of mind (ToM) is the ability to understand that other people have different thoughts, feelings, and intentions than you do.

So let’s run through a basic scenario with ChatGPT 4o:

Prompt 1: Briefly respond:
You’re driving on the highway when the driver in the lane next to you swerves into your lane. Why might this be?

Response 1: The driver may be distracted, drowsy, intoxicated, experiencing a medical emergency, avoiding an obstacle, or not checking their blind spot before changing lanes.

Prompt 2: What might that person be feeling or intending?

Response 2: The driver might be feeling distracted, rushed, unaware, or panicked. They may intend to change lanes without realizing your presence, be reacting to something on the road, or simply have made an unintentional mistake.

Prompt 3: You notice there was no obstacle. Any other reason the driver might do this?

Response 3: Yes, the driver might be experiencing fatigue, intoxication, a medical issue (such as a seizure or dizziness), distraction (like using a phone or adjusting the radio), aggressive driving, or simply failing to check their blind spot properly.

Seems to me that ChatGPT has a good idea of what another driver might be feeling while on the road. It gets this right for most other cases too.

Could you provide a counterexample for when it fails to understand what other people may be feeling in certain scenarios?
I probably should have looked at this talk! Instead my reference was this PhD thesis[1] cited in the R6RS spec. I can’t say I read the whole thing, but my takeaway was to use a system of marks/antimarks. The basic idea is that at the point of macro expansion, the syntax object is “marked” (i.e. added to the set of marks) with a random integer. The environment of the macro is recorded at that point as well, along with the mark used. After expansion, the resulting syntax object is again marked with the same mark. When an identifier is marked twice with the same mark, the marks cancel each other out. The result of this is that identifier that are introduced into the expander and those introduced by the expander are distinguishable.

[1]: https://www2.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/dissertation-kohlbecker...
At the 'Wall Street of Eggs,' Demand Is Surging
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/egg-industry-prices-shor...
Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43050952

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43066048

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43052910
If you define "junior" based mostly on age, then LLM's aren't yet at the level of a good "junior".

If you base it on ability, then an LLM can be be more useful to a good developer than 1 or more less competent "junior" team members (regardless of their age).

Not because it can do all the things like any "junior" can (like make coffee), but because the things it can do on top of what a "junior" can do, more than makes up for it.
Thx for your sympathy, but I don't think it is impossible to discuss in good faith at all. In fact the primary goal of disinformation is not to make people believe the BS (it's only a bonus if it happens), it is to make people give up on finding the truth. So, it is all the more important to discuss under an onslaught of disinformation.

As you said in another reply,

>>"Consent and user control is literally everything, the only consideration in town on this matter.",

and Google explicitly removed any possibility of consent by stealth-installing it, and hid the app to remove user control.

Seems quite anti-user to me, EVEN IF it is actually some app I might want. If it is so great, advertise it to me, _give me the choice_, then I'll install it or not...

Have a great day
> It may be that margins go razor thin

That's what I mean. One example are PV panels, they are making energy production cheaper, so their producers should be good investment right? No they go bust all the time because prices are falling and margins are thin even if the volume grows. Of course the economies of scale here are different but still.
WeWork was a scam to enrich the founders of the company. They owned or had interests in many of the properties that WeWork leased from. I'm surprised no one was thrown in prison.
I ordered some electronic components / sensors from china, and as it took months to arrive, I forgot exactly what I ordered (I'm noob at this). Simply taking a picture and asking Claude what it was helped a lot. The numbers and letters printed on the components didn't yield relevant results on google.
Ask HN: What is the state of dev jobs in 2025?
Every time I have moved the contract stated all appliances stay. The legal default is you take them all - washer, dryer, stove, refrigerator, dishwasher, light bulbs, window shades. However realtors all know to put into the contract what stays because most most people want those things in the house and don't want to move them. However more than once I've bought a house without something (the old fridge broke a week before they listed the house so they didn't bother replacing it). If something isn't in the contract and you leave it behind they can charge you for disposal of their garbage!
Waste 500 ETH (~$1,400,000) to tell the world about brain-computer weapons
> 3. your green field project growing into legacy project.

This is always a fun one...

"Who wrote / designed this garbage... Oh wait, it was me"
> objectively

I don’t think you understand what objectively means.

When it comes to things like this, it almost always boils down to personal preference. Which is subjective not objective.
I once built an app for compliance reasons that needed a little bit of dynamic data and quarterly updates that allowed us to stay in business in a few of our minor markets (worth cool tens of millions) and a SQLite DB with some basic turn key CRUD admin tools was fantastic. The data was larger than a simple YAML/TOML file would be tolerable to live with and needed some love and attention by lawyers. I could update/let them update the DB in dev and check in the DB file (it was smaller than our very unreasonably large TOML file we used for app config) and had the same app in every environment without managing MySQL or Postgres migrations. The whole thing happily ran on three EC2 micro instances and given the relatively low traffic (low thousands of visitors per month) it was a great set of technical decisions.

For that narrow use case at least, I am a huge believer in doing this.

Another prod use case for SQLite I’ve implemented was in taking a market specific search engine component (eventually replaced with Elasticsearch after a few years of R&D, but I digress) where I needed to implement sharding, reordering of results, and a few extensions to the engine that nominally relied on INI files for the limited extensibility it did support. The engine itself lacked any network coordination so I scheduled things through updated files lobbed into S3 and let a scheduled job pull them down to each machine. If a specific shard was to be out of service that data was in SQLite along with what operations to run. There are a lot of reasons for why this was the case and happens a bit over a decade ago so there are much better ways of doing this now. RQLite didn’t exist yet for example and there was a very dumb license restriction keeping MySQL and Postgres off the table (kill me). Simply syncing SQLite files across S3 sufficed since the engine itself had a more severe write lock on indexing than SQLite did. I could just swap the files while I waited for that operation to complete. Since I could actually change how SQLite worked, some full text search operations moved to SQLite since the licensed product wasn’t good at that as it was marketed/intended to be used for its faceted search and proprietary ontology. Overall SQLite was the nicest part of that experience as well. Well at least until we moved to Elasticsearch and I no longer had insane license terms I had to code around.
Worse, soon he will be their manager and then those failures and missed golives will be his fault.
A reddit thread from a year ago, says there's only one BB patent left pertaining to phone keyboard with curved keys , expiring in 2027.

see https://www.reddit.com/r/blackberry/comments/18zvr4a/comment...

The expired patent in question from the article has the following abstract:

A keyboard comprising a plurality of transparent keys. In use, the keyboard is attached to a device such as a mobile device, to overlie a display screen of the device. One or more images displayed on the display screen are made visible to a user through the keys, which may be pressed by a user. User input is determined by identifying a pressed key, and the image or part thereof visible through the key when pressed.

see https://brevets-patents.ic.gc.ca/opic-cipo/cpd/eng/patent/24...
Coral USB Accelerator with Google's Edge TPU
We had a JVC CS-60US or something like it when I was growing up, my mother may still have it in the attic of her home. Looked like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/256143505214
I think most pilots could take one look at that approach and see they were coming in too fast. As many have said, that looked more like a carrier landing than an airstrip approach.
It's also bullshit. Clearly both the US and Canada do build lots of things.
Thank you for writing this down - it's a very astute description in my experience, and also the reason why software development is fun.
Yeah I mean that Wikipedia article kind of proves what I'm saying though - he could be fabricating things to get his way.
Accelerating ML Development with DevPods and ModelKits
99.9% of software devs are likely in the same position as you.

Good (but not exceptional) salary working with old/stable technologies that solve established business problems in a digital way.

Working in high-load-kafka-like companies with salaries usually reserved for upper management of "boring" workplaces are the 0.1%.