skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both things can be true. I have also been frustrated trying to get LLMs to work with SwiftUI, given that it’s slightly newer, changing frequently, and has lower adoption relative to something like React.

Honestly this is a short term problem. Eventually the models will have larger context windows and will be able to easily browse brand new documentation or example code.
In my experience, most people participating are aware of it. The clueless people you see are minority. It’s not any different from lottery that people know they won’t win but still put money into except with better optics (skill vs luck)
> Having multiple processes under one user in an operating system is more akin to having multiple threads in one process than you think.

Not than I think. I'm well aware of how "tasks" work in Linux specifically, and am pretty comfortable working directly with clone.

Your explanation is great, but I intentionally went out of my way to not explain it and instead give a simple analogy. The entire point was that it's difficult to summarize.
In British Columbia there used to be the mining exploration companies that would list on the Vancouver Stock Exchange (which no longer exists). As far as I could tell, they would send one or two people into the boonies in BC somewhere. They would then write an hyperbole filled prospectus to persuade people to buy shares in this company. I once emailed the owner of one these companies to ask what the exit was: in other words, what would the payout be if I held out until the end, assuming they had actually obtained rights to a viable gold or other valuable mineral deposit. Instead of an email reply, I got a phone call from the owner. He never answered the question, just lots of BS about why I should buy more shares. But at least in the case of these scams, there was the small (vanishngly small?) possibility of a good payout. But what is the exit for memecoins? As far as I can tell, the idea is you buy them on issue, hope the hype drives them up to ridiculous values within hours, and then dump them. Please correct me if I'm am missing something.
I miss the days when they had to at least write a ‘white paper’ to try and sell their pump and dump scheme. Now it’s just low effort grifting, yet it somehow seems to keep working.
mtr is my go-to, great tool!
Respectfully, it is impossible to engage in thoughtful discussion with you, for a number of reasons.

1. Your logic breaks down very quickly in simplistic, obvious ways, but you are sure of it. So, anyone seeking genuine, thoughtful discussion is immediately put off, as it's clear they'll spend 80% of the discussion pointing out the flaws in your thinking, where you haven't addressed the salient points, etc. It's equally clear that it won't matter.

2. Your thinking itself is simplistic and child-like. You see in black and white (no pun intended), so are incapable of reasoning about complexity in the world or having a discussion that involves nuance;

3. But your black and white reasoning is laced with bias that you also cannot see. You know nothing of epistemology or self-questioning or challenging beliefs (your own or others').

4. You don't follow humor or irony. It appears to be completely lost on you. I'm sure you'd reply defensively with some commentary on the quality of the humor but, of course, that would miss the point too.

5. You are transparent without being aware of it.

In short, the effect here is that "fairness" for you flows in one direction, which you justify with poor logic, riddled with inconsistencies that are rationalized away by your biases.

Given your initial comments, I didn't expect to change your mind or even slightly nudge the door ajar. I responded with only the hope that my reply might provide something for passersby to quietly consider.

But, your subsequent replies have been of even poorer quality than I could have imagined, and increasingly so. Take care.
> It seemed way too fragile and complicated

The thing is an absolute tank. I vividly remember the horror of dropping mine onto a concrete floor from a significant height – with no consequences, other than a minor paint chip.

And the thing features an optical disk drive! Between that and MiniDisc, I'm still convinced that Sony's mechanical engineers are wizards.
From Single Machine to Superintelligence
You don't even need a huge battery pack for dynamic braking. It's the architecture of hybrid cars that allows them to regeneratively brake, even if the battery is full, by using the engine as a pump. Although this doesn't arise in practice, hybrids could dynamically brake down a grade of any length, which BEVs can't guarantee.
Installing OS X on an iPad [video]
yet another celebration of something that would be banal if there were any attention to true open source movement (no, bsd and mit not n
included)
I came in to drop a “glad the obvious is being confirmed!”, but after skimming the actual study I’m sadly a little dubious of its reasoning. It didn’t examine the two approaches (technically three: renewables, natural carbon capture, and synthetic carbon capture) on their engineering or economic merits, but rather just compiled historical data on jurisdictions that mainly promoted one of the three and compared the outcomes. I think the noisy nature of such an analysis is obvious, not to mention the bias against synthetic approaches from analyzing outdated tech. I’m a huge believer in renewables being the only path forward, but this study isn’t very convincing IMHO!

Also would’ve loved to see “degrowth”/reduce usage as an option, since that’s the last big one people advocate for IME.

P.S. does anyone know if the current US regime’s “any university that works on federal grants is forbidden from promoting DEI” policy is intended to apply to climate change as well? Seems likely, but I don’t recall seeing anything explicit in any of the EOs I’ve read. This study isn’t very out of Stanford, which would clearly be impacted — thus it piqued my interest.
I got a PSP-3000 during high school, and loved it. In addition to playing native and PS1 games, it was a very powerful media player as well. Much more versatile than most phones at the time, especially with its nice, though not very hi-res, screen.
The PSP wasn't very common in our area, but I managed to get some friends to get one, and we had a lot of fun with multiplayer too.
There are at least three proposals in flight for C++26, if they reach an common agreement on time, or it has to be done by C++29, remains to be seen.

Just search for the various revisions,

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2025/
> I know you say buy a copy if you enjoyed it but that’s not really how commerce works and none of these authors agreed to offer you donationware.

I'm all for also buying books, but my local library has all the books too, so it is sort of how the commerce of books works (at least where I live).

Also if people are still buying ebooks or kindles from Amazon after the whole 1984 fiasco I doubt they're going to care about downloads.
Carbon capture has always seemed to me to be a means for companies to get paid both to produce carbon and then to clean it up.
Tether Brings Its $140B USDT Stablecoin to Bitcoin and Lightning Networks
If you watched the video, you would have the answer. Well, an answer. Which is that there does not need to be a cause! Even in an idealized dome with no air, friction, or external forces.

As it does for you for different reasons, this also matches my lay intuition of physics: sometimes things just spontaneously occur, and a system in dynamic equilibrium simply will not hold still forever.
Very simple. Maybe the simplest comment I've seen on this site.
Trees need to be cut and stored to actually capture the carbon otherwise there is a risk they burn or die and release the carbon they captured back into the atmosphere
What was the hope here? That it replaces the Pesos? Privatized money creation like in the middle ages?

(My guess is that he was just scammed himself or it was corruption)
Eh, yes and no. There's nothing stopping a cohort of programs from adopting some standard and using it among themselves such that the binary values that are traveling across the pipes are interpreted by the recipient as having some type, and then if the reader of your pipe is a tty then you draw a pretty picture for the user, which gets you much of the way there in principle.

But as far as I know there's no portable way to write a program which can uncover enough of the pipeline to print an error message that spans multiple stages. So you get output from potentially many of them and you have to figure out who is complaining.

I'm not intimate with the implementation but it feels like nushell commands are compiled, so there's much less deduction necessary to just tell the user what is wrong in a way that considers the whole command instead of just one stage of the pipeline.

I haven't spent much time with the plugin interface yet, but the idea is that programs can register their input and output types with the shell if they want nushell to treat them like it does it's builtins. Its an extra step up front, but it seems like less of a mess than trying to coordinate types been programs without having a common touch point for them.
Europe will not be part of Ukraine-Russia peace talks, US envoy says
Why not just call it blackmail? Is there any evidence that Putin has more influence over our government than, say, Bibi does? That seems extremely difficult to believe. This feels a lot like centrist qanon.
Not really. It's a dome/hill shape, not a saddle, and nothing in particular goes to infinity. The only thing special about the shape is that it's constructed such that there exists a way to kick a ball straight up the slope and (if you're impossibly precise), it'll come to rest at the top in finite time.

This in itself is fine, but starts feeling real weird once you are familiar with the time-reversability of physical systems. If you time-reverse this system, you end up with a ball that sits at the top for an arbitrary period of time, and then suddenly just rolls down for no deterministic reason.

If you considered a bunch of different runs of this, some where the ball starts at the top, stationary, and some where it's kicked up to stop at the top (from various locations, at various times), they all start at the exact same conditions in the time-reversed system. So why do they do different, unpredictable things?
>you don't seem to know much about things you speak confidently about

Good one, chap! How about you argue with substance instead ...

Explain, what makes the ball suddenly start rolling down the dome? Do not hand-wave, just give a direct answer to this question, based on your purported understanding of the problem.
So I'm curious, what's the deal with the thread at hand? It looks like the "[flagged]" tag on the post title is now gone, but, as far as I can tell, the post itself still does not show up on the main page at all, so effectively it's still hidden?

It's probably a lot to ask for, but the context for a flag could be helpful. I came across this one since I just posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43059077 which I thought was on-topic (maths are, and we have had plenty of useful conversations on how science is done too), but that post was flagged.
The old Carmack .plan

We are not going to do another dos game. No amount of flaming hate mail is going to change my mind on this (PLEASE don't!). The advantages of good TCP/IP support, dynamic linking, powerfull virtual memory, device drivers, etc, are just too much to overcome. Yes, all of those can be provided under dos in various ways, but it just isn't worth it.

https://rmitz.org/carmack.on.operating.systems.html
I’m kind of glad that its reached its logical conclusion. It’s always been pure speculation, at least now they’ve dropped the pretense.
So a Democrat wants to increase regulation in early 2025? Yeah, that’s happening.
As the big players enshit themselves, my feeling that there is no such thing as a "tech valuation" or "tech multiple" grows.
If someone doesn't understand "container", I'm supposed to expect them to understand all the namespaces and their uses, cgroups, and the nitty gritty of the wimpy security isolation? You are proving my point that it's tough to summarize by using a bunch more terms that are difficult to summarize.

Once you recursively expand all the concepts, you will have multiple dense paragraphs, which don't "summarize" anything, but instead provide full explanations.
Let me put it one other way. Is the goal here for them to secure material comfort and luxury for them and their family? I don’t think it is.
This is a nice idea but the people doing the cutting are not looking to provide for the people. Part of what they’re cutting is Medicaid, for instance.

If they had communicated they wanted to balance the budget to provide for Americans that would be one thing, but they have communicated they will instead cut taxes for corporations with the money saved from Medicaid and foreign aid. Americans will have to go without more.
I don't have a problem with changing the language in older works, but I have a massive problem with hiding the change or the previous versions. Sell a perpetual, transferable license to the work and make newer (aka "improved") versions of the document available after the sale. I will appreciate better layout, fixed typos, timestamps to match up with audio books etc, but if you try to whitewash history and erase notes taken on the old versions you deserve to drown in the shitstorm.

Oh you just wanted to change the deal and turn a book sale into a prepaid rent you can cancel or modify to maximise profits? Get fucked Amazon! Such short sighted greed will drive readers to put in the effort and actively search out pirated content instead of paying exorbitant unearned margins to you. That's how you sustain a pirate community you damn fools.
How exactly does one "use YouTube," in your opinion then? You also forgot the effects of the other extensions than just SponsorBlock, even 2x speed (I watch at higher than that usually) saves 50% immediately. You presume I don't also do those things you listed, I now have more time to do them because of the time saved, not less.
Rust does feature panic recovery as well: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/panic/fn.catch_unwind.html
Unfortunately IKEA sofas are total trash these days

Even the beloved Ektorp has had multiple rounds of bean counters ruin it
Does it just parse the captions like every other service or does it analyze the audio too?
Just last week I was looking up how much of some chemical was required for toxic effects, and Google's AI response, sitting right at the top, gave me a number that was off by magnitudes. I ignored it and found a factual answer by corroborating multiple sources. That is the difference between life and death.

> DeepSeek recommended us to visit a place that was actually privately owned and couldn't be visited at all.

One time some friends of mine got the wrong address for a party. When they showed up, a man was sitting on his porch with a shotgun, and he shot at their car multiple times while they hurriedly backed out of his driveway. A wrong address can be deadly, especially in unknown territory.

And please understand, I have personally created prototype agentic booking systems with route planning, concierge integrations and more. I am very excited about this space but also extremely cautious knowing exactly where cutting LLMs are and aren't useful enough not only for trusting your business logic with them, but trusting the safety of your customers.
Yes, but by the time Apple created the smartphone it had long been a large public company. And Palm never created a successful smartphone.
> That is the only way at this point to get change to happen quick enough to prevent 3C.

Given the poor track record of political protests in general and the relatively weak response to climate change by governments the world over, I’m not sure why you hold out a political response as the “only” way to prevent 3c.

A technological breakthrough, while unlikely, seems like a more plausible path to prevent 3c.
> Upvote to comments ratio: nobody knows how to play, hadn't even heard before, but it has "nerdy corpo" attached to it, so must be good.

Correct, it’s the first trap us nerds make when corpos make “puzzles” to rope in future engineers to make lose their soul in immoral challenges like finance.

When the FAANG jobs boom fizzles over due to the shift to AI, we will see more engineers compromise to finance as a way to make FAANG level salaries.

We just don’t like to admit it, instead we like nerd games like this.

This is the finance recruitment marketing machine to entice future engineers to lose their soul to make obscene amounts of money doing the most morally bankrupt actions against humanity.
I actually have the book and I agree it is very good.
A seed box and Calibre? scnr
While true, I'd rather buy DRM-free books to support the concept. Cory Doctorow's books are like that. And I've seen some from the library, as well. It would be neat to see a DRM-free store.
Money. Planting trees doesn’t pay like some absurd tech idea to vacuum it up and bond/compress it.
Oh come on, the free market is far more creative than that. You have a view of a part of the country with high winter energy needs and are basing the entire transition on that.

If we were to get out of the way and let innovation rip, these things would get solved soooo quickly. The problem is that HVAC and grid folks are not used to adopting new tech and tend to be about 20-30 years behind what's available. We have had a massive, multi-year shortage of transformers in this country because the entire industry is so conservative that nobody on the supply side is willing to build out a tiny bit extra of capacity, and nobody on the buy side is willing to guarantee their demand enough to make the supply side invest in capacity. Just a bunch of absolute cowards in the industry.

So please don't be so condescending about how far away from reality I am when you are not even giving me an accurate view of the situation.

You're also treating it as an "all or nothing" when all of it is incremental. When EVs are in everybody's home, they suddenly have 50+ kWh of storage when they are home, which solves all sorts of other problems.
FWIW BleachBit in many repos is more complete than this. One can go further and mount some of the directories mentioned in the script as tmpfs. It may also be worth noting that recursively removing everything in /tmp while a desktop is running can cause some glitches in some desktop window managers and/or Xorg depending on many conditions.
It's still working today.
> The downvote is too powerful, too easy to abuse, and its overuse leads to echo chambers. Unpopular opinions don't need to be talked about or even seen, just hit that button, lol.

And you haven't noticed this is EXACTLY how HN operates too? Oh the ignorance is strong in this one.
I’m no expert, but on a theoretical level: trees—and, more importantly, algae—capture carbon on accident as part of their respiration, which even with risky genetic modification enhancements has a natural limit on volume/biomass-level efficiency.

OTOH, with the right chemical process running at scale (“synthetic carbon capture”, apparently), the sky’s the limit! We might not have the right tech at the moment, but AFAIK there are multiple plausible systems that would work much better than what we have now.
All the whiners in the thread. Now, as a lawyer I technically can't recommend this, but:

Consider someone who goes to the library, reads books, and then only buys them if they like them.

There is no meaningful moral difference between this and so called "piracy" + buying later.

Please, buy books and support authors. But also, don't pooh-pooh the entire point of the existence of libraries.
A bit of a tangent, but I suggest you could care a bit.

Imagine your son/daughter use a LLM to diagnose their medical symptoms with disastrous consequences.

Now imagine it is some other family member.

Now a friend.
- I use them to create a vendor order each week. They take my voice and transcribe it into a list to text my sales reps.

- I use them to OCR PDFs from my bank

- I use them as a search/replace tool on CSVs

- I use them to replace Google searches

- I use them to code

- I'm trying to use them to view (still frames from) cameras periodically

I'll think of more uses, I'm sure. My work is very low tech and simple.
Wait WHAT?! I’ve been buying ebooks off BookWalker and it’s so annoying. Their reader app sucks and they have these faux-protective constraints like not permitting a “copy” function on any highlighted text and limiting a book to no more than 50 highlights. It’s so silly…
Edit: damn, had assumed you meant maximum nerd mode and that these books were available in Japanese… looks like it’s all English translations. So it goes.
The statement in quote is word for word the rethoric I'm seeing from Netanyahu fans in Israel, and probably Trump fans as well.

Framing a topic as a love/hate binaric identity war is used to prevent all rational discussion.

It might be me, but just reading this gaslighting statement fires my amygdala.

Trolls, wether intentionally or subconsciouslly found perfect tactics to destroy rational debate on the internet and the public sphere in general.

When rational discussion is suffocated, those who use agressive and toxic language with no inhibitions or restraint can win and impose their ideas.

We need to disengage from these kinds of conversations and create some forums or platforms that penalize the use of such language.

I'm pretty sure the original commentor is not dumb enough to actually think everybody who disagrees with him is a brainwashed idiot who "hates Musk".
Or at least, they wouldn't dare to claim it in a civil discussion if they didn't knew they can get away with it and enjoy spewing bullshit while causing undue distress to anyone who tries to argue in good faith.
Do you understand the difference between Norton's dome and other domes with balls at rest on the top?

The very point of non-determinism is that the next state doesn't follow uniquely from the current state, causality is broken. Thus there is no "cause" for one or the other trajectory. This is a feature of the Newtonian equations, whether you like it or not.
If there are more trees in 10 years than there are now, and we keep that number relatively steady, won't that mean less CO2 in the atmosphere? Individual trees may die and decompose, but they can be replaced.
You can gear down in a manual transmission ICE to achieve similar reduction effects, but I doubt they will bring back manuals.
RAG works well no one argues, but using RAG completely defeats the purpose of LLMs as their primary goal is to be a smart creative, not a simple summarizer.
> The most significant criteria to use when selecting travel companions is: do they complain or not, even when complaints are justified? No complaining! Complaints are for the debriefing afterwards when travel is over.

Full agreement! What good is there hashing out a beef when you're on the road? It will only make the trip worse. If I'm having an issue, I'll write it all down in my journal and then put it out of my head and try and focus on the good things.
I got a Kindle when I lived in Italy and it was so amazing being able to instantly get books in English with no shipping or import fees or any of that.

Now I regret how much control Amazon has over a substantial number of books I paid for, though.
Oh, I am certain they are trying to destroy things on purpose, but I also think they are terrible at it. For example, watch the scramble as they try to rehire those safe guarding the nuclear arsenal[1]. It's a mess and someone competent could be doing it far better. I don't know if that's a small mercy or not.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/thousands-fired-trump-musk-...