skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know that they're becoming "extinct", but the value some of them once provided, in my experience, has been greatly diminished by saas-enabled marketing infiltration. I mean, there are tools out there that will send you an alert when certain phrases are mentioned on sites like Reddit so that you can jump in and comment in a way that "surreptitiously" promotes your product, and companies are paying money for these tools. Gross, gross, gross.
Obligatory link: https://www.spomenikdatabase.org/

It's a very thorough compilation of all brutalist buildings across former Yugoslavia built between 60s and 90s.
In the beginning... there was nothing...
You’re right. I suppose it’s more simply when the AI is wrong, it can and will respond with absolutely anything within its search space
VLMs are able to take context into account when filling in fields, following either a global or field specific prompt. This is great for e.g. unlabeled axes, checking a legend for units to be suffixed after a number, etc. Also, you catch lots of really simple errors with type hints (e.g. dates, addresses, country codes etc.).
So uh, how is that not a variation, exactly?

Dirac's solution was also arbitrarily restricted by the problem definition.

Do you believe that if you asked someone familiar with the solution to come up with a bit efficient variant they would not have trivially come up with the encoding in this post and called it a variation?

I don't, for a second, believe that.
Go do the research yourself please and link to articles that explain why carrying a cruise missile with nuclear warhead instead of a high explosive warhead adds $60M in annual maintenance costs to each active bomber.
So many mentions of CHERI - both in this post and in the linked CACM article. I doubt CHERI will be the future considering how long it's been around for and how few actually successes have come out of it.

Also, hilariously, Fil-C is faster than CHERI today (the fastest CHERI silicon available today will be slower than Fil-C running on my laptop, probably by an order of magnitude). And Fil-C is safer.

Which sort of brings up another issue - this could be a case where Google is trying to angle for regulations that support their favorite strategy while excluding competition they don't like.
I didn't ask them outright, but I sorta think the TypeScript team might agree with you on this point! haha. At least we can all agree it's not an intended use-case, to play Doom.
Prime customers tend to buy more stuff from Amazon, so they get you that way maybe.
Deception doesn’t require a misrepresentation is made under oath. Especially when dealing in the world of business or nonprofits.

Now if someone made the claim that he perjured himself that would be different.
I had to recheck to make sure it wasn't a Softbank investment. YC must be rolling in the dough to fund companies like this one.
Firefox: About Your Rights – Terms of Use
Wait what? That's pretty neat. I'm on my phone right now, so I can't really view the notebook very easily. How does this work? Are you using some kind of continual partitioning of the image and refeeding that back into the LLM to sort of pseudo-zoom in/out on the parts that contain non-cut off text until you can resolve that into rough coordinates?
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43187518
you missed mine. if there is the text http://restaurant.com/menu.pdf I can scan that just as easily as I can a qr code, thanks to advancements in OCR technology.
Indeed. Think how much worse than him they must be.
Love the recipes and docs here, kudos on the launch!
Starbucks to Outsource Some Tech Work After Corporate Shake-Up
They’re both quite basic building blocks in state estimation and as SV’s focus shifts from web apps to drone warfare it will only increase in frequency.
a more realistic interpretation is that he doesn't decide, but he does lie a lot.
> Enriched uranium is potentially dangerous stuff

Doesn't have to be very enriched to be used as fuel. Fuel rods are really tame and can be handled pretty easily.

Once they get put into a reactor and it is turned on, it's a completely different matter.

There are alternative fuel sources as well.
Some discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43187423
Exactly.

The public body could then say "no, we're not going to run that query or dig into that database". But then you can take them to court, and you'll probably win if the query is reasonable and simple enough.
I love watching HN commenters absolutely refuse to understand that other people are different and have different preferences and that's OK.
Who are you and what are you trying to sell me? :)
All (grid tied) inverters technically provide that function. An inverter doesn’t just generate 50/60 Hz sine, it supplies power by attempting to slightly “push” the frequency higher, i.e lead, to provide power.
if there’s no more power to provide, it “pushes less”.

It’s very weird, indeed
+1 avoid bash scripting yourself into a unmaintainable mess

Don't think you necessarily need to use the same language as the rest of the project. Python scripts can do the job just fine, given you can wrangle the appropriate program entry points via the CLI interface.
agreed. Legally requiring home builders to include rooftop solar, and providing tax rebates doesn't address the fundamental challenges. In fact, it makes it worse.
They are also probably a minute fraction of jobs though.
I have to assume they meant Visual Studio licenses, but whoever penned the tweet didn't know there was a difference between VSCode and Visual Studio. I mean, the names and logos do look pretty similar.
Nvidia Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2025
If your data center needs extend as far as the moon, you're probably splurging too much with those things.
There's a reason I state my dumb ideas out loud :)
In the meeting, "We should..." has me saying: "Don't 'should' me" internally.
Yeah there's roughly zero chance that works reliably. It's so prone to bad failure cases I'm skeptical that they'll even ship something that tries to do that automatically.

On the plus side if they do ship this we should get all sorts of amusing stories out of it. I'm picturing someone saying offhand "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!"
I don't know if that's the correct interpretation? I would say they degraded the UX because they aren't hoovering up enough data to make their solution work properly, unlike Google and Amazon. They've done a better job of protecting the user's privacy, but at the cost of making something that's quite limited in what it can do. Just one of those tradeoffs.
Why is that sounding like hydrogen trains all over again.

Radiation shielding scales poorly in the downwards direction.
Especially not one owned by Bezos
The justification is that it's almost impossible to get "good employee" signal any other way. If you tell people upfront that you're testing them on leetcode you at least get some signal that 1) they're willing to put in time and follow through on studying for something 2) they have some base level of programming skill and intelligence

Companies optimize hiring for avoiding false positives (bad hire) over false negatives (bad rejection), especially in this job market.
Why not Prudhoe Bay, AK? Cheap access to natural gas for fuel that is flared off anyways, and sub-40F high temps for 9 months a year.
Just buy a timer. Amazon has plenty of them, or if you want fancy, get the Extra Big And Loud Timer.

https://www.thermoworks.com/extra-big-loud/

A house guest sneered at the several timers in my kitchen and asked why I don’t use my phone. I like having timers assigned to the kitchen.
> Yeah it's not just Amazon, there's another thing I saw today (lock screens suggesting products to buy) what should I do/buy today device?

To paraphrase Tim Cook, just buy an iPhone. We don't have to put up with that kind of stuff because there's already a company out there who cares about the perception of their products and would never put ads on the lock screen.

> edit: another tagent, almost every non-tech person I know (including family) don't know how to use ad-blockers so their lives are influenced by these ads, they just accept them "that's how it is"

The only solution here is to educate them. Ads continue to be effective because people aren't using ad-blockers, so we need to teach them to seek out and use ad-blockers.

> movies are similar (theater) granted that one at least you may find something interesting but you sit down to watch a movie, there are 30 minutes of trailers before your movie starts plus the company's own ads eg. AMC

I live in a tiny town with a locally owned movie theater, so I don't really have much experience with this kind of thing. We don't get commercials or ads or anything like that before the movie starts, just the usual 10 minutes of movie trailers and then the movie. It does sound miserable and I don't know what you could do except seek out locally owned theaters, which I'm sure isn't easy in most cities.
Not in any intrinsic way, it’s just a mildly better way of representing attitude if your state vector includes attitude.
It is not the norm. Open source projects sponsored by a commercial organization tied to that project might be nominally controlled by a foundation, but that foundation isn’t effectively controlled by a single person in their private capacity, who has secretly granted the commercial entity an exclusive, irrevocable commercial license.

I don’t know if there is past precedent, but it’s certainly not the norm.

What would be more normal is a company more or less owning the open source software and simply licensing it under a permissive license and then having a closed source or open core fork. An example there would be any number of Red Hat projects.
Gambit is one of the most profitable batteries in ercot, due to the congestion and volatility in the Houston zone.
A lot worse. But, higher quality OCR will reduce the amount of human post-processing needed, and, in turn will allow us to reduce the number of humans. Since humans are relatively expensive in energy use, this can be expected to save a lot of energy.
Pong was (originally) built using transistor-transistor logic on a circuit board. AFAIK it did not involve any software at all.
the timer getting dirty is not the only issue.

you don't always have hands free to fiddle with a watch.

more often than not, both hands are doing something, and setting a timer is... timely.
I saw this at a DSO* presentation ("Darpa's Darpa") back in ~2018. Hope they've gotten some early traction, that was some of the least wild crap that was being presented.

My company was pitching holographic cameras, and we weren't scifi enough. The investigator wanted to know if we could do hyperspectral 3D imaging from something the size of a sugar cube. ("Uh, no?" was our response.)

* Defense Sciences Organization: https://www.darpa.mil/about/offices/dso
> It's starting to feel like Fry's right before they went out of business.

It'd take a lot for it to get that bad. Towards the end, Fry's was filling entire aisles with random cheap junk unrelated to electronics like hand sanitizer, light bulbs, pepper spray, etc - and even with that, they were still having to wall off large sections of the store that they couldn't fill.
Internal Combustion Engine (2021)
Sorry, I’m not a C specialist. What are Fil-C and CHERI? eg. Safe subsets of C, static analysis tools, C toolsets to ensure memory safety?
2023 had a lot of trouble finding a tech job and even local meetup devs told me of layoffs, got into restaurant work where I had worked several years ago in college, because they remembered me.
Mostly physical job, I don't have to work the fryers which in some ways is kind of nice, and it's super low stress, just takes a lot of energy and leaves me drained in most of free time

In my experience It's very hard to get back in once you've been out of tech a while. Not because you can't code, but it becomes harder if not impossible to convince someone you can and current oversupply.
Thank you. Yeah, I could see why collaboration with archive.org would be extra work.

And also that you don't want any legal headache splashing back, such as if they get into a big copyright dispute (which, unfortunately, they have, in recent history).
Safely handling tritium is fantastically more complicated that the fuel of a fission power plant - I disagree with this, especially when considering the infinitely long HLW with fission fuel. Handling Tritium isn't easy but it's much more manageable.

Tritium breeding: we will have a FLiBe blanket and breed tritium, but we won't be processing and pulling out the Tritium on board, that will happen on land, so at port you drain the Tritiated FLiBe and replace it with Li-6 enriched FLiBe. There's a few companies working on the Tritium fuel cycle technology that are making great progress.
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Photography: Andreas Gursky, Thomas Demand, Sebastiao Saldago.
Taschen Publishing has the best art books of all.
january 1983 issue of Creative Computing had an article on stereo vision, and I build the stereoscope in it, and wrote basic for my IBM PC to do this. Awesome!

https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v9n1/162_Stereo_grap...
was there ever a solution to the static dust problem that plagued previous moon missions?
Less than 9% of current Bitcoin supply using obsolete Pay-to-Public-Key (P2PK) method would be in danger.

Instead of ranting in public maybe study subject like hour or so.
Close technical skills gaps with a principal learning engineer
Anybody have something like this at their company?
There is no conspiracy here. Just an honest mistake that happens to be hilarious and truthful, but probably good form to fix.
Recent Ciechanowski megathread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42443229
This is a concerning level of politicization.
Does demoscene counts as generative coding?
Farbrausch was my favorite for a while
https://www.pouet.net/groups.php?which=322
I like this. Anything that connects new synapses in my skull via analogy is a good post.
On the rare occasions I watch TV, I'm incredulous at the adverts for technology that create these almost utopian looking lifestyles. I think to myself "who is taken in by this?". As it turns out, these are the people who are taken in by it.
Sourcing bash functions is the worst experience, I loathe it.

Many people think of Bash as "special", but it's just another interpreted language like Ruby or Python or Perl. It's that many people also use a Bash repl for their interactive shell that they get confused.
Numbers:

- option implied move of 10%, that's a big swing either way

- Q4 EPS $0.89, Est $0.84

- Q4 Gross Margins 73.5%, Est 73.5%

- Q4 Rev $39.3B Est $38.5B

- Q4 Data center rev $35.6B, Est $34.1B

- Forecasts Q1 Rev of $43B, so expecting a new year bump

- Automotive Rev $570M Est $500M

- Networking Rev $3B, Est $3.6B, look for a a Q1 increase

- R&D expenses $3.7B up 51% yoy, Est $3.75B

- Q4 gaming revenue down on limited supply of ADA and Blackwell supply, which is fine as gaming rev is around $2.5B. Hard to believe that this was the entire company just 10 years ago

To Watch:

- Look at geography of sales of H series chips

- what do they say about next refresh

- used to be counted on to beat Est by 10-20%, now expected to meet Estimates

- Can they ramp up Blackwell, turns out they can, nothing wrong with their pipeline so far( $11B delivered in Q4)

Notes:

- company now has $43B in cash, close to double what it had a year ago. Watch for a fat 1 time Div, MSFT, AAPL, etc all did it when their cash pile got to large

- shares down YTD which could be profit taking for those hedge funds that deferred gains till the new year

- Current data center GPU break down is 94% NVDA, 5.9% AMD and 0.1% Intel

- Market so far is Meh about this, which is probably a win for the markets at the moment

- other chip makers are flat as well in the after hours

- other MAG7 companies are pretty flat as well.

- IMHO the thing that the markets love the most is the forward guidance not the current quarters numbers
Remains to be seen how lossy the transformations are. We lose a lot of data in DSP (aka “media”) doing too much.
Would be need to put a datacenter there and cache static type websites (NYT, etc) to lower latency.
The "invert a binary tree" thing is a reference to a tweet by Max Howell [1] where he complains that he didn't get hired by Google even though he wrote Homebrew, which he estimates 90% of their engineers use.

Howell describes himself as a "dick" [2], hadn't been involved with the Homebrew project for years, and has since gone on to write the NFT-based package manager Tea [3] and pkgx [4], which is an "everything app"-style CLI tool with lots of fever-dream AI art and RCE as a feature.

It's possible that Google just didn't hire him because he wasn't a good candidate.

[1]: https://x.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768

[2]: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-logic-behind-Google-rejectin...

[3]: https://tea.xyz/

[4]: https://pkgx.dev/
This is neat but watching a reasoning model that stops to consider "I have read half of a dialogue block, time to press A to get the rest of the text" gets old really quick. I think I'd rather watch a model try to play pokemon against human opponents on a simulator like pokemon showdown (which I understand is a bit further in an IP rights grey area than emulating a 30 year old game). In that case you would get to see how it handles unknown information and updates its reasoning based on the success/failure of its predictions.
In more normal times, with a more normal president, I would agree. However, this particular president has shown an absolute lack of interest in the details. It would not surprise me (and is in line with Curtis Yarvin's suggestions of how the government should be run[1]) if Trump were just the executor of Musk's whims.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

>Yarvin has been described as a "neo-reactionary", "neo-monarchist" and "neo-feudalist" who "sees liberalism as creating a Matrix-like totalitarian system, and who wants to replace American democracy with a sort of techno-monarchy". He has defended the institution of slavery, and has suggested that certain races may be more naturally inclined toward servitude than others. He has claimed that whites have higher IQs than black people, but does not consider himself a white nationalist. He is a critic of US civil rights programs, and has called the civil rights movement a "black-rage industry".

>Yarvin has influenced some prominent Silicon Valley investors and Republican politicians, with venture capitalist Peter Thiel described as his "most important connection". Political strategist Steve Bannon has read and admired his work. U.S. Vice President JD Vance "has cited Yarvin as an influence himself." Michael Anton, the State Department Director of Policy Planning during Trump's second presidency, has also discussed Yarvin's ideas. In January 2025, Yarvin attended a Trump inaugural gala in Washington; Politico reported he was "an informal guest of honor" due to his "outsize influence over the Trumpian right."
What's the best way to run this is I prefer to use local GPUs?
This post seems a lot more informative to me: "It Is Time to Standardize Principles and Practices for Software Memory Safety" (https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/it-is-time-to-standardize-princ...)

I am 100% in favor of industry standards to enforce safety. It should go way past just memory safety, though. Engineering standards should include practices and minimum requirements to prevent safety issues as a whole.
I thought that is a given. Support is limited to a website with some superficial FAQ and a link to a live chat that never is available.
I don't have any tattoos, but if I did, it would most definitely be of the world's ultimate cup of coffee!
You'd probably use lunar water from the ice that's believed to be in shadowed craters at the poles.
Just a warning, there's a fair number of nude children in these photos, may not want to open at work
I'm gonna plug in my latest rant on why it's not worth incubating at Y Combinator: https://8figures.substack.com/p/exposing-the-accelerator-why...
CHERI is a hardware architecture and instruction set to add safety-related capabilities to processors. See https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/
In this context a capability means a way to track and enforce which memory area a pointer can point into. Typically this has to be coupled with a compiler which will initialize the capability for each pointer.

Fil-C seems to be a C variant that adds capabilities and garbage collection. See https://github.com/pizlonator/llvm-project-deluge/blob/delug...
>Add warning about Letter Assigners in DOS and Windows

That's because of my bug report. I used Letter Assinger v1.2.0 by Vadim Burtyansky and tried formatting a partition from Win98. The wrong partition was about to be formatted. Mr. Loew investigated and found the bug in the Letter Assigner, not RFORMAT.

> Diskpart will autocorrect the CHS figures based on what LBA changes you make when using other apps.

I saw many partitioning programs do that. Most ask for confirmation, some don't. It's great that you know how to edit partitioning table and FAT parameters by hand, but why waste time when there are tools that offers (probably) the same flexibility?

For partitioning, I use Ranish Partition Manager. RPM and RFORMAT are the best partitioning/formatting tools by far. Too bad I have to use a boot stick to run them. And too bad nobody wrote something as capable as RPM for Linux. mkfs.vfat comes close to RFORMAT, but none of the partitioning tools are as capable as RPM.

> If you check the structure I'm using, both FATs are written in the same stroke on the size mostly found in UEFI boot volumes :)

I don't care. I don't have UEFI.
> Looking back at what we've been told would kill us, the older you get, the less you actually trust in the latest "findings".

This is where I am for sure. I don't trust any trends as to what people figure will kill you any more, because they're almost always wrong in the end. In 20 years if it turns out to not be recanted, then I'll pay attention I guess.
I've had some success going to https://lu.ma/ events. Meetup.com is dead but we've got a new kid on the block. At least for SF it's working great
Seriously lol. Someone who can figure this out can figure anything else out.
You can try out some of our schemas with Ollama if you want: https://github.com/vlm-run/vlmrun-hub (instructions in Readme)
Once is enough.

It's easy to disregard when it isn't you or someone you love. The rest of us were born with empathy.
Thank you for the feedback. That’s exactly the idea. We see it as "write once, share everywhere." Conversations, meetings, and decisions can generate useful context, and having summaries automatically show up right where people are already working saves time down the road.
not beating the copyright allegations
Ah nice! Well, hats off this is really impressive. As other commenters mentioned the extent to which it's documented and the restricted scope probably helped.
qwen 2.5 vl was specifically trained to produce bounding boxes I believe.
You ignored setting timers while cooking.
To provide a counterpoint to your hypothesis that “people are fine with easily accessible but subpar results” I often switch from dubbed anime english voiceover to original japanese that I don’t understand and prefer reading subtitles because they convey the meaning and humor much better than the americanized voiceover, and the voice actors are better.

I hope that AI generated simulacra will eventually take its rightful place next to microwave dinners in consumption hall of fame once the novelty wears off.
Congress is proposing increasing the tax on the yield of endowments? Can anyone convince me how this, along with their proposed cuts to the NSF, isn't a direct attack on higher education? I have a low opinion of the reasoning ability of the members of Congress and their knowledge of, well, anything, but are they really that ignorant of how America had achieved its financial, industrial, and technological might?