skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uh... no. There is far (far) more code[1] shipped in the package repository of any Linux distro than in all the world's vscode extensions. Are you being serious? NPM arguably gets a little closer, but only a little.

No, the reason Linux is safe and modern distributors aren't is the "packaging" step. Debian volunteers package software that they understand to be high quality via existing community consensus. You can't just show up to Fedora and say "ship my junkware app", you need to convince the existing community that your stuff doesn't suck.

And that's worked extremely well for decades now, going all the way back to 2BSD being shipped above V7 Unix. The reason MS and NPM et. al. abandoned it isn't just pure experience[2]. They don't want to wait for their repos to fill with good software, they want all the software in it now so that they don't get beaten by whoever their competitors are.

And this is the inevitable result. If you allow anyone to distribute software to your users then you allow everyone to distribute software to your users. And everyone includes a lot of bad people.

[1] With vastly more capability! The distro ships everything from firmware blobs and kernel drivers up through browser glitz and desktop customization. Talk about "attack surface"!
Methylmercury demethylation by animals expressing microbial enzymes
"I was inverted"

"Uh, Lieutenant. What were you doing there?"

"Communicating."
I love the idea you guys are doing. I also think your name should have takeoff in it.

As a side point - sometimes the shady lumberyards do bid too low on purpose to win business. Then later have the contractor submit a change order. This often hurts their reputation unless the contractor is in on it to win a bid. The supplier doesn’t tend to lose money though as the bid is for the quantity of materials.

You could turn this into a selling point. As in, helping a contractor or competing supplier verify the takeoff.
Figure will start 'alpha testing' its humanoid robot in the home in 2025
This is really nice work. I think it's far more likely to help explain US grid harmonic distortion than the preposterous idea that grid harmonics are caused by data centers, a hypothesis advanced as fact by Bloomberg late last year. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-ai-power-home-applia...
Outlook classic dropped from Microsoft 365
How do you read those scores? I wanted to see how well 3.7 with thinking did, but I can't even read that table.
https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/wewewedxfgdf
Beware for if you continue down this road you will end up sitting in class taking notes in markdown… yes I did do this… I am afraid I am beyond salvation
I'm pretty good at engineering fast moves. I took a company off of Salesforce in 45 days. VMware servers are even easier to changeout. Never done Terraform though.
The exploitation is real, but the irony of these cuts as a “savings” is that these underpaid phd candidates and post docs are the cheapest labor possible.
It would be truly impressive if he was able to direct the development of Souls games into what they are without actually playing them.
Thank you. This is the best example of comparison I have seen so far.
Here is Elon's quote of that tweet with the monocle emoji https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1882301283090190520
This is part of what I do for living. C++ backend software running on real hardware which is currently insanely powerful. There is of course spare standby in case things go South. Works like a charm and I have yet to have a client that scratched it anywhere close to overloading server.

I understand that it can not deal with FAANG scale problems, but those are relevant only to a small subset of businesses.
I cancelled my ChatGPT subscription today in favor of using Grok. It’s literally the difference between me never using ChatGPT to using Grok all the time, and the only way I can explain it is twofold:

1. The output from Grok doesn’t feel constrained. I don’t know how much of this is the marketing pitch of it “not being woke”, but I feel it in its answers. It never tells me it’s not going to return a result or sugarcoats some analysis it found from Reddit that’s less than savory.

2. Speed. Jesus Christ ChatGPT has gotten so slow.

Can’t wait to pay for Grok. Can’t believe I’m here. I’m usually a big proponent of just sticking with the thing that’s the most popular when it comes to technology, but that’s not panning out this time around.
I think the trick is observing what is “better” in this model. EQ is supposed to be “better” than 4o, according to the prose. However, how can an LLM have emotional-anything? LLMs are a regurgitation machine, emotion has nothing to do with anything.
fair enough, that was the design choice c++ went with to not break ABI and have moveable coroutine handles

rust accepted the tradeoff and can do pure stack async,

there are things you can do in c++ to not get the dynamic allocation to heap, but it requires a custom allocator + predefining size of coroutines.

https://pigweed.dev/docs/blog/05-coroutines.html
> The fallout between Slim and Musk was further exacerbated by a controversial tweet from Musk, which implied connections between Slim and organized crime.

Lets hope Slim wipes the "business floor" with Musk with his initiative.
There's plenty of evidence now based on his aberrant behavior in public that he has a serious drug problem.

Look at the video of him on the stage at the event where he told all the x advertisers "fine, don't advertise, go fuck yourself".

If you are wealthy enough you can certainly find enough licensed medical professionals to provide you with basically whatever substance you want, and in unlimited quantities. Exact same sort of thing that ended in the death of Michael Jackson.
This is hopeful news for a really tragic cancer.
"Glioblastoma [...] is the most aggressive and most common type of cancer that originates in the brain"
Ahh, i was hoping for TBS remaster. I guess this is why i haven't seen it.
Redis? Php8?
It 100% depends upon who you work for, and what you're hired to do, and how that work is performed. I've worked jobs at both ends of the "stress scale" and most everywhere in-between, and it mostly comes down to the boss bein' the main decider if it's stressful or not to work there. A good boss can turn even the most stressful tasks into a fun challenge that everyone's on-board with solving. A bad boss can make even the simplest most routine tasks a daily nightmare that must be dealt with and tolerated for the sake of the paycheck.
Who's Better for Engineering Teams – Technical or Non-Technical Managers?
Really cool project! I'm very bullish on LLMs for structured data.

Curious - why did you decide to open source? It's neat to see a lot new YC open source companies. I'm curious why you thought open-sourcing superglue was strategically advantageous
secrets, too.

Org's already knee deep in vault / vault-agent for PKI and secrets wont be eager to switch.
my uncle who works at nintendo said it is a great product.
have you looked at Browser Use? https://browser-use.com/
Meta (like Google) doesn't make money from your clicks, it makes money selling advertisement slots to companies that want your clicks and impressions.

That's the point that allows advertisements to be so woefully mis-targeted: Meta doesn't as far as I understand make more money because an ad leads to actual sales.
One quarter of the worlds population is Islamic, and it is typically what people complain about.
This is up there with The Art of Computer Programming for me as a text that has clearly been painstakingly crafted by its author. It shares as well with TAOCP that it is simultaneously so many things: an introduction to programming language semantics, an introduction to category theory, (in later chapters) a reference on pretty sophisticated programming language semantics, and an exploration of the rich connections between all of these topics. I owe huge chunks of my bachelor's thesis [1] to Paul and I eagerly look forward to returning to his text after my retirement from software engineering :)

This book is for you if:

- You have some exposure to PL semantics (lambda calculus, functional programming) in the operational tradition.
- You have some background in abstract algebra and/or category theory.
- You have neither but you're interested and willing to grind.

A word on the title: the contents are practical for doing mathematics; if you're interested in studying lambda calculi and want fancy techniques for writing light, elegant proofs about their properties, this is a great resource. If you're into building systems it may not be as useful to you.

[1] https://github.com/jaykru/thesis/blob/trunk/thesis.pdf
How did you set it up and how do you run it? What are the specs of the machine you run it on. I've tried setting it up a few times, because it looks exactly like a project I'd want to self host, but its just been unusable.
Why Has the Number of Non-Governmental Organizations Exploded Since 1960?
I think Balatro is way too hard to be a good stress reliever. Unlike solitaire, I can barely win a run in Balatro and there's no indication as to what I could do better. I actually find it stressful more than stress relieving, if anything.
What is the current gap, and why would it matter? Seems like approval would be the main advantage unless you want to spend 10 years on environmentally permitting before you break ground
30x price bump feels like a attempt to pull in as much money as possible before the bubble bursts.
I feel like if you have to ask, it’s time to stop watching it and move on to something else.. free time is too precious to waste on mediocre content when there’s so much good stuff out there.
EA Just Open Sourced Command and Conquer, Red Alert, Renegade and Generals
https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Tiberian_Dawn
https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Red_Alert
https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Renegade
https://github.com/electronicarts/CnC_Generals_Zero_Hour
> there's always this one jerk at the front of the queue

Here in the espresso world, that’s not so bad. But the ‘vanilla oat milk decaf, and also a hot muffin with butter’ is tedious.

There is a roaster in Auckland that’s been there since the ‘80s. On the counter it says ‘espresso, flat white or fuck off’. Clear and concise. I like it.
https://millerscoffee.co.nz/
they are in our YC batch! great product
Is the “card” work EC2 Nitro by any chance? Sounds similar to what I used to do
Back when I was a physics student, I helped engineer exactly this experiment as a off-the-shelf solution for schools as a classroom experiment! We used PMTs mounted on top of coffee cans:

http://kamiokanne.uni-goettingen.de/gb/kamiokanne.htm

The FTL muons produce Cherenkov radiation in the water in the coffee cans, which is picked up by the PMTs.

Using this setup gives a much higher rate, as the surface is much larger compared to geiger tubes. Thus it's possible to quickly capture a sufficient amount of muons.
Thanks! I like the rewind feature. One of my key frustrations with the game solved!
Hm. Fair enough. I looked for some indication that there was more content, but didn't see anything at all... Just a "Join the WIRED community to add comments" flag, but no indication that "joining the community" would let me see content. Not blocking Javascript or anything, either. Weird.
God only knows, you might get your wish. They're probably planning a revamp of the Clapper with built-in AI as we speak.
terraform is OSS, unless you're using the hosted HCP version (workspaces? I think they're called), which, I've been using terraform heavily and at scale since v0.7 and I have never once thought I needed or would pay for something like that.
Very cool! Love the demo.
The article I read said no gas leak or CO was found.

However I don't believe that one person being found dead near an open door is evidence of no gases. I would take it as the opposite. Something happens, one of them almost makes it out but either blacks out at the open door before getting fresh air or, like in the CO case, once exposed the damage is done.

That said, the bigger curiosity is one dead dog and two small, live ones. If you have people poisoned by food, and one animal with food anxiety, that's a recipe for one dead dog and multiple dead people and other household animals wondering what the hell just happened. If you have people and animals poisoned by a gas... Unless it was lighter than air it should have affected the small dogs as well, unless they were napping somewhere outside of the immediate danger.

(The GSD could also have died from eating the prescription pills on the ground and it's only a coincidental death rather than common cause)
An intelligence asset whose job was to blackmail the rich and powerful dies in his cell before he can testify when cameras stopped working and both guards fell asleep. Come on.
It's just nuts how pricy this model is when scoring worse than o3-mini
I think search and chat are decent products as well. I am a Google subscriber and I just use Gemini as a replacement for search without ads. To me, this movement accelerated paid search in an unexpected way. I know the detractors will cry "hallucinations" and the ilk. I would counter with an argument about the state of the current web besieged by ads and misinformation. If people carry a reasonable amount of skepticism in all things, this is a fine use case. Trust but verify.

I do worry about model poisoning with fake truths but dont feel we are there yet.
It’d be great if someone would do that with the same data and prompt to other models.

I did like the formatting and attributions but didn’t necessarily want attributions like that for every section. I’m also not sure if it’s fully matching what I’m seeing in the thread but maybe the data I’m seeing is just newer.
We disagree with how we want our taxes spent. As long as the government is paying into it, I'm not convinced you would feel any differently if it was a charity or not.

> It uses a threat of violence to siphon whatever money Congress deems appropriate away from Americans, and redirects it to whatever the executive dictates. That is not a charity.

There is no violence. Congress put aside money for USAID and organizations and other groups write grants for ways to distribute that money. Someone has to read and vet these proposals and unfortunately they are paid.

Hey, it would be great for charity to be administered for free, but personally I'm not convinced that there are enough people with free time to donate to make that work. We don't expect social workers, doctors in clinics, counselors, or numerous other aid recipients to work for free so why expect the same from the administrators?
US exceptionalism is mainly driven by the American government.

It provides the stability/consistent and predictable rule of law under which businesses can be invested in, and that allows for a robust business investment environment. These laws include things like not holding founders accountable for a return on investment (China is currently imprisoning founders and requires a return on investment).

It provides the research that resulted in things like the internet, or for companies such as Google:
https://www.nsf.gov/news/origins-google
The research that led to microprocessors and semiconductors.
The research now used by ASML.
SpaceX & Blue Origin are build on prior NASA funded research.

It provides the social systems that allows the companies to exist (law enforcement, contract law, educated employees). It provides the defence of the world's shipping lanes. It provides the legal protections overseas.
Introduction of std:hive to the standard library
> their crops were going to USAID.

That's the funniest thing about all of this. Bunch of red state farmers expected something in return for their vote. Can't just pay them directly, so instead their representatives pay them by sticking some pork in a bill that says USAID will pay farmers to grow soybeans. Same effect.

But now some koolaid drinker comes in, notices some money being sent to feed third world poor people, calls it woke nonsense and shuts it down.

But who does this end up hurting directly but the very people who voted for this to happen! They grew a bunch of beans the government doesn't want to pay for anymore, and they're out of luck. I guess you can call this waste, or even abuse, but definitely not woke.
What value do you think this pedantry adds to the conversation? Do you really think that many readers here were going to assume it meant a universal cure for all types of cancer and somehow be harmed by getting their hopes up for the second or two needed to read more than the headline?
Dynamic languages like python should allow you to monkey patch calls so that instead of opening a regular socket, you are interacting with a wrapper that reopens the connection if it is lost. Could something like this work?
It takes a particular kind of mind yoga to look at Trump and Musk’s divestments in the past few weeks and conclude “damned democrats”.
Call me a conspiracy theorist, but this, combined with the extremely embarassing way Claude is playing Pokemon, makes me feel this is an effort by AI companies to make LLMs look bad - setting up the hype cycle for the next thing they have in the pipeline.
I wonder who he does consider good at games. FromSoft games are so hard that Dark Souls is a synonym for "really hard game". If someone can beat one of those games, I think it's fair to say they are good at games.
Err. I think you meant Amazon planned to be named "Relentless" (and then Cadabra).

Bezos did register "Relentless.com" and it redirects to amazon.com to this day.

Other early name alternatives were: Awake.com (still works), Browse.com (still works) and Bookmall.com (doesn't work).
It also creates horrible incentives. Oh I won't run this in isolated project or under a separate service account since that costs more, let's just pile everything together.
Dupe (624 points, 4 hours ago, 150 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197131
What are you doing with it? For me deep research tasks are where 5 minutes is fine, or something really hard that would take me way more time myself.
Depends how you define insider. Employees were subject to a 6 month lockup and during that time the price dropped dramatically, but they still had to pay taxes on the $80 IPO price. Execs and institutional investors that were able to sell at IPO made out quite well though.
Show HN: Connect Proxy – 1000s of API integrations in your app or agent
Modern C# has Span<T> and Memory<T> types to give you the ability to work with unmanaged memory without directly touching pointers or `unsafe`, FWIW. Worth messing with the next time you need to do it.
This would be my guess.

I worked on microscopes sold to wet labs. When you have limited production runs, the fixed costs, that most of us ignore in saas, become very large on a per-piece basis. Even on 6 figure instruments, to take one that I spent 18 months on, approximately $55k per instrument sold was recovering R&D costs ($20k software, hardware the rest).
> my best friend being a consistently profitable trader

He may have discover a relatively unknown niche than he can exploit, or he is plain lucky. The question is: are you confident that you can replicate his success. For most people that I'm aware of the answer is often 'no'. Most people loose money and will rarely talk about it.
Who the heck is IDC's customer base, exactly? $2,500 for that, or $7,500 for this one about – drumroll, please – feature flags!

"Modern digital businesses need to be able to adapt to changing end-user demand, and since feature flags decouple release from deployment, it provides a good solution for improving software development velocity and business agility," said Jim Mercer, program vice president of IDC Software Development DevOps and DevSecOps. "Further, feature flags can help derisk releases, enable product experimentation, and allow for targeting and personalizing end-user experiences."

https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=US52763824
Good!!! I just finished porting my number off of T-Mobile since I canceled my service with them mid-Superbowl when I learned they were collaborating with StarLink; I don't want to support a man advocating for my erasure because he's mad at his daughter for disowning him. I made it explicitly clear why I was cancelling, citing Elon and StarLink
by name.

Glad to see others participating in the "free" market and "voting with our wallets" before that ends up being the only way we can vote. Even more glad Slim is costing him billions compared to my pennies.
>I think the real winner of “America first” will be China and Russia.

Indeed.

>An hour later, Slim announced that he would transfer his projects for the next 5 years with Starlink, an investment of 22 billion dollars, to companies in China and Europe.
Battery powered units are literal lifesavers during a blackout, particularly in winter.
Boats go considerably faster, as in overcoming more water drag, going crosswind than going downwind. I suppose that adding extra drag with a hydrogenerator will change the maths of that relationship, but certainly not so much that it would be prohibitively wasteful to not specialize a hydrogenerator carrier to downwind-only. (if the downwind-only setup can be competitive at all, not sure I'd take that as a given)
This will kill baseline JIT performance.

I am trying out a couple of new directions, e.g. generating more of the tiers from a more abstract description, constantly shrinking the amount of hand-written compiler/interpreter code. My hard requirement is the end result has to be pretty darn close to what I'd write by hand.

One thing I am thinking about now is how to make more use of the implementation language's (e.g. Virgil) compiler to be able to paste together machine code templates gotten from writing in the implementation language. Think copy-and-patch compilation, but as language primitive. E.g. "please emit an inlined copy of the machine code for this function (first-class ref to said function) into memory here, under this ABI".
Seems like accusing someone of ties to organized crime is a bit of a reverse Pascal's Wager.
ChatGPT gave me this shell script: https://social.immibis.com/media/7102ac83cf4a200e48dd368938e... (obviously, don't download and execute a random shell script from the internet without reading it first)

I think reading it will make you laugh.
Honestly, feels like a second LLM just reworded the response on the left-side to generate the right-side response.
No but the good 'ol boys from back east were the ones that used to make it so it's fine.
I think this is referred to as Incremental GC, and runtimes like Spidermonkey, V8 and Lua have it. I'm not sure whether there's any hope of getting it for .NET or whether Java has one though.
Fair enough. I took the phrasing to mean social networking as it exists today in the form of prominent, commercial social media. That may not have been the intent.
I think you missed some of what USAID did. Besides distributing direct government aid they also provided convenient and deniable non-official covers for many CIA agents. I can't understand why this human intelligence source is being thrown away. It was tremendously valuable to understand what was happening on the ground in a lot of developing countries.
SpaceX is a private company. Tesla is public, but the board is not independent, still trying to give Musk a pay package of $50 B.

CEO answer to the board, but a board can be controlled by the founder in one way or another. For example, Zuck control shares with more votes and Bezos have vote rights over his ex-wife shares. The CEO can also fill the board with loyalists, as Jobs did on his return.
Yep. Other submissions about it from today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197131

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197094

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197109

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43197552

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43199460

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43199489
Sad to see how extremely activist HN has gotten in the last couple years. Basically anything slightly unflattering towards the M-word man is instantly flagged.