skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is very interesting to me that in my social/professional circle, and indeed here on HN, remote schooling during covid is practically universally seen as a massive failure resulting in serious consequences, yet remote work is a huge success and it's an outrage and borderline human rights violation whenever it's reduced or taken away.

Of course, there are some incentives at play here. The people voicing these opinions are adults, and adults benefit both when their children are taken away to free daycare... err i mean school all day, and when they get to enjoy the flexibility of home office. This set of incentives could create the confusing combination of beliefs above.

But I also think that maybe it's the sample group. Not all kids failed disastrously at remote school, some excelled and worked far ahead of their classmates. And similarly, a lot of adults truly do get a lot more work done from their laptop at home. My suspicion is that technical people like those in my social circle and here on HN are both the types that would have excelled at remote schooling, and also those that do well working as hermits in a remote home office environment. There's just a huge blindspot that the other 90% of the population is handling things really badly.

The other 90% of kids are reading 3 grade levels behind, and the other 90% of coworkers are doing an hour of work per day, going to the shopping mall at 10am and the dog park at 2, and doing it all with low levels of team cooperation that, just like with a teacher and her remote 5th graders, no level of management or coaching is going to materially improve.
This is the actual answer.

It isn't a secret. It is well understood by anyone with experience in commercial real estate.
If you are negating a single term you can't.

If you are adding n terms using an adder tree, the 1 feeds to the carry in of the next level ( it is simply a concatenation since the carry term is shifted left by 1). Only thw final carry propagate adder will have the add with 1.
Their last sale got them billions of dollars.
> more efficient sources like nuclear

thing is, nuclear is not punk. It requires large-nation-scale financing.

A community cannot build a nuclear power station.
My first thought is that, if they don't have active countermeasures, you might be able to write a scraper using some library like python/requests which has a cookie jar just going through the login screen. If I remember right, Disqus does have a page where you can browse your own comments.
Yep. Vintage Macs suffer from the plastic cases getting brittle and snapping when bent.

The problem is on many models they were meant to bend some to release a clip, for example to open the top of a case.

Or they just can’t hold the stress they were supposed to, like the display hinge attachment points on many classic Mac laptops.
Data operations are increasingly happening near the GPU side to boost efficiency—especially for compute-heavy workflows. Talking about Arrow file processing and zero-copy queries on DataFrames, which are becoming crucial for modern data pipelines. I think another option worth considering is chdb, which supports these features and fits well with this shift. (author of chdb here)
Does this require nightly? If so, #[warn(clippy::wildcard_enum_match_arm)] will do the samething but no need for nightly, and from clippy instead of rustc natively.
I think that titles are confusing, but your links for example are not the same thing as the innovation in the article.

For nexperia, if you read the datasheet in fact it is a module that will harvest energy from a photovoltaic cells.

For the e-peas, this is what says the datasheet:
"RF input power from -18.5 dBm up to 10 dBm (typical)".
So this is just the typical energy harvesting from an incoming signal.

In the original article, they said that their new technology allows to harvest energy under -20 dBm that was impossible till then.
Harvard can pay for the indirect costs at issue with a fraction of the money its $53B endowment earns.
[Recycled from an older dupe submission]

As much as I've agreed with the author's other posts/takes, I find myself resisting this one:

> I'll finish this rant with a related observation: I keep seeing people say “if I have to review every line of code an LLM writes, it would have been faster to write it myself!”

> Those people are loudly declaring that they have under-invested in the crucial skills of reading, understanding and reviewing code written by other people.

No, that does not follow.

1. Reviewing depends on what you know about the expertise (and trust) of the person writing it. Spending most of your day reviewing code written by familiar human co-workers is very different from the same time reviewing anonymous contributions.

2. Reviews are not just about the code's potential mechanics, but inferring and comparing the intent and approach of the writer. For LLMs, that ranges between non-existent and schizoid, and writing it yourself skips that cost.

3. Motivation is important, for some developers that means learning, understanding and creating. Not wanting to do code reviews all day doesn't mean you're bad at them. Also, reviewing an LLM's code has no social aspect.

However you do it, somebody else should still be reviewing the change afterwards.
It is mind-boggling to me that one of the most important numbers in life - the 2% inflation rate target - is not taught to everyone.

It's the financial equivalent of not teaching what temperature water freezes at.
Recent and related:

First time a Blender-made production has won the Golden Globe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42620656 - Jan 2025 (49 comments)
He did donations against same-sex marriage. I see why some people would not want him to be an influential person, myself included.

Also because of how economy works now, interest in Brave translates to the value of its built-in cryptocurrency (BAT) and therefore the economic power of its creator.
Not only was it made with Blender, the final renders were done with Blenders semi-realtime Eevee engine rather than its max-fidelity Cycles engine. That reduced the compute required by orders of magnitude - the director said a render farm wasn't necessary because his local workstation could produce final-quality 4K frames in 0.5-10 seconds.

"Proper" production renderers like Cycles do look better of course, but having an alternative which is viable on a shoestring budget is very valuable.
Flow was a critical favorite, sometimes that matters at the Oscars.
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I'm just saying it might be a skill issue rather than a tool issue.
Recent and related:

I Went to SQL Injection Court - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43175628 - Feb 2025 (433 comments)
We have a food distribution problem. The world makes more than enough food to feed everyone.

As an aside, corn ethanol is not made with the type of corn that could be used for human consumption. We could use those same fields to produce human food, but refer back to the first paragraph of this post for why we don't do that.
Really cool thank for sharing! I tweaked the code a bit so that I could get Mario sliding down the flag pole for my gaming website. https://www.gamedrop.gg/
It's called SOLARpunk not ATOMpunk,sorry.
Could be similar things. A rubber gasket going gooey, grease freezing up, anything to make the mechanics off even a little.

The tolerances are so tiny, I doubt it takes much at all.
Yeah there's ok feeling accumpuncture low pressure shower heads. But dangerously high pressure shower head is like lying on bed of nails, acquired taste, pretty incredible feeling. My mom swore it maintained her skin better, my bro science is it's also better for skin... as in it bruises it like microneedling and forces skin to rejuvenate. Have to avoid getting shot in the eye on big nozzles though.
Water in concert with temperature flux is really destructive causing a massive amount of erosion here on Earth.

With that said thermal cycles on the moon are very large, with a range up to 450F. That much thermal expansion and contraction over time is going to be hard on anything not shielded under some soil.
Former and current employees, congratulations to you all!

How cool is it to have your work preserved for thousands to millions of years, on the surface of the moon?!

I cannot imagine much anything more fun.
Well, also it turns out that most people won't pay that much extra for something to last longer.
Oh no, were going to damage the biosphere of the moon!
The irony of your rant is that you are pointing to the other extreme.

> Not all of them are the same, and many actually seek feedback in earnest.

And many actually seek to retaliate on feedback - as evidence by the parent post.

We can both be right but you cannot deny other's experiences and insight. You yourself are aware and have seen other execs who are more interested in self-preservation. So they exist, and are not a rarity.

So yeah, nOt EvErY eXeC iS lIkE tHaT - but plenty are and that's what my post intends to highlight to the avid reader. My intent is to highlight the truth and present the reality of what exec position is. And that, leadership is not to be expected by default.
These folks want power (control). What's more powerful? Owning 99.99% of all wealth valued at $1 trillion. Or owning 90% of all wealth valued at $100 trillion? Remember it's not about money, it's about power (aka control)...
They have the best technology and the highest EV margins.

By analogy: Apple doesn't sell the most smartphones but they are clearly the leader in the smartphone market.
I agree that preferring reduced motion and then visiting a site whose sole purpose is presenting motion is an interesting choice, but I don't think the CSS Working Group or web developers in general are in any position to question it.
Do you know anything about Elon Musk’s companies?! He got to be the richest person in the world on the back of US tax payer via US federal loans, grants, and contracts[1]. If not for US tax dollars, his WikiPedia page would have ended with just another member of the PayPal Mafia and a young bald guy who crashed a MCClaren F1.

Also, if what you say is true then he surely won’t suggest that the US federal departments use X AI, right? Riiiiight????

[1] https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2025/02/27/elon-mu...
Please change the direction of walking when scrolling up. Right now the stick figure is walking backwards. It could be reversed or perhaps made to seem like backtracking (add a little more “caution”, “fear”, etc.).
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Totally! You have clearly understood George's most important insights.
If you're better than the market at predicting sacrificing the long term for the short term, you can make a lot of money by shorting those stocks.

Me, I tried shorting, and got my adze handed to me. I'm not smart enough to be successful at that, and so just stick with long positions.
I think it would be simpler for them to say that they won't ship anywhere, you can't access their website with anything, or want to do business with anyone.
There was this seizure valued at $3.36B

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-attorney-announces-h...

I dunno how accurate this is but current holdings are said to be about 210,000 BTC here

https://treasuries.bitbo.io/usa/

At $90,000 per BTC that's about $20 billion which is an impressive amount for the prez to talk about without having to do anything in particular.
You've described a daycare.
It shows, Blender has come a long way, but FLOW doesn't look technically incredible. On the otherhand, I just rewatched Shrek recently, and complex graphics isn't everything.
yea, flickr has always been reliable for this sort of thing
Its simpler than you think:

No one really regrets going to the bathroom when it isn't urgent.

Plenty of people regret waiting until it gets urgent.
You might like to see https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/SillySounds/
Oh, forgot to say: the new list only repeated about 2/3 of the (real) suggestions it gave me. (I naively expected it to reproduce the list, with all the repeated output pruned, which would have been fine with me.) It also gave me a further eight or ten new suggestions, most of which I thought were better than its originals.

I know we're not supposed to anthropomorsize these things, but it sure felt like giving a task to a teenager who half-asses it, and only does the real work after you call them out on it. It's a brave new world, that has such creatures in it.
Of course, that's fair.

I guess wording wise for my comment, the "Hah, they didn't actually write that themselves, they just bought the Sybase rights to everything license" got the better of me :)

To be fair again, from what I hear, SQL server at Microsoft did some nice things on top of Sybase but the base, T-SQL, is just nice overall and by itself. I really want to like Postgres (and I do) but some of the awesome things I had with actual Sybase ASE 20+ years ago, Postgres still does not have. And that was a piece of software that had those features I loved for 10+ years prior to when I started working with it. The app we're talking of here was 15 years old when I worked on it 20+ years ago and it's probably still around and very probably still uses Sybase ASE (tho the actual app was converted from Smalltalk to Java ;)

I also later on had to use Oracle and had the same "WTF? You can't do that?" experience :shrug:
This is what I wrote while I was thinking about the same topic before I can across your excellent comment; as if it’s a summary of what you just said:

Consciousness is nothing but the ability to have internal and external senses, being able to enumerate them, recursively sense them, and remember the previous steps. If any of those ingredients are missing, you cannot create or maintain consciousness.
> If what was previously funded through coercion -- tax dollars

Guess it's a good thing we are in the US and there is no tax dollar coercion considering you are free to renounce citizenship and leave the country.

Thus never having to pay the fees required to participate/live in US society. Kinda like if you don't want to pay monthly gym fees, don't--but don't expect to use their gym equipment whenever suits you.
The Grammy awards for music are the same thing. Members aren't required to listen to the nominated albums, and every member gets to vote in every category.

I had a friend who was a Recording Academy member as a classical musician. He thought it was strange that they asked him to vote for the best hip-hop album since he doesn't listen to hip-hop at all.

So for many of the categories that are a little more niche, it basically turns into a popularity contest, rather than the opinion of true experts.
I've done both (though only once each) and it's been like that both times. Maybe I'm just drawn to it.
That's why I pirate everything. Originally I tried purchasing music files (iTunes) with the hope of it supporting musicians I liked. When it was a lesser, hindered experience, I switched back to pirating everything, still do, and always will.
I had the same problem when my previous Brother printer was nearly ten years old, I did the same trick, and it worked. Most components might last almost forever, but things like rubber or glue, not so much.
At this point, if you know how the box model works and the difference between margin and padding, you're ahead of 50% of "frontend developers".
Excuse me, what are you talking about? You think there is any of computability that doesn't apply to AI? With all respect and I do not intend this in a mean way but just intend to rightly call all of this as exactly nonsense. I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding of computational theory and Turing machines, Church-Turing thesis, etc. any standard text on the subject should clear this up.
As someone who started using Blender before 1.8, posting on the old blender.nl forums before its move to BA, it's just been pretty insane to watch it reach this point. Back then it didn't even have ray tracing, and all of the attempts to make long form videos with it were very very rudimentary.
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How about Uncle Sam starts taking money back from rich people instead of foisting more debt on workers and slashing my benefits so that they can buy another yacht?
It's sad to see the interviewer wasting the opportunity to interview Penrose. I found Lex Fridman does a much better job: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXgqik6HXc0
or more easily, just rename the stick figure to Michael Jackson
> it’s much easier and effective to do this in person.

People keep saying this but it's a preference, not a fact.
Nothing is wrong with WebKit, but it's not really a separate rendering engine, and the discussion is about separate rendering engines. Chromium's heritage derives from WebKit.
I would guess this is, to some degree, a generational shift. The Animated category has only existed for ~30 years and was born from the resentment many in the academy felt toward Beauty and the Beast being nominated alongside supposedly serious films for Best Picture. Each generation following that one has grown up with a more diverse slate of animated films available.

The Oscars are the slowest possible reflection of social change, and I’m sure the perspective you share is still held my many members, but this win holds out some hope for sure.
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wow, we were at an impasse, but somehow i managed to make myself understood. Happy Mardi Gras!
Microsoft outmanuevered IBM multiple times. IBM tried to dominate the PC business, was successful for a few years, and then failed.

> What they won't do is lose to a competitor on their own terms.

Markets are always changing. Large companies tend to optimize for a particular market, and when it inevitably changes, they cannot adapt and get left behind. Often its their competitors that change the market.

See the classic book "The Innovators' Dilemma".

(The same thing happens in nature when a species over-specializes to a particular niche.)
Nuclear low emissions is too realistic.

It's just France.

There is a thing called 'Atom Punk'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_derivatives#Atompunk

But it has a different emphasis.
I don't understand the point of this question. We'd also like carbon-free, cost-free energy; etc.
> I mostly don't think they'll be employable because they don't seem like they can function very well

That is your bias against these boys, that isn't reality.
Setting Up AI Agents
What's the implementation process for AI agents been like?

How easy is it to set up the knowledge bases for each agent?

Is it really as seamless as they market, or are there a lot bottlenecks under the hood?

Researching pain points in the implementation of external and internal AI agents in an organization.
Well I hope this isn’t backend code because the amount of vulnerabilities that are going to come from these practices will be staggering
> Online propaganda is insanely powerful too.

> Not sure if many noticed, but the English put out by Chinese teams is often perfect these days

how are these two sentences connected?

I have learnt English for over 10 years, and so have most Chinese students in the past 20 years. This is a part of the Chinese education system. For every Chinese student in top universities, there's a 99.99% chance that he/she is very good at English.

how is this connected to "Online propaganda is insanely powerful too"

what's the context?
this is a great idea! I am working on a few other scroll buddy animations :)
I adored Flow. It's hard to say it was truly "better" than Inside Out 2. I think part of the calculation has to be that everyone expected Pixar to deliver something top notch so it only really met expectations. Flow was made by a no-name team from Latvia and was really something unique and interesting. I went into it kinda blind with no expectations and was blown away.
So... not a tax on corporations then but a tax on middle-class consumers. Why not just raise the income tax?
The 'bionic' girl from the UK who feels no pain or hunger (2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43237013

You have to opt into it but it's nice that it's available.
To state it's a turing machine might be a bit much but there might be a map between substrates to some degree, and computers can have a form of consciousness, an inner experience, basically the hidden layers and clearly the input of senses, but it wouldn't be the same qualia as a mind, I suspect it has more to due with chemputation and is dependent on the substrate doing the computing as opposed to a facility thereof, up to some accuracy limit, we can only detect light we have receptors for after all. To have qualia distinct to another being you need to compute on a substrate that can accurately fool the computation, fake sugar instead of sugar for example.
propaganda + 2014 + destroy a country

ukraine: so true, dude, so true
I would argue that "git add -p" is the one thing which is unambiguously better with a GUI.

Scrolling through changes and staging lines is just much nicer with a mouse.
The first reasonable concern that springs to mind is that correlating a few fields that are individually non-identifying in a dataset can lead to deanonymizing people; in principle, the FOIA process gives the organization being requested time to think about what needs to be masked to protect privacy.
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The post-election HN community has been very different of late, at least on political topics. I’ve been here quite a while.
"Many people pursue academic careers solely for a comfortable lifestyle, doing minimal or even no research for long period of time. With extra lack of oversight that allows researchers to isolate themselves they create circles which cover each other."

I want what you're smoking because that might be one of the biggest fabrications I've heard in a long time.
Uh, Washington thinks you still have to pay income tax after renouncing your citizenship and bullies governments into collecting it or even extradicting you if you do not pay.