skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
in sydney, you face property prices not cheaper than the bay area, but the same tech job is going to pay you 30-40% of what you'd expect on the other side of the world.
Please consider out-of-the-box way to analyze slow queries, analysis by endpoints (ideally with some patterns to group by), ideally to not generate gigabytes of access logs but rather give some already-aggregated in-memory stats.

Maybe batteries included would be great (web UI similar to HAProxy but way-way better).
Not only that, but if the tip is a single point then will the pencil
ever be vertical? That would imply that the pencil's center of mass is
perfectly aligned with the tip relative to the gravitational field
despite both being located in a continuum. Can any mechanism or
natural process bring about an intended zero probability event?

There are similar discussions to be had about arbiters, whose usual
conclusion is that metastability is inevitably resolved by thermal
noise. The article addresses that issue by postulating a vacuum and a
very low absolute temperature, but how would the pencil be shielded
from the gravitational effects of distant bodies in motion? Does this
experiment have to take place in an empty universe?
When a individual or a company is not free to pay to post anything they please I am concerned that Americans are retreating from freedom.
What do you mean by Microsoft has lost all faith in AI to do any of this?
You're contradicting yourself. To maximize that peace and protection of human lives you need real security guarantees, otherwise there will just be a small break before the conquering starts again.
Using AI to pass Amazon interview (real footage) [video]
Just as a factual matter I think everyone can agree with these three statements:

The USSR didn’t actually have economic equality.

The US has drastically lower tax rates for capital gains.

Finally, arguing for equal taxation isn’t arguing for equal pay.

As to my actual argument, I’m saying economic growth is slowed through the economic inefficiency resulting from unequal taxation. The point of economics is to make goods and services people want and capitalism achieves this through investments and exchanges of money. But distorting that feedback loop through taxes unequal taxes on individuals or companies is a distortion. Invest in the wrong things and economic growth stalls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYcopzJ-T9w

Focused ion beam milling and electron microscopy machine is under $5m, but your fab output volume for pre-doped CMOS epitaxial grown core-stack wafers would never offset the capital investment. This is a very real machine, and no I don't have one available at this time. Probably it is for the greater good. lol =3
Once they figure it out, they can come back as a paying customer. :)

It's not the provider's responsibility to help their customer get their sh#t together.
You're thinking on "lean" vs "bloated". "Large" and "small" have meanings of their own, and a 3k LOC project wouldn't be accepted as "large" by anyone. "Small", maybe.
Success Without Comparison or Expectations
Wow I would be so enticed to know what the topic was, but I completely understand. This is exciting and terrifying that it can both be that real and have that effect on you.
Get a used s24, keep it for 6 years for equal or lower TCO
I would say most command and control voice interactions are going to be like buying a coffee — the parameters of the transaction are well known, so it’s just about fine tuning the match between what the user wants and what the robot has to do.

A small minority of these interactions are going to be like a restaurant server — chit chat, pleasantries, some information gathering, followed by issuing direct orders.

The truly conversational interactions, while impressive, seem to be focused on… having a conversation. When am I going to want to have a conversation with an artificial person?

It’s precisely this kind of boundary violation of DMV clerks being chatty and friendly and asking about my kids that feels so uncanny, imho, when I’m clearly there for, literally, a one hundred percent transactional purpose. Do people really want to be asked how their day is going when sizing up an M5 bolt order?

In fact the humanising of robots like this makes it feel very uncomfortable when I have to interrupt their patter, ask them to be quiet, and insist they stay on topic.
First photo arrived:

https://x.com/Firefly_Space/status/1896125390386606333

Apologies for the X link. Can someone convert?
The problem is not what you can watch on Netflix. The two main problems I have are that Netflix is not a one stop shop and that Netflix turns my device into my adversary. The latter means I won't ever use the anything Netflix had made.
how many features does CSS - the language - have now in comparison to JavaScript?

How many features do the various APIs altogether have.

How many features do the various object models have, CSSOM, SVG DOM, HTML DOM, Shadow DOM...

What is your knowledge of all these features in comparison to CSS features?

Jumping off of that and go look at any mature language and CS subject, there is probably too much for you "know" completely, but there is of course possibility to "know" a general argument for how to use it properly, once that is known individual things is just looking up syntax.
It's not built in, but you can install Ruffle as an extension
https://oa.mg/ I use it for medical research
Claude has a tendency to overcomplicate bug fixes. If you put it on loop it would probably build a custom ERP platform.
No problem, I suspected you meant something like that, but also didn't know this term.

By the way, a common cause for (usually light) secondary depression that more people should know about is vitamin D deficiency, quite common for even slightly darker skinned-people living in Northern Europe.
Because it's saying 'enough is enough and it’s time for Europe to grow balls and try do a startup initiative that one up’s the US'.

I don't know who flags that, but since the beginning of this administration, that's very obviously either extremely corrupt or working for a foreign hostile government, most of the topics detailing this obvious statement are silenced. Maybe it's bots, maybe a way for Musk employees to avoid cognitive dissonance and try to silence the opposing voices. Who knows.

But in case it's not clear, the whole Western world right now is realizing really quickly that US is no longer a viable long term partner. We're witnessing history in the making, enabled by a tech entrepreneur (or some may say a con man, both would be right), and we can't hold a discussion about it on Hacker News.
> It’s been made very clear to them by the OTAN that it was the red line before a «fundamentally change the nature of the conflict».

"Fundamental change in the nature of the conflict" sounds to me more like "you will now be fighting NATO", not "NATO will immediately retaliate with its own nuclear weapons." And even if they did mean what you're saying, I don't see NATO or any member following through with this.

To be clear, I don't think anyone's use of nuclear weapons is likely. I'm just saying that if Russia ends up in a situation where its only avenue for "winning" ends up being the use of nuclear weapons, I wouldn't be surprised if it actually uses one.
Your point about code from other humans having innate qualitues that code from LLMs lacks is very solid.

A coworker has a reputation that they care about, and you can incorporate what you know about their coding style. Neither of those factors count at all for LLMs.

I stand by my snarky comment though: if you're skilled at reading and reviewing code you're much less likely to complain that it would be faster to write it yourself.

It took me 15+ years of my own career to get good enough at reading code (even before LLMs) that I didn't prefer to write it myself!
It’s not an equivalent by far. Flash was democratic. Adobe didn’t dictate what content you can create and there wasn’t a single entity that moderates content. There was pretty wild stuff in Flash with major gore and even porn.
Algae omegas possibly?
bot acrimony!
How is Perplexity even able to give invalid results? Isn't it parsing the web first then drawing a conclusion?
Hum. I did that last week.

Might be because of the Fallout series, though. Or because of everything happening at the moment.
I'm curious who you quoted?
They do but we have for instance education to reduce their hallucinations in narrow fields of expertise. And a system of guardrails to only let educated people work in those fields to avoid harm.
This is the first thing I do when using LLM's to create code. So we can and I do have LLMs writing documentation.

In my domain IIoT, I even created a yaml structure to make this easy. https://unsframework.com (wip)
If only XHTML changed anything besides adding pointless backslashes to <img>...
The numbers I am quoting are sales, not numbers produced. Are you saying people are buying their cars but not using them? If so, who, and why?
When you have millions of apps on the App Store it's easy to take developers for granted.
This is an interesting take, and I'd guess that the training data for this probably did use podcasts as a source.

Getting very realistic / real world conversational training data for an ai would be hard. Only a subset of us appear on podcasts, radio or tv and probably all speak in a slightly artificial manner when we do.
https://github.com/deepseek-ai/open-infra-index/blob/main/20...

Statistics of DeepSeek's Online Service
All DeepSeek-V3/R1 inference services are served on H800 GPUs with precision consistent with training. Specifically, matrix multiplications and dispatch transmissions adopt the FP8 format aligned with training, while core MLA computations and combine transmissions use the BF16 format, ensuring optimal service performance.

Additionally, due to high service load during the day and low load at night, we implemented a mechanism to deploy inference services across all nodes during peak daytime hours. During low-load nighttime periods, we reduce inference nodes and allocate resources to research and training. Over the past 24 hours (UTC+8 02/27/2025 12:00 PM to 02/28/2025 12:00 PM), the combined peak node occupancy for V3 and R1 inference services reached 278, with an average occupancy of 226.75 nodes (each node contains 8 H800 GPUs). Assuming the leasing cost of one H800 GPU is $2 per hour, the total daily cost amounts to $87,072.
This is unfortunately a typical piece by ideological people completely detached from reality, combined with a public largely ignorant of history (which is an issue with the British education system in which history is barely taught as a compulsory subject).

For instance, people should immediately recognise this:

"the establishment of community land trusts – non-profit, democratic organisations that own and work land for the benefit of local people."

Been there, done that [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolkhoz
Not much discussion on hn from the few threads that come up in the search. But I want to highlight rini17 which links to a post from GrapheneOS that in turn links to the Google blog from Oct 2024.

My 2c is that this style of on device monitoring to warn users/children is an expected evolution of parental content monitoring tools for the llm era.

Graphine is right. As open source it would be much better. Privacy and trust concerns would be easier to check and give the opportunity to make tools that empower parents and children to decide how they should moderate content on their devices.

Perhaps some communities are very worried about nudity where others are more concerned about hate speech. Having the choice on what to detect and how, or if, to act would be helpful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43203303

https://security.googleblog.com/2024/10/5-new-protections-on...
Doesn't the uncertainty principle just set a lower limit for how well a perfectly skilled pencil balancer would be able to balance it though? As in, if the experiment is repeated enough times, by pure chance \theta_0 \dot\theta_0 could at times be smaller than \frac{3 \hbar }{2 ml^2} ?
The last time I talked to our local embedded CIA guy in my previous US company, he was very proud of their efforts to keep all the Chinese scientists out of the major hacking conferences. And he was very keen to get access to all Arab and East Asian critical infrastructures. Talking about industrial espionage efforts
Because there's more than direct money and weapons. US soft power matters, though Trump is quickly dismantling that so maybe it won't matter as much.
This is a fine attitude to have if your problem is that you have too many customers.
Trump – America's "first crypto president" – to host summit on the currency
Export your Skype data before the May shutdown
Here is the image from that Tweet, saved on the Internet Archive

https://web.archive.org/web/20250302091628/https://pbs.twimg...
Seems like they’re going to make a hardware product based on their open positions. A universal translator earbud would be nice.
I feel like it is the point. The claim being made is incorrect.

If you have to invest a significant amount of capital to own housing and it isn't a good investment then people won't want to do it. But there are reasons we want to encourage home ownership, so if it actually wasn't a good investment then that would be bad. People would stop doing it. So it's important that the claim actually is incorrect; it can still be a good investment even if the value never goes up, because it avoids you needing to pay rent. If keeping the values flat would result in lower home ownership then doing that might actually be a problem, but it isn't.

The real problem -- the thing people actually care about -- isn't that the value has to go up. It's that they don't want the value to go down. If they paid $500,000 for something which is only worth $100,000 they're going to be pissed. But that's also what needs to happen, hence the impasse.
I'm not really seeing what's noteworthy about this article.
I should have asked GPT before wasting everyone's time. GPT4.5 says that while lethal and transmissible pathogens can be built with adenoviruses, nearly all research with them is done on replication-deficient viruses, and does not improve their transmissibility, pathogenicity, and does not expand the host range.
I think since then it was announced that the alluded to paid gig is script work/research for https://www.youtube.com/@MentourPilot
More than 30 Apex Legends voice actors refuse to sign agreement
What do you mean no? This is a widely known and commonly used approach. Citric acid, salt and bitter compounds are some of the most prevalent options. This isn't even remotely close to a controversial opinion.
Because that's what the market wants. Even mighty Apple was forced to switch to big phones despite huge resistance on its part.
Is it susceptible to slow loris?

Hyper, the http library, did not handle it well.
Thinking a bit further ahead, what does the world look like in 30-40 years when a generation has been accustomed to this type of interaction from birth.

Feels like trying to imagine the societal impacts of the internet in the early 90s.
There is a segment of people where GLP-1 medications just don't work, 68% stop within a year, and dosing keeps on escalating up and up. It will help a lot of people, but it is not going to be the panacea early results show.
Would be good to get some words about performance. Looking at the code there are a lot of granular memory allocations, which IME with other JSON libraries which work like this is the number one performance killer and can add up to seconds when parsing JSON files with hundreds of thousands of nodes.

Always going through a 'virtual method table' also can't be great for performance (not so much because of the indirection, but because it acts as an optimization barrier for the compiler).

Peformance doesn't matter much of course when the code is ever only used to load tiny JSON files.
I wrote it on one line to make the example make sense, but most Python comprehensions are plenty readable if they're split into many lines:

new_list = [
(name, value)
for name, values in map_of_values.items()
for value in values
]

The normal loop needs either a yield (which means you have to put it inside a generator function, and then call and list() the generator), or you have to make a list and keep appending things into it, which looks worse.
> What I don’t understand is why Apple bothered supporting this in the first place for hardware-accelerated video

To claim that they did. That’s the quality of work you get when you’re forced to comply to get a certificate or pass a check or something of that nature.
You typically get multiple reminders. If that's "an error", then that's an error that will happen again and again and again.

That's a problematic customer you don't want unless you're otherwise broke or want to keep them for other reasons (e.g. publicity).
In the Philippines Infinix and Tecno are dominant brands. They're super cheap and have good gaming performance. That company rules Africa for the same reason. Dunno if Americans can get them behind the Great Tariffwall?
What's wrong with Apache?
> This is literally contradictory.

Why is it contradictory? It could be sensitive and unsecured. Sensitive doesn't mean 'classified'.

> You are speaking with authority but have no idea what you are talking about.

What do you know about the GP?
Between Tailwind and LLM generation I doubt I'll ever write more than a handful of CSS lines by hand in any future project I work on. CSS has, for me, become like the ASM output of the compilers I use. The result is good enough 99.999% of the time for me and I want to work at a higher level of abstraction.
Why doesn’t benchmark include Ferron itself?
> and probably don't need for any of applied mathematics

Basically everyone who uses mathematics in some applied capacity happily uses the real numbers.
Even if here we forget about it, most people use mainly or only their phone. Young people nowadays are not even proficient with PCs or laptops anymore. I want a small phone too. My SO has an iPhone 11 mini and the size is amazing, but there are no Android phones with a similar size.
Building 1000's of drones capable of taking out armoured vehicles from disposable commodity parts is more important than a 4% improved detection rate of hotdogs.
https://radio.garden/ - It's an interactive map of most radio stations on the planet that have streaming, as near as I can tell. It's where I learned about the Wee Scone Variety show, on a local FM station in Midlothian, Scotland.
The tower of Web Babel was built 5 years ago during peak React. It’s gotten better tbh as more competition has creeped into the web space due to React dropping the ball and resting on their laurels.

While I understand the gut reaction to seeing something like InlineStack, it’s not any different than a utility class except the abstraction has been made on the component level instead of the CSS level within a bunch of different components. The other thing is that these types of components provide a layer for abstraction that extends beyond the web. If I’m writing a app that targets web and native mobile, I can let the compiler decide which version to place in the build to take advantage of native features of the platform.

At a certain scale, programming becomes about maintaining consistency at said scale and less about the craftsmanship of an individual component. As a developer who also enjoys writing CSS and building layouts myself by hand, I understand your frustration but it’s misguided towards a group of developers who are trying to solve different problems.

We don’t need to implement everything that FAANG comes up with in their “innovation labs” and I 100% believe that there is a place for handcrafted code in applications for decades to come. But let’s not lose site of the fact that table saws haven’t replaced hand saws. They serve different purposes for different audiences and that’s okay!
The second fusion stage of a thermonuclear bomb runs off the x-rays emitted by the fission primary.

A non-exploding nuclear reactor produces nowhere near the required amount of x-rays.
Infrastructure as well.

I don't think anyone sane would let "prompt engineers" anywhere near their Terraform/OpenTofu/Pulumi/$OTHER code.

Giving write access to people who depend on LLMs (as in "can do almost nothing without it") is a recipe for disaster. Even giving write access to a junior is less scary than that, in comparison.
I think that's a great point. I think organizations are careful not to interpret carefully worded legal prose, to avoid undermining the legal position. But that limits understanding of these things to lawyers who can interpret the legal prose.
"it doesn't matter" != "code is correct"

Sometimes it's just not cost effective to solve every last bit of jank.

If you write software that controls safety critical systems then obviously that statement does not apply. But if you write webapps or games or ...
There's this amazing documentary on linux, from 2003. It's called Revolution OS. Highly recommended!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0RYQVkQmWU
I tried the demo and could tell it was fake in the first five seconds. IMO it sounds like it was trained on Northern California founders giving a pitch for their startup. Way too enthusiastic and trying too hard to sound natural.
CatBench Vector Search Playground on Postgres
I’d personally prefer to write markdown instead of html, especially when writing comments on sites like these.

But I have to know that stars represent html italic tags (and bunches of other stuff).

Thankfully this has been standardised and every markdown parser knows what stars mean. So I only have to learn this once.

Most frameworks haven’t been standardised and that’s where the frustration lies.

Abstraction is good when it becomes a commonality, bad when it remains niche.
How could you tell without being very close to him personally?
Oh no, it is awful that games designed for keyboard and mouse don’t run properly on a phone (which could be easily overcome with virtual overlay) so let’s get rid of 20 years of creative development and replace them with sludge of non portable idiotic mobile games. I can’t name a single “proper” game that came out of mobile phone era that

A) wasn’t a port of a Flash game
B) had something that wasn’t possible with flash
C) can be installed and available as easy as Flash
Here's something like that I wrote in C++ in 2017 for JSON using Boost.Fusion + simple function overloading of a single 'from_json' function for handling different types. It works for nested objects, it's runtime type checked, and all numeric conversions are checked for loss while being forgiving.

https://gist.github.com/nlyan/045fbe075b4e51d83be0cf4513fecd...

The DEFINE_JSON macro is a tiny wrapper around BOOST_FUSION_DEFINE_STRUCT so the whole parsing routine effectively gets unrolled at compile time.

https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_87_0/libs/fusion/doc/html/f...

The code predates broad availability of std::optional (so uses boost::optional), [[unlikely]] and the existence of Boost.JSON, so if i were using this technique today that's what I'd use, but at the time I used the taocpp JSON library (which is still actively maintained 8 years later)

https://github.com/taocpp/json

Here's an article talking about the technique from a CppCon 2014 talk - "Implementing Wire Protocols with Boost Fusion --Thomas Rodgers"

https://isocpp.org/blog/2015/01/cppcon-2014-implementing-wir...
Allocation in Zig takes some getting used to but it's actually really nice. It took me a few weeks but I honestly believe you should give it another chance and more time
> My read on the situation is that Zelensky is willing to make any deal for lasting peace.

Yep, but Zelensky/Ukraine needs guarantees that the US will enforce the deal. It's also bs that Trump and crew are putting the lack of peace on Ukraine - literally Russian propaganda talking points.