skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
2 sports car purchases ago, the S2000 was near the top of my list, but came in 2nd place because it was going to be my only car, and I figured a 2 seat hatchback was more practical than a 2 seat convertible.

I think I made the right choice though both the S2k and the car I bought increased in value over the following 15 years.

I'd still love to own an S2k, but the way values have continued to levitate actually pushed me into a Boxster instead. I still think I'll own one some day. The s2k is one of the most attractive sports cars in history, IMO. I think that was helped by the fact that they never replaced it -- a replacement model always 'ages' the previous one.
I don't think anyone is arguing that the DCT isn't absolutely dominating from a technical excellence standpoint.

I think the argument is that the better "feel" is far more important than these engineering figures.
As others have pointed out the short answer is no. The longer answer is still no if you value execution performance at least a little bit.

However, maybe, there is a way. Back when we were researching microcode we found a talk [1] that ran multiple ISAs in parallel on the same processor using microcode. We never figured out how this worked, our best guess is either swapping microcode from RAM as needed or branching to an emulator in x86 code. If this was a K10 cpu, which might be a bit old at the time of the talk, then there is no way you could fit an ARM interpreter into the update. You had, iirc, 32 triads of 3 operations each. Maybe, just maybe, you could fit a bytecode interpreter that then executes the actual ISA emulator. However you would need to hook every instruction, or at least trap on each instruction fetch and hook the appropriate handling routine and both sound very complicated.

If your infinite resources include manufacturing new silicon with the proper fast path and microcode decoder, then yes, but note that x86 and ARM have different memory models. Also at that point you just have a very expensive, very inefficient ARM processor.

[1] https://troopers.de/events/troopers16/655_the_chimaera_proce...
Those passkeys that you and GitHub are talking about require a separate authenticator to use.

> no "forced 2FA workflow"

What does "2FA" stand for?

> it's easier than logging into HN

You have your thumb on the scale (which seems to happen every time someone criticizes GitHub). You have already indicated a willingness/desire to use an authenticator. At that point, there is literally nothing stopping the authenticator from providing the exact same user experience, where instead of releasing your "passkey", it provides your password to HN's login form. And oh wait that's exactly how scores of password managers work, including the ones that are built in to every mainstream browser. (If you're somehow using one that for whatever reason doesn't do that, then it's self-inflicted, which is exactly opposite to the case of the forced 2FA flow that GitHub imposes.)

This is without even mentioning that you have to set all this up.
fwiw, Matrix has had video rooms since 2022: https://element.io/blog/drop-in-drop-out-chats-with-video-ro... - and VoIP calling since day one in 2014.
Cool, but before Apple even considers this, maybe work on better spam and blocking.
It's already gone. They stopped making them over a year ago and they seem to be finally off the Chevy website. Local dealers in my area still have some new inventory on the lot.
Great for you; that's really fantastic and by posting about it, I hope you make a lot of other middle-aged people comfortable with persuing education.

> My goal is 5-8 more classes for a second degree in math (major).

Why not get a masters degree?

Edit: answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43282629

> Wish me luck!

You don't need it. :)
So like Mastadon then.

Every time I’ve looked into it, every server I’ve checked has been filled with furries and anime-avatars.

I mean, I’m glad they’ve found a community where they feel at home, but it kinda makes it a hard pass for the rest of us ;)
What We Hate About Serialization (2021) [pdf]
Mistral adds new API that turns any PDF document into an AI-ready Markdown file
I think you're probably right that the verbalization is the 'interface layer' but why does that mean LLMs can't approach AGI? They also only use words as an 'interface' layer. Underlying weights are vectors in an abstract space.
We're doing both RPA and API integrations now - depending on what works best for any given EHR/clinic. FHIR connections are on the way.
"We determine that previous generations of earthlings believed spacecraft could be powered by lumps of lead. Silly earthlings."
(Not original replier)

That was something I have considered for a while, but then figured out it is unrealistic because I have a kid. But original replier probably can do if he/she doesn't have one.
> As long as Windows offers even a marginally better experience, I don't think it'll happen anytime soon.

Judging by the direction Microsoft is going with Windows 11, I don’t think that will be too long :^)

For music production it’s more tricky. Personally, I’ve had some success with Bitwig (which just worked and picked up my old Novation Launchpad out of the box; I also think it works with Windows VSTs through Wine), but I admit that I’m not a pro by any means, and a more complicated setup might require some fiddling around. Hopefully this gets better with more adoption!
The title sounds like this is a standalone allocator, but the implementation seems to handle thread-local storage only. The hard work is done elsewhere.
Or foreign influence agents. What more resource efficient way to weaken a competing state than foment rebellion and attacks from within.
> I firmly believe that public college should be free, for all, for life

I just don't understand these statements that "this or that should be free". Do you plan to enslave the people who would provide this education? Do you not subscribe to the saying "You get what you pay for?". Public education through High School (in the US) has been free for many generations. Ever wonder what would happen if you make the next 4 years "free"? (Hint, you're not going to pop-out of those 4 years with any skills that are differentiated enough from everyone else who took-up the "free" education and not be right back in the same position you are now.)

If you don't have the motivation to prevent your own cognitive decline by taking advantage of a plethora of already free (high quality) education (e.g. https://ocw.mit.edu), then taxing the rest of us so you can be spoon-fed all the free "formal education" you want for life isn't the answer either.
AI didn't really mesh seamlessly with my work until I used Claude, I highly recommend it. If your current workflow involves googling, reading documentation and examples on github until you can put together a solution then AI should slot into your work nicely. It just does all those things but faster and can often surface what I want in 30 seconds instead of 30 minutes of research.

I wouldn't worry though, if the last 4 years are any indicator, we will continue to see LLMs refined as better and better tools at a logarithmic rate, but I don't really see them making the jump to replacing engineers entirely unless some monumental leap happens. If AI ever gets that good it will have replaced vast swathes of white collar workers before us.

I am somewhat optimistic, tech adoption is only going to go up, and the number of students pouring into CS programs is cooling off now that there aren't $100k jobs waiting for anyone who can open up an IDE. My ideal future is people who really love tech are still here in 10 years, and we will have crazy output because the tooling is so good, and all the opportunistic money seekers will have been shaken out.
You can't blame an old man trying to give advices to people who don't need them...
This is such an absurd stretch that I don’t think anyone can actually believe it, even if they wanted to.
I'll admit I'm a bit lazy, I want an all-in-one solution like firebase. I don't want to have to set up auth and data separately.
Google CTR Study: AI Overviews Rise as Click Rates Decline
Yeah, but I doubt third party partners can get you to an IPO-level scale.

In my limited experience partners are usually small integrators that do maybe a small urban area. Did they get a big consulting partner/implementor or something?
Not 'just' FBI agents...
The shifts can be slightly rougher than a traditional clutch, and there have been some notable DCTs quite prone to failure.
The Messages API contains a special section for placing Tool information, which is added to the Context Window - and it's this information that the Model then uses to decide whether to attempt a Tool Call.

In that case, we configure the MCP Server, and then the Host application (in this case fast-agent) uses the Anthropic or OpenAI API to populate it, and they inject it in to the Context Window[1] in the format best for their model.

So for fast-agent, we can set the model when we define the agent with `model="o3-mini.medium"` or from a command line switch. Depending on the type of eval you are doing you could for example use a Parallel workflow to see how the different models perform. Quite often, given a failing tool call the model will attempt to recover (the @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem is... an interesting example).

Another fun one is to use Opus 3 tool calling, where it emits <thinking> tags showing how/why it's calling it.

One final point is that different combinations of tools will give different behaviours - if 2 MCP Servers have similar definitions, it will degrade performance... One of the motivations for fast-agent is precisely because it allows dividing tasks up amongst different context windows to get the sharpest performance.

Link to the Anthropic docs as it's my preferred explanation. The Messaging API's grab the JSON and present it as Tool Call types - other models will simply emit JSON and let the Client handle it.

[1] https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/tool-us...
I wish this had 8K resolution at 120Hz.
The Combined Cipher Machine 1940's-1950's
I’ve written a new essay on cryptology dealing with the Combined Cipher Machine used by the US and UK in WWII and in the 1950’s.

https://chris-intel-corner.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-combined...

The CCM has not been covered by historians in detail, so this is the first time all this information is presented somewhere.
Guess I’ll get a Supra instead if my paper money ever pans out
Hallucinating while driving, seeing people or animals that weren't there. That happened multiple times over several years before the diagnosis.

Unfortunately she didn't share what other incidents she had, I really wish she had.
A thought: maybe the pulse could be some sort of link status probing? e.g. "is this thing plugged in?"
I have visited the site, but mostly just hung around in /b/. I didn't really check out any of the other forums on there.

I could be wrong, but I think that the average non-active-4chan-user associates 4chan primarily with /b/.
"This isn’t a fad. This isn’t going away. This is the dominant way to code. And if you are not doing it, you might just be left behind"

To which I say: a race to the bottom is still a race, yes, but not one you want to win
That doesn't square with the rest of the article which says that companies didn't raise wages until the government raised the minimum wage, and that wages are still only half of what the unions say are needed.

> workers, union representatives, and academics told Rest of World that wages have increased only because of worker protests, and not smarter factories

> Automation is how all industrialized countries got rich.

Automation is how industrialized countries increased output and GDP, and it's how shareholders got rich. It's not how workers got rich (because they didn't).
I think you'd be surprised. I never knew that internal monologues were a thing until there was a HN thread about it and a lot of people had them and a lot of people didn't.

I always thought it was something that we did in TV shows or books to give you a sense of what a character was feeling, I didn't know this was an actual literal experience people had.

I can certainly have an internal monologue, in the way that you could put on a puppet show. I can conciously think to myself 'self, this is self. Clean your car out' I can form the feeling of those words in my head. But there's nobody 'saying' them if that makes sense. I'm playing back a design of my conscious self.
What makes a labor market for agents that recognize problems and provide solutions special or different from markets for other kinds of labor? If AIs get to a point where they dramatically outperform humans in other forms of labor, why not in this one?
As the username implies, the "dinosaur on the internet" kind. The classic trope of the IT person who live(d) in their windowless cave, surrounded by a cacophony of whirling fans and grinding hard drives, retired kit repurposed into a lab since the budget never allowed for a proper one. Graphic tees and blue jeans, an enigmatic mystery to the masses who complain stuff is broken but also that they don't know why I'm here since everything always works.

So just your average IT person, really. What we lack in social graces, we make up for with good humor, excellent media recommendations, and a loved passion for what we create because we like seeing our users smile at their own lives being made easier. I guess the "cryptid" part comes in because I'm actively trying to improve said sociability and round out my flaws, unlike the stereotypical portrayals of the BOFH or IT Crowd.
We'd love additional contributors! We also have some more detailed plans for such an extension. If you're interested in chatting about it, you can join our discord[1] (or we can expand here/in a github issue as well)

1: https://discord.com/invite/aH5WTMnKHT
Why is that something to love? Making it more exclusive to other markets?
Assuming you’re driving a sports car for fun and not to win a race - isn’t feel the whole point?
what do you think it should be written in? golang?
I own couple of ThinkPads myself: an old L-series one, a T490 and lately a P16s. They all are fine. 45 mins on battery on best performance mode is very bad.

I am currently using a P16s with an Intel's meteor lake CPU and an RTX 500 Ada dGPU. I would say it is not that bad. Linux Mint worked OOB perfectly. I get 5-6 hrs of battery life which is fine for me (considering it has a 4K OLED display). The dGPU is mostly idle and the machine is mostly silent unless I am gaming.

The only times I hear the fans going are when using it on my lap or playing games. I do run Windows VM for a big .NET Framework project (coding on JetBrains Rider) and at the same time some coding on Linux. The CPU handles those fine.

These are my personal experiences though. The only issue I can pick is sometimes Chrome shows some artifacts (I think, related the iGPU driver)
Anyone that feels this type of moderation is censorship can use/host an instance with different rules.
The article is specifically about YC companies - by definition early stage startups.
> At least there are words.

> The Brits have nothing.

There are words in the British constitution as well. Acts of Parliament that define how the Parliament and the courts function are constitutional laws, such as the Parliament Acts of 1911 & 1949 and the Constitutional Reform Act 2005. If we are going by words, there are a lot more words in these multiple constitutional documents than in the constitutional documents of many countries that only have one such document.
"It'll be fine" and other lies we tell ourselves
It would be difficult to turn top leadership in a group because they are probably the most devoted. It's likely easier to start from the bottom. The guy that always has time to attend meetings or participate or throw in some cash (the ideal member) is going to quickly rise in the ranks. The guy with 5 kids at home and is too busy with work is not going to be an given leadership roles. The guy that only needs a fig leaf of a job is going to have plenty of time to "help" the group plan and execute tasks. He's always going to have some connect that can come through to move things forward. A fed isn't going to be the one to suggest crimes but they will certainly be there at every moment to eagerly help move it forward.
Thanks for troubleshooting with us. Glad you got it to work!
Right, like putting out beavers in villages and towns. The beavers dig up dams, floiding the town, town which loved green and quiet hates environmentals forever. I would donate to that sort of self defeat initiative a million every day if i were exxon mobile.

Anything to antagonize working class people.
Not sure but would say that people pirate Photoshop even more since it went full subscription model. From my experience, once I learned they're going this way I bought the last Lightroom available and have it on my DVD. Of course this has been quite a time ago and it will not work with new cameras' raw formats but I guess I will just buy older camera, not the bleeding edge one, if my camera breaks beyond repeair

My use case is: do some photos once every two months and make them better using lightroom. Paying monthly for it makes really no sense for me.
Idk, at 29, 30 and 31 I became significantly smarter - it just had to do with things I was intensely interested in. Things that could hold my focus just no longer matter. Fortunately I'm interested in engaging things that are hard.
But accumulating and saving always comes at a cost. Is it worth to earn more money, but spend less time with your family for example? It's a delicate balancing act and you never know where the right balance is
Should not the de Bruijn sequence work somehow for this problem?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bruijn_sequence
apparently only /b /pol and maybe 1 or 2 others are bananas. the rest is well moderated and civil.
> What’s wrong with people working for rent or groceries?

Many people are compelled to do that, but almost everyone wants more out of life. Strong evidence is that they take more whenever they can get it.
> Who is "they"?

Galadriel. She would be a great and terrible queen. All would love her, and despair.

> People that don't know any history?

For some reason, I find that people who accuse others of not knowing history tend to be the most ignorant of it themselves. History buffs don't seem to be walking around telling other people they "don't know any history". Just an observation.

For an example of a benevolent dictator, look at King Leopold II of Belgium, the Builder King. Loved by his people. Created the Royal Trust, donating a most of his properties to the Belgian nation. Brought culture and prestige to Belgium.

For an example of the atrocities of a malevolent dictator, look at King Leopold II of Belgium. The butcher of the Congo. Unbelievable exploitation and atrocities committed under his rule.

Or look at Ashurbanipal, the last "Great King" of Assyria, who built one of the greatest libraries in history; a collection of human knowledge surpassed in the ancient world only by the Library of Alexandria. And a genocidal maniac who spent months not just pillaging and raping opposing cities long after they had been defeated, but destroying any trace of the people who lived there, salting the land, and seeding the ground with weeds so that it would be impossible to ever re-build.

A wise builder-king with the power and drive to make the nation and world a better place for all its people would absolutely be the best government humanity has been able to achieve so far. Checks and balances are a necessity for a functioning government, but they do bog things down.

My point, of course, is that this is completely counter to human nature, and has (almost?) never been achieved, even in those times that it appears that it has.
Needs too many correct bets or too much $$ to get a few million of returns. You can win a lottery of 50 million with just a few dollars! But I do think this is an interesting strategy. I might try it out just for fun.

Anyway I'm half joking. I do buy lottery but it is just to improve the mood of the day. Oh a good mood for a few hours is so important to keep being sane.
Isn't it the opposite of the headline? Modems were hamstrung by digital phone lines you didn't know we had. One final trick allowed them to match, but not exceed, those digital lines.
It has nothing to do with communism and I didn't say that it does.

I was referring to the single party authoritarian government of the USSR
The original voyager was an experiment. The second one was to take advantage of a planetary alignment.

Fun story: The first voyager broke the imagination of mankind. The world was going to change immensely. The new incoming Republican administration was not happy by this rapid change. So they were not going to take a new voyager idea very well. The (political) scientists suggested that voyager 2 will "ONLY" investigate 2 planets instead of 4. Nixon went ahead with this reduced plan. A decade later the voyager 2 trajectory was updated to investigate 2 additional planets. YAY!
You can’t replace infrastructure with the private sector because infrastructure doesn’t generate any money. Instead, it works like a velocity multiplier that helps others generate money.

Infrastructure is also dependent on centralization. As opposed to some industries, the free market actually makes infrastructure less efficient.

Imagine there are 1000 companies developing roads and they all use different signage. All use different licenses. Would that work? Could you live your life? Probably not, and if you did, it would be absurdly expensive.

Some things MUST be a centralized public service. Pretty much all countries, independent of each other, figured this out 150 years ago. But here we are, still arguing the point.
People are not ready to take up arms over "economic policy". What they're concerned about is the flaunting of the Constitution by the Executive, and the dereliction of duty by Congress.
Are Trump and DOGE running the fed govt like a private company?
> "Just man up", maybe?

That's the toxic stuff you get from society, which leads to you hiring mental health professionals that can teach you healthy, effective ways of dealing with stress.
> Also flatly, people cannot pay their rent, or eat GDP, its possible to have lower GDP growth and still be more prosperous country, most of the GDP loss will be to upper income earners.

Right, but then you’re working with a smaller pie than if you just skipped tariffs, taxed the upper income earners, and redistributed that.

And tariffs are particularly regressive - mostly resulting in higher costs for your low income earners, since tariffed goods are a relatively higher part of their expenses than they are for the wealthy.

Tariffs are an economically inefficient way to get a bigger pie slice for the median earner.
9 services, 5 theirs, 4 other OSS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Type_2_(T3)

Huh.
Another TechCrunch [dupe]

Official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43282489
Driven by large international buyers:

> “Buyers are particularly pleased when they see such automation in place,” Shahid told Rest of World. Automation cuts labor costs while improving production, leading to better margins for Urmi, he said.

I'm not against automation. It's wonderful, and can improve production and accuracy, and relieve workers of having to perform certain tediously repetitive tasks. The problem is that _all_ of the benefits of automation are reaped by the shareholders, not the workers. Companies could add automation and keep their workers, leading to a happier workforce who can produce with less pressure assisted by automation. But instead, automation is used to _replace_ workers to reduce labor costs, and _increase_ pressure on the remaining workers.

It's not the application of automation that is destructive to society, is the distribution of the benefits of automation that is destructive. It could be used as a force for good, but no, we choose to instead use it as a force to accumulate wealth for the few at the expense of the many.