skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That isn’t it. The argument is STOP. Chrome has become an OS that is bigger than the OS it runs on. This complexity did not arise from “user features” (which the OS already covers), but from “google features” (the morass of policy to provide limited security on a dozen platforms without toppling the adwords kingdom).
Did you fully read my comment?

This doesn’t make sense as a response… you can’t gain that kind of credibility just by stating opinions.

And even if millions do so, it’s still just talk, unless consistently reflected at the ballot box.
Ultimately, every AI thing I've tried in this era seems to want to make me happy, even if it's wrong, instead of helping me.

I describe it like "an eager intern who can summarize a 20-min web search session instantly, but ultimately has insufficient insight to actually help you". (Note to current interns: I'm mostly describing myself some years ago; you may be fantastic so don't take it personally!)

Most of my interactions with it via text prompt or builtin code suggestions go like this:

1. Me: I want to do X in C++. Show me how to do it only using stdlib components (no external libraries).

2. LLM: Gladly! Here is solution X

3. Me: Remove the undefined behavior from foo() and fix the methods that call it

4. LLM: Sure! Here it is (produces solution X again)

5. Me: No you need to remove the use of uninitialized variables as the out parameters.

6. LLM: Oh certainly! Here is the correct solution (produces a completely different solution that also has issues)

7. Me: No go back to the first one

etc

For the ones that suggest code, it can at least suggest some very simple boilerplate very easily (e.g. gtest and gmock stuff for C++), but asking it to do anything more significant is a real gamble. Often I end up spending more time scrutinizing the suggested code than writing a version of it myself.
"That's the bet!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkz-CQdmNn0
I think that you're conflating LFortran with LLVM Flang.
> Where would I go next?

Today we finally have Librem 5 and Pinephone, which can run different GNU/Linux distributions and offer the full freedom.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librem_5

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PinePhone
Cost per flight hour.

Indeed though, F35 has become relatively inexpensive per unit, as intended.
250g bags are only 70% of the size of a 350g bag. Also, they don't seem to offer anything except blends.

Their actual more expensive coffee (which even then, it's unclear if this is a blend or not) is 14 pounds a bag, which... when you scale to 350g comes out to, unsurprisingly, about 20 pounds.
No it’s definitely a 3D renderer. Glide was a competitor to OpenGL and Direct3D that was proprietary to 3dfx. Don’t remember why the quality was higher.
Good freaking luck! The inconsistencies of the software world pale in comparison to trying to construct any real world building: http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-...
My wife's 11 inch got retired this January.

She used it for almost 12 years and was very displeased by the selection of laptops available for replacement. If there was an 11 inch Air available still, she would have one now. It was very sick already. With the induced software incompatibility plague, with some physical troubles for the past 2-3 years, but she refused it being replaced until it's condition was causing overwhelming difficulties.

She got it when we were only a few months into our relationship. From me.
Just based on the wikipedia page it doesn't sound like it was lost?

"After the ship's seizure the Malta Maritime Authority stated that the security committee—composed of Maltese, Finnish and Swedish authorities—were aware of the ship's location at all times, but withheld the information to protect the crew."

Certainly a murky situation but doesn't feel like it demonstrates the complexity of finding a ship. Sounds like right away once someone wanted to find the ship they could find the ship no problem. Presumably using Synthetic Aperture Radar satellites and then the frigate's own radar.
Used it with Pydantic to parse some Excel sheets. Works pretty well!
The fact being that they (illegally) got access to data that was to be used for health purposes.
As a newbie software engineer who has forced push to main numerous times last week without a PR. I’m surprised by this discourse on HN.
Tariffs unlikely would benefit working class either. Benefits likely will be captured mostly by business owners (in protected by tariffs sectors) while everyone will get higher prices (which will hit peoples with low income the most). Manufacturing is more automated nowadays (than it was in the post WW2 era) so it will bring a small number of jobs (copare to the US population) and many of them will require a degree (or certfication).
Ha! Not seen Schlock before.

I agree that a Phalanx can be swarmed but I'm having problems envisaging drone-on-drone attritional combat involving a capital ship lasting for vey long. If you (capital ship owner) are attacking a peer state it can probably afford to swarm you repeatedly over several days also throwing in plenty of additional standoff missiles, perhaps something ballistic, a sub or two, probably others I haven't thought of.

You'd probably get away with it handling intermittent Houthi attacks in the Red Sea but in a serious war I think the logistics would get you in the end.
It doesn't matter what El Salvador thinks of Bitcoin. For it to succeed it needs to be accepted by institutions such as the IMF. That's great that it sounds good in theory but if a currency isn't widely accepted it's a failure.
I do. I even have his book. What about him?
Hey igal from restate here :)
Indeed the restate server does handle the durable execution part, while the user code runs in a separate process, we don't host the code ourselves at the moment, but it is really easy to deploy it wherever you wish and even deploy it on AWS lambda!
Speaking of techniques-- I remember that Disney's Snow White being a kind of pastiche of different art styles and physics. The Fleischer Snow White, too, with the rotoscoping of Cab Calloway vs. all the bouncy, stretchy characters (all of which IIRC was done by a single animator). All based on practical constraints, I'm sure, but audiences enjoyed it and it's a valid and striking style.

Does anyone still mix clashing styles/physics this way in modern animation? My superficial impression is that if a modern character has a gag where, say, its foot elongates to kick an opponent, it has to be part of a foot-elongating species of animal inside, complete with a 10-page backstory, who lives in a fully worked out Elongation Universe that has its own gaming physics engine and subreddit.
Yes but surely you don't want to recreate (and maintain!) this whole list by hand? https://duckduckgo.com/bangs#:~:text=13%2C568%20bangs%20and%...

I hear you about the search engine redirect, though
These piezoelectric drivers are very cool.

Here's a video showing the mechanism:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iHL4ZCkCKc

And here's a video showing such a motor at full speed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtttNnmCVmU
The studies weren't about gender in mice because, gender being a social construct, mice don't have it.

*Some* of the studies were about the potential physiological effects of hormone therapy. They used mice, but the point was to study how humans are affected by HRT.

The way the article is written makes it sound like they're putting mice in drag and asking them their pronouns.
Personally, I find it comforting that the plane was able to fly 400km more!
That's not the same compiler.
Hey! Thank you, I know of this! I am actually thinking of displaying on the website how to access the command from the :help, for people (and myself, haha) to get used to using that.
imo the perfect small laptop has to have full-size keys and thus be at least ~11x5".

That rules out all iPads below the 12.9" due to their tall aspect (even in landscape).

The 11" MBA was ~12x8" and so darn near the minimum you could make it. ~11x7" should be doable but 2" is a pretty small trackpad.

imo the latest MBAs are more or less perfect: a great tradeoff of overall size vs. trackpad size. Although I actually preferred the tapered design of the M1.
ChatGPT's logo looks like an anus yet they're doing just fine.
Publish and Perish: Why Ponder Stibbons Left the Ivory Tower
Canon being late to the AF party (last century).

They ended up with all electronic contacts when they switched lens mounts for the “eos” series cameras though at the expense of not having backward compatable lenses. (I had a bunch of manual focus lenses at the time…) They had one “auto focus” camera for the old lenses the t80. (https://global.canon/en/c-museum/product/film115.html) but almost no lenses supported autofocus.

I think most of settings the camera sent to the older lenses (aperture primarily) was done mechanically.

The way these old cameras autofocused was pretty interesting. With some light passing through a semi transparent mirror onto different sensors.

Edit: this site has another page about autofocus. Quite extensive.

https://exclusivearchitecture.com/03-technical-articles-DSLR...

Shorter canon article:
https://support.usa.canon.com/kb/s/article/ART170280

I have one of those mirrorless slrs now. The focus is amazingly good. Lots of software (eye detect etc). The focus sensors are integrated into the image sensor I believe.
X is experiencing outages on Monday morning
Likewise, having a standing army is dangerous.

How much airtime do we want to give that topic on this here thread about current distortion of our democracy through totally distinct mechanisms?

Not sure who you're arguing against on the propriety or danger of NSA's capability, but it ain't me.
Please read for yourself, you're showing ignorance and laziness, which leads us all to believe you're not arguing in good faith. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning

The effects mentioned in the abstract are:

- How feminizing hormone therapy (estrogen and anti-testosterone medications) affects immune responses to HIV vaccines

- Changes in gene expression patterns in immune cells following hormone therapy

- Potential differences in vaccine efficacy and adverse outcomes related to hormone therapy

Why is this important? This research could lead to the ability to create more personalized vaccination approaches that consider hormonal factors between men and women.
> innovative, but not revolutionary

The experience of Netflix, Spotify, and Uber were revolutionary. It felt like the future, and it worked as expected. Sure, we didn't realize the poison these products were introducing into many creative and labor ecosystems, nor did we fully appreciate how they would operate as means to widen the income inequality gap by concentrating more profits to executives. But they fit cleanly into many of our lives immediately.

Debating whether that's "revolutionary" or "innovative" or "whatever-other-word" is just a semantic sideshow common to online discourse. It's missing the point. I'll use whatever word you want, but it doesn't change the point.
Legality only matters when the law is enforced. That's basically never been the case when it comes to privacy or corporation-against-consumer fraud.
What is that area to the right of India?
Australia has very strong truth-in-advertising laws.

Tesla advertised there that they were now the most popular selling car, outselling Camry... and were smacked down when Licensing records showed no such thing. Made to pull ads, pay a fine.
I recall Unreal has an option to switch to use the 3dfx card, and if IIRC, it has some additional features like more colourful lights and such.

Unreal was such a beast back in the day that it completes beats Quake 2 and other contemporary FPS even on software rendering. TBH it still looks beautiful even by today's standards, if you ignore the low polygon counts.

I'm not a person who cares too much about graphics, even for FPS (I don't really enjoy most of the modern FPS except Wolfenstein, which has interesting gameplay), and I argue that too much graphics eye candies simply decrease the overall quality of the game, but 3dfx definitely was a huge bang back in the day.
Affording your AI chatbot friends
Apple M3 Ultra SoC: Disappointing CPU Benchmark Result Surfaces
I remember a similar analogy. No matter how hard you encrypt your device - if the border police holds a hammer to your head and forces you to unlock your phone, it’s as good as no encryption.
Honestly, yes. Calling in an order can result in the restaurant botching the order and you have no way to challenge it unless you recorded the call. Also, as someone who’s been on both sides of the transaction, some people have poor audio quality or speak accented English, which is difficult to understand. Ordering from a screen saves everyone valuable time and reduces confusion.
It’s also because the VGA signal quality from the 3dfx Voodoo wasn’t very good.

It didn’t have a traditional 2D graphics core at all, so it needed another graphics card for rendering the desktop (any non-accelerated apps really), and this was connected to the Voodoo using VGA passthrough. There was a noticeable image quality loss from this arrangement.

A Matrox card would give you crisp VGA with nice saturation, but the 3D acceleration was nearly worthless. Choices…
They also had the most recognizable unified box art style from all HW makers[1]. When you saw those eyes staring into your soul off the shelves, you knew it was a 3dfx GPU. They also had the best ads. [2] HW vendors today don't have the balls anymore to use designs like that, it's all flat sterile corporate nonsense.

[1] https://www.ixbt.com/img/r30/00/02/08/90/boxes.jpg

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/41r1wj/3dfx_w...
Cloudflare: New source of randomness just dropped
There is solution to this called the ARM (Anti Radiation Missile)
I actually sample this type of music, I keep the vocals and it ends up feeling like lofi.
Genuine question: what would you have him do at that point instead? It’s notable that he did that after all the other billionaires did it. Apple can’t go alone on this, they’d be taken apart by a right wing smear campaign (and possibly violence against Apple stores — how many thousands of Apple employees would be affected?).

Collective action, even in corporate America, is required to beat these people. The failure here is that like-minded execs didn’t preemptively gather to prevent this outcome in the first place. If you want to be unhappy with Tim Cook, be unhappy that he was too politically naive for too long.
If LLM's are bumpers on a bowling lane, HN is a forum of pro bowlers.

Bumpers are not gonna make you a pro bowler. You aren't going to be hitting tons of strikes. Most pro bowlers won't notice any help from bumpers, except in some edge cases.

If you are an average joe however, and you need to knock over pins with some level of consistency, then those bumpers are a total revolution.
The slide rule museum site, and slide rule related content, show up on HN regularly. How many HN participants have a slide rule? I got one in 1975 or 76, because a 4 function calculator my mom got me couldn't do some, cosine, etc. I believe slide rules were on a fire sale basis at the local college, because of calculators coming on the market.
Cool videos, thanks! The driver shown in the first video is indeed a piezoelectric actuator, but not the type Canon uses in their lenses. The driver shown in the second video is probably related to Canon's Nano USM.
leave dang out of this
That is a good estimate.

You can see US non profit compensation online - https://datarepublican.com/nonprofit/assets/

Many of the presidents/vps make in that exact range (~$200 - $300k), although there are other like:

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/363...

Feeding America, which pays their CEO a tad under $1m.
It's a stretch in the sense that I exclude people who don't see/accept/care for the situation even if it's provided to them with scientific proof. After all quite a few people simply don't give a shit about politics or are just illogical.

In the US the picture is generally unclear. You have a big direction change in maybe the most influential country in the world and I believe everyone without learning difficulty realizes the situation is unpredictable since it's changing significantly on a weekly basis.

The confidence in comments is not people being convinced they can read the future but positions of confusion being unworthy of sharing causing everyone to present theories as facts.

Also hyperboles. Plenty of hyperboles going around to push the needle further in the direction you want it to go. You'll see topics about muslims "conquering" Europe and calling for a race cleansing written by people who fucking hang with the homie Mahmood but want to display their dissatisfaction with the general situation online and hence say some dumb shit.

Anyway, I believe the US is a bad example at the moment because the situation is very volatile and I believe no one can tell what will happen. I believe a situation being unknown is viable and that a lot of the discussion on it mentions how unpredictable it all is with a side note on confident extreme predictions IMO being a cry for a stronger move of the needle in a certain direction via either propaganda botting, irrational people or, most often, hyperboles.
Thanks so much for putting so much effort into this, loved reading it: the diagrams and explanations are top-tier. Inspirational.
Was that comment intended seriously? I thought it was a wry joke.
The faster cpython project was for 5x over the 3.10 baseline. CPython 3.13 is currently running at something like 1.6x speed compared to 3.10. With the JIT enabled it goes up by a few more single digit percentage point. With the changes in 3.14 it'll be something like 1.8x speed-up.

So it's slowly getting there, I think the faster cpython project was mostly around the idea that the JIT can get a lot faster as it starts to optimise more and more and that only just got shipped in 3.13, so there's a lot of headroom. We know that PyPy (an existing JIT implementation) is close to 5x faster than CPython a lot of the time already.

There's also now the experimental free-threading build which speeds up multithreaded Python applications (Not by a lot right now though unfortunately).
A lot of these systems are being phased out. Lots of airports now have GPS only approaches where they would have had an ILS systems in the past. The bigger airports still have more advanced ILS systems for landings in extremely limited/no visibility but also have GPS approaches.

A normal IFR approach has more relaxed minimums that you can get to with GPS so there are a lot of airports without any ILS system in place at this point. The GPS approach gets you down to minimums of something like 200 feet above ground at which you either have the runway in sight or abort the landing.

Likewise, VOR radios are slowly being retired and increasingly used as a fallback only. GPS systems in planes have been common for since end of last century. ILS and VOR infrastructure is kind of expensive to keep up and running and increasingly optional.
I think giving them a chance does make a real difference compared to killing them on the spot.
AI is a big lie. The planned reset is the truth. ML is good for surveillance state and killing people. There are other useful things, but they are not enough to drive the hype train.

The digital economy is driven by faith in the "best" tomorrow, not by rationality or critical thinking. Rationality is faked trough statistical interpretation.
Bias is ignored for shareholders growth.

Progress is the new religion. A global Babylonian model of existence. In short: Dystopia.

The models behind the tech are antihumanistic. Transhumanistic. Posthumanistic.
I'll try Zen today, thanks for recommendation!
On a very different scale, but I recall playing bzflag decades ago and discovering that I simply could not jump my tank to the second level. My graphics card was so slow that something wasn't working correctly, and no matter how many times I tried from different distances I would almost make it, but not quite.
It's a good point, but I'm not going to trust a country where the executive branch used data that was supposed to be used for health purposes for criminal investigations (Germany).

The executive branch of the other one arrested someone for using encryption tools and "protecting [himself] against the exploitation of [his] personal data by GAFAM".
I second “Becoming Steve Jobs.” It actually gives insight into him, rather than just regurgitating what Isaacson thinks are the facts.
heterodox is a common term in the economics world. imagine it says "mainstream" if you prefer.

> You could start by stating your assumptions and basic axioms.

I'm not here to write a text book on economics. I'm here to point out that "debt is bad, we can never carry on like this" is a belief, not a statement of fact.
Will you be running a lot of containers for dev environment or background services?
Show HN: In-Browser Graph RAG with Kuzu-WASM and WebLLM
We show the potential of modern, embedded graph databases in the browser by demonstrating a fully in-browser chatbot that can perform Graph RAG using Kuzu (the graph database we're building) and WebLLM, a popular in-browser inference engine for LLMs. The post retrieves from the graph via a Text-to-Cypher pipeline that translates a user question into a Cypher query, and the LLM uses the retrieved results to synthesize a response. As LLMs get better, and WebGPU and Wasm64 become more widely adopted, we expect to be able to do more and more in the browser in combination with LLMs, so a lot of the performance limitations we see currently may not be as much of a problem in the future.

We will soon also be releasing a vector index as part of Kuzu that you can also use in the browser to build traditional RAG or Graph RAG that retrieves from both vectors and graphs. The system has come a long way since we open sourced it about 2 years ago, so please give us feedback about how it can be more useful!
I think it's back to 2019 pre-covid
Yeah, digitizing receipts is still a huge challenge for most companies, especially for expense reimbursements. Even though invoices are increasingly digital, employees still end up with physical receipts for work-related expenses. From what I've seen, there are some interesting contenders like Klippa that seem to solve exactly this problem [1].

Curious to know if anyone heard of or used their OCR or a similar tool. Apparently it's not an LLM in disguise but an actual AI trained on gazillions of documents so the risk of hallucination might be lower than these LLM OCR solutions like Mistral.

[1] https://www.klippa.com/en/ocr/ocr-api/
I still remember these massive performance jumps you could get around the turn of the millennium. First it was Pentium 166 MMX (SIMD FP math), then it was 3dfx Voodoo, then it was GeForce 256 (hardware T&L) and AMD Athlon Thunderbird (just blasting past anything Intel could offer).
Humble Bundle: Computer Science The Fun Way
Not sure what the legal technicalities are, but one of the questions I saw on the site was just a picture of a the user's screen with the question on it, so it's definitely more the former than the latter.
> Far less of a pass for cybertrucks.

Why not? I got one because I liked the look and it's a fantastic family car (and house power backup). I'm not "promoting techno-feudalism" or anything so sophisticated. For many of us, it's just a car. I simply like it and it does what my family needs in a car.

But because of all of the "ok fine, give the Tesla owners a pass but fuck the cybertrucks" people like you, I now get to worry about being assaulted for driving it or coming back to a vandalized, damaged car with my kids in tow. Hence the Kristallnacht-like comment.
https://github.com/vercel/next.js/pull/75877
memory leaks in the runtime and frameworks all the time.
This setTimeout leak crashed our prod machine multiple times until we rolled back.