skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP is not talking about this ad in particular being cancer.

He's talking about a couple million roadside billboards, ads on busses, ads in TV services you pay for, drug companies spending more on advertising than R&D, political machines driven by 24 hours news cycles that are funded from ragebait, social media companies that have us literally addicted to our screens due to their advertising-based revenue models. It goes on... ad infinitum indeed.

It's a fucking cancer and it truly is the root of so many of our problems and we are running out of time to start thinking clearly about the damage the industrial advertising complex causes.
Not OP, but yes. Who has most of it? Not I.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/a-visual-breakdown-of-who-o...
I’m not the person you asked, but here are some random, assorted examples of “structured data you want to learn something about”:

- data you’ve pulled from an API, such as stock history or weather data,

- banking records you want to analyze for patterns, trends, unauthorized transactions, etc

- your personal fitness data, such as workouts, distance, pace, etc

- your personal sleep patterns (data retrieved from a sleep tracking device),

- data you’ve pulled from an enterprise database at work — could be financial data, transactions, inventory, transit times, or anything else stored there that you might need to pull and analyze.

Here’s a personal example: I recently downloaded a publicly available dataset that came in the form of a 30 MB csv file. But instead of using commas to separate fields, it used the pipe character (‘|’). I used DuckDB to quickly read the data from the file. I could have actually queried the file directly using DuckDB SQL, but in my case I saved it to a local DuckDB database and queried it from there.

Hope that helps.
First the dotcom boom pushed the artists out to Oakland by 2000, but there were still burners and hipsters in 2005. Then the subprime boom/bust took a lot of the hipsters and older businesses out, but the tech busses brought the Silicon Valley nerds in 2010. Then the rise of Uber startups through 2016 pushed the artists into warehouses until the Ghostship fire, but there were still techbros and crypto in the Mission. When the pandemic finally came for the rest of Frisco there was hardly anyone left who cared or they were so old they wanted everyone else to just leave. If you remember Market street and the Tenderloin from the old days, the tents today are kinda quaint.

I'm sure somebody has a similar timeline for NYC.
Yes exactly! This approach can generate hundreds of "fix the problem"-type tests very easily. With some creative thinking I suspect you can use variations to stack multipliers on other types of tests as well.
How did you confirm that it queried levels.fyi and redfin?
https://rdrop.link gives you six characters. It's IMHO "telephoneable".
I recently started re-reading "Programming in Ada" by J.G.P. Barnes about the original Ada. In my opinion, it was not that good of a language. Plenty of ways to trigger undefined behavior.

Where C was clearly designed to be a practical language with feedback from implementing an operating system in C. Ada lacked that kind of practical experience. And it shows.

I don't know anything about modern day Ada, but I can see why it didn't catch on in the Unix world.
tl;dr: they allegedly added cloth to the crotch area, which increased air resistance

> “It was an extremely high-level manipulation,” race director Pertile said of the Norwegian actions that were “absolutely by far the worst” in his five years in the job. “We destroyed the suit to be able to find this adjustment.”

> The Italian official said alterations were not detected by eye and only were revealed by examining the seams of the crotch area of the ski suits after the competition.

> Extra material in the same color had been inserted that added weight and helped to lower the material between an athlete’s legs as they took off into the flight phase. More surface area hitting the air helps add to flight time, Pertile said.
Global smartwatch sales fall for first time
The Chinese stock market is still a crapshoot, so even if stocks are undervalued, if you don't have inside information you can't make much money beyond trying to ride the waves of those who do. So the undervaluing makes sense to a degree (the stock market can't operate very efficiently).
In addition to all that they also own a lot of starlink shares...
Every time I see these robots, I think "this is going to be the last thing I see before I die"
I thought at the time OpenAI were clamoring that they couldn't release it because it was "too dangerous?"
> Are people just very shortsighted and don't see how these changes are potentially going to cause upheaval?

> Do they think the upheaval is simply going to be worth it?

All technology causes upheaval. We've benefited from many of these upheavals to the point where it's impossible for most to imagine a world without the proliferation of movable type, the internal combustion engine, the computer, or the internet. All of your criticisms could have easily been made word for word by the Catholic Church during the medieval era. The "society" of today is no more of a sacred cow than its antecedent incarnations were half a millenium ago. As history has shown, it must either adapt, disperse, or die.
stb_image is a single header image encoder/decoder that is used pretty widely across game development codebases. and it supports a ton of different formats.

https://github.com/nothings/stb
This is crab in a bucket mentality.
"Janet Petro told employees the Office of the Chief Scientist, the Office of Science, Policy, and Strategy, and the diversity, equity and inclusion branch within the Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity would be closed."
We're already doing this with methanol in Sweeen though. So what's the point?
Hey! Coming soon. We're also working on a swe-bench test: https://github.com/nuanced-dev/nuanced/issues/10

In the interim, this is a test I did with Sonnet 3.5 + Cursor, showing how it impacted explanations (not solutions): https://github.com/nuanced-dev/nuanced/issues/31
I get that but isn't it like 100x more efficient to be storing that energy to offset intermittency/base power or selling that ammonium as fertilizer to offset hydrocarbon-based haber bosch ferts?
Native Git Support in Zed
I use stumpwm. The reason is to have fewer features. In the few years I've used it, I never wanted to select text with mouse (although sometimes I had no choice, eg. in PDF), but even then, I never wanted to drag it with the mouse (and I never needed to do that). I don't even know if that would work, and even if it doesn't--wouldn't care...

If I didn't need a Web browser and a PDF reader I wouldn't be running X at all... I wish there was a usable alternative for the browser and PDF reader that didn't require X...
The CDC dataset is 104GiB and the January 6th Committee Report is 99.5 GiB. I am happily lending some bandwidth and space for this. I'll pull down more once I see what the traffic is like.
Modern C++ has goodies like consteval that are supremely useful for embedded work. STL and the rest of the stdlib on the other hand depends on heap and exceptions for error reporting which are generally a no go zone for resource constrained targets.

You can productively use C++ as C-with-classes (and templates, and namespaces, etc.) without depending on the library. That leaves you no worse off than rolling your own support code in plain C.
It sort of is and isn't true. CPUs are designed to make certain programming models work very well, and they've done so at the costs of making other kinds of programming paradigms work well (as compared to, say, a GPU, which wants a programming model for which C and C-like languages are clearly ill-fitting). So it's not a wrong statement if you think of it as "designed for C-like languages."

But if you're using it in the sense of "C is a privileged language in terms of its connection to hardware architecture, " well, C isn't, and that statement is patently false. There's not a major difference between C, C++, Rust, Zig--even going as far afield as bytecode languages like Java and C#, or fully interpreted stuff like Python or Perl, especially as far as computer architects are concerned.

(And in the sense of "this is the language that architects care most about for tuning performance," I think that's actually C++, simply because that tends to be the language for the proprietary HPC software that pays the big bucks for compiler support.)
Ask HN: Flowx removed from Google Play without warning
I am posting:
1. to ask for advice or help, if you know someone at Google
2. in the hope someone at Google will see this and help
3. and to raise awareness.

Yesterday we got an email saying Flowx was removed from Google Play because of "Misleading Claims" on our store listing. Flowx is a weather app with weather model data from weather agencies like NOAA and ECMWF. From what we can gather we violate the following:

"Apps that falsely claim affiliation with a government entity or to provide or facilitate government services for which they are not properly authorized."

We have since added a clear statement that Flowx is not affiliated with these government agencies. We submitted this for review and appealed the removal but Google says it might take up to 7-days to review this.

I am a solo developer and this is our livelihood so this is quite stressful. I've had a user email and ask why they couldn't buy Pro.

We have been on Google Play for over 12 years and have been awarded Google's "Editors Choice". We don't believe we've violated policy in terms of "Misleading Claims". Or if we did, then most of the other weather apps in our app category, including the big boys with 100x more users, are in violation too.

I wonder if this removal was part of an AI process. If this is the case, it is not fair without a chance to fix it. Google, if you're listening, at least give the developer a chance to fix issues before removing it from the Google Play.

Thanks for listening and for any help.
Use care when and where debating is applied. I have seen multiple people let go because they did not choose their battles appropriately. It is a balancing act and one should first master politics and professional behavior that is appropriate to their sector and position within an organization. Knowing how to debate is one thing. Knowing when and where is another.
C++26: Removing Language Features
Who knows about this tool? How have you been promoting it? Where? To whom?

If you build something, that doesn't mean people will come regardless of how useful it is.
Tostitos are covered in a fine dust of salt. It allows for good coverage, every bit is perfectly salted but you end up consuming more salt. I prefer tortilla chips that use course salt sprinkled on top. Not every chip will be perfectly salted and some are over salted (which are more of like process issues) but you do use less salt overall. Chipotle does this. Their chips have about 2.78mg of sodium per gram of chip. Tostitos has 4.1mg of sodium per gram of chip. Using coarse salt in cooking (when not simply dissolved into the food) does lead to being able to taste the salt better as the large salt crystal takes longer to dissolve on your tongue and also lasting longer on top the food without dissolving into it.

Although I will say that sometimes some food manufacturers use sea salt that has a higher potassium chloride content in an effort to reduce the sodium. I was buying canned corn the other day, both from the same company but one listed as lower sodium. They both used "sea salt" but the original sodium version used "natural" sea salt whereas the lower sodium one made no such claim. Likely they were using modified sea salt that had higher potassium content while still keeping the overall salinity the same. They didn't say "less salt", which is what many product do say, they said "less sodium" which is technically true.
I also thought about the Minds in the Culture novels. That universe has many gradations of artificial brains.

Though I wouldn't recommend starting with any of the stories in the series. Or reading any at all. Find a summary or a Cliff's Notes instead. Iain M Banks has a talent for making great stories tedious.
German Intelligence Agency Concluded COVID19 Likely Originated from Lab Accident
Agreed. The iPad, from a hardware point of view, is a close approximation to Alan Kay's Dynabook concept (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook). It's a shame that iPads are so locked down; I'd love to use an iPad with an unrestricted operating system.

I have a Microsoft Surface 7 Pro. Even though Windows is not my favorite operating system, I enjoy using the hardware. I'm also looking forward to Framework's upcoming 12" convertible tablet; I also have a Framework 13 laptop.
You can’t compare Google to a service just started
> toolchains

Are what cargo, rustc, etc. are expected to run on. You probably meant target.

> i686-unknown-none

Is admittedly a missing target. `x86_64-unknown-none` specifies stuff like `extern "C"`'s ABI (per https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustc/platform-support/x86_64-unkn... ) which is a lot less universal/appropriate for i686, where AFAIK everyone chooses their own different incompatible ABIs - which might be the reason it's not provided? Usually you want to pick an i686-unknown-* target that aligns more closely with your own needs (e.g. your desired object/library/binary file format, abi, bootloader, ...?)

C:\local>rustup target list | findstr i686
i686-linux-android
i686-pc-windows-gnu
i686-pc-windows-gnullvm
i686-pc-windows-msvc (installed)
i686-unknown-freebsd
i686-unknown-linux-gnu
i686-unknown-linux-musl
i686-unknown-uefi

If, truly, none of them are appropriate for your needs, that's when it's time to use a custom target (per https://doc.rust-lang.org/rustc/targets/custom.html ) and `build-std` (per https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/unstable.html#buil... .) Using a toolchain file to pin your nightly rustc version might be appropriate (per https://rust-lang.github.io/rustup/overrides.html#the-toolch... .)

The last time I played with custom targets was on https://github.com/MaulingMonkey/rust-opendingux-test/tree/m... , using the old `xargo` instead of `build-std`. Notes.md details modifications made to make things work.
I would opt in.

If adverts were for my benefit I would be able to choose them, rather than have to block them.
Why doesn't it call the console.log() ?
While it doesn’t touch on AI at all (that I remember, I think there is some basic ship AI but it’s not a major plot point and it never “talks”) the Honor Harrington series is “Horatio Hornblower in space” and I highly recommend it.

Also I love the Zones of Thought series and The Culture.
Well, we're in a loop then because my response was "you don't care about maintainable assembly".

I want maintainable systems you want maintainable code. We can just accept that difference. I believe maintainable systems can be achieved without focusing on code that humans find maintainable. In the future, I believe we will build systems on top of code primarily written by LLMs and the rubric of what constitutes good code will change accordingly.

edit: I would also add that your position is exactly the position of assembly programmers when C came around. They lamented the assembly the C compiler generated. "I want assembly I can read, understand and maintain" they demanded. They didn't get it.
C compilers got a lot better though and sanitizers and analyzers can also easily catch a lot of mistakes.
FTC can't afford to fight Amazon's allegedly deceptive sign-ups after DOGE cuts
Sounds like EU defined "sale of data" to mean a lot of other things besides selling data, like transferring information. And now Firefox cannot so definitively say they don't "sell your data", because they allow you to transfer webpages over the network.
I'm like AI and I still agree.

It's because models struggle with design, period.

They're not great at getting things like margins right and consistent across an entire app while they're trying to follow instructions for a complex design.

Similarly they understand contrast if prompted directly, but while they're implementing a complex design they'll tend to still end up making poor contrast choices with tons of default fonts everywhere.

-

If you iterate more and provide images back to the model, you can start to get something better, but that's tedious and the opposite of what most people using these tools are trying to do.

And V0 defaults to the absolutely awful ui/shadcn which is the worst possible idea as AI driven development becomes popular (let's create a UI library with minimal design tokens, no package name, no guarantees on consistency or versioning because you literally cut and paste it and update it by applying diffs.)

I'm personally excited to see if larger models with multimodal output will be able to generate detailed coherent UIs, that I can then implement using a copilot for tedious parts.

To me that's the ideal flow to get something that doesn't have the "V0 Look"
Yep. And the network appliance world also tried to make that a "feature", by making things like "management VLANs" and pretending that you don't need to be secure because of it.
I will say the more recent additions to C++ at least have solved many of my long standing issues with that C-variant. Most of it was stuff that was long overdue. Like string formatting or a thread safe println. But even some of the stuff I didn’t think I would love has been amazing. Modules. Modules bro. Game changer. I’m all in. Honestly C++ is my go to for anything that isn’t just throw away again. Python will always be king of the single use scripts.
Do Larry and Sergei still control a supermajority of voting shares? If so then ultimately they call the shots if push comes to shove.
I remember. There was relative of MK-61, nearly fully compatible and in theory have extension port:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektronika_MK-52

And sorry for Russian language link, for some reason I have not found English.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Электроника_МК-161

https://web.archive.org/web/20140202161045/http://mk.semico....
How about showing some samples created by this app? The landing page is not appealing for an app builder service.
> If acceptable build hardware is released and is reasonably available to us, the architecture will be reintroduced.

Seems reasonable.
Manufactures are required to have UDIs on the label. FDA does not regulate the practice of medicine. Thus they cannot compel hospitals to record UDIs in electronic health records and they do not.

Source: I have published articles, organized symposia, and lobbied the US federal government about this subject.

Here is a relevant article (not one of mine :)

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/articl...

> At present, UDIs are not routinely or comprehensively captured, integrated as structured data within patients’ electronic health records, or available for clinicians, patients, and others to use.
Some are for sure, but a lot of those shows hold up well for all ages. I don't put much faith in marketers to decide which shows are for what demographics. Better to see what lands for yourself. It helps when you're watching and discussing the shows with your kids too.

Some of them, Adventure time being a great example, can appeal to very young kids but they'll find new meaning in those episodes as they get older.

I think shows like Infinity Train, Avatar the Last Airbender/Legend of Korra, Steven Universe, and Samurai Jack will be better after a kid is old enough that Cocomelon wouldn't hold any appeal, but even at that age Sarah & Duck, Hilda, MLP, Craig of the Creek, etc could still be good. Just about anything that holds their attention and isn't Cocomelon is a huge win. If you'll enjoy it, all the better.
1. consensus on what is "big" and what is "loud" is politically impossible.
2. In the US at least, all is allowed except for what is explicitly forbidden. 3. So you're going to have to define what is too big and what is too loud to make it forbidden. go back to #1
Unless, of course, you are not working on a greenfield project and instead are porting an existing compiler from Typescript, in which case Go is the language you would choose as it is the language that most closely resembles Typescript, allowing ease of bulk conversion by script. The same reason why it was chosen for Typescript.
I think all those are basically true, but I still don’t see them actually dominating any space besides their “gross monopolist” categories - ads and their dominant Chrome and Android that enhances those ads. In everything else (look at GCP) they’re performing worse than their products merit.

I think what keeps Google up at night is knowing that their ads business which pays all of the bills could be upended by regulation or by disruptive consumer AI of some kind and they’d then have approximately nothing in terms of revenue.
> side effects are ... strongly discouraged

This is simply a false generalization about a whole family that in its broadest interpretation includes completely different languages, most of them multi-paradigm.
Looks very sleek.
The Transformer LLM came from Google's NLP research and input method(phone keyboard) development. Prompt processing and next word prediction is exactly what CJK keyboard software always did for past 30+ years, only datacenter sized now.

Doesn't ring a bell that very few, if any, of "AGI achieved" people seem to have backgrounds with or exposures to either classical NLP, or Google, and/or cultures that make heavy use of IME? To me the situation looked like that Googlers "have seen that trick" previously, and are doing bare minimum to defend the company from losing presence in this AGI hype storm.
Because it links it down there
Dan Simmons' books often include AI plot elements and contemplate the consequences of humans becoming overly reliant on AI such that they lose basic competencies.
His upstairs neighbors have their own channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IRB0sxw-YU
> Can you plant bushes or shrubs between you and the road?

A thin strip of foliage does (basically) nothing to reduce noise propagation. Dense foliage (meaning you can’t see anything through it or move through it) gets you about 1 dB reduction for every 10 feet of thickness.
Exactly. It was described in Chesterton’s Fence:

There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”
If you’re using SQLite already, then it’s the same use case but better at analytics

If you’re using excel power query and XLOOKUPs, then it’s similar but dramatically faster and without the excel autocorrection nonsense

If you’re doing data processing that fits on your local machine eg 50MB, 10GB, 50GB CSVs kind of thing, then it should be your default.

If you’re using pandas/numpy, this is probably better/faster/easier

Basically if you’re doing one-time data mangling tasks with quick python scripts or excel or similar, you should probably be looking at SQLite/duckdb.

For bigger/repeatable jobs, then just consider it a competitor to doing things with multiple CSV/JSON files.
Effective and useful for Sony. They are detrimental to society as they increase consumption, waste, pollution etc.
US mostly kills people outside its borders.