skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Understanding exactly why before applying is not bad advice. But it takes time and can quickly become impractical when you're already pressed for it (like say, a small team startup already lacking a designer). In many cases it's better to just copy the closest thing to what you aspire to become, even if you don't quite yet grasp the details of why they originally made those decisions. All that can be figured out later for your own situation.
The "Elderly People" road signs win for me: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2GYPJR6/an-elderly-people-roadside...

The first time I saw one of these I stopped to take a picture. It just seems the most ridiculous thing to warn people about, as if somehow "elderly people" can't cross the road.
my great grandpa changed his name when they came to new york because it sounded too italian. I have his modified name as my middle name. Its a cool story to me that everybody in my family knows.

Even amongst the older people of the family it didnt seem like a big deal.
I love this book almost as much as The Martian but I don't think it fits OP's need? The tech in PHM isn't much advanced from today.
Definitely a huge trap to replace real user insights with anything else.

But this looks like a nice level 0 of testing
Generally these are done in coordination with a sewer cleaning truck at the next manhole in the pipe. Very common for them to stay on the phone with each other
Nope, Firefox still uses its own rendering engine and JavaScript engine—except on iOS, where it's essentially Safari with a UI wrapper. But that’s due to Apple’s ToS, not Firefox’s fault.

I assume the previous comment was about market share. It’s low, yes, but I still think Firefox has influence despite that. Having a third rendering engine is valuable—especially now, after Microsoft killed IE/Edge and turned it into a Chromium fork. The percentage might not be high, but the people who use Firefox are usually the ones pushing for keeping the web an open standard.
Powerhouse storm moves into US, prompting evacuations in California
No. It's your criticism that is unwarranted.
Hmm, not sure what you're asking then. You want a physical computer that you have access to?

DigitalOcean is just a hosting provider. You can buy just regular 'Droplets' (dedicated machine nodes) and host whatever you want on there, no serverless cloud junk. They also offer Managed Kubernetes. I use both.
I am more interested when I will be able to use these models myself.
I was really hyped for Shenmue when it came out on the Dreamcast, but I wasn't crazy about it once I finally played it. It was a glorified point and click adventure game, and it ultimately had no ending or purpose. It was an interesting and ambitious idea for a game though, they threw the kitchen sink in there.

My favorite part of the game was playing space harrier in the arcade.
Mozilla is the underdog, though; they're just not acting like it anymore.
I'd saw we need them in the US, but no one walks here - and by the way people ignore the warning signs for children, I assume it'd have no effect anyways.
Go stdlib regrettable linkname compatibility
Todays challenge is 2024, Mountainview, California —- because it’s clearly Google Gemini AI.
> the bad guys can't simultaneously be omniscient and so dumb they're trivially outed like this

This is a false dichotomy. Federal agencies prove themselves to be fallible (even incompetent) all the time, they just have far more resources available to make up for their mistakes.
Google Pixels are getting something akin to vm's and wsl. More than dex, but less than full visibility to all of the Android fs.

Termux is a halfway house. It's said this will be better.

Maybe iPad OS will do this too in the future? It feels like an air with a detachable keyboard is close.
They sell traditional browser and search ads. https://ads-help.brave.com/ The crypto thing is more a moonshot.

Instead of selling their default search engine they do their own and capture the value themselves.
The 12” MacBook had a great size and form factor with a niche that remains unfilled by the Air, as good as it might be. It also looked great, but then again I’m a sucker for machines where the keyboard goes from edge to edge (PowerBook G4 12” is great for the same reason).

If they were to attempt a modern re-do, I think it’d be smart to go hard on the hyperportable angle and pare down the hardware a bit to accomodate that. With how powerful Apple Silicon is these days, you wouldn’t need a full fat M-series SoC for a good macOS experience… a passively cooled A-series like those used in iPhones could do the job about as well. Heck you could probably even downclock the SoC a bit for better thermals and still have about as much power as much of the thin and light competition yet have ridiculously better battery life.
TIL org-mode can do that (though I really shouldn't be surprised). Thanks for the info!
Principle of Potential Command
Only the 15 inch 2015 model still had the Haswell CPU, therefore your laptop had a slightly newer processor... That [older] generation was left in the bigger model without the yearly upgrade due to the limited supply / production capacity on Intel's side.
When they came out with the 16" in 2019 it solved most of the issues (no more touch bar, good keyboard, etc)

...and I excitedly bought one. And then a year later the M1 came out, and I was kicking myself
except nobody has to cater to every worst case scenario
Hah, I appreciate the distinction on enterprise-grade... Anything in particular you like or dislike in particular from your experience with Lucidchart or draw.io?
My hobby: asking LLMs to write essays "in the style of James Mickens"

example:

> Write a paragraph on spaghetti carbonara the style of James Mickens.

> Ah, carbonara. A dish of such deceptive simplicity, it's practically a quantum singularity of culinary hubris. You think, "Eggs, cheese, guanciale, pasta? Child's play!" But

<bunch of words deleted>

> only reward is a fleeting moment of eggy, peppery, salty bliss before the next inevitable thermodynamic collapse.
Lego says it wants to start to bring video game development in-house
Judging from the way things are going, what's the difference?
> it's still easier to write a pile of C code and get it to compile than it is to write a pile of Rust code and get it to compile.

As someone who is more familiar with Rust than C: only if you grok the C build system(s). For me, getting C to build at all (esp. if I want to split it up into multiple files or use any kind of external library) is much more difficult than doing the same in Rust.
I love Common Lisp, but I would definitely think twice before implementing anything I want other people to use on their machines in it. A tiny C executable is pretty nimble in comparison to anything you'll get out of Common Lisp.
Hm, LINQ query syntax form is kinda going in that direction

(from book in books
where book.pagecount > 100
&& book.language == "Chinese"
&& book.subject == "History"
&& book.author.mentions > 10_000
from pet in book.author.pets
where pet.is_furry == true
select pet.favoriteFood)
.Distinct()

But it also demonstrates the...erm, chronic "halfassedness" of LINQ's query syntax form with distinct() not available there and having to fall back to method syntax form anyway...
Anyone that's successfully been running hardware companies would be where I'd start. Offer the best of them much more money than they're currently making. Actually, hire a dream team of them. Turning Intel around would be worth paying a high price.
It's not just researchers. Engineers at Google get to spin up products and throw spaghetti at walls, too.

This might have been true 10-15 years ago. I assure you it is not the case today.
Huh, I haven't experienced those problems on my thinkpad - sleep/resume seems to work without issues. But admittedly I am just doing simple developer work, nothing fancy.
I use the GitHub Desktop app a lot, every day, the viewing diff there is so clear. But I am happy to use Zed to open multiple projects, switch branch, stage changes, commit and push. Otherwise I have to switch to different repo in the GitHub Desktop. In most cases, I don't need a full IDE, since I only need to make few lines change of a terraform or a markdown file, or update the dependency in a package.json.
I do think the why that the Four Colour Theorem is true is captured my statement. The reason why it is true is because there exists some finite unavoidable and reducible set of configurations.

I'm fairly sure that people are only getting hung up on the size of this finite set, for no good reason. I suspect that if the size of this finite set were 2, instead of 633, and you could draw these unavoidable configuration on the chalk board, and easily illustrate that both of them are reducible, everyone would be saying "ah yes, the four colour theorem, such an elegant proof!"

Yet, whether the finite set were of size 2 or size 633, the fundamental insight would be identical: there exists some finite unavoidable and reducible set of configurations.
Mercedes-Benz Drives Toward Solid-State EV Batteries
As someone who has worked on a systems programming language for a long time, my strongest advice would be to avoid trying to make syntactic or semantic choices that are just different unless they're really motivated by making the systems aspect better, or to make the language more self-coherent. Having surprises and syntax to learn is a barrier to entry and probably won't impress anyone.

That is to say, do focus on systems problems. Key ones I identified are efficient data representation, avoiding needless memory churn/bloat, and talking directly to lower-level software/hardware, like the kernel.

Focus on systems programming and not on syntactic niceties or oddities.
I think every programmer should at some point write their own language.
I wonder how many of this angry crowd donate. Mozilla do accept donations.

Or maybe the idea is that employees/developers don't need to eat, which is incredibly ironic given who HN users typically are. There isn't a single line in this petition dedicated to how Mozilla should raise funds instead.

Maybe signing the petition should be behind a paywall, I would be very interested to see how many votes that would gather.
The pioneer of AI alignment.
"while being so absurdly well-organized."

I note a z in organized ...

I do get where you are coming from: My mum used to joke about a fictional sign that said "Please do not throw stones at this sign". Some of our signage is absolutely laughable.

We do have road signs that proclaim: "New signage" or "New road system" etc. The locals know what has changed already and non locals are encountering it for the first time anyway, so why bother.

Across the entirety of the UK, our road signage is pretty rock solid. There may be a few degenerate cases but all sharp corners have chevron warning signs and they do save lives.
Thanks for the info.

I looked at the group documentation, but it's not clear to me why I would want to use it, or where I would use it:

https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/projects/layout/#default-...

(I'm a JS dev who has to write a set of python packages in a monorepo.)
I was not commenting on VoIP, it works nicely and has for a long time, in the network core too. Mobile carriers do not use VoIP with the MS, to my knowledge. There's "Wi-Fi Calling", but that is the closest you're gonna get to packetized data streams reaching your phone (it sees traction where other reception is bad and the carrier has to rely on the Internet). Your use of "Bellhead" as a derogatory term is noted, and is more reflective on you than anything else. Feel free to have the last word, though.
For my use cases, uv is so frictionless it has effectively made Python tolerable for me. I primarily discovered it via Simon Willison's (@simonw) blog posts[1]. I recommend his blog highly.

1. https://simonwillison.net/tags/uv/
What an absolute shame
Does the default Brave ad blocker block Youtube ads?
Yes Model Context Protocol, and thank you
Does Cloudcraft do generic diagramming? At least from the landing page it seems pretty purpose-built for cloud architecture diagramming only. I also have to give major kudos for whoever made the call to go with an isometric projection... visually and mentally, it's a perfect choice for that domain!
When the man has this and it's good for the partner, it's a blessing for sure.
Simplify.

If you try to write the same complicated mess in C as you would in any other language it's going to hurt.

Not having a package manager can be a blessing, depends on your perspective.
I don't recall which WWDC it was.. They had a slide with the largest text they ever used.

The question was "will ipadOS and macOS merge?

"NO"
Thanks. Why is the notion of run and tool separate? Coming from JS, we have the package.json#scripts field and everything executes via a `pnpm run <script name>` command.
The one element so far I dislike out of this is having search redirect to a new page.

This is something SPAs are doing as well, though in the case of, say Google Web Search (last I used it directly, which is months if not years ago). Namely, when I begin typing a search the currently-displayed content blanks out.

Why is this annoying?

Because often what I'm typing is being prompted by that content, and if I can't continue to view it as I'm typing my search I lose that context and my train of thought.

So: embed your search directly in every page on your website, rather than having it be a separate page. It's fine for the results page to redirect elsewhere, and if the search mechanics need that page to function, so be it (that's what form submissions are all about).

But other than that, I like the implementation, after realising that it was the blogpage and site themselves which were the demonstration. (I'm ... slow like that sometimes.)
You're looking at it
Hmm. I could have sworn the rotation had a component of the calculation in it, but you're right it's just the loop counter. SHA-1 and AES also vary by the round, but none of SHA-2, DES, or MD-4 have either round nor state variance, so if I'm misremembering a different algorithm it's pretty obscure. False memory I guess.
> So I wrote a piece of code that drew all the components of each icon image in a programmatic way

I was fortunate enough to spend a bunch of time hanging out with Simon in the 2000s and learned a great deal about a bewildering array of topics, and the above is such a representative example of the way he approaches problems.
Because Ruby can't handle most of the problems C is used for?

Because they're implementing Ruby, for example?
2023 $653M

That's almost all Google money.

CEO's largest accomplishment since 2007 was to put Mozilla on the brink of shutting down anytime Google's money stops flowing in.
> The thing that makes me sad about these conversations is that the people I talk to sometimes don't seem to have any appreciation for the thing they say they want to dismantle

Yes! This is what frustrates my about the pursuit of AI for the arts too.
Found it.

it was iOS and macOS but still...

https://youtu.be/DOYikXbC6Fs
Needs black banner
>He is a business guy with some hard science behind (not electronics per se). It doesn't feel right.

I think you need to look up Cadence and look into how the fabless industry works. Picking him means Intel is possibly about to spin off or spin out the Chip division and only focus on Fabless.
I am not seeing that? Like, vs. old versions of Zulu, sure; but the 17/18 seem about the same to me?
> Zeldin said he and President Donald Trump support rewriting the agency’s 2009 finding that planet-warming greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. The Obama-era determination under the Clean Air Act is the legal underpinning of a host of climate regulations for motor vehicles, power plants and other pollution sources.

> The EPA also will take aim at rules restricting industrial pollution of mercury and other air toxins, as well as separate rules on soot pollution

While this sucks for Climate Change, it also sucks for peoples health.

It's really moving costs from companies complying with regulations on pollution to people dealing with the health effects of pollution, and with the American health care funding model, it's basically another move to tax poor people and let wealthy people off.
I would definitely recommend any programmer to learn both Lisp and C at some point.
Didn't read the article but man do I love this game.
While it's not a direct continuation, the Yakuza (and later Like a Dragon) series is a spiritual successor in some ways.
> Zig maybe not as it’s unfinished

But, but, but…

They share the same two start letters! They were clearly meant to cohabitate!

Zinc on Zig, what a Zing!

(Just a casual at-a-distance zig fan)
> doing things "the hard way" from scratch

In the current landscape doing things "the hard way" in plain JS is often simpler than with React. You will give up reactivity, testability, declarative rendering, and the ability to hire any passersby, in exchange for not having to deal with a rube goldberg contraption of hooks, dependency tracking, query caches and state management, with a complex build system. Terrible idea for a team. For a bunch of tabs in your blog? Probably worth the trade.

That said, the problems he describes would occur with React/Vue as well since they are a result of mixing a statically generated site with client-side rendering logic. It would not, in fact, be trivial without changing the server.

> Me, I never really did any site-generation or server-side rendering stuff

> I find [...] reflect the skillsets of their authors

now I'm unsure if this is satire...
"My decade-old and very well-travelled Toyota Land Cruiser finally died, and I hoped my new-ish ebike could replace it."

How that article sounds. I don't care how fancy they make them, iPads are just unserious computing devices for real work.
Someone has to move the product.
The problem is that mechanistic interpretability is a lot like neuroscience or molecular biology, i.e. you're trying to understand huge complexity from relatively crude point measurements (no offense intended to neuroscientists and biologists). But AI wants publishable results yesterday. I often wonder whether the current AI systems will stay around long enough for anyone to remain interested in understanding why they ever worked.
Unfortunately, index funds and mutual funds own about 68% of the Intel, with Vanguard retirement funds being the biggest. These passive custodian investor companies just vote along with the board's recommendation rather than making opinionated or activist decisions.
Fwiw fairly recently posted to HN was progress towards a more satisfying (read, likely mind-blowing) proof:

https://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/2024/11/foams-made-out-of-fe...

This is also nice because only pre-1600 tech involved
>Still more accurate most of the time than a lot of historical video games at least.

This game is much closer to Trivial Pursuit than it is Assassin's Creed. The importance of accuracy depends on the type of game and when the point of the game is specifically testing the player's knowledge, a lack of accuracy is game-breaking.
Firing the Lorentz Plasma Cannon (re-filmed in a different location) [video]
From the video description:

"Shortly after posting the last video I was promptly made aware of the rules regarding filming permits, insurance bonds, fees, public notifications, etc. In the interest of avoiding legal action I agreed to pull the video from public view until these formalities were addressed.

Given that I’m more familiar with high voltage systems than complex bureaucracies, I thought the best option would be to simply repeat these tests at another location without these restrictions.

This provided an opportunity to double the previous energy levels as well, and to add specific shots that folks in the comments wanted to see.

Sorry I couldn't provide more specifics earlier... An outpouring of negative feedback during the legal negotiations would likely have had an adverse effect on the outcome.

Thank you for your patience!"
Should we be giving our children’s education over to poison?
An official call for comments from the public on removing regulations, with a wild title to boot.
People who want peace tend to support giving Ukraine arms yo ensure that. Russia is more not less likely to attack if Ukraine has less support. And if somehow they succeed in conquering Ukraine as unlikely as that is they'll move on to other countries
I still have mine and it still works great. It is slow, but for light productivity work it is still a good machine.
I mean, the real argument here is between "something interesting" and "something boring", and it's message board so "boring" is heavily disfavored. But, yeah, it's a sewer inspection van.
If it were size 2, we could more easily make sure that the answer is definitely mind-blowing.

Have programmers given up on wanting their mind blown by unbelievable simplicity?
I apologize if this came as a personal attack, I would never insult or judge someone based on faith. I'm looking at some of your comment history and it seems you keep Elon Musk in high regard and would jump at the change to defend him and his businesses even when faced with objective facts. I do the same IRL with Jesus. You do you, no judging.
> Mobile carriers do not use VoIP with the MS

No, they do, exclusively. LTE and beyond don’t even support circuit switched calls anymore.

Bellhead wasn’t intended in a derogatory way, just as a reference to the “Netheads vs. Bellheads” schools of thinking about networks.

I do have great respect for historical phone systems and the clever engineers making them work. In terms of absolute reliability, I think VoIP was indeed a step back (although I think that’s mainly due to modern engineering and QA practices than inherent limitations).
Actual title: WATCH: The Most Compelling Argument Against Tech In Schools | Sophie Winkleman
This is awesome, and I'm not very good at it :-)
That's an odd take. There are numerous examples of people prosaicly defeating the purpose of something that has taken considerable resources to establish.

It's like the spies working in embassies that were easily detectable despite an elaborate cover because they used the car that the previous spy left behind when they went home.
P.S.: For the more numerically-inclined, suppose RFK's plan is that all children are given "natural" measles at a certain age. There are ~4 million six-year-olds in the USA.

With a death rate of 0.3%, that means 12,000 dead children every single year to satisfy this guy's conspiracy-theories about vaccines.

That doesn't include the ones who die later from other diseases because measles has damaged their immune-system, or the ones who survive with brain damage.
I find the SqlLab in apache superset to be very good, and I have duckdb as a data source (anything that supports SqlAlchemy works). It works very well. To be honest, when I first saw the screenshot, I thought it was SqlLab. I haven't actually tried the duckdb ui, though.
A noob speaking here. Why aren't there efforts to have a memory bank like structure where you attend to a sub set of codes depending on the key(at the attention level)? is this already done with the global attention mechanism (what is it even)?
I think therapy is at its best when it's a rubber duck and debugger for changes you are already trying to make. It doesn't solve anything for you.
I don't know if he mentioned, the name doesn't show up in the transcript, it but this seems to be very close to an unrolled Curta, the main difference being that it doesn't use 9s complement for subtraction so it has a more complex bidirectional carry mechanism. Otherwise the function is very similar down to shifting the turns and output accumulator to multiply the entry number. The big drum he makes many of is just one in the Curta that actuates every output dial through a full rotation.

9s complement makes subtraction extremely satisfying on the Curta because it causes a carry on (almost) every single output and turn accumulator dial.
Gregor. I propose an eventual fork named Gregor