skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, scoped to just Botswana, when my dad was 10, in the 60's, we had just 15km of tar road in the whole country.

In the 80's when we moved to the village I grew up in, we didn't have a phone - we had a telegraph address.

In the 90's, to get fresh fruit and cheese, we would drive for 3 hours across sand roads to another country to shop at a supermarket.

In 1998 my village got its first chain restaurant and it was a big deal.

In 2009 I tried to modernise the family business by getting our managers to use email and very few of them could navigate the internet. In 2012, my family's vegetable farming plot was one of many that were claimed by the government to start the BIUST and I couldn't fathom how they would staff it.

And in 2025, the BIUST launched a satellite.

Lots of problems, but certainly progress.
You’re wrong. It displays Apple Music, then when you search it only pulls data from what it has access to, which are the free radio stations inside Apple Music.
Ah, I thought the quote was from the JS spec. I didn't realize that ECMA published their own copy of the JSON spec.
America is different and becoming more so.
> Many Germans are used to writing Excel formulas in German.

And many Japanese are used to writing Excel formulas in Japanese.
Excel is such a crap program. Good luck with spreadsheets which have formulas in anothe language.

> Or, better yet, why not a built-in translation layer in a programming language, that would allow writing code in any language, and translate that on the fly

Because some words' meaning is context dependent.

"We don't need no education"
It is. If this had been available in the heyday of the II, I think it would have been quite viable as a commercial product.
Timelines are very uncertain, also definition what would satisfy this statement of operating as a high income knowledge worker is very unclear. Is it for one task? Many tasks? Any task?

It's highly likely that these CEO will continue to hype up a singular examples and misrepresented claims that lead to setting outsized expectations. Already seeing expectations that all tasks are now possible and causing chaos in the corporate world of folks trying to be on the bandwagon.

Also wonder if it hides the true value that the symbiotic work of human with phd level AI assistant is going to out perform any autonomous agent for the foreseeable future.
Junior Devs: Avoid These Pitfalls with LLMs
Dont worry mate, AI can teach us if we ever need it again.
It still is. But the apologists are vast in number and heavy in their delusions.
The material system in Blender 1.0 was vastly simpler than it is currently. If you want to use a panel instead of nodes, the material panel is not that dissimilar from the 1.0 screenshot.

That said, I find the node interface a lot more poweruser friendly than the panel interface, and objectively more powerful.

AFAIK the new UI didn't take away e.g. any keyboard shortcuts, and those are configurable anyway. In general the Blender UI is configurable even to a fault, you're quite free to modify it to bring out almost everything you want to a single view.
I don't know where the USF monies go but it certainly isn't here.

I suspect the likes of AT&T and Google get the lion's share and then through sleight of hand it somehow funds build outs of fiber in large metro areas. If it weren't for the local independent telcos scratching and clawing for a few crumbs, there wouldn't be any FTH in rural areas.

A few years back .gov allocated considerable funds for expanding, presumably, FTH in "rural" areas. The state I live in did the same. So far in the AT&T monopoly, not an inch of fiber has been plowed that I can see. Most of the funds have probably been laundered back to the politicians and the status quo remains.

A new WISP has been putting up sites over the past several months in parts of the AT&T service area with no other terrestrial service available. This, even in the age of Star Link. I doubt they would be doing so unless they had a pretty good idea that no FTH will be available for five to ten years or at least long enough to amortize their investment.

Like most taxes levied on We The People, the USF is a PR stunt intended to buy votes.
This is interesting, take my star
Project Jengo for Sable – final winners
The fact that the best phone is a black box for the financial benefit of the corporation that made it isn't exactly the point you think it is.
It's an odd attitude to me that I see on this site, and is VERY prevalent among STEM majors, CS especially. The attitude seems to be that the only learning you should do relates to income and/or career advancement. Look at the story on here yesterday about monetizing, or at least publicizing your hobbies.

I do not regret any of the classes I took. I learned something from all of them. And it's not putting a rosy shine on something I was forced to do. I genuinely appreciate being well-rounded and knowing many things. It made me a better person.

If people just want to learn core skills, get a technical degree like a certificate or associates. That's why those things exist. You can do a 6 month certificate in coding at my local community college if your goal is just to go work and not learn things other than that.
About the time they stop depending on targeted advertising revenue.
They did the Sapphire Bullets trick in the show I saw. It was pretty dang impressive. I love that they tour with a horn section now, and hearing new arrangements of old favorites that make use of the horn section was great. (And of course new favorites written with the horn section in mind from the get go were also great.)

I also enjoyed that they introduced Birdhouse with "Please rise for the They Might Be Giants national anthem."
Fairly often, a person gets radicalized on the internet and then treats real world people around badly. Online toxic communities produce toxic people, but frequently those people were not mistreated all that much in the first place.
It is not a proper subset, though.
Working at SAP and working language is English, also in Germany.
It's hard comparing GaaS to Single player ganes. It's not less effort, it's different effort.

Your average gacha may look lower effort, but it has to sustain thst effort longer instead of patching the game for a few months and moving on. It has to do a lot more marketing to get players in, because many are this pseudo-MMO experience, completely with PvP and Guild content to manage.

At the highest end, Hoyovervese's operating costs would even make Activision blush. But those games make billions to compensate.
Piranesi's imaginary prisons are worth a viewing. Great gothic prisons from a fever dream rendered in a similar fashion to these engravings.
USA had low unemployment rates.
The background is yellow and it hurts my eyes ToT
This was a really cool article and I hope others read it through, but yes, it took me way too far into the article to "get" what he was saying was wrong with the perspective.
It’s also included with FreePascal if you prefer the Pascal flavor of Turbo Vision. It even comes with a fully featured clone of the Turbo Pascal IDE.
100% agree. AI is trash; increasingly invasive, life-destroying trash. There is no worse category of trash. There is nothing it cannot do which people cannot already do. The difference might be measured with various KPIs, but the material difference is that the output of AI is bereft of meaning. By definition, because it is not sentient it lacks intent. So it is all for nothing, means nothing and is nothing. Reject it.
The things feel closer to using a fine-grained search algo with some randomness and a fairly large corpus, than to interacting with something intelligent.

And if you read how they work... that's because that's exactly what they are. There's no thinking going on. When using them, that they've been programmed and prompted to have some kind of tone or personality and to fit within some kind of parameters of "behavior" as if they're a real being reminds me of Flash-based site navigation in the early '00s: flashy bullshit that's impressive for about one minute and then just annoying and inconvenient forever.

As for programming with them, writing the prompts feels more like just another kind of programming than instructing a human.

I'm skeptical this entire approach is more than one small part of what might become AGI, given several more somewhat-unrelated breakthroughs, including probably in hardware.

Like a lot of us, I've gotten sucked into building products with these things because every damn company on the planet, tech or not, has decided to do that for usually-very-bad reasons, and I'm a little worried this is going to crash so hard that having been involved in it at all will be a (minor) black mark on my résumé.
It’s mandatory. That doesn’t stop people from driving a relative’s car with no insurance. Or driving with expired tags.

Good luck if such a person hits you; they’ll simply drive off. Recently a friend of mine had a fender bender with someone else, most likely his fault. That person didn’t have a valid registration or insurance and wasn’t at fault but begged to just go without calling the police. My friend handed them the cash out of his pocket since he felt bad for damaging their car, but they did NOT want to see the police.

The only way to enforce not having expired tags/no licence/no insurance is strict police enforcement. A lot of Americans don’t like that and so police agencies end up being lenient, preferring to focus on more violent crimes instead of just trying to pull every car with expired tags over.
This Sunday there's going to be a hackaton at https://lu.ma/poke to improve the Pokemon-playing agent. I think most hackatons don't achieve much, but maybe someone from HN can go improve the scaffolding and save Claude
unfortunately Plankalkül seems to only have single letter keywords
Logarithmic and trigonometric tables and mathematical formulas [pdf]
I used to be a data analyst at a Big 4 management consultancy, so I've seen an awful lot of this kind of thing. One thing I never understood is the inverse correlation between "cost of product" and "ability to do serialisation properly".

Free database like Postgres? Perfect every time.

Big complex 6-figure e-discovery system? Apparently written by someone who has never heard of quoting, escaping or the difference between \n and \r and who thinks it's clever to use 0xFF as a delimiter, because in the Windows-1252 code page it looks like a weird rune and therefore "it won't be in the data".
> Nope, not in languages where you have a stacktrace attached.

Like you say, the stack trace needs to be attached. For that you, at very least, need a "sidecar" handler if not done so in the same execution path, as we discussed earlier. Did you, uh, forget to read the thread?

> That's why in a good language you can just wrap them at the right level of abstraction.

You can move the logic around, but you can't avoid it, as we discussed earlier. Did you, uh, forget to read the thread?
As a semi European it's a bit bizarre. There's a probably more of a worry with the physical destruction in Ukraine which is also semi Europe. I'd be nice if as a condition for peace talks Trump could require the Russians to stop sending missiles into apartment blocks and similar civilian targets.
Whether or not it’s a waste of time depends on other factors IMHO. For example if it’s the evening and I’m too mentally exhausted for anything that takes brain power, it doesn’t feel like as much of a waste because I wasn’t going to be doing anything “worthy” of the time anyway.
> In german Excel it's might be ok due to its original focus on numbers, but replacing decimal "." with the german "," also forces you to use a semicolon everywhere where you would use a comma

The best part is that sometimes you get new numbers.

Excel is showing to a user what AI can do to a document: destroy it.
I think commodification is directly tied to a perceived drop in quality. For example, if the barriers to making a video game keep going down, there will be far more attempts, and per Sturgeon's law, the majority will be of low quality. And we have a recency bias where we over-index on the last few releases that we've seen, and we only remember the good stuff from a generation or two ago. But for every multitude of low-effort, AI-generated video games out there, we still get gems like Factorio and Valheim.
This is inevitable. As real estate becomes more expensive, especially in urban areas; as lift costs drop geometrically; as solar materials become cheaper and lighter then an obvious solution is a clear, unobstructed station above that can beam energy to the desired location, wherever it's needed.

Objections come up, like 'we don't know how to beam it efficiently'. This is 1960's thinking. Solutions have been available for years. Conversion from solar to electricity to microwave to ground and back to electricity can all be done with small fractional losses.

You aren't going to run out of real estate. A station of 100 square miles will be nearly invisible in the firmament.

I look forward to an era of cheap power and resources (asteroid mining anyone?)
Alpha channels in a lossy image? Animated lossy image?

Regardless, things like this really help explain the hesitation behind adopting jpegxl.

I'm a big fan of AVIF files though.
I think it's very likely Waltz is the one who added him, but I think it's unlikely to have been intentional. I think he probably fat-fingered it.
I'll take this opportunity to drop the fact that I'm kind of obsessed with the book "Piranesi", where the main character (named after the artist in the article) survives in a world which is just endless corridors of classical architecture, statues, and staircases.

It's an incredibly calming experience, I've listened to the audiobook over 10 times before sleep. Highly recommended.
It can't do a good job of reasoning about higher-level abstractions in its long term memory without making poor decisions about which memory items to retain and which to forget.

Would a mixture-of-experts paradigm, where each expert weights the value of short-term memories differently to the weight of long-term memoried, do noticeably better at overcoming that one category of roadblocks?
Did I miss something big about solar power? It seems to have everything this commenter is looking for.
Or modes. Since the data is likely multi-modal.
Farewell to Gaia, the Milky Way's Cartographer
That's what they were saying. America had the first credit cards and therefore had trouble moving to chip & pin partly because the existing system worked without it.
Four new gamma-ray millisecond pulsars discovered
That’s a good one. Which suggests Amazon as well; similar revolution in distribution and scale.

But there were companies shipping DVDs before Netflix, and also companies streaming movies online before them. So really a marketing / operations / distribution revolution.
Show HN: Frida-MCP – Claude reversing itself using frida
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-thomson-postel-was-wr...

The original draft had an excellent name, and expressed a strong position. It was picked up and the consensus was published as RFC 9413 in mid-2023.
Never-before-seen chain of volcanoes discovered hiding near the Cook Islands
> Claude will readily notice when the game tells it that an attack from an electric-type Pokémon is “not very effective” against a rock-type opponent, for instance. Claude will then squirrel that factoid away in a massive written knowledge base for future reference later in the run.

But these models already know all this information??? Surely it's ingested Bulbapedia, along with a hundred zillion terabytes of every other Pokemon resource on the internet, so why does it need to squirrel this information away? What's the point of ruining the internet with all this damn parasitic crawling if the models can't even recall basic facts like "thunderbolt is an electric-type move", "geodude is a rock-type pokemon", "electric-type moves are ineffective against rock-type pokemon"?
Sure. They had crazy conspiracy theories back then too. Anyone can believe what they want. But reputation means something today just as it did back then. It's just today we outsource that function to the academic system.
Awesome article, out of curiosity, how much time did it take you to implement all of that?

I have a somewhat similar need, but for a totally different space hence the question.
> but also can make rides 10-20% faster

There's no way you're getting anywhere near 20% faster journey times by driving faster, unless you are seriously speeding and only travelling on motorways/highways.
They are, but they don't have to be. This is definitely an example of the West faltering where the East is really flourishing. They aren't trying to make the next Fortnite nor GTA 6 or whatever billion dollar day one hit. They pick a more modest scope and budget, reuse assets smartly, and get reliable releases out.
But doesnt this just ultimately "solve" itself? If everybody is just going to use LLMs like this, they will keep using React longer, and 2 years is not going to feel like that much of a lifetime anymore. How would, even, a developer inside their AI ecosystem like this even know or care about new frameworks or new ways to do things?
Sure. Courts tend to care about intent, but your are welcome to try to change that.
How to Write Blog Posts That Developers Read
It is derived from the Census Household Pulse Survey which is designed, administered, and analyzed by the most sophisticated survey designers out there. They've had decades to create and refine approaches that deal with this problem.

I trust their interpretation over "throwaway13337" statements about what they find "obvious."

#gell-mann effect
You have no idea what you are talking about.

Until the mid 2000s, if you good good enough grades at _any_ high school in the country, the government would foot the entire bill (tuition, board, stipend) to send you to a foreign university for the entirety of your degree. The only requirement was that you returned to Botswana to work back your tuition cost. Probably hundreds of thousands (and that's a lot in a country of 2 million people) of people benefited from this program.

Is it perfect? No. Do citizens have the same opportunities as an average person from an OECD country? Not even close. But you have to appreciate the incredibly low base Botswana started from, and how the government has spent the entirety of its existence ploughing resources into improving the human capital of its citizens.
Not bad for an XFCE mod, but falls under the “rough facsimile” category I mentioned.
Read the messages US security officials exchanged on leaked Signal thread
Author here.

I'm happy to take any feedback or answer any questions about this post.
Same filmmaker exposed US, UK, Apartheid collaboration and involvement in the spread of HIV in Africa, and the assassination of the SecGen of the UN, Dags Hammerskjold
> I'm still WAY better off with my solar panels and ALL the books on an external hard drive.

No you're not. One component is your setup gets fried and you lose access to everything.

Paper is its own reader device: it's far more resilient, because it has much few dependencies for use. Just think about digital archiving vs paper archiving for a bit, and it becomes clear.

> I can't think of ANY situation where a print out of Wikipedia would be better than a digital version.

Wikipedia would be of little practical value in a post collapse situation. And frankly, it's pretty terrible now for anything besides satisfying idle curiosity.
Initially, I was enthusiastic about FSD because it really would have a positive social impact like curing malaria if it worked.

But, like curing a dread disease, it's often a long, difficult grind and not something that will for sure work by the end of this year for the last 10 years. No pharma company would get away with that hype.
Marvel Fusion Raises €113M
It's a bit puzzling to me that they acknowledge statements like

> Looking at people who identify as LGBTQ, the data at first suggested that they tend to be lonelier. But it’s largely because self-identified LGBTQ folks tend to be younger.

But then do not follow up with an analysis adjusted for this - wouldn't that be fairly straightforward?
When "liberal" means to permit deviations from the relevant specification, then normalization of deviance is a predictable outcome. I never interpreted "liberal" that way, but rather as accepting multiple input formats, and each one has to be used correctly. You cannot parse sensibly when you don't know by what spec or syntax.
I agree, this would be good to have soon, especially as good models keep getting smaller, and hardware keeps getting cheaper.
They are trying to make the argument that is parodied in this meme: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...
LLMs are, to put it in human brain terms, super, super, super hypertrophied speech centers. The human brain is completely capable of having grown a hypertrophied speech center if that was the path to intelligence. It did not, because that is not the path to general intelligence.

Of course LLMs can't play Pokemon long term. Used this way, they're the AI equivalent of someone who has the beginnings of dementia, who knows it, and is compensating by metaphorically sitting in a corner rocking to themselves repeating things so they don't forget them, because all they can remember is what they said.

It's amazing what they can do. I'm not denying anything they have actually done, because things that have been concretely been done, are done.

But the AIs that will actually fulfill the promises of this generation of AI are the ones yet to come, that incorporate some sort of memory-analog that isn't just "I repeated something to myself inside my token window", and some sort of symbolic manipulation capability.

In both cases, I'm using "some sort of" very broadly. I don't know what that looks like any more than anyone else. For instance, to obtain "symbolic manipulation capability" I don't necessarily mean hooking up a symbolic manipulation package. Humans can manipulate symbols but we clearly do it in a somewhat inefficient and often incorrect way with our neural nets. Even so, we get a great deal of benefit from it. We don't have integrated symbolic manipulation packages, and using the ones that exist is actually a rather rare and difficult skill. But what LLMs do is really quite different from either what humans or software packages do.

However I think it's pretty clear that LLMs aren't really going to get much farther than they have now in terms of raw capability. People will continue to find clever ways to use them, of course, but the raw capabilities of LLMs qua LLMs are probably pretty close to tapped out.

I expect in the future that what we today call "LLMs" will become a component of a system that parses text into vectors and then feeds those vectors into what we consider the "real" AI as those vectors, and the AI will in turn emit vectors back into the LLM module that will be converted to human speech. And I rather suspect those LLMs, since they won't be the thing trying to do the "real work", will actually be quite a bit smaller than they are today, with the bulk of the computational power being allocated to the "real" AI. We won't be hypertrophying the LLM layer to try to provide a poor and tiny memory and maintain the state of whatever is happening because the "real" AI layer will be doing that. The future will probably laugh at us sitting here trying to make the language center bigger and bigger and bigger when obviously the correct answer was to... do whatever it is they did in their past but our future.
Maybe, but there’s no reason why a thoughtfully engineered Win7 clone DE on a lightweight Linux couldn’t run just as well or better on the same hardware.