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>Though abs() returning negative numbers is hilarious.

Math.abs(Integer.MIN_VALUE) in Java very seriously returns -2147483648, as there is no int for 2147483648.
> But they are small shops and do not represent the custom crafted software that runs Uber's systems, or AirBNB's website.

Depends how you define "small". I know of a country's largest and probably close to monopolistic electronic retailer runs Shopify. Lots of large (stock listed) media outlets run Wordpress. It's definitely not limited to "small shops".

> What I'm referring to is that in the future if a CEO/biz person wants a

Depends on the industry. E.g. in finance does every build a banking system from scratch? Most buy no code products, e.g. from SAP or other vendors, customize and launches. This is today.

Many startups don't actually build from scratch and use no-code builders already. 1 of the pain points is that it doesn't scale. As they continue to evolve this could be fixed.

You assume because of prolific bloggers like Uber that everyone builds from scratch etc. Uber was known to be pretty "unique" in that they had too much money and did everything internally. It's the exception. There's a lot more companies (big companies) leveraging open source, using off the shelf products, etc.
Iunno, doesn’t stop Canada from issuing 1yr driving bans for 1st offence DUI, and that starts at 0.08

(And a lot of provinces do bans measured in days if you hit 0.05)
> From 1 highschool program in 2006 (TJ3SAT) there's now over 50 high scool programs launching cubesat style satellites. Some use base kits, making the launch even easier. Sure, it's amazing they have a bootstrapping engineering community in Botswana, but this isn't more sophisticated than a high school program with money to pay for the ride up.

I think you're trying very hard to grasp at straws to belittle a whole country, while being completely oblivious to the domain.

For reference, Ireland launched its first satellite on 2023. Does this give you the right to shit on Ireland's achievement?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_first_satellites_by_co...
It is a lot less than what Google, OpenAI etc have.

And the GPUs would be a shared resource so what you should calculate is what it would have cost to rent them - probably something like 2 m.
https://x.com/iScienceLuvr/status/1905144432791609480
I have a very wide definition of novel - any exact environment you have not yet traversed. First time taking that right turn? Novel route.

Out eyes, ears, voice and hands are quite useless when operated consciously.
:) And you sound like one of the many people I've seen come and go in my career. Best of luck to you actually - if the GenAI bubble does not pop in the next few years (which it will) we'll only have so many open positions for "prompters" to use for building web app skeletons :)
Erasing History: How Fascism Works (With Jason Stanley)
> These findings suggest that non-caloric sweeteners could affect key mechanisms in the hypothalamus responsible for appetite regulation

Maybe read the whole abstract before flagging?

Anyway, there’s a pile of evidence that non nutritional sweeteners lead to weight gain by screwing up appetite and hunger regulation, so the study’s conclusion isn’t particularly surprising.
How is this not true for every format that includes quote marks?
Agent Eval Simualation Space
Anyone have any thoughts about the agent eval space through deploying users. Seen some companies like Coval, Hamming, etc. Idk if any of them have been able to crack it or if companies really see a need for it
I think one issue that exacerbates this is concentration of wealth. This has created such a demand for financial assets that their price is ridiculous, no matter how bad the management of those companies is.
Show HN: I built a free voice translation tool using OpenAI
My girlfriend relocated to Bangalore from Pune and was struggling to talk to cab drivers. So I built this simple app to instantly translate voice.

The app even auto-detects the other person's language; ideal for when you have set the language to "Tamil" when the other person was actually speaking in "Kannada" and you didn't realize it.

I used OpenAI's Whisper and TTS for this.
That's the problem with outsourcing to defense companies. They'll eventually end up owned by your competitors.

Just like the US backed most critical German companies in the 30s to be able to get rid of the French in the Rheinland and attack Russia. They had a majority in IG Farben eg. and gave them the artificial Diesel patents. Which brought the Nazis to power and then they turned around and attacked the US.

I'm not sure how much of their critical companies, like for their airplanes, rockets, intelligence (Booz Allen Hamilton) which are all publicly traded are in fact controlled by Saudi-Qatari or Chinese investors now. Is there some overview?
Your solution to crime isn’t working very well, but that’s OK, nobody’s telling you what to do.

We can just observe the society you have and wonder how you can simultaneously not take responsibility for your outcomes, and bash others who make different choices and have better outcomes.

From your post it sounds like you feel that you do know better, and the only issue you’re having isn’t your policy, but your “lack of homogeneity”, which makes it impossible to improve anything.
Perhaps the best way to address this would be to look at property damage for car-car or cat-object collisions, and a separate stat for car-pedestrian accidents.

In collisions that don't involve pedestrians, the damage to the car/object is generally proportional to the chance that someone was badly injured or killed in those cases - the only thing you get by adding human life costs is to take into account the quality of the safety features of the cars being driven, which should be irrelevant for nay comparison with automated driving. In collisions that do involve pedestrians, this breaks down, since you can easily kill someone with almost 0 damage to the car.

So having these two stats per mile driven to compare would probably give you the best chance of a less biased comparison.
People who say that CSV is "simpler" are talking about whatever format Excel exports.

Also these people have only ever had to deal with the American Excel localization.

So yeah, with the caveat of "only ever use Excel and only ever the American edition" CSV is pretty nice.
I think the author points to cultural changes in business comunication, which doesn't give any clues to what you should invest your money.
cool, thank you for shedding light on decade old mystery :)
oh, I see now! that makes more sense when I reread it.
Yeah, GLP-1s have really opened up research quite a bit -- particularly with addiction.

It could be that gambling addiction offsets hunger. Or it could be that the gut bacteria are asking for adrenaline or some other kind of hormone the body produces.

We joke about current politicians being controlled by brain worms, but would it be that much harder to think maybe the gut bacteria are the ones that are in charge -- particularly of our day to day feelings?
how is it different from roo code or github copilot?
You mean to tell me hackers are willing to astroturf? I am pretty sure SV angels sent emails to Portco’s telling them how to vote... not about content but in statewide elections. Some times the hive mind needs to think differently.
I’ve come across cough headaches with Chiari malformations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiari_malformation
I disagree. I think their valuation is justified. They're growing very fast.

Subscription prices won't go down. If anything, they seem to be going up.

I don't think having the smartest model or the model that is benching the best is going to knock ChatGPT out at this point. It's the whole thing. The function calling, the tool use, the ecosystem, etc.
The reason we need self-driving cars is because we need cars. The reason we need cars is because of the way our cities are structured. The reason our cities are structured the way they are is due to large land availability & zoning laws, leading to massive spread.

Public transit will work for some of the people some of the time. (That is, if it can even be built - highly recommend Ezra Klein's new book Abundance on ways to get out of this).

For the people that public transit won't work for, you need to come up with a new solution if you want to see cars go away: a solution that makes going from A to B some combination of easier, cheaper, faster, more convenient than driving. Or, a solution that brings B closer to A (like changing zoning laws or building cheaper housing in metro areas).
You mean invent something new, publish the entire process and watch everyone rename and implement it next week like <think> blocks?
The major overhaul was Blender 2.8.

You can see a brief overviews of changes in the release notes: https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-80/

It may be a bit hard to appreciate how much it changed (got better) if you havent experienced pre 2.8 Blender. If you want, you can try it out: https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-79/
Sure they do, but it's very hard to market illegal activities in a b2b context. How does 23andMe go about selling data allowing insurers to discriminate, without saying that's what they do?

I can think of a few things you could try, maybe. But judging from 23andMe's present state, it's clear that whatever things they tried to monetize customers' DNA info, didn't work out well for them.
What about the famous “We like to tone them down about 10 percent, which probably makes sense because someday maybe they’re not our allies, right?” and the fact that USA recently withheld software updates for Ukrainian F16s? Is that not enough of a reason to think twice before buying advanced american weapons?
Everything trump has been doing since he took the office aligns with russia’s long term goals. He is a traitor to freedom, democracy and his country.
https://daringfireball.net/2025/03/something_is_rotten_in_th...

Your hypothesis is falsified.
Decent-Auth: back end auth library that works in several different languages vi
> Now if you take human drivers and pick only the best, how do you numbers look then?

The numbers may look different, but does it matter, though? This is a benchmark, not a competition. Since we can't possibly get every human driver to the level of the best drivers, it's still a win for Waymos.
Well that's the intent anyway.

In reality, the jury has to follow the law as written and there are gaps with various consequences.

If they try to make some ruling outside of the law, it would just get appealed and oveturned.
My bet is that there are actual people with enough karma automatically flagging every df post without considering the content for a second.

Would be cool if @dang could check the flagging data in the articles since the massive drop in 2021 and see if there are any patterns (same people doing the flagging for every article).
This seems like downplaying the situation. No-one is checking your phone on the way to Germany, France or even Slovakia.
Autodesk changed their pricing model in 2019 (added an indie tier). That was their reaction to the competition.

Besides that, Maya did get quite some animation features lately. But in the end Blender has got "good enough and free" state and there is nothing Maya can do about that.

That being said, Maya isn't going away anytime soon. There are just way too many Python scripts called Maya API in the industry.
discussions(flagged): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489058
I can imagine that wide adoption of AVs could increase the speed limits (at least for them if not all vehicles). Also I believe that high saturation of AVs will finally shorten ETAs naturally as stable, predictable driving without cutting in, forcing others to stop suddenly etc. reduces traffic jams. (Can't find the study that opened my eyes on that right now).
> but nobody will ever have to re-write GIMP from scratch

IMO, they should

If current trends follow, GIMP and Photoshop replacement will be a web application like Pixlr and Photopea.
Deutsche Sprache, schwere Sprache.
I'm pretty sure it's just individual people with enough karma doing a knee-jerk flagging on articles they don't like.

Would be nice if someone with access to the backend checked the flagging stats to see if there's a ring of people doing it.
I also have those (along with sneezing). I cannot do anything for the next 5-10 minutes until it goes away. For me it's simply (but maybe not only, who knows when reading the sibling comments) allergies. I don't have allergy symptoms like cough or watery eyes, etc. But somehow my sinuses get "full" and pressure builds up inside. If I take antihistaminic almost daily then my sinuses (mostly one side) don't fill up and I can't cough or sneeze without fear. Since you went to a doctor they probably ruled that out, but maybe not, and it checks out with their "it's probably mechanical" hunch.
That's why a lot of companies like this offer big education discounts, so that university students get to use it for free and get hooked.
I wonder why undo redo is not a built in feature. It is such a core functionality
"Tool calling" is just one part of MCP, there are more things like "Sampling" which allow the server itself to initiate stuff on the client. As for tool calling, having a layer like MCP makes sense because there a lot of things which don't have a REST-API + may need direct access to the computer (filesystem, processes, etc).

Examples:

* Running SQL commands on a DB or a Redis instance.
* Launching Docker containers, SSHing to a server an running some command.
* Reading a file and extracting relevant information from it, like OCR.
* Controlling a remote browser using the WebDriver protocol, have some kind of persistent connection to a backend.

As for just pure REST-API usecases, I think MCP serves what Swagger/OpenApi-Spec are meant to do, i.e. enforce some kind of format and give each endpoint a "Name" + list of Params which the LLM can invoke.
The issue is that there is no standardised way to pass these API specs to LLMs as tools (maybe something can be built in this space). In the future, I can easily see some kind of library/abstraction that allows an MCP server to parse an existing API spec file to expose those APIs as tools which can be combined with some local state on the computer to allow stateful interactions with a REST API.
I believe the main reason people are scared about self-driving cars is that they all run the same software, so any unresolved bugs might cause multiple cars to be involved in accidents, which is something we don't expect from human drivers.
The <select> element can now be customized with CSS
Actually -- and this is insane -- the amount of electricity required to train DeepSeek-V3 would power the Bitcoin network for all of 5 minutes.

DeepSeek would have to fully train a brand new V3 every week to approach the kinds of power consumption numbers that individual bitcoin mining facilities are doing.

The energy use from BTC is ludicrous.

(I'm assuming 155 TWh/yr for Bitcoin, using the low-end estimate from here: https://www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/columns/energy/bit... )
To be more explicit: asking hn@ycombinator.com why some submission vanished in a mysterious way does bring a clear answer in my experience.
Yes, I was a bit vague. If we are to be serious then we would have to come with definitions of grammar-based approaches vs stohastic approaches.

All I am saying is that grammars (as per Chomsky) or even high-school rule-based stuff are imperfect and narrow models of human languages. They might work locally, for a given sentence, but fall apart when applied to the problem at scale. They also (by definition) fail to capture both more subtle and more general complexities of languages.

And the universal grammar hypothesis is just that - a hypothesis. It might be convenient at times to think about languages in this way in certain contexts but that's about it.

Also, remember, this is Hacker News, and I am just a programmer who loves his programming/natural languages so I look at everything from a computational point of view.
> It didn’t correspond to a Google Docs release. The stack trace added very little information. There wasn’t an associated spike in user complaints

Where mere mortals can complain about Google product?
I’d argue you should read the docs and write code that works and you wouldn’t have any problems
Commonly these days you can also add specific repos for the things you want to be more on the edge. Then there are some tools one might install manually, at the moment I remember doing it with fzf.
Probably not the investors, but the Private Equity managers always win
dlachausse did, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43487126 , and that's what this thread is about.

Irrational concerns are a very different topic. That's why I have a special rock to keeps tigers away.
The constraint you're looking for is construction labour availability. You can't get millions of houses overnight.
I'll have quite the bit of fun in a sandboxed environment, thanks!
Richtig toll
> How it took me 2 days

That can't possibly be the hardest bug ever
Hmmm... if you are going to use only Bavarian paraphernalia to symbolize "German Rust", you might as well go all the way and use Bavarian instead of German for some extra laughs? Ok, TBF most programming keywords are rather scientific, and dialects are less used in academia, so that might be tricky.

Also, I would bet that most Germans would also use "fn" as a two-letter shorthand for "Funktion". But it just had to be different, so they chose "fk" for "FunKtion"...
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Sure, I get your arguments and we're probably mostly in agreement, but in practice I see very few problems arising with using CSV.

I mean, right now, the data interchange format between multiple working systems is CSV; think payment systems, inter-bank data interchange, ERP systems, CRM systems, billing systems ... the list goes on.

I just recently had a coffee with a buddy who's a salesman for some enterprise system: of the most common enterprise systems we recently worked with (SAP type things, but on smaller scales), every single one of them had CSV as the standard way to get data between themselves and other systems.

And yet, they work.

The number of people uploading excel files to be processed or downloading excel files for local visualistation and processing would floor you. It's done multiple times a day, on multiple systems, in multiple companies.

And yet, they work.

I get your argument though - a JSON array of arrays can represent everything that CSV can, and is preferable to CSV, and is what I would choose when given the choice, but the issues with using that are not going to be fewer than issues with CSV using RFC1480.
They have forums if you can find them, I think they call them 'communities', where you can complain.

Then a high-ranked non-employee 'product expert' will be along presently to tell you that's not really a problem and to stop bothering the almighty google with such trivialities, your views are not important and they have millions of users, really why should they listen to you?

At least, that's been my experience.
Yes. I highly recommend watching this video [0] — "For-Profit (Creative) Software" by EndVertex — about how some essential programs price out regular people with their insane licensing models... In turn making people's skills nontransferable.

[0]: https://youtu.be/I4mdMMu-3fc
* Five years ago, Spotify got rid of this in 2020.

Note that this isn't anything particularly groundbreaking, most DJ software already supports multiple streaming services (Soundcloud, Tidal, Beatport, Beatsource, I'm probably missing a couple). This is just another integration you can choose from.

Also, Algoriddim's Djay (otherwise not a particulary important player in the market) had Apple Music support for some years now, so I'm guessing the real story here is some sort of an exclusivity contract has expired.
I just haul it on a trailer from the water dock.
Ahh, sorry, didn't see you had also mentioned this excellent essay. D'oh.
Sorry, I realised this is a dupe but I can't delete.
Hear me out, I've spent years thinking about this :)

Yes, past underinvestment is bad. And yes, initially they are a band-aid, until yes they do become critical.

My excitement for self-driving tech isn't about the short term changes, but just how powerful a technology this is in the longer term. Ultimately this tech is not about cars, it's about the ability to automate the movement of mass. This is novel and meaningful.

An obvious medium-term implication of self-driving is that cities will ban human drivers, because that way cities can ditch a bunch of high-cost infrastructure required because of human fallibility. Up until that point, self-driving would be a band-aid. After that point, the dominoes start to fall.

1. Form factors change: cars become 1-4 person pods, stripped of the unnecessary bulk of excessive safety systems and unused capacity.

2. Ownership changes: municipalities will buy fleets of cheap mass-produced pods to replace extremely capex intensive public transport.

3. What is transported changes: now you have shipping drones dropping off standardized (reusable) packages into standardized intakes. Think The Box [1] but smaller.

4. Infrastructure changes: Roads narrow, parking becomes drop-off spots, larger cafes, actual parks. Cut and cover roads multiply, leaving more space above ground for people. Cities grow 20% without getting bigger, just by obviating the need for half their roads. The blight of various parking signs and warnings to drivers disappear. People can walk about freely or ride their bikes. It's quieter. The air quality improves.

5. Housing changes: Garages transform into rooms. People ditch bulky refrigerators in favor of ordering drone-delivered fresh produce in minutes. Drones deliver upstairs not just at street level. Pods become elevators. We've seen all this in science fiction... guess what the enabling technology is?

If you extend the implications of the automated movement of mass, the logical conclusion is the physical infrastructure of the city will transform to take advantage of every gain that creates. Cities dedicate 25-40%+ of their land mass to roads. In dense urban cores, 20% of their land mass is just parking spots. We can't route people-driven cars underground unless we really really mean it and build a highway. We waste a huge amount of space on transportation. We also shape all of our buildings around the constraints imposed by car-shaped objects and all their various externalities, including noise and air pollution.

My belief is that self-driving is easily the most transformative tech to hit cities since the car, and may exceed the impact that cars have had on the built world.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Box_(Levinson_book)
Do you have thoughts on the code-style agents recommended by huggingface? The pitch for them is compelling, since structuring complex tasks in code is something very natural for LLMs. But then, I don’t see as much about this approach outside of HF.
I'm very glad to hear about your experience, it also touches on something deeply human when we can elevate ourselves and reach for the sky =)