skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some animals get most if not all of their sleep through microsleep [1].
So whatever mechanism "refreshes" the brain, it can work on short time scales.
The switch in brain firing dynamics from wake to sleep (NREM) is very fast -- on the order of one to a few seconds. People in team Nedergaard argue that it is the rhythmic neuronal activity during sleep that promotes fluid flow (though to be fair, some argue its arterial pressure). So their answer to your question would be yes, that should be enough time to enhance fluid flow (fluid is flowing all the time, the question debated by scientists is, whether is it being enhanced during sleep).

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh0771
But I don't want to write additional scripts or do whatever additional work to make the 'wonder tool' work. I don't mind an occassional rewording of the prompt. But it is supposed to work more or less out of the box, at least this is how all of the LLMs are being advertised, all the time (even the lead article for this discussion).
I deleted my data a few months ago and it happened fast enough that it didn't seem like there was a human in the loop.
At least in terms of media, profits are higher (due to increasing mainstream acceptance rather than opionated subcultures), budgets are also higher (hence more risk), so why put in the effort? It's not the West, same thing is happening in Japan, even in places like mass produced literature and Webtoons in China & Korea. Gacha games/Live-Service unfortunately is alot more profitable for less effort than an ambitious single player game like BG3. Then there's also poignant quote by the Square Enix CEO that any sort of investment into media needs to be compared to with the opportunity cost of just investing in the S&P500 instead. It's not enough to just be profitable, you need to make at least 2x/3x over that 5 year dev time to break even.

So alot unfortunately is a choice that consumers have made. Even in terms of media again, alot of modern viewers watch media more as self-insert fantasies, so quality of writing or novelty is often going to worthless or even detrimental to them. I don't believe that mindset, but having talked to many on /a/, /v/ or reddit, there's many who are just there to consume rather than actual interest.
More or less my experience.

Sudowrite literally breaks out the story into chapters, and has you arrange all the facts of the story so they can be summarily accessible at all times.
Death is cheaper in our legal system than taking care of some one disabled for many years.
Thanks! The thing is, I like ROR but I don’t love it. As in, I like it a lot better than full stack JS but it doesn’t feel quite right. That’s why I’m tempted to give Elixir Phoenix a try.
> Imagine how much of the world runs

Imagine? It's real...

E.g. just recently there was news [0] of the New Zealand's health department (of $16B) is managed by a single Excel.

[0]: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/nz_health_excel_sprea...
“we were biased too much by experience with C++” (or C) could describe most of the dubious design decisions for Go.

It seems there are tons of things the designers banned because they are bad in C, and didn’t supply any replacement because the C++ version is overly complicated or hard to use, and they weren’t aware of anything better.

Metaprogramming is a perfect example. C macros are bad, C++ metaprogramming facilities are baroque, so let’s not have any metaprogramming features whatsoever and tell people to rely on code generations or reflection instead.
wow missed opportunity
It's also like trying to manage the most prolific bullshit artist the world has ever produced.
https://dialasong.com/about/

You still can
I refused to use ratcheting spanners and air tools and other useful things when working on cars or bikes. I was so very wrong.

There is a time and place for an air powered ratchet or big rattle gun. To think “my muscles will atrophy and I’ll stop thinking of clever ways to loosen that thing” is just wrong. It’s confusing the desired outcome with the method.

I did resist copilot up until recently and now laugh at myself. Use it to power through the boring template crap and leave yourself the juicy morsels. It’s faster and more satisfying.
> Go watch CGI in a movie theatre and it's worse than 20 years ago, go home to play video games and the new releases are all remasters of 20 year old games because no-one knows how to do anything any more.

None of the things you said are actually true. Only superficially, because you've only seen those mass market crap.

Good movies are still around, and yuo don't even notice the CGI, because they're cleverly done. For crap like the recently released snow white, it's obvious that the CGI is badly done - it doesn't make it an indictment against all movies released of late!

Same with games - just because there's lots of AAA studio flops that look terrible, doesn't mean the medium is all terrible. There's so many good indie games that you can never truly play them all.

But if your exposure to these products are only the mass market crap, then you might certainly feel that way.
I find modern Inkscape almost identical to CorelDraw, which is what I learned in high school. Works well, and I'm considering moving some remaining CorelDraw graphics projects over to Inkscape soon.
That’s a good point about the integration. I mostly need to make API calls and have an app that’s easy enough to maintain as a solo founder so it’s mostly a matter of finding the stack that feels right.
Don't conflate Waymo and Tesla. Tesla FSD is by and large garbage, while Waymo is the real thing. Specifically:

1. Waymo is autonomous 100% of the time. It is not possible for a human to actually drive the car: even if you dial in support, all they can do is pick from various routes suggested by the car.

2. No, I'd guesstimate 90%+ of Waymo's mileage is city driving. Waymo in SF operates exclusively on city streets, it doesn't use the highways at all. In Phoenix, they do operate on freeways, but this only started in 2024.

3. Phoenix is driving in easy mode, but San Francisco is emphatically not. Weatherwise there are worse places, but SF drivers need to contend with fog and rain, hilly streets, street parking, a messy grid with diagonal and one-way streets, lots of mentally ill and/or drugged up people doing completely unpredictable shit in the streets, etc.
I guess for every grift for AI hype there's the other side seeking to capture an audience that rejects it and making super hyperbolic statements to get there lol. This doom and gloom is also getting just as tiring.

Like imagine rejecting the internet in it's entirety because the "dotcom" era was way overhyped. That's what the author sounds like right now. Whatever rises out of the ashes of this hype will be far more useful than what we had before and we all move forward.
The INRIA page links to a downloadable PDF version here:

https://inria.hal.science/hal-02383654v2/document
Moderation on HN is probably the most transparent you’ll find anywhere aside from Wikipedia, and HN is better than WP in terms of unbiased moderation. Dang and team have a stellar reputation and the idea that they’re covertly blacklisitng a personal blog is really silly.

OP’s submissions are likely not popular because of a mixture of them being not that interesting or useful and also contentious. Contentious submissions get massively reduced in visibility automatically. And stuff like an iPhone review significantly after other mainstream reviews is just not that interesting.
Good point. I hadn’t even thought of getting pinged for non-wrecks.
To give a demo?

Maybe it’s not fair but I find a Framework running Linux gives a good first impression.
Very elegant code. Somebody will surely find a way to make it much less robust and readable by converting it to Typescript
I will always struggle with calling an LLM “AI” as if it somehow has any intelligent thought whatsoever.

We don’t have AI. We aren’t particularly close to AGI. This effort has about reached the top of the S-curve.
It’s a bummer but we elected this fair and square.
We need to face the music .
I’ve been specifically looking for outrage on Canada on right leaning media.
It’s not easy to find.
Right now, an AI tool that generates mockups for branding agencies. But I’m still validating the idea so who knows. Ideally, I would like a stack that would work for most SaaS I may think of building. Tempted to give Elixir Phoenix a try. I briefly tried it a few years back and it just felt right.
>Closer to tech, I feel we have had a big influx on non-tech joining the tech workforce and the quality has suffered as a result of a lack of fundamentals and passion

In the web development community there is a near linear correlation between the number of “influencers” who sell courses that pray on this influx to make money and the influx of such folks.

I miss the days where developers generally had a passion for this work vs seeing only a big paycheck, though without artificial barriers we should have expected a lot of influx of people given how well it generally paid for a long time
That’s not entirely fair. Jobs automated out of existence weren’t bullshit jobs.

Bullshit jobs are HR and project management. Made up fluff nobody really needs.
For the best case example design your code with the goal of failure and properly describing failure states for the users benefit. The success state should be a narrow exception provided the input is formatted exactly as the specification describes.

This greatly lowers the acceptance criteria to test for and instead forces a greater focus on negative tests and error conditions.
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> People keep bringing up the "fake intelligence" vs "real intelligence" argument but it actually doesn't matter.

> What's important is if it is useful.

Except the usefulness expectations almost completely rely on the intelligence (it's right there in the name)! Without this you wouldn't have so much hype&money in this topic. So the complaint is rightfully directed at the core selling point
FWIW, the revolt to Rust is already happening.

Why would anybody choose C++ over Rust in 2025? The biggest (valid) criticisms against Rust are that it is difficult to learn and use, but C++ is like 1000 times harder. When people say Rust is complicated they’re comparing it to modern GCed languages, not to C++.
Funkiest for me was a random crash in a C# app. No pattern whatsoever. No function or user role or part of the software or time of day. I had to learn crash dump analysis and bought my first Kindle books (on desktop, no kindle because I needed it asap), one of which had a trick to make a memory issue crash closer to the source, rather than leave it around to be stumbled over hours later. Which was the source of the randomness. Click button, crash. Move mouse, crash.

This had worked perfectly for many years but windows was upgraded underneath it, and some smartass had used clever tricks for a hover menu that didn’t work in a future (safer) version of the OS. A rarely triggered hover menu.

Thank you, authors of advanced windows debugging and advanced .net debugging.
Just a nitpick: Nero was nowhere close to "the end of the Roman Empire".
Really? Not even being from US, I can attest that simply carrying a silvery laptop or a phone with the half eaten apple logo literally opened doors. Salespeople would have nearly empty iphones besides their personal androids just for the purpose of showing off.

The "one of us" mentality has shifted to other things over the years, but some industries still live on the image.
In the AU / NZ domain the Burke and Wills expedition of 1860-61 helped, fairly or unfairly, cement the association of 'Burke' with foolish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_Wills_expedition
Say “it’s probably fine” and hope that the people building the foundational systems are protecting us
Yes indeed. But it will only add the fences where needed whereas on x86 it basically has implicit fences everywhere which is clearly worse.
Yup. They are more convenient.

But they still exist to fire cashiers.

Thanks for the "broad-brush" of folks that you don't agree with.
We can lock down the Internet so hard that every IP packet is associated with a physical address, then go and arrest people who allow bad packets to be sent from their address. This is what many governments are persistently trying to do. Is it a good idea?
We're a long, long way from any model one-shotting an entire OS, but the gains of AI will definitely make it more likely that some team decides to develop a new open source OS where it would have otherwise been impossibly resource-intensive.
The Atlantic group chat article is journalistic malpractice
sir why dont we dig the trench with spoons instead of shovels, that way we can hire ten times as many men for twice as long!
> People keep bringing up the "fake intelligence" vs "real intelligence" argument but it actually doesn't matter.

It matters because you have to keep it in mind when judging its output EVERY TIME. You can't trust it to not tell you to poison yourself, or invent people/things that don't exist, or make up stories about people that _do_ exist.
Once we get used to the fact that LLMs exist they won't be sold on the gee-whiz "wow, a talking assistant just like in my sci-fi movies!" factor.

They'll be used for particular language classification and search tasks, and for that you'd want several lighter, faster, cheaper and more specialized models. Not one with an arbitrary "best" score that's based on tricking the Turing test.
Well, no. It seems to be something that spilled over from the smartphone usage patterns. Because for notebooks which are plugged in, the notebook is supplied from the power network and the battery gets charged only if necessary, by applying intelligent logic. For example my Legion notebook only charges the battery when it's below a certain threshold. Think this is by now the case even with the most low-end notebooks. Plus the non-linear nature of consumption on a developer notebook makes the battery as power supply for serious work un-reliable. Try running a few database containers in your local environment while sitting in a one-hour conference pair-programming with video on and tell me how far you get with that 100% charged battery ;)
What, is auto and constexpr coming to C?! https://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n3220.pdf#s...
But it does taste a whole lot better! LOVE getting fresh bread when im on holiday in France
Does it walk beside me?
In context, that is a great reply. Out of context it seems ok.
In the US, Apple has done an all time great job marketing their products.

I don't think there is much more too it. "If I didn't buy Apple it would hurt my career". Obviously, completely absurd but how else can you grow a company to be worth 3.3 trillion selling tech gadgets at a massive premium.

It is easy to convince oneself too that this marketing is factual reality after spending so much money too. I mean that new iphone wasn't an expense, it was a career investment!
> AI is more or less the same thing — it uses our wonder to convince us of a simulacrum of intelligence when what we are really witnessing is, in a sense, our own childish excitement at a trick of anthropomorphisation

This claim would stand better if it wasn't able to solve math and physics problems I struggle with.
Honest question: why is MySQL better for sysadmins?
> I don't think it's a sign that there is less demand for AI compute.

Note also Microsoft declined to take on extra capacity:

"Microsoft chose not to exercise $12 billion Coreweave option" - https://www.semafor.com/article/03/20/2025/microsoft-chose-n...
It's what people on the street say. I was watching Kimmel some weeks back and they asked people on the street "how chickens mate". And people were so oblivious (i.e. someone said copulation takes minutes) on basic facts of life, geography, etc.

Insta and TikTok have done a great deal of damage to the youth...
No... get the timing and the attribution right.

Both Vista's Aero compositor (not 7) and Compiz copied from Apple Quartz Extreme.

Apple worked out how to use a 3D accelerator to speed up a 2D GUI.

Quartz Extreme was first released in Mac OS X 10.2 in 2002.

Vista and Compiz were both 2006.
Correcting for inflation (I used this tool by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics: https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm), 30M USD in nov. 1995 would have a purchasing power equivalent to roughly 62M USD in feb. 2025. This is below half the budget of Moana 2 (150M USD, released in nov. 2024) for instance.
Why do the cashiers (that still work there), call them "scan and steal," then?

From what I have seen, they actually make shoplifting much easier. It's just that the product loss is less than salary and benefits of the cashiers, and I'll bet that the company has some way to recoup the losses.
The extension has just been approved and is live on Chrome Web Store
Thanks for this. These two snippets (yours and GPs) saved me some reading time.
Oh. You tried nothing and it’s over ?

Out of curiosity what works to obtain results beside voting every now and then ?
WRT JSON:

> Headers are in each line

This might be my old “space and network cost savings” reflex, which is a lot less necessary these days, kicking in, but the feels inefficient. It also gives rise to not knowing the whole schema until you read the whole dataset (which might be multiple files), unless some form of external schema definition is provided.

Having said that, I accept that JSON has advantages over CSV, even if all that is done is translating a data-table into an array of objects representing one row each.

> utf8 has never been an issue for me

The main problem with UTF8 isn't with CSV generally, it is usually, much like the “first column is called ID” issue, due to Excel. Unfortunately a lot of people interact with CSVs primarily with Excel, so it gets tarred with that brush by association. Unless Excel sees the BOM sequence at the start of a CSV file, which the Unicode standards recommend against for UTF8, it assumes its characters are using the Win1252 encoding (almost, but not quite, ISO-8859-1).

> Csv files have all kinds of separators

I've taken to calling them Character Separated Value files, rather than Comma, for this reason.
Right. Let’s eliminate all the online access to government services and make people go into eg DMV offices like the good old days.
First for a clarification:
Eric Drexler never proposed molecular assemblers in serious (i.e. he has not worked out and published technical details on them). Molecular assemblers have been just a self suggesting early analogy in his first popular science book. What he did later in serious actually proposed (in his technical book "Nanosystems") was macroscopic sizes nanofactories with nanoscopic nanomechanics inside as a sensible far-term-target falling out of exploratory engineering methodology. These nanofactories have not failed. They could not yet been tried due to the underlying technologies that eventually lead there having not yet been developed and ready. Waht is the case is that people repeatedly massively underestimate the immense multifaceted difficulty of eventually getting there.
These technologies including mainly:
– self-assembly technologies beyond nature (incremental via foldamers path)
– early primitive mechanosynthesis (direct to gemstones path)

To the actual question here:
As for why we don't use microorganisms (or algae) more for carbon sequestration.
I guess packaging and protecting them to keep them alive is very costly.
More packaging needed than solar panels due to (~10x?) lower efficiency.
Same reason we do most of our farming still outdoors not in expensive but against hail and wind protecting and growth rate boosting hard glass roof greenhouses or even nicely pest compartmentalizing and massively land area saving vertical farming.

Nanofactories (and machines made by them) could make building say algae-panels >99% cheaper eventually. Though as mentioned it will take a long time till we have these devices. Even with dedicated efforts which we currently do not yet have enough of.

In the meantime till we have such amazing technologies we have to look for other solutions that work.

No packaging needed fertilizing the sea with iron I find to be scary geoengineering. Makes me worried about anoxic dead zones if overdone.
Messing with the ecosystems we'll likely kill even more species by bringing it out of balance making the algae population deliberately explode.

Classic non-biological methods not messing with the ecosystem like solar panels seem to work well. But storage is needed too.
Yes not carbon sequestration here, but for storage green hydrogen seems good if it could be made just a bit more efficient in conversion. Nicely seasonable storeable for the "dunkelflaute" in former natural gas reservoirs. I don't buy that "we can't do that because embrittlememt of gas pipes" argument and the "funding green hydrogen funding natural gas" argument.
I found one of the comments more interesting. It shows how people can be so terribly wrong in one case and correct in another.

>Text predict combined with data mining’…is all 99.9% of [what we have quaintly come to define as] human intelligence is, too.

>Learn a trade, Sam. Start a manufacturing company. Go and dig ditches. Perform brain surgery. Fly a chopper. Provide hands-on care for someone who is ill. Be a stay-at-home dad, even. AI can’t do anything,
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Too Complex, Did Not Learn.

Learn X86-64 assembly with MSDOS Debug instead:

c:>debug
-a
07BE:0100 MOV AX,1
07BE:0102 ADD AX,2
07BE:0106
-G106
AX=0003 BX=0000 ..
Out of curiosity, what is a good course of action ?
Yes but then the text is not human readable or editable in a plain text editor.

This would confuse most users of csvs they are not programmers they at most use text editors and Excel.
But it's not open source:

https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE/blob/canary/packages/...
They do specifically mention this:

“No one owns CSV. It has no real specification (yes, I know about the controversial ex-post RFC 4180), just a set of rules everyone kinda agrees to respect implicitly. It is, and will forever remain, an open and free collective idea.”
As much as I hate Go, I have to admit that it does sort of fill a niche, or at least it did at the time it was released. If you wanted something less baroque and complex than C++, but still care about performance enough to not want to use an interpreted language, and don’t want to use Java because it’s overly verbose and attracts OOP architecture astronauts, there wasn’t much choice other than Go when it came out.

There’s a very high probability that something like Cockroach would use C++ if Go had never existed, so Rob Pike was sort of right, if you squint. On the other hand, if Cockroach were started today it would probably be written in Rust.
https://linuxiac.com/kumander-linux-a-windows-7-nostalgia-tr...
Yes, but Meta and Google promptly picked up Microsoft's abandoned data centers.

I think Microsoft investing less into AI compute is directly related to their gradual split from OpenAI. OpenAI seems to want to chart its own path by partnering with Softbank.

Edit: You linked to older news. OpenAI directly picked up Microsoft's Coreweave deal.