skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically, instead of faffing around with undefing values and including different files, you define your list like this:

#define AN_X_LIST(X) \
X(foo, bar) \
X(bar, baz)

And then you use it like so:

#define AN_ASSIGNMENT_STATEMENT(a,b) a = STRINGIFY(b);

And so

AN_X_LIST(AN_ASSIGNMENT_STATEMENT)

Will expand to

foo = "bar";
bar = "baz";

The nice thing about this approach is you can define multiple lists and macros, and make higher order macros which use them. I have a system like this which allows me to define reflective structs in C++ easily, i.e. I define a struct like:

#define STRUCT_FOO_LIST(X) \
X(int, bar, 0), \
X(float, baz, 4.0),
DECLARE_REFLECTIVE_STRUCT(Foo, STRUCT_FOO_LIST);

(where DECLARE_REFLECTIVE_STRUCT basically just does the same dance as above with passing different per-element structs into the list that it is passed for the struct definition, and other utility functions associated with it)

which then makes a struct Foo with members bar and baz with the right types and default values, but also I can do 'foo_instance.fetch_variant("baz")' and other such operations.

The biggest pain with this approach is it's basically dealing with a bunch of multi-line macros, so it can get messy if there's a typo somewhere (and I strongly recommend an auto-formatter if you don't like having a ragged line of backslashes to the right of all the code that uses it).
>Marcus ... bet Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei $100,000 that AGI would not be achieved by the end of 2027.

Has anyone seen any mention of this? I couldn't find it googling.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41562904
Maybe a "Download App" button that installs the PWA would help
Sure, if you have a house.

I live in a neighborhood of apartment buildings. I'm always wishing I had a dog (I have cats so it's not an option) or that there was a small neighborhood park to use as a common space. It's hard to get a sense of and connect with people on different floors, or the other end of the hallway, let alone next-door neighbors, just because it's harder to see the same people repeatedly.
so first off, if you are noticed in a crowd but not identified, that might single you out to be pulled from the crowd.

Also if you have a distinctive face paint then your image might be shared more, or just noticed more in the images that are shared to give more opportunities for people to recognize you or to remember your face to be recognized latter.

Also having a distinctive face would make it easier to track in different sets of footage especially when the technique was originally demoed in 2011.
I see "Any updates?" as a quick check-in, like a little heartbeat signal. It can help people see if there's any movement and maybe share their own ideas or workarounds. I know it can bug the folks who keep things runnin, but if we shut those questions down completly, fewer people might chime in and help out.

Plus, trying to force everyone to be super polite all the time can actually make things feel a bit fake. Instead of thinking "Any updates?" is someone demanding stuff, I see it more like, "Hey, I'm looking at this problem and not sure what to do next – anyone got a clue?" That way, it feels more like people are genuinely trying to help each other out, even if they prefer spaces over tabs.
If we say it's unbelievable, that nothing ever came close to this and this is yuge, will they get proper funding?
Gatsby was a bit soured for me by having read it for the first time as an assignment in high school. Really sucks the fun out of literature when you're yanked out of it after every chapter to write a summary, or answer some dumb quiz questions about what color his car was in chapter 2
yes! and that is composite

* "a-/ad-" towards

* "celeritas" speed

the second derivative, of sorts:

towards+speed
Just like spammers, scammers and other forms of predation will be better at crypto than everyone else, better at AI than everyone else, etc.
Forget carbon neutral, Northwestern develops carbon negative concrete
> he should never use twitter tbh, back then elon is likeable until he tweet 20 times a day

Was that before or after he started over-promising/lying about Tesla's full self driving capabilities?

I don't think he was ever likable, it's just that back then his reputation hadn't caught up with his hype.
Which is fine? It's getting capped to 3 at your modem anyways... And the difference here is reaching the "doesn't matter" phase.

Like - 50GB at 3gbps is ~130 seconds, ~160 seconds at 2.5gbps, and ~400 seconds at 1gbps

You're always waiting at least a couple minutes, and never more than 10 for that download.

Personally - I have a couple 10gbps switches that run my backbone in my house (NAS, k8s cluster, HomeAssistant, etc) and I have a 2gbps symmetric wan, but all of the offices (my wife and I both work from home, plus the media room, plus the kid's playroom) all just run 1gbps switches.

They're cheap, normal office work basically never saturates those speeds (even multiple conference calls with video is a-ok), and there's just not enough value in bumping up to 10gbps across the whole house compared to the equipment cost.

The 10gbps switches live in the basement and just connect those zones.
These days, replace “email client” with “social network.”
Well, ozone hole was supposed to increase and engulf the whole planet, but... I'm sure this is a long enough time to avoid predictions.
This is common knowledge. What a waste of time and effort.
Don't let your dreams be dreams! Go knock on their door and ask them if they want a coffee.
Eleven chemists who have been honoured with a blue plaque
https://archive.ph/5wrHP
My favourite difference is that coding has the letters c and d (which in my opinion are inferior) whereas programming has p, r, g, a, and m (which in my opinion are underrated). I dislike that they both have o, i, n, and g. I wish this distinction was touched on as well.
It's hard to imagine people being okay with actual chem trails...
Still normal in a lot of places that are not big cities.
Sounds great to me! Just be sure the AI is capable of taking on various personas because not everyone you meet is a believer in nonviolent communication.
Stretching spider silk increases hydrogen bonding, improving mechanical strength
https://archive.ph/GeGNz
I didn't think anyone was lying. Not sure what you mean by that. I was wondering if what they were saying included that aspect specifically or not.

I am not even sure why you were putting words like shocking, surprised, skeptical seemingly into my response. None of these are accurate descriptions of my question and response.
And like why not just scrub the `sub` and issue a generic id token (solves idp privacy issues too)… if your service can auth with the claims in the generic token great. if you need more then step up. surely VDCs as a concept have had enough time to mature in the thought space for the industry to be comfortable entertaining this.
This will be a long post, as this is one thing that I actually happen to know a lot about!

Vivobarefoot is the best if you want stylish minimalist footwear. They are also my preferred brand, as of my sneakers and boots are supplied by them. I'm a huge fan of their casual and winter boots. You can wear their winter boots barefoot in the winter and still keep your feet warm as long as it isn't extremely cold. US$100-$300.

Xero makes good, affordable minimalist footwear. I'm not a fan of their designs, but they are increasing in popularity enough for it to possibly become an acquired taste for me. I wonder how their collab with the NBA helped sales. They also make great huaraches and minimalist sandals (which is how they got their start, actually), including a DIY kit which you can use to make sandals that match the shape of your foot. US$20-$150.

BOHEMPIA makes hemp minimalist sneakers in the Chuck Taylor All-Star design. Because they are hemp, you can wear them without socks and not worry about your shoes smelling. They look almost EXACTLY like Chucks. Highly recommend. (US$150)

There are lots of options for minimalist sandals:

- Xero, as stated above. (US$20-100)

- Luna makes really good ones, especially for trail running (so I've heard). They also have a traditional, upstyled huarache (Vibram rubber sole instead of car tire), though I found the leather laces to be extremely uncomfortable on my cramped toes. (US$50-150)

- Shamma Sandals is good also. I really like their leather Numa Warriors; these are part of my daily rotation. I hacked them so that I could use Earth Runners straps instead of the adjustable lacing system they come with. Super solid, though I have to adjust my heel strap every few hours because of how my feet pronate while I walk (having flat feet's the best! /s). (~US$100)

- Earth Runners are similar to Shammas, though I haven't bought from them because I've been happy with my Shammas. Lots of people seem to really like them, though.

- More that I haven't mentioned.

For dress shoes, many (Vivobarefoot, Lems, etc) make "dress" shoes that are really sneakers with an Oxford design. They'd look terrible with a suit.

For _real_ dress shoes, there are only two real players in town (that I know of): Carets and The Last Shoemaker.

Carets look fine, and I tried to order from them two years ago, but they were having major logistical issues that caused them to push my order indefinitely _without telling me_. They seem to have sorted this out, as they now have plenty of options in stock now. (US$250-$500)

I ended up going with The Last Shoemaker. It's run by two Brits working out of Vietnam. They are handmade with high-quality leather. I LOVE their shoes. Reminds me of the Allen Edmonds I used to have. Aside from the widened toe box, you can't tell their minimalist at all. I've also gotten custom dress boots and loafers from them that look spot on. They take a while to get, but I can't recommend them enough. (US$350-$500+)
Your reaction proves the entire point of the Oxford comma -- to eliminate this kind of confusion. It absolutely should have been written as "...Buyser, an AI, software, and data engineer."

There are more reasons to use an Oxford comma than not, and I remain continually surprised that it is not taught as the default.
Case in point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
When people say "you can just do things" this is what they mean. Fun article, I hope everyone reading this who wishes they had something like it in their neighborhood starts this weekend by inviting their nearest friend for coffee on the stoop.
Google is overly cautious with their guardrails.

Granted, Gemini answers it now, however, this one left me shaking my head.

https://cdn.horizon.pics/PzkqfxGLqU.jpg
Weird, they released Gemini 2.5 but I still can't use 2.0 pro with a reasonable rate limit (5 RPM currently).
Is Gemini and Bard same? I asked it a question and it said "... areas where I, as Bard, have..."
Interesting, all of the compounds used to make this gel are pretty easy to get and the recipe to make the gel is simple. It would be very easy, for someone, to purchase the ingredients and run the experiment on themselves. All of these chemicals are pretty safe and as such the risks are pretty low.

I've never thought about doing citizen science before, but I'm strongly considering it here.
I thought GPT would have identified correctly more of them. I guess manual checking is really the only reliable option then. well done
OpenAI's livestream of GPT-4o Image Generation shows that it is slowwwwwwwwww (maybe 30 seconds per image, which Sam Altman had to spin "it's slow but the generated images are worth it"). Instead of using a diffusion approach, it appears to be generating the image tokens and decoding them akin to the original DALL-E (https://openai.com/index/dall-e/), which allows for streaming partial generations from top to bottom. In contrast, Google's Gemini can generate images and make edits in seconds.

No API yet, and given the slowness I imagine it will cost much more than the $0.03+/image of competitors.
Seems like it would provide good data for training control nets for image generation.

This would let you have any of the types if data that this model can output be used as input for controlling image generation.
> This is so weird, did he miscalculate how intense the backlash would be? or he truly doesn't care?

Personally, I don't think he is some genius mastermind, he just took some risks with business strategy and tactics and ended up being really lucky. Eventually, luck runs out.

Also, success and sycophants have probably caused him to get a lot more arrogant and less careful.
Would be confusing for non-tech people once you did x.9 -> x.10
Also reusing key/values for different queries can compress the KV cache, it can be an 1000x or 10000x improvement in bandwidth if the model is trained for it.
Are Gemini and Bard same? I asked it a question and it said "... areas where I, as Bard, have...."
Well, he's not wrong. Europe has been free-loading off the American military (as evidenced by their pathetic domestic military spending).

What the Americans seem to be missing, however, is that this dependence on America has also traditionally bound Europe - a MASSIVE economic power - to American interests. That's going to change now, and not in a way that America will like long-term.

The military costs were tiny compared to the preferential trade and geopolitical alignment.
I was never active in SerenityOS and only watched things from afar, but JT had a transition and I got the sense that the other contributor just got busy with life. That said, SerenityOS was a 'for us by us' mostly fun project that became too big and collapsed under its own weight without Andreas. Andreas is a great programmer and seems like genuinely nice person, but over time he was becoming more of a programmer influencer and since seems to have transitioned to PM/EM with full-time Ladybird. I miss his videos, they taught me I never want to write C++ and that splitting a giant work in tiny changes works and that programming videos are tiktok for programmers.

Which is to say, falling out with Andreas IMO is less than likely, dude just seems nice from the onset, but with changing tides in project it is highly likely that people just became uninterested over time.
I liked their announcements and demos and continue to like them.
It's the same chicken-or-egg problem that all new social media has. "I want to move to the cool new thing but none of my friends are there"
For any backend engineers that don’t build products because dealing with frontend is demoralizing… give the replit ai agent a test. I’m making better ui now than I ever could with bootstrap and jquery. Typescript + react + the right amount of prompting about code quality and maintainability and it produced workable interfaces plus some.
Very similar story to mine. Moving from Amsterdam to the “suburbs” of a smaller city in the Netherlands AND getting a dog was the only way I’ve found to meet new people and befriend neighbors.
For something not-so-serious I probably should, but my browser does not have one. :D
Everyone dies eventually, it's inevitable, you can't schedule your parents death when it's convenient for you. It's just how it is, and we're all adults, why try to sugarcoat it?
> Removing a configuration format deprecated in 2021 surely won't cause any issues right? Of course not.

This is, after all, the language where people were given an extra five years to migrate away from 2.7 and still complained for years after the extended date.

By the way, being cowed into supporting all this outdated stuff has a lot to do with why the vanilla tools (Pip and Setuptools) are slow and bulky and why the design and implementation of better ideas takes so long. Everyone gets into arguments about what's a big enough change to actually matter, vs. what's small enough to let the laggards adapt; and about how to ensure there are migration paths. Check out PEP 777 (https://peps.python.org/pep-0777/) and the corresponding discussion (https://discuss.python.org/t/_/67484) for just a small sample of how deep the meta-discussion gets.
This is such a wholesome post. It also shows how much agency we can have in our local community. It reminded me of the Derek Sivers story[0] about the dancing man and the first follower when I read the part about the first person (Luke) joining them.

[0] - https://sive.rs/ff
I was recently trying to replicate ClaudePlaysPokemon (which uses Claude 3.7) using Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, but it was seemingly getting confused and hallucinating significantly more than Claude, making it unviable (although some of that might be caused by my different setup). I wonder if this new model will do better. But I can't easily test it: for now, even paid users are apparently limited to 50 requests per day [1], which is not really enough when every step in the game is a request. Maybe I'll try it anyway, but really I need to wait for them to "introduce pricing in the coming weeks".

Edit: I did try it anyway and so far the new model is having similar hallucinations. I really need to test my code with Claude 3.7 as a control, to see if it approach the real ClaudePlaysPokemon's semi-competence.

Edit 2: Here's the log if anyone is curious. For some reason it's letting me make more requests than the stated rate limit. Note how at 11:27:11 it hallucinates on-screen text, and earlier it thinks some random offscreen tile is the stairs. Yes, I'm sure this is the right model: gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25.

https://a.qoid.us/20250325/

[1] https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/rate-limits#tier-1
And then there are the similarities, both video and song, between Can’t Get You Out Of My Head and Doll on a Music Box/Truly Scrumptious from the UK musical/movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang… There was a mashup floating around somewhere, years ago. Probably lost.
There is no point in asking such questions, the model doesn't know what it is on its own, and you could get many different answers if you repeat it a few more times.
> ChatGPT’s new image generation in GPT‑4o rolls out starting today to Plus, Pro, Team, and Free users as the default image generator in ChatGPT, with access coming soon to Enterprise and Edu. For those who hold a special place in their hearts for DALL·E, it can still be accessed through a dedicated DALL·E GPT.

> Developers will soon be able to generate images with GPT‑4o via the API, with access rolling out in the next few weeks.

That's it folks. Tens of thousands of so-called "AI" image generator startups have been obliterated and taking digital artists with them all reduced to near zero.

Now you have a widely accessible meme generator with the name "ChatGPT".

The last task is for an open weight model that competes against this and is faster and all for free.
There's an RSS feed in the source code: https://www.eugenewei.com/blog?format=rss
Biasing the tool for a developer audience would hurt it's usefulness to more general audiences. I did not get the impression the tools were meant only for developers.

In the 1990s, we frequently used the phrase "launch a website" to mean "navigate to the website", so your prompt could have been clearer than just three words.
Tesla sales have been down since 2024, but share price hold steady pre-election price because they are still going to sell huge amounts, just not as much as post Covid because of Chinese competition and removing old stock for the older Y model face.
Nearly half of Canadians have cut cable entirely: report
It's "experimental", which means that it is not fully released. In particular, the "experimental" tag means that it is subject to a different privacy policy and that they reserve the right to train on your prompts.

2.0 Pro is also still "experimental" so I agree with GP that it's pretty odd that they are "releasing" the next version despite never having gotten to fully releasing the previous version.
Orbit – Follow the music and find your vibe
The dot com bubble from around 1995 to 2000 was huge. I started working in 1997 and we thought it would just keep going but then the bubble popped. Thousands of people lost jobs. Stock market dropped way down. But that doesn't mean that the Internet was useless.

I see AI like that. In my view there is absolutely an AI bubble and it does have real world uses but it is way over hyped right now. I say that as someone working on AI chips.
It's interesting how long twisted-pair cabling has stuck around, to the point that it's associated as being the physical medium for Ethernet. Ethernet started with coaxial cables, but soon lost its association with those as twisted-pair was cheaper & easier to work with. And it's stayed that way for so long that a CAT-5 cable with RJ-45 (really RJ-38 but that's excessively pedantic) connectors is an "Ethernet cable", and a perfectly usable fiber optic cable is something else!
Prolonged torpor in mice slows epigenetic changes that accompany aging
I still have absolutely no idea
But (I'm told) no one will be incentivized to innovate and do good for the world if they cannot have over $100M.
Underrated insight of the week.
I thought it was because C is fast (compared to most other languages)
I do not recommend WHITIN or, by association, any "Amazon-only" brand. They copy styles from more expensive sneakers at much lower quality to hit cost.

I purchased a pair three years ago as a replacement for Merrell Vapor Gloves that were difficult to find. (Merrell stopped making their Vapor/Trail Gloves for a while, though they appear to be back.) They were heavier than the Merrell's while using cheaper fabric and less comfortable soles.

While affordability of minimalist sneakers is a real issue, I'd recommend spending a little more and getting XERO's.
>25m rules out all sprayer planes, all hobby planes, and anything smaller than a CRJ-700, like all private business jets.

It also rules out most military planes! Including the B21 Raider stealth bomber and F35.

So that limits it pretty much exclusively to large cargo aircraft, large passenger aircraft, and large military transport aircraft.

This is not terribly useful for anything other than tracking military logistics but only the US does that by planes in any significant manner.

That >25m is a giant limit they just kind of walk right past.
AI bots are destroying Open Access
Gary is harsh or extreme, even, but the point largely stands:
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/what-if-generative-ai-turn...

Personally I think there will be things that gen-AI is useful for, such as rapid education for beginners and learning or performance feedback mechanisms. Those use cases are promising, and still in development. Hopefully they'll be cost-effective as well.
Let's start with some simple basics:

I need an integrated app, not a website, not a standalone app. It must seemlessly integrate into Android. A webinterace is okay for maintaining purposes. But the app itself must be an integral part of my smartphone. Visible in my taskbar and stuff like need. Without any detours.

Something that integrates with Outlook/Gmail. Why? That helps to keep information synchronized. I need synchronized information, not the 12th app that offers me to help my organizing my day, while infact it's adding up another item to my mind-pile.

Of course it must be simple. Not a fancy interface. Not too much UI elements. No bling-bling.

And one feature I like specifically: A reminder, that tells me how many days/hours/weeks/months I am overdue for recurring tasks. Like a dynamic todo list where I can uncheck items. Let's say the task is "Watering Plants", every 2 days. I must uncheck this item, otherwise it would increase the amount of days its overdue.
I think you need to realize your fans don't have the same intent as you. You should ask your audience what they want you may be surprised.