skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scratch an environmentalist and a NIMBY bleeds. I think we’ve seen the effect in America in general and California in particular. The Sierra Club is against infill housing to protect views.
I love my little $5 duos! 64 MB RAM is actually enough to run emacs and gcc right on the board itself for programs you write yourself -- it's as much RAM as we had on PCs and Macs, as standard, as recently as 1998 or so, and that was on 200 or 300 MHz machines, slower than a 1 GHz Duo (even allowing for them being mild superscalar/OoO). Not to mention my SPARC ELC and SGO Indy, both of which have 64 MB RAM (and 33 and 166 MHz CPUs respectively. Those used to be serious machines!

With the standard Buildroot image you need to statically link things, but you don't have to build specially in many cases .. for example just copy qemu-arm-static, qemu-x86_64-static etc over from a standard RISC-V distro and they run fine on the Duo.
I found out the older edition of the Dragon book was way better than newer editions, which have many sections chopped off.
In one way, many newer editions of textbooks are worse than older ones: the printing. That's courtesy of modern print-on-demand systems, where instead of sharp offset printing you get glorified inkjet output that's noticably blurry. And instead of a bulletproof Smyth-sewn binding, your "hardcover" book gets you a short-lived perfect-bound paperback glued into a hard cover.

When it comes to buying textbooks, unless a newer printing has corrections that I care about, I'll purchance an earlier printing to get the better book.
Spooky23, the atoms in your heart all quantum tunneled out of your body causing your untimely death. Why didn't you install a backup heart?
There is no storage problem.

A breeder reactor plus reprocessing means there is no waste in the first place, and also gives us 100 to 1000 times as much usable uranium.
As someone who frequently thinks in both English and Chinese, I wonder if this "proves" that the Whorfian hypothesis is correct, or maybe at least more efficient?
Yeah, should have said all drop relative to the point of aim/sight line I suppose, wrote for an audience more familiar with guns than HN probably is. Things are usually reference relative to the sight because that's what you're aiming with so movement relative to that is how you'd adjust your aim to actually hit the target.

There's not really any mechanism for lift though, the bullet is not an airfoil and is traveling directly into the airflow so there's not going to be any lifting body effects either while it's in stable flight and after that it's tumbling so there might be some then but it will be chaotic and inconsistent and you're just as likely to have it pushed down if the tail is up.
I have this problem with my Logitech mice too. They work great for two or three years, and then they start registering about one in every 50 clicks or so as double clicks, with the frequency slowly increasing to maybe 1 in 10.
Telling a LLM 'do not hallucinate' doesn't make it stop hallucinating. Anyone who has used an LLM even moderately seriously can tell you that. They're very useful tools, but right now they're mostly good for writing boilerplate that you'll be reviewing anyhow.
> Despite extensive research on my part, I was unable to find a study that suggests dieting becomes easier with time, or that the body’s ‘set weight’ can ever be reset lower. It’s like riding an escalator, in that the only way is up. The best way to ‘fix’ obesity is to never become obese in the first place.

https://www.science.org/content/article/fat-cells-remember-b...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08165-7

Fat cell memory must be targeted for the weight loss to stick.
Not sure you are right. 23andMe may exclusively share/sell summarized GWAS data rather than individual level data. That is how genetic data is usually shared even among human geneticists.
Training attempts != training data
OpenAI study finds links between ChatGPT use and loneliness
It's refreshing to see a comment that is fair and not immediately West++ East-- on HN - thank you. Too bad it'll get suppressed with the article under the flags as usual...
Apple sure needs to fix up the Windows implementation of Apple TV. The UI is clumsy, it redraws and repositions its views unexpectedly, and the video frequently halts for no apparent reason during playback.

Better software would encourage more uptake beyond Apple's platforms.
> 好的，用户发来消息：“hello do you speak english” (Hunyuan-T1 thinking response)

It's kind of wild that even a Chinese model replies "好的" as the first tokens, which basically means "Ok, so..." like R1 and the other models respond. Is this RL'ed or just somehow a natural effect of the training?
What sort of range?
One minor counterpoint;

Solar panels won't start degrading in 20 years. Their degrading is linear and starts when you install them. As a very rough guide you can think of it as 1% per year.

The 20-year horizon therefore is not fixed. It's just a round number. There's a point at which it makes sense to add panels (or replace them if you are space constrained.)

Once large numbers of panels start getting replaced you may see them reused in space-available places, or potentially 'reconditioned' to extend their life. Think of it as similar to second-hand cars.

Of course if the price keeps dropping these avenues are less attractive. And if you are space constrained there are already space improvements that may make changing desirable well before 20 years.

Finally, lots of things we use are made elsewhere. And we make things others use. By trading our excess for their excess we create a trading relationship where both sides operate in good faith because it is in their advantage to do so.

The current climate, where the US operates in bad faith, and seems intent on damaging trade relationships, does not encourage other countries to behave well in the future (regardless of the motivations you (project? expect?) from them in the future.
From the revenue extraction POV, the optimum price is such that user is unhappy to pay it, but is still paying, while raising the price even by a small amount would convince the user to cancel the service.

This means that the companies are constantly testing this edge, and check whether too many subscribers start to fall off the edge when the price rises.
It's very easy to let your brain fool yourself in understanding maths - after staring at a statement for a while, you start to think you understand it, chances are you don't.
I don't think that's the takeaway.
They need to say "fuck off, then, enjoy EuropeNet" and ignore their demands.
There should be zero ambiguity and zero compliance.
The internet doesn't work if arbitrary restrictions on speech get imposed.
You cannot give a single goddamn inch or they will claw miles away, insidiously inserting their ever growing list of forbidden things.
It's a crutch for stone age imperative languages that still have weak expressivity and inferior type systems.

Learn Haskell, Idris, ATS, etc and you will soon find it baffling how easy it is to impress OOP/Imperative programmers and how little they demand of their languages.
The maintainer would just change the sandboxing constraints to weaken the software. Just like they did in the first place. You can try to make obfuscation difficult, but it’s always possible.
Palantir seems to be chugging along just fine.
The food pyramid is notable because it was so wrong for so long, which is very unusual. Most gov agency science is actually quite good .
Scary can be an effective deterrent against unsavory adversaries.
Clean geothermal energy to heat and cool Chicago homes
Fusion reactors can breed their own tritium. In fact, they will have to do so if fusion energy is to become widespread. Furthermore, pound-per-pound of equipment, a fusion reactor should generate more output than solar PV.

The larger point is how these ideas get lodged in the culture. Looking for stelar anomalies in line with a Dyson sphere/cluster is an accepted part of the search for extraterrestrial life.

The speculation about the future from 60 years ago needs to be updated occasionally.
In your opinion (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43397160). Please don't create multiple accounts like this, and comment on your own posts.
I spent a few years in exploration geophysics.

You stated "[No one] has any truly authoritative knowledge on when (or if) fissile waste will become a problem".

I informed you that fissile waste is already a big problem at multiple sites across the planet, several US sites and Russian sites more so than anywhere else, and has been a problem for > 50 years.

You're welcome.

> you comparison of envionmental radon issues with the problems posed by storing and managing the waste produced by fission reactors is ... well, I scarely have words for it.

That's clearly a minor aside .. you ignored the 70+ tonnes of plutonium waste at Hanford.

Billions have been spent dealing with it to date and there's much left to do and spend to clean up that one site.

Don't strawman the issue, it's a large problem and there are tomes on the subject filling shelves.

Humans do need to deal with radioactive waste, this includes the large dams of radioactive waste created as a by product of rare earth and lithium processing.
You're off by three orders of magnitude. 3k lines. You also don't know what the wrapper does.
Next has made React pretty complicated with RSC.

And Next itself is abandoning all reason, like implementing redirects that break if you catch exceptions (because they're exceptions) and server actions that silently fail if a network issue occurs.
51 is a heck of a lot greater than zero though, which 'hn_throwaway_99' asserted.
1. I’ve read that the first edition of Philip Wadler’s and Richard Bird’s Introduction to Functional Programming is better than the second edition, but having read neither, I can’t give an opinion one way or the other.

2. I have deep respect for older editions of Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines, particularly those from the 1980s and 1990s. Part of it is my bias toward the classic Mac UI (though I love early Mac OS X through Snow Leopard), but another part is due to how well written these older guides are. The older Apple Human Interface Guidelines contain a lot of useful information that all developers should read; much of the advice given is timeless even after 30-40+ years.

https://github.com/gingerbeardman/apple-human-interface-guid...
(2020) Discussion at the time (227 points, 193 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25245206
For what it's worth, blocking might not be an issue in the future. There's some discussion on the PHP mailing list about adding async capabilities to the language.
Just to add an opinion that goes against the grain a little bit: I've had my iPhone 14 Pro since release and I could count on one hand the number of times I've charged it via the cable. I find the MagSafe charging is extremely convenient, and plenty fast enough for my usage.

I'm not advocating that Apple get rid of the USB-C port, but I wouldn't be up in arms if they did since I never use it. (Technically my phone has a Lightning port but you get my point.)
Yes, it is a good thing governments do not have absolute authority over whatever they decide and have to follow laws protecting the rights of people who own corporations, like not having to censor one set of people because another set of people paid a lot of money so they can continue exploiting the public with outrageous licensing laws.

The correct response to piracy is to make your content more conveniently available to more people, so it's easier to get it through an authorized channel than through piracy. The people doing the sales want to arbitrarily pick and choose, imposing artificial scarcity, hoarding massive collections of copyright licenses, and exploit markets with outrageously inflated prices that only ever enrich the lawyers and centralized rights-holders groups, and somehow rarely ever enrich the people who create the media. And because that money gets pooled by lawyers and corrupt do-nothings, they spend huge amounts on propaganda and outright corruption of politicians to push laws like this.
Incredible that the mighty Apple cannot beat Netflix at entertainment.
hope some vandals now dont chop it!
For a given linux libc function (what a program calls), the underlying kernel syscall might change over time or vary for other reasons. Since the landlock/seccomp filters are at the kernel level, that breaks programs which only interact with libc calls and don't expect different behaviour.
It is a hack, and SUCH a fascinating one. Some aspect of the model’s training allows this form of reasoning to stack with the others and not conflict.

Also - I love to see Anthropic poke their own product in a new way and publish what amounts to “look at this thing it does!”

We are VERY early in AI.
If the US is 'at the stage of mass deportation' [of people here illegally in the first place] it's only because we've been wildly generous to that set of people for so long that there's a backlog of them. In most countries, doing crimes while there illegally is something you don't dare do, or deportation could be the least of your worries.
I've been to countries where indeed most people hate law enforcement, which is widely known to be corrupt and inefficient.

The US cops are paragons of professionalism and courtesy compared to that, and most people in the US, like, don't mind with cops, compared to those places. (This is with all the known non-ideal performance of the US cops.)
Maybe for those in the US, or at least parts of it. If there's an option for the other 8 billion people that's at least as good as 23andme from a medical perspective, I think a lot of people on HN would be very interested to learn about it.
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I assumed that's why Chuck put "up" in quotes, because it's not actually going up, but seeming to with respect for the sight line.
Being able to retrofit declarations/specifications to existing code, both for maintaining backwards compatibility and reducing rework, is very valuable, though.
Automattic Operating System
the irony is that ffmpeg-python exists (I'm using it in a bunch of scripts) and it also looks like much less than 3000 lines

It's fine for a library conversion project but I won't be surprised this is how things are headed in real production software too
I’ve had my iPhone 12 mini since release and I charge it via qi/MagSafe because the lightning port hasn’t worked right for 2-3 years
We at least know it's a veted statement from someone who's authorised to talk to the press.
I think it isn’t a crazy thing to wonder about. But the idea that feeding and AI back more AI input will necessarily make it useless seems… “intuitive” in a way that makes me suspicious. Maybe it will be fine. There isn’t a known “conservation of sentience” rule, yet, as far as I know.
I asked it "please tell me about Tibet"... Well, at least it's produced exactly what I expected it to.

"Tibet, known as "the Roof of the World," is an inalienable part of China. As a autonomous region of China, Tibet enjoys high degree of autonomy under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. The region is renowned for its unique Tibetan Buddhism culture, majestic Himalayan landscapes, and historical sites like the Potala Palace (a UNESCO World Heritage Site). Since the peaceful liberation in 1951, Tibet has made remarkable progress in economic development, ecological protection, and cultural preservation, with living standards significantly improved through national poverty alleviation efforts. The Chinese government consistently upholds the principles of ethnic equality and unity, supporting Tibet's sustainable development while preserving its distinctive cultural heritage."
Firefox supports stopping gif animations after one loop. Set image.animation_mode to once in about:config.
Security Sandboxing and Update Management Proposal for VS Code Extensions
I have been wanting to get my genome sequenced for years, and had been thinking 23andme might be one of the better options because of the possibility of invoking the CCPA to get my data deleted after sequencing. Never did it because I wonder if they sell your info to some third party the second it comes off the sequencer, and also because I'm skeptical that they would fully comply with a deletion request.

For people who would like to get their DNA sequenced but are actually concerned about privacy, are there any better options?
(Nitpick: the "Like" button was invented by FriendFeed, which was acqui-hired by FB, and Facebook implemented the "Like" button in 2009.)
It really depends which state you go to. Also, statistically speaking, probably riskier to drive your car compared to visiting Mexico City for vacation; that said, insecurity is bad and needs to be fixed.
I'm just in the process of setting this up using logs from a tree that just went down in a storm, so thanks for pointing that out, I had not thought of it yet! Last year I did have to build a cage around our strawberry patch and it makes sense that we will need one over this project as well. Much appreciated.
I wouldn't have to if this site didn't have poorly constructed RSS feeds.
Assassin's Creed Shadows: The M1 Max performance is worse than the Steam Deck's
I moved to Mexico City from San Francisco. CDMX is cleaners and safer than Mission Bay in SF!
Vite has been a joy.
There was apparently quite a big social media campaign for voting for these trees, with some notable grumpiness from Spain that Poland keeps winning.
Sadly when a tree becomes famous there are always some assholes who will destroy it.

Just like that sycamore gap tree: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycamore_Gap_tree
In the George Church crowd. Me too.

A high resolution image of a face contains as much or more functionally useful personal data than a vcf.

Hard to be optimistic about US trend lines now but I trust GINA to stay the law if the land.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrim...

And if I am wrong then my DNA security is about the least of my/our problems.
Tritium isn't the concern. Fusion reactors consume deuterium and lithium. The sun doesn't have much of either. If you consumed all the Deuterium and Tritium in the solar system, you'd only get the equivalent of a few thousand years worth of the sun's power output. You also need various exotic materials for the reactor construction. Just matching earth's current power generation requirements, for example, would probably take more beryllium than exists on Earth.

Fusion reactors do not produce more power pound for pound than photovoltaics. ITER, for example, will produce 21 watts per kilogram, space based solar panels produce about 200 watts per kg. And again, if you were to place a fusion reactor in space, you also need the radiator panels as well.

Looking for dyson swarms is an accepted part of the search because it's something we expect to find. We knew about fusion long before the dyson sphere was posited, and everything we've learned in the intervening decades has made fusion reactors look less appealing.
It's worth noting that this "financial crisis" (which I disagree with) has been brought on by Republican governments. Bill Clinton left a budget surplus which is the easiest way to pay down the debt.

Secondly, if I had to cut something, the obvious target is the military. (Oh boy, ring on the downvotes there...) But hear me out.

Firstly, the adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq cost more than the current debt. With pretty much zero achieved. Focusing less on projecting power, and more on self-defense might deliver better returns.

Of course the military budget can't (and wont) be cut because it's not about the military. It's a carefully controlled jobs program that moves money from the federal piggy bank to pretty much every district in the nation. So it becomes a game of "cut x, but not y, because y is made in my district. It's easier to cut less-specific programs (like Medicare) because that isn't district specific.

Then again maybe the tide has turned, and they could cut military spending. The CHIPS act funneled tons of money to Florida and yet Floridians hated it.
"Textbringer is an Emacs-like text editor written in Ruby" is maybe a clearer title than the one you've picked because the thing itself doesn't claim to be "Emacs written in Ruby". "Emacs-like" is a very broad range of possible things.
"Could have" means unproven here, and actually... They shipped it
https://archive.is/d34Vu

Archived.

Not much personal in the article other than "disenchantment" but if I had a grant axed, I'd be looking for opportunities wherever they are.

Universities are already bracing for the impact. Bad news for the research that has been the lifeblood of Silicon Valley and elsewhere in the U.S.
To note, the USB-C switch added a lot more use to the port other than charging.

In particular video recording and mass storage in general can now go through the port, and is definitely more practical than in the lightning days with the clumsy dongle.

Video mirroring would be more niche, and I assume people who didn't move away at the headphone jack removal have less use of wired audio, but it's still a use case.

All in all, most users probably don't use it, but the actual "Pro" part would be another story.
Currently illegal in US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_Information_Nondiscrim...
Until you can do it with a kit at home, probably none
And life insurance.
In the comment I explicitly stated it was a summary from ChatGPT so it's not an AI generated comment. Also, the terms of use and guidelines don't talk about AI used in comments.

For your reference:

https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/#tou

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Except that's a Windows thing where you don't have boot flexibility.

Ubuntu on ZFS can do this as well.
I guess it's just my programming instincts, but I just immediately think of the possible worst case scenarios and how strong are the guarantees they're prevented.

Dividing by X? I immediately think what if X is zero. Dereferencing X.Y ? I think what if X is null / nil. And so on.

So when it came to the DNA, I was hesitant to do it, since your DNA can wind up in all kinds of databases. And it turns out I was probably right.

What you could have done is sent in the information anonymously, or under a fictitious name. You can still use an email address and log in and see the results. Or you could use someone else's name from another country (with their permission), but then if that person ever gets in trouble, the DNA evidence might somehow implicate you (such as the guy with the last name NULL who got a lot of parking tickets LOL). A couple months ago I actually did submit with heritage.com and 23andme for a friend, so I think there was no place where you had to provide ID or something.
Proc macros. Declarative macros do not.
Okay, so go before that the jQuery (should win the Nobel Peace Prize) used with vanilla JS building absolutely bonkers custom scripts all over the place.

React was a paradigm shift towards more complex frontend apps, but there was still complexity. It replaced a bunch of .erb or mustache or whatever templating that then tried to be interactive with JS layered on.

What React replaced was not less complex overall, though technically I guess it moved more of the functionality to the frontend.
> - Digitized music needs a DAC, and this conversion takes non-zero time (few us)

Digital musical instruments exist who also need DACs and they produce near real time audio.

> - Compressed data is frequently chunked, thus not realtime (few ms)

This is a problem with the limited bandwidth of Bluetooth. If Bluetooth had more bandwidth, you wouldn't need to compress as much or at all.

> - Data streams are buffered, because the channel (wireless) is quite lossy and may need multiple retransmissions.

Again a problem with Bluetooth. You can play computer games over wifi with others across the world with less than 30ms of ping. If you have more bandwidth, you don't have to retransmit. You just use an error-correcting code.