skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RE is exactly the sort of work that requires precision and careful reasoning, not hallucinatory statistical inference. Seeing how LLMs stumble very heavily on the former makes it clear that AI will not replace us.
> But until you do, you don't see it.

Is AGI's imminence at all obvious? I don't think we even have a clear scaling framework that will provably lead us there. It's still just guesswork and "someday soon" like cold fusion and flying cars.
Holy moly. This lead me down a quick read to this gem[0]:

> Aladdin (Asset, Liability and Debt and Derivative Investment Network)[1] is an electronic system built by BlackRock Solutions, the risk management division of the largest investment management corporation, BlackRock, Inc. In 2013, it handled about $11 trillion in assets (including BlackRock's $4.1 trillion assets), which was about 7% of the world's financial assets, and kept track of about 30,000 investment portfolios.

For any one firm to have this much director and/or indirect assertion over the world’s financial assets is ripe for problems of all sorts.

Seems rather indicative of the general consolidation of power and decline of social equality across the west

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_(BlackRock)
In the non-Chinese market, the 4th cloud is Oracle Cloud (OCI).

But yea, there is AWS, GCP, Azure, and OCI outside China and Alibaba, Huawei, and Tencent within China.
Why are we using self-driving vehicles as a panacea for historical underinvestment in public transport?

Not saying that they wouldn't play a role in a functional public transport system, they'd be invaluable for the last two miles from your station to your destination.

But while our people transporting systems prioritise roads and cars, we will never have the high quality and safe public transport that high quality of life cities thrive on.

(And while I write this from NZ, with only limited experiences of LA and SF, we copied America, we went for sprawl and freeways, and it's strangling our largest city.)

I know and spend time with people who live in Berlin, Munich and Hamburg, that don't own a car, because they don't need to own a car.

They might rent one for a holiday into Italy, or they might use an app like Lime / Bird etc. to rent very short term a tiny car like a BMW i3 for a big grocery shop.

But because their cities are dense, and mix commercial with residential (e.g., ā bunch of 5 storey apartment buildings with the ground/first floor being commercial, depending on where you are), they can often buy groceries at the local market on foot on their way home from the U-Bahn, or head down to the local Getränkhandel on a bike with a basket or two to buy their beer and bottled water.

Centralising commerce away from residential, especially with big box shopping areas, is predicated on car culture, and bakes in the need for cars.

TL;DR self-driving vehicles alone are a band-aid over an unsustainable transport culture and strategy.

But they'll form a critical part of a sustainable one.
It's tricky, but simple enough, RFC states that " must be used, inserting a " is done with "". This makes knowing what a record is difficult, since you must keep a variable that keeps the entire string.

How do you do this simply? you read each line, and if there's an uneven number of ", then you have an incomplete record and you will keep all lines until there is an odd number of ". after having the string, parsing the fields correctly is harder but you can do it in regex or PEGs or a disgusting state machine.
A very poignant take; but I think he’s 100% right. The lack of pushback highlights two things, 1) the unquestionable power the executive branch has been granted is now being used to challenge the constitutional rights that were believed to be protected and 2) university leaders, even those at Ivy Leagues, have enough to lose that they’re terrified of this administration.

If those aren’t concerning enough signals on their own, I don’t know what is.
The cars are comfortable, even if they aren’t popular. If I had to choose between a beat up Prius uber-X or a Jaguar for a few dollars more, I’m definitely choosing the latter. I had a Mercedes (older cheaper model with mechanical issues) Uber-X fall apart on my ride in Orange County last month (my son and I were dumped near a nice mall at least), also I bet the Waymo doesn’t smell like cigarette smoke.
Europe will have to zip its lip over China's abuses
The best bucket insurance companies can use is based on age, car choices, and past behavior etc. Yet, a percentage of such people still end up in deadly accidents because they drove drunk, or while looking at their phones and such.

Insurance companies can’t know your future behavior so must hedge for a percentage of future idiots being in any bucket. On the flip side some people in the multiple DUI bucket end up driving sensibly over the next 6 months.
Hi, author here! At my job before Google I had to debug these kinds of bugs for our mobile robotics / computer vision stack, but I found them fun so they didn't feel "hard" per se. The most time-consuming one took a month on basically a camera-mounted computer vision system, where after an hour of use the system would start stuttering unusably. But the journey took us through heat throttling on 2009-era gaming laptops, esoteric windows APIs, hardware design, and ultimately distributed queuing. But fixing it was a blast! I learned a ton. I hated that project but fixing that bug was the highlight of it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=sid_synctium
I thought the whole gluten-free craze had been proven to be non-science over a decade ago, based on studies that did not control for sugar intake
I had an Uber driver fall asleep on me while driving. I can’t wait for Waymo to come to Seattle.
I've been using Blender recently to build 3D models for my new 3D printing obsession. The learning curve is significant, but the product seems great. I've gotten decent help from the chatbots, but does anyone here have any suggestions for good non-animation-focused tutorials?
> they can barely do high school math, evidenced by the fact that they signed a loan for 6 figures without actually thinking about it

That is false and is at best a flippant assessment. Society places substantial pressure on high schoolers to attend university, especially in the middle class, and the loans were presented to them as an option commonly taken by your peers. At 18-ish, peer pressure can be massive and, tied in with the uncertainty about the near future, any revealed life path can seem perfectly acceptable.

> an entire generation demanded easy degrees

This is also false, an entire generation wanted to move forward with life and college seemed like the correct choice to them (regardless of if it was actually a correct choice). They didn’t demand easy degrees.
I suppose this means their recycled plastic bottles meant to make their board feel like they’re doing the world good.
As we move forward some of the major concepts of software development will disappear.

Code will eventually become write only. We won't need to read it, that's for a second and third LLM to do. Which for maybe a year or two will be iffy, but in a while, the tranformers won't have any issues generating and auditing code that includes the logging, auth, biz, etc...

Also, the money in software development will all be flowing to no-code companies soon. There is no reason to develop a CRUD backend, or a Wizard front end in react. All of that will be deprecated actions. All of that work can be tied up into code emitting LLMs where a QA team can perhaps make sure it all works, but generally it will.
>If we replace human drivers with self-driving cars at random

But that's the OPs point, we aren't. Waymo crashing less than human drivers is a tautological result because Waymo is only letting the cars drive on roads where they're confident they can drive as well as humans to begin with.

If you actually ran the (very unethical) experiment of replacing a million people at random on random streets tomorrow with waymo cars you're going to cause some carnage, they only operate in parts of four American cities.
They have some moat. I'm not sure what it is. But they do.

I've been a ChatGPT subscriber since the beginning. I've been a subscriber even though Sonnet 3.5 and others have surpassed GPT4o. I'm not sure why I don't switch.

I think it's the combination of better UX (Claude has poor UX apps), cool interesting new features, and having (limited) access to the top models.
Its also largely based upon reporting by the party.

Now let's hold reality too it:

https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-coal-plant-t...

blue dots
No you don't. Google Search only offers search, and one-shot AI. You have to go somewhere else if you want a conversation.
No code execution during dependency fetching. And the dependency tree is very shallow for most project, making it easier to audit.
> I also don't like the idea of having friends/family right next to me. Same neighborhood is really really nice, but same lot? Nah!

There was a time in my 30s when I was a part of a very close-knit group of friends. We actually talked about the idea of building a friend compound, perhaps much later in life during our retirement years, and we were enthusiastic about it.

These days (mid-40s now), I'm still friends with all those people, but I agree that I don't need them to be on the same lot with me. I would love it if we all lived in the same neighborhood, though. Fortunately we're almost all still in the same city, at least.
The US is a laughing stock currently - however much/little this chap is involved is irrelevant.

The US economy/way of life really only still stands because the world kinda believes in your ethos and credibility (eg usd as a global currency).

You keep going this way, and everyone is going to flee your influence and leave you a bankrupt mess.

You HAVE a technology moat, but that's rapidly eroding. I'd be surprised if it really survives this last term. The ongoing sanctions with your tech have driven other countries to make their own and be independent. You don't want others to be independent...
Clearly they were not saying this. It is a fact that the overwhelming majority of people who grok mathematics were trained to do so. The set of people who are self taught in math is small enough that one ought to be forgiven for assuming this. Similar to how people who know how to perform brain surgery almost certainly got that knowledge from training.
Bay Area tech CEO lays off 931 workers with 'straight facts' email
I still don’t see how the trade dispute can’t make things worse. If you are friends, a trade dispute will strain your relationship, even if it might not cross the line to ruin it. We are just way beyond that line with Canada.
This is simply not true, parsing json v csv is a difference of thousands of lines.
Is anyone working on a "catalog" of MCP servers? Searching on Github is not exactly the best way to discover these.
I have training in math and wasn’t consciously aware of this a few years ago when I first saw this. I didn’t then and don’t now think the language used was insulting.
"Here at Craptech we are facing a huge labor shortage of highly skilled workers that we can hire for the very low wages and nearly nonexistent benefits that we are offering. The situation is so desperate that we are considering doing anything in our power that does not involve increasing wages or benefits, or any kind of employee training."
Yes. For now
Look up the Wonderwash. It basically looks like a small propane tank on an axle that you manually spin to wash your cloths. It works surprisingly well for washing cloths without electricity.
Where are those ten houses going to get water?
JSON itself is not limited to neither 52 nor 64-bit integers.

integer = -? (digit | onenine digit+)

https://json.org/
In 2016 I was frustrated by vscode vim mode undo/redo stack: when you activated undo it would process each individual character insertion/deletion event in sequence exactly as you typed it, e.g. if you type and delete the same character 100 times it would replay that exact sequence even if it was all one logical INSERT. Replay speed was slow enough (maybe 15-20 changes per second?) that it was excruciating to use.

So I rewrote it and added logic to merge adjacent changes [1] which helped immensely, enough that undo/redo felt instant again. It looks like the core merging logic was rewritten a few years ago [2] (which caused a regression, is imo less readable, and removed useful comments -_-) but the basic idea is still there today.

[1]: https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim/commit/0576f199cb7a765efb3c...

[2]: https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim/blame/v1.29.0/src/history/h...
What Fekete's Anomaly Can Teach Us About Isolation
The practical solution is to generate several CSV files and distribute work at the granularity of files
I also came to the comments to weigh in on my perception of how rough this was, but instead will ask:

Regarding "exhausting 2-day brute-force grind": is/was this just how you like to get things done, or was there external pressure of the "don't work on anything else" sort? I've never worked at a large company, and lots of descriptions of the way things get done are pretty foreign to me :). I am also used to being able to say "this isn't getting figured out today; probably going to be best if I work on something else for a bit, and sleep on it, too".
Any recommended sources where to read more about Werner from Siemens?
Anything that was previously built on Oracle and would be too much of a pain to try to migrate to something else.
This is often repeated, yet despite the studies on speed differentials being dangerous I am still skeptical of the more specific claim that driving the speed limit specifically when others are speeding increases your risk of getting in an accident.
As someone who's just beginning to learn to DJ, and already subscribes to Apple Music, I will admit that I agree with you.

However, for me, the benefits of what Apple introduced here outweigh the costs: I don't have to purchase all of the songs I want to mix. As a beginner, this is huge. I can experiment with making mixes with nothing but my laptop, my Apple Music subscription and a copy of some free software like Serato Lite. I'm far from being at the stage where I know which songs will make a good mix just by listening to them, so being able to experiment for "free" sounds great.

People concerned about the issues you raised are always free to buy the music they want to mix, either physical copies, or WAV/MP3 downloads. Additionally, I'd like to point out that other streaming platform(s) such as Tidal already integrate with DJ software like Serato.

I'll add that I frequently buy LPs or CDs from my favourite artists. Just because I subscribe to a streaming service doesn't meant I don't believe artists deserve fair pay for their work. I've actually found dozens of new artists I like thanks to Apple Music (and bought hard copies of their music and/or attended their concerts.) Though, I think fewer and fewer people are buying physical copies of their music, which is a trend I don't like at all.
After reading that: atop should've used SQLite.
In my experience there are also many drivers who appear to be deliberately driving in a manner likely to cause an accident. Not sure why. Perhaps either they're very stupid or perhaps they like the idea of hurting others.
Had the same experience. Took the janky decompilation from ghidra, and it was able to name parameters and functions. Even figured out the game based on a single name in a string. Based in my read of the labeled decompilation, it seemed largely correct. And definitely a lot faster than me.

Even if I weren’t to rely on it 100% it was definitely a great draft pass over the functions.
I would also like to see a world where undocumented migrants can report to the police without fear of their residency status, where they are judged by their peers who also may be undocumented migrants, where they are provided the basic necessities as a human right such as food, housing, education, and medical care.

In such a world I would gladly go move to Japan in an undocumented fashion with 30 million of my closest friends and enjoy the human rights of housing, food, and education.
FWIW: this type of bug in Chrome is exploitable to create out-of-bounds array accesses in JIT-compiled JavaScript code.

The JIT compiler contains passes that will eliminate unnecessary bounds checks. For example, if you write “var x = Math.abs(y); if(x >= 0) arr[x] = 0xdeadbeef;”, the JIT compiler will probably delete the if statement and the internal nonnegative array index check inside the [] operator, as it can assume that x is nonnegative.

However, if Math.abs is then “optimized” such that it can produce a negative number, then the lack of bounds checks means that the code will immediately access a negative array index - which can be abused to rewrite the array’s length and enable further shenanigans.

Further reading about a Chrome CVE pretty much exactly in this mold: https://shxdow.me/cve-2020-9802/
With NRTs this is a warning however for class-typed fields. Also `required` forces you to assign a value to it. Honestly I always thought struct init semantics in C# were slightly archaic and F# does it better by being strict in a way similar to Rust, so touching Go afterwards is a really big step back.

(i.e. you can author default constructor and field initializers for structs, in C#, the main "hole" remains the use of 'default(MyStruct)', but at least it is explicit and you get what you ask for)
They hold a dominant position in desk operating systems, word processors, and spreadsheets.
Using <tab> makes it not csv but tsv.

Honestly if there is no comma to separate the values, then its not csv maybe Csv for character separate values or asv for anything separates values but you're right, this makes it hard how everyone is doing whatever. IMV supporting "" makes supporting anything else redundant.
in the abstract, governments are indistinguishable from any other collective of people.

So yeah, if open source orgs can keep going, there's no reason to think government can't do the same. It's about public goods.
Excited nitrogen (N2) in the zone of death?

https://earthweb.ess.washington.edu/space/AtmosElec/spritein...
He kinda deals with that - he has also built another OS called DuskOS, which is when we still have modern computers lying around, but can't make more of them. It's the OS you would use prior to devolving all the way to CollapseOS
Well, you should check again, because it hasn't been text to text for a while. There are multimodal models now.
Empowering a learner-centric approach requires robust systems to make skills visible and transferable. Traditional LMS and badge agents have limitations, necessitating advanced solutions like Credentialate and openRSD. These tools create essential “data plumbing,” bridging learning, skills frameworks, and employer needs. AI further enhances this by analysing curricula to extract and align skills, ensuring a seamless education-to-employment transition.
So it's just a prompt? Well then you can do function calling with pretty much any model from this quarter.
Here, they open sourced an entire buildable phone OS that you could build and flash on a phone and have it work.

At a time when none really existed. Not even close.

They also went out of their way to generate open drivers and rewrite those where vendors would not give them some, and ensure they had contracts that let them do so.

Calling this open core is also insane even if it wasn't a retcon. At the time, >95% of all android code in existence was open source. Probably closer to 99%. The remaining pieces were mostly related to prototype phones that never saw the light of day.

How is it possibly "less misleading" to call this release "open core"?

How it is a reasonable position to literally accuse them of bad faith because the parent didn't think it "useful enough"?

Admittedly I think open core is just a definition someone made up to beat others over the head with for "not being open source enough", so I wouldn't use it anyway[1].

But here, moving the goal posts because it didn't include whatever particular piece the parent wants does not make it a reasonable position, and it definitely is not a reasonable one. Nor is the completely unsubstantiated bad faith accusation.

My outrage is because i tire of watching people tear down things and literally accuse folks of bad faith because, 20 years later, they decided it wasn't good enough for them. The fact that this doesn't outrage more people says a lot more about how the open source community behaves than it does about android.

If this is the bar for reasonable positions, it's a really crappy bar.

[1] FWIW - while i was not always, i'm fairly consistent these days in believing that all the forms of trying to shit on open source releases or come up with no-true-scotsman terms to use for not being "something" enough are a plague, regardless of whether that something "accepting features that i want" or "releasing pieces that i want" or whatever. The sense of entitlement involved is often impressive. Was it released under an open source license? Cool it's open source. Period. I'll just be thankful someone took the time to share and use what ever they did share to build cool things. They don't owe me crap.
> Unlike XML or JSON, there isn't a document defining the grammar of well-formed or valid CSV files

There is such a document: RFC 4180. It may not be a good document, but it does exist.
The problem is that you have solar in China where you don’t have so many people, industry, or water. So ya, Qinghai has a lot of solar, but using that surplus energy for data centers and such may still not be easy (air cooling maybe could work). You could try to build out your grid to send the energy east, but that has been slow going so far (compared to everything else China builds, it’s UHV lines east aren’t that many). Oh, you also need fiber capacity, etc…

I wonder how long until we actually see air cooled AI data centers in the middle of nowhere just because they have cheap power? China could invest in dry cooling tower technology next.
Touchdesigner too
In practice, web browsers accept the tag soup that is sometimes called html and strict xml-based formats failed.
I blame tight money policies designed to slow the economy to prevent inflation, plus, more recently, a whole bunch of bad non-monetary (trade and fiscal) policy from the administration that has led us to the point where we are probably nearing the end of the first quarter of a major recession.

But, yeah, for Gen Z its “worthless degrees” and for older people in tech its “AI”, and for every other group there is some other micro-explanation, and the huge macro-facts that we know from historical experience drive (un)employment are mysteriously not having their normal effects.
Use AppleShare 3.9.2 even on Mac OS 7.6
I see jr developers and managers not able to make the assessment the authors insight and experience provide and just checking in gobs of stuff they don’t understand

It’s frustrating
the nature of the accidents also makes a difference tho.

A small fender bender is common in human drivers. A catastrophic crash (like t-boning into a bus) is rare (it'd make the news for example).

Autodriving, on the other hand, almost never makes fender benders. But they do t-bone into busses in rare occasions - which also makes the news.