skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both (for example) Russ Cox and Ian Lance Taylor have contributed some very notably bad ideas to the project, yes. Does rephrasing it to "Rob Pike and people who think like him" make you happier?
Which other industries does Microsoft monopolize? They used to have a personal computer OS monopoly but there is a least one viable competitor, and personal computers have become less relevant as many tasks have shifted to mobile devices. My flagship smartphone cost more than a typical Windows PC.
Ha! I wrote my own version of this as a web component[0]. Very handy thing to have, for web apps!

Nice to see it distilled into something so straightforward! Thanks for sharing!

[0] https://github.com/catapart/magnitce-action-history
At the user-level I find the auto-downranking to be a bit too aggressive and annoying, but I admit I don’t have the data to see how much HN’s discourse would be impacted if the leash on Elon posts were relaxed.

That said I also think it’s reasonable to be suspicious, given the YC CEO’s strong public support of Musk [0]. OTOH, 3 of the top 5 most upvoted stories about Garry Tan on HN are negative, so…

[0] https://x.com/garrytan/status/1873280074805572024?s=46
Just starting, for 95% of products I recommend a Heroku-alike. Don’t worry about scaling or scalability until you’ve figured out your PMF. Don’t invest in the infrastructure involved in affordable scaling. Just build. At most, containerize for portability. Outsource your infrastructure maintenance and management and config and upgrades and security and and and.

Your job at this stage isn’t to build something technically awesome and beautifully architected or even production-ready by most standards. It’s to figure out what people will pay for. Focus your energy on that.

Once you’ve got your first hundred customers/thousand users and are serving >100k requests/day, think about what it will take to scale infra affordably.

(YMMV if your product is exceptionally compute-heavy, such as a custom ML model, or involves complex data pipelines out of the gate or other edge cases.)
Bigotry? Most papers are written in a way (style and content), that makes them difficult for an everyday person, meaning someone not trained in that specific field of study, to understand.
I do hobby programing. It is sometimes to create something (supposedly) useful. Lately though it is more discovery and a little math like. I enjoy Project Euler (https://projecteuler.net/. Recently I have been playing with superpermutations (https://projecteuler.net/) and pencil and paper is useful but filling lots of paper with lots of numbers is not that fun.
Things like cargo-crev [0] or cargo vet [1] aim to tackle a subset of that problem.

There’s also alternate implementations of crev [2] for other languages, but I’m not sure about the maturity of those integrations and their ecosystems.

[0] https://github.com/crev-dev/cargo-crev

[1] https://mozilla.github.io/cargo-vet/

[2] https://github.com/crev-dev/crev/
> "teaching useful skills is so people can be helpful to other people. While coded as right wing"

I'm apparently living deep underneath bedrock and/or have spent too much time worrying about [EDITED] "weird math"

When and where/how did the "helpful to other people == coded as right wing" happen? And does that mean people are finding fault in the first half because of the second?
I remember using Blender when everyone was saying how terrible of a UX it was.

They've turned it around and it's become a default-first for many artists.

Open source of not, it of course helps, that the competition charges absolutely mind-bogglingly high amounts of money, for a similar offer.
The atomic weight of Uranium is 238; the atomic weight of Oxygen is 16. By weight, Triuranium octoxide is ~84% Uranium. Even if you're only counting the uranium in the Triuranium octoxide, that's still 60+% of the total mass coming from Uranium Atoms. I'd take that purity any day.
I don’t think it’s crazy for someone to know that you can buy uranium and not realize the full difference between that and plutonium.
Play Integrity and Attestation are distinctly different things. Attestation is a far better solution as it's not literally controlled by Google like the Play Integrity API is.

GrapheneOS actually explicitly pushes for services to switch away from Play Integrity API or SafetyNet API towards the Android Attestation API for that reason.

https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-gu...

And notably, long term if Google becomes an unreliable maintainer for Android, the other major Android providers are likely to coordinate a list of "approved signing keys" so that apps can use those with the standard Android HW Attestation API.
Agreed. Higher education mostly became a pretext to justify why certain people were entitled to receive higher salaries in exchange for lower experience and lower quality output.

It's likely also partly why the west moved away from contract-based knowledge work and towards full-time work... It decouples the product of one's labor from its costs (salary) and it makes managers' lives easier as it gives them much more flexibility and less pressure with regard to how they measure and rank employee productivity. If costs were proportional to output, managers would pay a lot more attention to efficiency as their paychecks would depend on that efficiency.

Instead, managers' paychecks and career prospects are mostly based on political nonsense like how many people are working under them; literally creating an incentive for inefficiency.
Is there a formal or at least clear consensus definition of "general" intelligence? I assume it involves some level of autonomy and ability to manage novel situations.
I say what I mean and prefer that others not strawman my comments.

"Typically" does not mean "always".

That's an understandable mistake on your part if english is your second or third language.
You can range over the fields of a struct?
The cause of an incompetent management class is a subservient worker class.
Now a subservient worker class is either that they are incompetent or they don’t have access to capital, meaning that they can’t strike out on their own and leave management to suffer the consequences of their incompetence.
BYD. Look it up.
Totally agree - a well-defined REST API "standard" for tool listing and tool execution would have been much better. Could extend as needed to websockets for persistent connections / streaming data.
I use GitHub+Vercel+Cloudflare to achieve the lowest cost deployment. All the expenses are basically just the cost of purchasing the domain name. After I have enough traffic, I can start using the paid features of Cloudflare and Vercel.
Someone needs to tell those Albertans that want to join the US to move to the US if they don't like it in Canada...
They are too late. 3d printing a 100% frame has largely replaced 80% for awhile now, at least for pistols that prompted this case. Good fuckin luck stopping that.
In this case I agree with Gruber. Responding by blogging and citing is better for both websites.
Excel needs to default its export to this. Unfortunately excel is proprietary software and therefore fucked.
> This sort of bigotry is not at all what I was trying to encourage.

What does level of effort have to do with bigotry?
If only there had been some way to see this coming.
Is their a central place where other open source people or just programmers in general can get a breakdown on how they improved the UI/UX?
https://web.archive.org/web/20240402224205/https://www.tufts...
>For example, imagine that Waymo is (somehow) far far far superhuman in it's ability to avoid other cars doing dumb/bad things. It has a dramatic reduction in overall accidents because it magically can completely get rid of accidents where the other driver is at fault. But, in some very specific circumstances, it can't figure out the proper rate to slow down at intersections, and it consistently rear ends vehicles in front of it. This specific situation is very rare, so overall accidents still are low (much lower than human drivers), but, in our made up, constructed (and extremely non-sensical) hypothetical, nearly 100% of Waymo accidents are Waymos fault.

My understanding is that the reverse is basically what happens in reality. Humans can sense that Waymo cars are "sus" and give them a wide berth so their "lawful to the point of violating the expectations of other drivers" behavior mostly doesn't cause problems, but when it does the other guy pays.
This is what I was thinking too when I was a child. But now that I got to see how adults actually act I feel like a lot of these concerns related to selling are irrational.

If you have a new product and you want to market it to a wide audience then you have nothing to worry about because you have nothing to lose. Being "ignored into oblivion" doesn't mean that you can't try again, and nobody knows you so you won't attract a mob. The world is so vast that no matter what you do and how hard you try to sell something, your actions will affect very few people and leave only a barely noticeable footprint.

Maybe this is exactly what the problem is -- we now have means to connect with the whole world through the internet, but we tend to treat these connections quite conservatively as if it's our close circle. It's not acceptable to make yourself hated by a friend, but I think it's absolutely fine if it's thousands of strangers instead as long as it's done for what feels like a good cause.
A transition to solar involves 3 broad phases.

1) You can just install solar capacity and even on the best of days that power will be used and simply offset CO2 production.

2) Reach a point where the peak is a exceeding the transmission lines and the mid day power curve is showing Solar meeting all demand and maybe exceeding it a little. Prices now drop significant on these rare occasions.

3) There is now enough Solar that with the right balance of storage its enough even in winter when aggregated across a large area and have effectively decarbonised completely.

During phase 1 its easy you just install panels.

Phase 2 however is a painful phase involving upgrading of transmission lines as power now comes from different places and in peaks and also the addition of storage to move power across the day and smooth out delivery. There are moments of free or negative price power and these are signals to the market that more storage is required.

Phase 3 involves overprovision of solar capacity in the summer but enough in winter combined with the storage to aggregate across the day. Its also going to need efficient long range transmission upgrades as sunshine has tendency to appear in big blocks.

People expect that the storage needs and overprovision will be a lot bigger than they actually need to be. There is an experiment for this in Australia which shows that about 120% solar and 1 days worth of storage is all it would take, which as a combination is vastly cheaper than their current Coal plants. The mix is going to be different for different countries dependent on the weather and irradiance but there is always going to be an optimal mix based on the relative prices.

What I think is interesting is what do we do with that 20% of "free" energy through the summer? I tend to hope we put it towards CO2 capture but I suspect its a also a good time to training AI, electrolyse for hydrogen and filter salt water. This business opporrtunity is going to increasingly appear as a natural consequence of green energy solutions, wind and solar both produce the same energy market effect.
Because they can do anything they want with no repercussions.

That's it, that's all there is.
>I can’t say I love the way Go implemented it though.

Why not?
This is absolutely not surprising.

Anyone who spends time in online support groups for folks with gluten sensitivities could tell you that there is a good percentage of people who think they can't handle gluten but couldn't tell you what foods have it.

It's pretty regular to be asked if soy and milk contain gluten.

Based on the difficulties in actually obtaining a medical diagnosis (average time spent trying is around a decade, IIRC), it's not surprising to find a lot of self diagnosis in the same community.

But when people who lack basic information make self diagnoses they are likely to be wrong. They're just desperate people who aren't getting the help they need searching for a solution.

It sucks that there are health influencers who will sell them on gluten as the source of their problems. But the health grifters are going to grift.

Since I get terrible dermatitis when I consume wheat I certainly won't be eating it whether or not my sensitivity is specifically to gluten or wheat in specific. One of the side effects of all the grifters directing people who don't have a sensitivity to gluten is a massive increase in availability and quality of wheat/gluten free foods.

While the net benefit to all the people who are being duped switching back to better, cheaper foods far outweighs my comfort, I'll be sad if they all stop buying the crappy fake bread. This will lead grocery stores to stop selling it due to lack of demand. Then producers will go bankrupt or stop selling their products. Which will mean that I can't even get that sad stuff anymore.

I've been watching this part of the market evolve for two decades and we went from a tiny selection of culinary horrors, to a fair variety of reasonably okay-ish things. I'll be pretty bummed if we lose all that progress.
Release: Windows taskbar auto-hide option toggler
If people are referring to what Zig or any other language could possibly do, as something valid to be taken under consideration, then it should at least be explicitly stated in their roadmap.

Otherwise, it can be construed as just another wish list or feature request, that main developers have no plans to implement.
True, but there is definitely something fishy about the instant flagging of reasonable content.
At this point its what its going to take. All those warnings in the 1980s about the cost going up the later we leave it, well this is the moment of the suicide burn and if we miss it humanity is going to crash into a >2 C world and that isn't pretty.
ORMs can be easy to misuse, but that does not make them not useful. Maybe you just haven't found one you liked.
Wow. I love this.

Yes, it's kind of a LARP situation, but imagine a future scenario where some hacker (who also is physically resilient and well-protected in the face of apocalypse) has to figure out how to boot or get some system operating that might control solar panels. Not knowing the architecture - can you boot it up? Can you analyze existing binaries, ports, and other features and get it crudely operating? This sounds like a helluva of a video game.
Accident statistics are not dominated by drunks or anything else.

They're dominated by normal drivers who had a momentary lapse in judgment or attention. This is why running a police state that goes hard on DUI and vehicle inspections doesn't make the roads as much safer as its proponents would leave you to believe.
this is exactly my experience
Why bother paying for tacos to be delivered when you can blend the soybean & canola oils yourself and stir in salt, msg, corn syrup, and food dyes yourself and drink it as an emulsified slurry that tastes the same as every restaurant?
One reads this kind of story and simply wants to weep.
In practical terms, in the first six months of 2024 China added as much additional renewable capacity as the entire UK consumes in total in a year. When I was in Zhengzhou at the end of last year I got the chance to do a tour around the new BYD factory's construction site, entire complex is about as large as SF.

For people who get a chance to visit the country looking for tours by the large manufacturers if you're into engineering is a really cool thing.
Thing is... UX is terrible everywhere in the 3D editing space. That's not even criticism of Blender as far as I can tell!
In Berlin everyone seems to be on Telegram these days. People leaning more left and/or are privacy-aware and/or hate FB/Meta/big tech use Signal.

WhatsApp seems only to be used by the elderly/old in my circle of friends lately.

The transition has been gradual;
started during the pandemic, I'd say.
I think it's the inverse. The people who are left lane camping in their Fiat 500 because the right lane has merging and that's scary will be the early adopters. The people who really "get it" will keep driving themselves because they can do better.

This is basically the same adoption path as every other labor saving tech.
Show HN: Delivering Love with AI – LoveGen AI
Hi, I’m a software engineer reflecting on AI’s dual nature.

Video generation tech is amazing but can be unsettling (e.g., deepfakes). I wanted to channel its potential for good, so I created LoveGen AI to craft heartfelt videos that spread love—like virtual rose-giving or hugs. One user made a hug video for their long-distance partner, and it truly brought them closer!

What’s your take on video generation’s potential for positive impact?
Yep, my company used to be know for service quality. We've seen an increase in negative feedback. The response from management is that it's only a small percentage, so it's nothing to worry about and that we'll focus on AI instead.
OLAP Databases Are Failing Observability
OLAP databases weren’t built for observability; they’re slow, expensive, and inefficient for high-cardinality telemetry. At Parseable, we took a different approach. Here’s why storage matters and how ParseableDB outperforms in real-world observability workloads.
https://archive.is/9yM3T
perhaps openai is the wrong tool for this thing.
People used to get dopamine hits from writing code that works, fixing cars, climbing mountains, playing music, and asking other people out on dates.

Dopamine addiction isn’t the problem.
More that they don't have it in the right places, or they don't have the ability to shift it temporally to when it's not so abundant.

Per the article they are forecast to add 300 GW of renewables each year, which is admirable. But they also started construction on just under 100 GW of new coal power plants last year, and granted approvals for yet more in the future. [0]

You could quibble at the margins (some of it will be replacing EOL coal plants, some of it is intended as firming capacity only, etc.). But in the big picture, it indicates that where the Chinese economy needs more energy supplied, renewables aren't yet suitable to fill a large portion of that need.

[0] https://www.carbonbrief.org/chinas-construction-of-new-coal-...
I should add, posting to HN very probably now adds to a net-negative score coming in through USCBP. Thats sad.
To be fair, the replacement projects we've outsourced to multiple Indian companies have been utter failures too.
> In Japan right now and I see a ton of automation everywhere, self checkout at grocery stores and restaurants, but what you also see is a live humanbeing assigned to the machines to help you if you have issues.

Isn't that how self checkout happens in every part of the world that has self checkout? I'm failing to see what's special about self checkout in Japan.
Indonesia and Malaysia are both BRICS+ members, and Singapore is pretty pro-China. Trump said he was talking to countries about inspecting Iranian ships passing through the Malacca Straits, and I'm guessing he meant Singapore, and probably got the thumbs down.

You are right about China keeping options open - the BRI initiative is about improving land transport options in Eurasia.
Sounds like more fun than selling a co-op, even!
"While the study progresses understanding … it does not provide evidence that non-coeliac gluten sensitivity does not exist."

It is literally impossible to provide a posteriori evidence that something does not exist. All you can show is lack of evidence that it does. I'm not overly impressed with a research dietitian who doesn't understand this concept.

On the topic of non-coeliacs and eating gluten free, as a non-coeliac who has a coeliac partner, it is usually just easier to make entirely gluten free meals than have to worry about cross contamination, and certainly does get me to try new grains, and other interesting new cooking ingredients.
I suspect it will eventually come out that Waltz intentionally added the reporter in order to shine a light on what was going on. Maybe there’s still some decency in there.
nah, web developers that aren't doing simple CRUD are using interesting libraries powered by wasm without even care that it's powered by wasm: opencv, sqlite, duckdb, imagemagick, ffmpeg, ... anything AI/using GPU: tensorflowjs.

Those libraries are not something will be able to be JS only anytime soon, and no, Java applets has never allowed us to use C/C++ libraries on the web before.
Just an average Cyberdeck, I've seen cooler ones at places like https://cyberdeck.cafe/
Who did the capitalists beat?
America wasn’t a socialist utopia 20 years — or even 50 years ago.
From 98 to roughly 2015, I used to drive or fly up for the Vancouver Folk Festival. My favorite was crossing into BC at 1-2am. “Why are you here?” “The folk festival”. “Are you a musician?” “Nope, just one of the folk.” “Have a great time!”

Best border encounter.
Great interview, more please.
Is there a way to submit question? I'd like to know 1) what affects branch predictors? From my understanding return statements do and cmov does not 2) Why isn't there a conditional exception? to replace if (!cond) { __builtin_trap(); }
https://archive.md/zYq8M
The 50th generation builds a robot that murders you
I did it a few months ago and the data sets took about a day to become available.
What’s the largest deployment you’ve maintained in production?

If you’ve had the chance to manage one—especially while handling concurrent insert and search operations—you’ve probably felt the pain firsthand and understand just how critical scalability really is.

Insert into PGvector is super slow when data accumulate and the index build will take forever
Can you explain to me? Would the token strings be as easy to solve for humans as well?

Or let me ask differently. Can we still design text questions that are easy for humans and tough for AI?
Space Force wants six kinds of space weapons–including anti-satellite lasers
Yea but this only matters if you're considering fatness as a factor. This factor disappeared long before the headphone jack did. I have never in my life heard "i won't use that phone cuz it's too fat". Apple just irrationally hates wires. God forbid someone ask for a button!
They want to control payment rails. FedNow is live (offered by the federal reserve) and can move up to $1M with a 20 second SLA for ~5 cents. Walmart is implementing it for “pay by bank” to avoid ~$1B/year in interchange fees.

Stablecoins are useful when your use case calls for avoiding traditional, sanctioned financial infra, including the ability to move value between counterparties who may not be given access to traditional financial systems.

https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36801491
This has meme potential. All in favour, raise your forks!
That's not compact.
Anything not made by Microsoft?
I think it has gotten better of late.
The thing that animators are talking about is the fact that they eschewed a storyboard in favour of an animatic (an animatic being a motion sketch of the animation). This is the workflow we now recommend to our students.

This animatic can be found on YouTube.
you might enjoy Caves of Qud
Everything is open source is you speak assembly.