skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ignoring all the actual data points

Well that's your problem.

The line is the predicted, not actual. How would you derive that line from plot of noise?

>> I drew an exponential through my noise.

The issue is that there was supposed to be a curve according to his reading, but the actual had no measurable trend. It's possible that the data was measured on the wrong scale. If you zoom out, those noise plots become a line segment. Then again, the predictable line is on the same scale (and we're assuming that it's correct according to his reading or the best he could fit) so zooming out would probably be a different form of lying with statistics via overfitting.
Ask HN: Source of LLM model use by date and model name data?
Does anybody have an even approximate data source that has an estimate of the number of LLM API calls by date and model name? I want to take a look at the rate of model adoption and cannibalization effects.
I TAd a semiconductor fabrication lab class 20-odd years ago. Mostly it was about making sure the students had the absolute fear of God put into them about working with HF, but there was also a bit at the end where you actually got to do a voltage sweep and characterize your transistor. If in fact you had made a transistor rather than a needlessly complicated resistor. The other TAs and I passed this paper around and thought it was just hilarious.
I don't know if they are still in print but Bletchley Park Trust published a great series of monographs on particular aspects of the codebreaking story there. Highly technical, written by specialists, sometimes by people who had worked there. I picked up a load of them when I was there and can recommend.
Not really. Developers are as susceptible to marketing as anyone. React is backed by Facebook. Preact is... not.
Curious since you don't expand on it on the blog: in what way did Haskell's purity make it difficult to you?

Having used Haskell in production for a bit now, I don't even notice its purity. Most functions are in some kind of I/O context making it similar as other languages, except with the option of running without I/O capabilities for functions that shouldn't need it.
I don't think that you're genuine in your response.

> Therefore if they didn't deserve their 'achievements' by the merits in the first place, there's nothing wrong with taking their stories down once the political climates have changed (especially a climate that encourages truth and merits over the political advantage that got those DEI tokens in in the first place).

Who hasn't earned what? You tell me.

The majority of the current administration are people who were put into positions of power with no merit. I can say pretty much all of the Trump administration cabinet nominees have no experience in the positions they are in. They're receiving sycophantic rewards.

I'm arguing to reward merit genuinely and that undoing work is regressive. You respond with "what about" (and no evidence).
But they didn't say soon.
If they don't want to use Scala, why do they thing others will want to use Scala?
I don't have friends all over the country, and I submit that, if the adage "150 people" is true, no one has friends "all over the country".

I dislike driving through Texas, and so, most road trips involve McDonalds - the only time I eat the junk.

My car's inbuilt nav is 13 years out of date, so it knows major throughways but not, for instance, that the road I live on has its own interface to the "highway", and so on, up to restaurants. Phones are unreliable in a lot of the US, and at one point I had a spare phone with all of its storage dedicated to offline Google maps just so I wouldn't get stuck in the Rockies somewhere.

Microsoft used to sell trip planning software and those were the good old days.
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That reeks of gross incompetence somewhere in the organization. Like a hosting company that has a customer dealing with very poor performance, over pays greatly to avoid it while the whole time nobody even thinks to check what the linux swap file is doing.
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Now this is a good friend! Love to see it.
This is so wild. Definitely one of the cooler uses of AI I have seen, especially for a consumer/app/game.
>How long did the SR-71 take to make it into service? How long did the F-22 or F-35 take?

>None of those answers have anything to do with the other.

There's a pretty direct correlation between number of stakeholders who need to not object and procurement time.

One trick pony spy plane go fast took no time at all.

F15 but stealth took years

F35 cluster fuck took decades.
the building company would be more than furious. you could lose your lease over this and pay damages.

next time recommend using expanding insulation foam instead, but first cover everything with big sheets of plastic. the victim will still have a hell of a time getting rid of the foam. that stuff hardens...
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> Lots of very smart people have lost a lot of money by being completely right about the destination, but wrong about the path and how long it will take to get there.

If you make a habit of this and still lose money, then either you statistically were very unlucky, or did not have a history of being right.
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Next DOGE will defund gasoline in police cars and applaud their "trillions of savings" over the next 1,000 years.

I feel bad for anyone that is spending their lives on forums defending these puffed up hall monitors who were sent in to "fuck shit up" and will eventually end up in jail as scapegoats.
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Also weather testing in Buffalo, New York. One of the snowiest cities in the US.
Agreed. Like this is fraud level bs that’s happening and people are voting me down.

I think it’s because this kind of stuff is common. People have done fraudulent stuff and they don’t agree it’s a fireable offense. Understandable. I still would endanger someone’s livelihood for this. Poor performance I would think twice and go through all measures possible to improve performance including putting them in a position where they can excel. Poor performance does not justify endangering the livelihood of a person or their family but this fraudulent bs of being angry and marking something wrong. That’s just malice.
I don't know if it's regulation, or a combination of the other business factors HN brings up in the discussions about European startups. But the symptoms are alarming. Forget the graphs of past launches—look towards the future: check up how many newspace startups are being founded in each region, and how many are in the reusable launcher race.

The EU has zero. (Isar isn't working towards reusable rockets). There are, as far as I find, fat-0 European startups working on it.

USA has, by my subjective count, five—SpaceX, Blue Origin, Rocket Labs, Relativity Space, and Stoke Space. That's just the big ones.

China has—I'm too lazy to count right now, there are seriously too many search results. Deep Blue and Landspace seem to be the most talked-about ones (at least in the West). And—not only are they in serious competition to replicate Starlink, they have two groups in a race competing on that (Guowang, and Thousand Sails).

https://www.wsj.com/world/china/chinas-own-elon-musks-are-ra...

The 27 countries of the EU put together have 0.

What the heck is failing in the EU?
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Shocking if that's all accurate. Or perhaps not considering the regression to who-you-know and money as filters in Ivy admissions.

A young family member of my partner just got accepted to Yale without having money or connections, so IDK anymore.
Yeah, it only works in Chrome
> I don't get what else one expects when pooling pointers to a type?

As seen in your previous comment, the expectation is that the zero value will always be returned: "What GP seems to expect is that sync.Pool() would always return a zeroed structure, just as Golang allocation does." To which you offered a guarantee.

> Pool.Put() or Pool.Get() then must zero its contents.

Right. That is the solution (as was also echoed in the top comment in this thread) if one needs that expectation to hold. But you completely forgot to do it, which questions what your code was for? It behaves exactly the same as sync.Pool itself... And, unfortunately, doesn't even get the generic constraints right, as demonstrated with the int and bool examples.
It's usually more energy-efficient to finish a task quickly with a higher power draw, also known as race-to-idle.
The government successfully threatens a private company to make then censor.

Is that ok? Not for them.
> But they didn't say soon.

Setting an indefinite timeline devalues any claim. You could prove this to yourself using Reductio ad absurdum, or by applying it to various general cases.
Show HN: GitHub Actions OIDC for Python That Just Works(TM)
If you really want people to use your stuff, you should make it easy to get started as possible. For interacting with Github Actions, that means setting up OIDC, so you can prove who did what in which repo when - according to Github themselves.

That means for a dev on the other end of things, it should be as easy as:

```yaml

-uses atopile/do-thing@v1

```

Hitch is, boy oh boy was this a PITA to get working in the first place. Honestly, I'd probably rather walk on lego for half an hour.

Hopefully, this package should make it a piece of cake - and we all have to mint fewer tokens manually
>Only a tiny fraction of the population live directly on lakeshores,

I think you are mistaken sir.

I live by a lake myself and i've just talked to my neighbors, and they all live by a lake too.
I know at least one other person who runs Arch on all their servers, they do an update monthly unless there's some critical CVE that needs to be addressed ASAP. The sibling comment says 1 year, but I can't honestly suggest going that long for any distro. I've had Ubuntu LTS break very, very badly because of a missed patch in GRUB when updating over too long of a timescale (somewhere around a year, maybe a bit less)
The FT is definitely the best UK paper. Expensive.
Zuck is founder and owner. So is Huang (Nvidia CEO). They call all the shots.

Whereas AMD's CEO was appointed, and can be fired. Huge difference in their risk appetite.

I'm reminded of pg's article "founder mode": https://paulgraham.com/foundermode.html

I think some companies simply aren't capable of taking big risks and innovating in big ways, for this reason.
Not knowing what they want to build is a big problem, much bigger than these.

> Apple lacked a tangible car ecosystem: no charging network, no manufacturing experience, and no clear place in the market for another premium EV.

It wouldn't make sense to develop a charging network until they at least figure out what their product is. Most car makers take about three years between showing a finalish prototype and retail sales. That's enough time to build a charging network, if you even need to. Tesla needed to build a charging network, but now that's opening up. VW needed to build a charging network as a condition of their release, and that's open. I'm not an EV driver and I don't charge my PHEV unless it's free, but I see a lot of chargers around, and I don't know if there's a need for another major chsrging network. If Apple only wanted to be part of a car, not the whole car, there would be no reason for them to be involved in charging.

Apple does most (all?) of its manufacturing through contractors. Foxconn is building cars [1], and there are plenty of dedicated contract auto manufacturers. Again, not a big defect until we know what the product is.

Market positioning also needs to wait for the product. Maybe there's an opening now that Tesla is losing sales.

[1] https://www.carscoops.com/2025/03/foxconn-gearing-up-to-buil...
To this day, 22 years after I have last used Lotus Notes, it remains the worst software product I have had to work with. It tried to be everything and ended up being bad at all of it.
Running on my Pixel 6a, I wouldn't really characterize it as super responsive. This context, I think, helps me understand why.
Lol, they were selected for absolute loyalty to Dear Leader, and now they reap the rewards of that loyalty (zero accountability) while we reap the downsides (incompetent leadership).

Have a good day!
Nah. It was amazing back then.
Stealth and rescue can go hand and hand, no? I guess stating “rescue” still may bury the lead in that case.
The post touches the Rust and Go topic in header 3.
It is but you have to be.

It’s been key to the success of their peers. NVIDIA and Apple are the best examples but even Intel to a smaller degree.
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Of course it's impossible to prove, which is why so many people are doing it, like you/your team, at least recently. At some point in the past your blog seems to have gone from "real" to "slop".

I've seen enough LLM sh*t to know.

I know you'll never admit this. I don't care about that. But please understand that your credibility goes out of the window with this; it doesn't make it look more professional, especially to developers.

If I'm extremely wrong here, I genuinely apologize, but I would be very, very surprised.
Stop calling them "tech companies"
> the Ariane 6 was an R&D test launch with no payload

The cubesats do not count as payloads?
We all say "they have no _idea_ what they're doing" in English. Creativity basically equals skill. Those with less skills has less to express.

I mean, everyone knows it takes a programmer to spec an app. The "different" skill needed for vibe coding is regular old coding skillset. Only difference with image AI is that it doesn't do "vibe drawing" well.

AI art experiment is over. It's been long over, like camera based self driving was by the time some large orgs started embracing the technology. And it's taking longer for some to understand that it's over, just like that time.
Good watch - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_%22Superman%22
Reminds me of this:

https://theonion.com/soldier-excited-to-take-over-father-s-o...
There was a large group of folks that left Ruby on Rails for Elixir (even has a similar looking syntax), yet it wasn't on your list of languages to consider. Just curious, was there a particular reason?
well, look at Meta... they're spending Billions with a capital B on stuff and they get slaughtered every earnings call because it hasn't paid off yet. if Zuckerberg wasn't the majority share holder it probably wouldn't be sustainable.
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IMO the closest analogue for Nvidia now is Cisco during the dot-com boom. Cisco sold the physical infrastructure required for Internet companies to operate. Investors all bought in because they figured it was a safe bet. Individual companies may come and go, but if the Internet keeps growing, companies will always need to buy networking equipment. Despite the Internet being way bigger than it was in 2000, and Cisco being highly profitable, Cisco's share price has never exceeded the peak it was at during the dot-com boom.
As a 20+ year C# dev...where do I learn how to structure apps in F#? In C# my ASP.NET Controller might use a service (or a mediator) to execute some domain logic and that in turn will use a repository pattern (or EF DbContext) to update/query a database. How are dependencies injected in? It seems like there are multiple ways of going about it, but I don't have enough knowledge of F# to know 'the proper way' to do it.
Where does the idea that engineers cost "a few million" come from? You might pay that much to senior engineering management, big names who can attract other talent, but normal engineers cost much less than a million dollars a year.
From what I understand, the judge ruled that it wasn't defamation for Jobst to call Mitchell a cheater but saying he drove Apollo Legend to suicide was too far considering he didn't have a lot of reason to believe this: it was mostly based on online rumors about an apparent out of court financial settlement between Apollo and Mitchell which never existed. What probably drove the nail in the coffin is that Jobst did edit the video later to remove the claim, but after Mitchell sent legal action, he republished the original video. This might have felt vindictive to the judge. Now, Jobst did eventually ask Apollo's family for the facts, remove the claim and publish a retraction about a month later, but perhaps the judge thought this was too little too late.

I don't agree that Mitchell's reputation was harmed as he brought attention to the video multiple times, but it's hard to argue against the facts: Jobst said something he wasn't sure was true, and when he learned it was false he kept it up anyway.

Edit: fixed timeline, which is documented here: https://perfectpacman.com/2024/09/20/karl-day-4/
CUDA isn't the moat people think it is. NVIDIA absolutely has the best dev ergonomics for machine learning, there's no question about that. Their driver is also far more stable than AMD's. But AMD is also improving, they've made some significant strides over the last 12-18 months.

But I think more importantly, what is often missed in this analysis is that most programmers doing ML work aren't writing their own custom kernels. They're just using pytorch (or maybe something even more abstracted/multi-backend like keras 3.x) and let the library deal with implementation details related to their GPU.

That doesn't mean there aren't footguns in that particular land of abstraction, but the delta between the two providers is not nearly as stark as its often portrayed. At least not for the average programmer working with ML tooling.

(EDIT: also worth noting that the work being done in the MLIR project has a role to play in closing the gap as well for similar reasons)
F# will likely remain niche forever. It’s likely that Rust will not given its growing and accelerating adoption by Microsoft, Google and the Linux Kernel.

It just takes time to defeat the 40+ years of c and c++ dominance.
His records have all been reinstated both by Twin Galaxies and Guinness Worls Records for whatever that's worth.
I'm mostly talking about the US, and not claiming it is great.

That said, in what ways do you think France is different?
CUDA has a comparatively nicer user experience. If you would like to understand tacitly and have an nvidia GPU, try writing a simple program using both. (Something highly parallel, like nbody, for example)
I think it's a really sound idea. It sounds feasible, and useful.

The only problem is your lack of a moat. It's going to be a lot easier to integrate into an existing merge tool. Your users will likely also be using an AI-capable IDE, and its own builtin version control software.

For users banging out code with vi and the command line, I don't see them using it. And if they did, I don't see them paying for it.

It sounds like an idea you should be able to bring to one of the big IDE developers (or perhaps Gitlab?) and say, "Hire me and I'll make this happen." Maybe they'll help you patent it, to preserve some kind of moat. At least, that would get them on the market first, giving them a branding win.
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You haven't read the article, or the part I quoted from it referring to the manual, which I would consider as "going by the book". Two of the three boards looking into the mishap "concluded that most highly experienced pilots with similar levels of experience in an F-35 would have punched out of the plane".
Does anyone else find interesting that people who write blog posts saying "my favourite language is X", it's never a mainstream language..?
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> The purpose of that demo was to create a machine that can draw like humans can, as the creators explained

Watch the video - the purpose of the demo, as the creators explained it, was to train a creature to move quickly. Since the AI model didn't simulate pain it used its head like a foot, and since the result was creepy they thought it could be used for a zombie game. That's what they presented to Miyazaki, and that's what he commented on. Then Suzuki asked where they eventually wanted to end up, and a different presenter said the thing about machines that can draw.

> That complaint is just as applicable to current Gen AI models

If you like, but that's not what Miyazaki applied it to.
C# doesn't require braces...?
the inferior methods were slower but more flexible - could handle any and all edge cases. Currently we have a UX that really efficiently realises 80% of cases.

To relate to the article - google flights is the Keyboard and Mouse - covering 80% of cases very quickly. Conversational is better for when you're juggling more contextual info than what can be represented in a price/departure time/flight duration table. For example, "i'm bringing a small child with me and have an appointment the day before and I really hate the rain".

Rushed comment because I'm working, but I hope you get the gist.

Current flight planning UX is overfit on the 80% and will never cater to the 20% because cost/benefit of the development work isn't good
I am going through the alphatex documentation in more detail and chances are that any stringed instrument could already be supported. Checkout the tuning section - https://alphatab.net/docs/alphatex/metadata#tuning.

It might even work for piano as well, there's an example here - https://alphatab.net/docs/alphatex/notes/#multiple-voices