skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are there because of overtourism, and the locals have a point. Europe is big enough, but if you have any sense you'll ignore Venice, Barcelona, Bruges, Amsterdam, Ghent, and even parts of Paris and Rome, and go to somewhere where tourists aren't mostly seen as a nuisance crowding out the local residents.

Or do go and get splashed at with water pistols.
>People at companies like Apple have gone to such great lengths to hide the complexity--and limit the ways of composition--of software

They also do it in confusing, inconsistent, and self-serving ways. What does it mean to "save data" like an image or a document? In Google Photos, it means you associate a copy of it with your Google account. In MS Office by default, it means you stick it in OneDrive.

Everyone wants the "happy path" of data storage and retrieval to lead directly to their own proprietary systems with their own proprietary implementations of basic file-like operations. No one wants the default to be the tried-and-true method of local files and folders.
Things have been moving in that direction since at least 2008:

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

I would argue earlier as malls stopped being built by 2007....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_mall
See, that's exactly the type of uncritical statement that will force me to discount the rest of your statements on a whole range of topics.

bazelisk help 0.01s user 0.00s system 26% cpu 0.053 total
Linda McMahon Repeatedly Calls AI 'A1' in School Speech
I upgraded to Red Wings and Adidas Sambas. I'm astounded by the durability of both. Shoes used to be something I changed every season. It was indeed worth the cost.
No I disagree. He’s exactly what we need. Established dogma needs shaking up and to defend itself every now and then anew.
Well, it totally gives up memory mutation. Each value is final (under the hood). So you lose an entire category of optimizations and an entire category of errors. You also gain some new optimizations you can do because values never change. In general that makes it worse at tight loops where you really want optimal machine code and better at handling heterogeneous calls like HTTP requests.
"de-extinct" is clickbait. They just used CRISPR to modify a few genes in a domestic dog
Are people actually worried about or even spend time thinking about this?
I'd add code quality as a reason. I find it much easier to understand and modify code in LLVM compared to GCC. Both have a fairly steep learning curve and not too much documentation, but often I (personally) find LLVM's architecture to be more thought out and easier to understand. GCC's age shows in the code base and it feels like many concepts and optimizations are just bolted on without "required" architectural changes for a proper integration.
Makes me wonder if I can get a fecal implant from Steven Curry or Patrick Mahomes.

I did photography of the finishers at a 10k/half marathon this weekend and what was remarkable was that the winner of the 10k was completely unremarkable. You see some people cross the finish line and they look triumphant and other people look like they've been destroyed by the effort. Some people look like both. This guy made it look easy, like it wasn't anything special at all. He's just really fast. Who wouldn't want a piece of that?
For home it's not that bad, but there could be conflicts at some point. Your clients will send data to the Internet unknowingly when dns is missconfigured.

It's better to use domain you control.

I'm a fan of buying cheapest to extend (like .ovh, great value) and use real Let's Encrypt (via dns challenge) to register any subdomain/wildcard. So that any device will have "green padlock" for totally local service.
I will add creatine as a supplement to improve sleep in the face of hard exercise.
This reminds me of a news piece from my area about 10 years ago. A field was to be mowed, and they were considering options. They could get some high tech self guided lawn mower, or they could let a herd of goats graze on it. They went with the goats.

It did not go over well with the former lawn mower operators, who found themselves no more employed than they would have been if the robotic lawn mower took their job instead.
> The bravery is there, but they just don't have the same ability to integrate the details at scale such as fires, logistics, and large-scale joint operations, because they're still trying to shake off their Soviet past.

Welllll. I saw posted here last week (cannot find it now), that the US helped them with the logistics and recon a lot more than was previously known. Like, "Shoot your artillery here at this time, and you'll like what happens. If you don't like it, we'll work harder to make you happy."
Ukrainian Intel op blew up Russian drone pilots' goggles, official says
> even Trump voters can have a good experience in Europe — provided that they travel with a spirit of empathy, curiosity, and open-mindedness.

I chuckled.
It helps for me...of course if I dropped 40 lbs, it probably wouldn't be needed...but then there's the whole GLP-1/Weight thing.
"looking like a dire wolf" is exactly what Colossol has done. They just used CRISPR to modify some genes in a dog to give it traits of the dire wolf (white hair, large size, etc)
Actual "official" communication from the US federal government this morning:

"DO NOT RETALIATE AND YOU WILL BE REWARDED"

in all capital letters.

Truly an age of diplomacy, intellect, and classical liberal values and ethics.
Speaking of ocean, water is mentioned several times in discussing Titan but the hydrologic cycle analogue consists of various hydrocarbons.

But to the fourth point, I wonder to what extent radiation is a factor in mutation of biological material. It turns out Titan has a rather low surface irradiation coefficient due to being rather distant from Saturn's radiation belt, a weak induced magnetosphere (rare for moons!), and the ions are mostly water-based coming from Enceladus while Jupiter's radiation belts are largely sulphur ions coming from Io.
Yeah. Nature is the ultimate form of science. At any moment, it's incorporating an infinite amount of science, most of which we likely haven't discovered yet, and may not discover for millions of years - if ever.

Nature developed over millions of years of trial and error.
I remember being asked why Google called its product "Google Drive" since it has nothing to do with driving a car. Honestly, I have to admit, it was a good question. Computer nerds take for granted that the word "drive" means "hard drive" but the general public doesn't necessarily make this word association.
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White House clarifies enormous tariffs on China
Listen. If you're watching Connery in a film in 1990, you've had decades to learn to suspend disbelief regarding his accent skills.
I know.

Though I wanted a short URL, that's why I used .it any way.
> Over that span, the time that felt most like our current situation came in 2002 and early 2003, when President George W. Bush began to pressure European allies to join the I-can’t-believe-we-actually-called-it-that “Coalition of the Willing” to invade Iraq, based on what turned out to be false claims. When France was reluctant to join our fight, the response of the American public was as immediate and intense as it was nonsensical. Many Americans, who insulted the French as “surrender monkeys,” pledged to rebrand French fries as “Freedom fries” and boycott French’s mustard… which is based in Rochester, New York. Sales of our tours and guidebooks in France took a significant hit.

One silver lining of the post-truth hellscape we live in is that it's far harder for the US government to directly manufacture consensus like this. In 2002 Bush had every US paper burying anything outside the narrative[0]. In 2025, if Trump so much as says the sky is blue, you'll see at least one clueless, schismogenic[1] idiot insisting that it's green, always been green, and that green is better. While that's an obviously stupid example, it's generally good that people are questioning ShitGovernmentsSay™.

Now if only we could get the MAGA hats to start questioning their chosen god-emperor...

[0] To be clear, most people in Europe knew Saddam wasn't buying yellowcakes, because the papers were reporting on the obvious falsity of the evidence over there.

[1] Schismogenesis is the process of social division, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schismogenesis
Yeah upvoted! Russia (including Belarus and occupied parts of Ukraine) makes up a big part of Europe. At least if you count area.
the problem with automating inspections is humans are good at noticing things that are 'different'. I can make a machine see the common wrong things but if I miss one rare situation that passes bad product.

many farmers don't use automated milking machines because you still need a human to inspect each cow and thus the machine doesn't save much labor.
Yeah, if you think about it in the grand scheme of things, this is true.

Our science is fairly reductionist. Nature is incorporating vast amounts of science, most of which we probably don't even know about yet.
My only complaint was one of my favorite lines from the book did not make it into the movie, where Captain Ramius says 'there is enough chemical energy in the rocket fuel to melt the submarine'.
I think it's more like saying I ran a mile in 8 minutes whereas it took you 15 minutes to run the same distance, but you weigh twice what I do and also can squat 600 lbs. Like, that's impressive, but it's sure not helping your running time.

Dropping the analogy: f64 multiplication is a lot harder than f8 multiplication, but for ML tasks it's just not needed. f8 multiplication hardware is the right tool for the job.
I’d buy it if it had a subscription. /s

Does it work without a subscription?
This may be slightly off topic here, but can anyone attest to how easy (or difficult) it is to sync notes off a SuperNote to some other service? I like the idea of these E-Ink tablets, but was turned off from the Kindle Scribe as it seems there's no way easy, consistent way to push those notes out of the Amazon Kindle ecosystem.
This is an ok way of doing things but you don't need Caddy server (or similar), you can put all the http servers on different localhost ip addresses eg 127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.2, etc. They can all use port 80 but on different ip addresses.

A possible disadvantage is that specifying a single ip to listen on means the http server won't listen on your LAN ip address, which you might want.
Congrats Micah! (Did my part on LI :) ).

Interesting to see where this integrates and how it will boost streaming at Cloudflare.
> Instead, initially went with the approach of hosting my dynamically updating iCal file in an S3 bucket and using ICSx5 on Android to sync with it. No CalDAV needed – just HTTPS.

Well you also can't integrate this into most calendars. I don't even know what the hell an iCal file is. I haven't even heard "iCal" in what feels like decades.

> I know I will probably get pushback over this, but CalDAV sucks.

All the alternatives are worse.
Far fewer than half of the US even voted for Trump, so I don't see where you're getting the claim that "more than half the US agrees."
Peter van der Linden’s book “Expert C Programming” (which is awesome btw) says that one of them (Kernighan, Richie or maybe Ken Thompson I forget) realised early on that the c compiler had the wrong operator precedence for bit twiddling and unary and boolean operators but “at that stage we had a few thousand lines of C code and thought it would be too disruptive to change it”
Thanks for your interesting reply. Some of this is what I was getting at with "fundamental" and "practical":

> all communication must be on secure government hardware

> the entire security infrastructure must be operated by the government

...only matter practically, if the Government hardware and infrastructure are guaranteed to be more secure than the alternative, also considering the fallibilty of the users. And while I appreciate that iPhones and Signal likely aren't infallible, I'm not sure we know what level of absolute trust to place on Government-supplied hardware or infrastructure provided by whoever got the contract?
...except mindshare.

Turns out, that matters a lot.
You can do this on JavaScript too.

alert(1)
// equals to:
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https://jsfuck.com/
I do not want any emojis from my compiler's output, heck, in my terminal in general. Please, do not make it the default behavior.

(BTW my terminal does not even support emojis.)
With goats someone has to fix the fence, apply vaccines, and lots of other labor. Not as much as a lawn mower operator though.
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Huh? If AI can do any job cheaper and better than a person can, why would anyone hire a person? What "useful" skill could a person exchange for resources in an era when computers write code, drive cars, fight wars, and cook food?
If you actually perform all the steps to get a passport an leave the country to see the world for yourself that's a YUUGE (sic!) sign that you're not "one of those".
I've been quite unimpressed with Google products for a while
The one I got told to me find refrigerators and then never showed me a refrigerator. I clicked "skip" many times and it just kept going until I gave up.
I tried weight lifting/strength training for about a year and never really noticed an improvement in sleep quality. However, it was still a net positive in the strength/overall daily energy department.

I used to bike a lot, stopped after a leg/back injury (not from biking), but I picked up an eBike about 3 years ago and absolutely love it. The pedal assist takes enough stress off my leg that I can keep it on the lowest setting and ride for hours, which feels really, really good and does actually help with sleep that night. This, of course, is weather/season dependent but I relish the times when I can just hop on after work and go somewhere.
Well, at least Americans will learn who is paying for the tariffs. You can't hide these numbers.
Without GNU, GPL and Richard Stallman, FOSS would not exist in the first place. The GPL forced companies to make FOSS a thing, whether they liked it or not.
We gave each of the kids a Raspberry Pi. Cheap enough that it was no big deal if they killed it, but enough to play with, browse the web, even learn a little Linux.
In the case of .net , I think its due to support of windows OS like 7 , In my part of the world users refuse to update their OS. Software providers need to keep on supporting Obsolete OS's. Thus Runtime support exists till date.
I mean why not show a proper image instead of doing fancier ASCII art. Or skip it entirely and have an LLM describe the issues and fix it for you.
no https://bsky.app/profile/alternatebuild.dev/post/3lg5a5fq4dc...
He opened his ~/.emacs file as a Junior in High School. Says he'll be ready to close it as soon as he gets this particular edit just right
The number of significant software projects which are licensed as GPLv2-only, and which are therefore incompatible with GPLv3, can probably be counted on one hand. Normal GPLv2 projects are licensed – as instructed by the text in the license itself – as “GPLv2 or later”. Which means that any normal GPLv2-licensed software can be relicensed to GPLv3, and can therefore be combined with any other GPLv3-licensed program without any issue whatsoever.
It's not a terrible idea. On a large scale it can lead to the corp.com issue:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/02/dangerous-domain-corp-co...

Honestly for USD5/year why don't you just buy yourself a domain and never have to deal with the problem?
Duh. The US has been this way literally since it was founded, and the poster is moving the goalposts since we were talking economy eh?
In the meantime, read Good Energy to learn how to care for your mitochondria.
_"The NHTSA, which has been a thorn in Tesla’s side for years, has eight active investigations into the company after receiving—and publishing—more than 10,000 complaints from members of the public.

Morale at the agency, which has ordered dozens of Tesla recalls and delayed the rollout of the group’s self-driving and driver-assistance software, has plunged following Doge’s opening salvo of job cuts, according to current and former NHTSA staff.

“There is a clear conflict of interest in allowing someone with a business interest influence over appointments and policy at the agency regulating them,” said one former senior NHTSA figure, who was not among the Doge-led layoffs."_

Musk is clearly avenging the NHTSA probes into Tesla. Single-handedly decimating the safety culture that currently exists.
View the headers and use regex (if your mail provides that level of details in rules) to block the the PTR records and reverse DNS from sending to you. If not then block emails based on keywords in the subject or body. If that isn't an option contact your mail provider and have them block it. Or find a better mail provider that gives you better filter rule options. Also start submitting the headers/emails to Spamcop. [1]

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Ask HN: Have the US revoking of visas affected you?
I hear that the US has been revoking visas and protected persons statuses for refugees from Ukraine and other places. Tech is a lot of immigrants; is anyone being affected by these?
> My point is that US government economic policy is completely disconnected from the concept of economic fallout

Unless the economic policy stands to benefit the working class.

Tax cuts for billionaires will pass all day, with zero issues at all. Anything, and I do mean anything that stands to benefit the general public has to have three plans on how it will either pay for itself or otherwise be paid for, and if any of them involve even a slight tax increase, it will never even see a vote, let alone pass.
We absolutely do lose information here; that's a great point. The goal for us wasn't necessarily to surface the best ranking; it was to learn how LLMs produce a given ranking and what sources it pulls in.

The nugget of real interest here (personally speaking) is in those citations: what is the new meta for products getting ranked/referred by LLMs?

https://x.com/rauchg/status/1910093634445422639
I'm not even sure why most people want to bring manufacturing back to the US. If this was a video game with a tech tree, becoming a mostly service and consumer economy would be the final winning position. Bombing our economy to go backwards to being a manufacturing economy is only attractive if you want to turn the middle class back into serfs.
> This is a great way to see why invalid UTF-8 strings and unicode chars cause undefined behaviour in Rust.

What does "undefined behavior" mean without a spec? Wouldn't the behavior rustc produces today be de-facto defined behavior? It seems like the contention is violating some transmute constraint, but does this not result in reproducible runtime behavior? In what context are you framing "soundness"?

EDIT: I'm honestly befuddled why anyone would downvote this. I certainly don't think this is detracting from the conversation at all—how can you understand the semantics of the above comment without understanding what the intended meaning of "undefined behavior" or "soundness" is?
SQL CTEs Are Passthroughs
Yeah, it would be really useful to see a high quality report like this that addresses that issue.

My strong intuition at the moment is that the environmental impact is greatly exaggerated.

The energy cost of executing prompts has dropped enormously over the past two years - something that's reflected in this report when it says "Driven by increasingly capable small models, the inference cost for a system performing at the level of GPT-3.5 dropped over 280-fold between November 2022 and October 2024". I wrote a bit about that here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/#the-envi...

We still don't have great numbers on training costs for most of the larger labs, which are likely extremely high.

Llama 3.3 70B cost "39.3M GPU hours of computation on H100-80GB (TDP of 700W) type hardware" which they calculated as 11,390 tons CO2eq. I tried to compare that to fully loaded passenger jet flights between London and New York and got a number of between 28 and 56 flights, but I then completely lost confidence in my ability to credibly run those calculations because I don't understand nearly enough about how CO2eq is calculated in different industries.

The "LLMs are an environmental catastrophe" messaging has become so firmly ingrained in our culture that I think it would benefit the AI labs themselves enormously if they were more transparent about the actual numbers.
Every time I have seen it mentioned, it has been rolled into data center usage.

Is there any separate analysis on AI resource usage?

For a few years now it has been frequently reported that building and running renewable energy is cheaper than running fossil fuel electricity generation.

I know some fossil fuel plants run to earn the subsidies that incentivised their construction. Is the main driver for fossil fuel electricity generation now mainly bureaucratic? If not why is it persisting? Were we misinformed as to the capability of renewables?
What is a "mini-primary?"
I never implied such an equivalence.

Perhaps you could reread GP? You seem to have misunderstood what he wrote. Surely discussing the motivations of those who act deceitfully is not itself deceit.
Nobody ever cared about politics when it comes to tourists.

It's about your behaviour as a human being. Yes, there are different customs, and while the last few decades have steadily grinded to erode these, even today there are still stark differences between the different European people.

If you are going to be loud, opinianated and callous, people are not going to dislike you for being 'american', 'english' or 'dutch', just for being loud, opinionated and callous. Many americans visit here and are amical, culturally curious and respectfull. Nobody sane over here is going to go object to you because 'trump'.

Leave your maga hats as wel as your pronouns at home, and enjoy your trip.
I want to take the opportunity here to introduce a rather overlooked problem with AI: Palantir and anything like it.

Where certain uses equate to significant jumps in power of manipulation.

That's not to pick on Palantir, it's just a class of software that enables AI for usecases that are quite scary.

It's not as if similar software isn't used by other countries for the same use cases employed by the US military.

Given this path, I doubt the environment will be the focus, again.
Vacche rosse 24 months and a glass of red wine, you just made me salivate.

The 36 months is too strong in my opinion, still delicious but I like the 24 more.