skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“This guy” is Don Hopkins who, amongst a long list of achievements in the field of computer science specializing in human computer interaction and computer graphics, is one of the authors of the UNIX haters handbook - specifically the extremely prescient chapter 7 "The X-Windows Disaster", published when Linux was in its infancy. You don't have to like what he is saying, but he has decades of experience and research behind what he says. Know where your field came from. The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward - sadly something a vocal minority of the community refuses to do.

https://www.donhopkins.com/home/resume.html
Isn't Rocket's reputation that they just steal ideas from other startups and create cheap clones of them? Not a terrible business to be in, but not massively inspiring or globally reproducible.
Consecutive El Niños are happening more often and the result is more devastating
For many people, assembling things like this is a hobby, and spending time on hobbies is actually quite important to avoid becoming overwhelmed by a busy schedule.
Isn't "masters" when you build a working copy of Minas Tirith or something like that?
Photovoltaic battery runs on nuclear waste
Picking up dropped pencils, for example. Robots are still hilariously bad at that. Or driving your new AI overload around the country from LAN to LAN.
A quarkless supercollider may finally shed light on dark matter
It is always written into a memory buffer first, which could be like 256 megabytes... it tooks time to fill it up, once it is filled, memory card speed becomes a bottleneck. So, actually, writing only jpegs would trigger the slowdown later, so you could take more frames before the buffer fills up
I think this is a problem that arises from people working in these gargantuan organisations where individuals can't see how their work contributes to the success of the organisation. They perceive the organisation as a construct built around social relationships rather than a construct that exists to drive some change in or generate profit from the surrounding economy, because they can't see how their work drives that change or generates that profit.
> Getting diamonds is not even close to the hardest challenge in the game

Mining diamonds isn't even necessary if you build, e.g., ianxofour's iron farm on day one and trade that iron[0] with a toolsmith, armourer, and weaponsmith. You can get full diamond armour, tools, and weapons pretty quickly (probably a handful of game weeks?)

[0] Main faff here is getting them off their base trade level.
Static analysis of arbitrary legacy code is limited. But I do not find it difficult to structure my code in a way that I can reasonable exclude most errors. The discussion of false positives in C is interesting. In some sense, 99% of what the Rust compiler would complain about would be considered false positives in C. So if you want to have safety in C, you can not approach this from this angle. But this relates to my point. If it is acceptable to structure the code in specific ways to make the Rust compiler happy, but you do not accept that you may have to write code in specific ways to avoid false positives in C, then you are already not comparing apples to apples.
There's a difference between the original source code and an annotated disassembly, even for assembly code.
Turns out that AI are much better at playing video games if they're allowed to cheat.
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imho, state of varying experience with llm's can aptly summed in this poem by Mr. Longfellow

There was a little girl,
Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good,
She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid.
Does anyone know why the beautiful covers disappear when I import these books in standard format into Calibre?
It took a long time for Canon CR3 raw format to be supported by darktable because, although the format itself had been reverse engineered, there was a fear from the developers that it was covered by a patent and that they risked a lawsuit by integrating it in DT. IIRC, they had attempted to contact Cabon legal to obtain some sort of waiver, without success.

I'm fact I'm not sure how that saga ended and CR3 support was finally added a few years after the release of the Canon mirrorless cameras that output CR3.
The higher level story here is that the US government is simply unable to build software. You’ll notice that over the last 10 years there have been classified records scandals from politicians of both parties: it’s because the US government doesn’t have any communications tools even 1% as usable as anything from the iOS App Store.
Anecdotally: schoolkids are at the leading edge of LLM innovation, and nowadays all homework assignments are explicitly made to be LLM-proof. (Well, at least in my son's school. Yours might be different.)

This effectively makes LLMs useless for education. (Also sours the next generation on LLMs in general, these things are extremely lame to the proverbial "kids these days".)
And it's these laws that seep into the area of free speech.
I'll send this to my competition thanks!
My pet peeve in this area that pretty much always gets overlooked by technical people even if they're somewhat experienced in management and business, is compliance. It's always good and profitable to adapt to and preferably implement representations of laws and regulations, including 'soft' rules, like standard contracts, established business practices, non-compulsory laws, things like that.

Even if no customer today cares about something, a form of employee compensation that is a bit unusual, say, or 'reversed' VAT declaration in invoicing, or whatever, if large actors in your segment do, and that's most likely the case, then you should at least build things based off the formalities in the local jurisdiction so that when your sales people get a big prospect on the hook you'll have an easy time adding what they need.

It can also shield from legal or financial liabilities if someone gets angry at you, and your lawyer will be happier and possibly cheaper if they know you understand your legal environment. If you're doing an exit buyers will also appreciate good compliance, just like they appreciate other forms of risk management.
A Comprehensive Review of Acoustic Levitation Techniques and Applications
nice!

it reminds me of this other similar project showcased here one month ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43280128 although yours looks better executed overall
The White House Cited My Research to Justify Tariffs. They Got It All Wrong
All the electronic components are surface mounted to the PCB but that doesn't make it a finished product.

They've made the PCB about as nice-looking as one can but most people still wouldn't want it that way; the raw buttons on the front in particular are not a good look or feel. There's no stand and the only mounting solution provided is a hole in the board. Power appears to be through the Pico's USB port on the side.
Second Video Synthesis
Let's hope it doesn't autocorrect too much of the asm...
The vision of Kay and Fielding: Growable systems that last for decades (2015)
The iPhone contacts app is an absolute cluster of an app in terms of how it manages adding contacts (or allows other apps to add contacts).

Years ago I had my nicely arranges contacts in place, then added Gmail and it upload contacts so now they were all duplicated. Then when I dug into it, I realize you have have folders of different contacts, but depending on the view they are shown as combined.

Then add on top Gmail keeps asking me if I want to update someone's contacts from an email they sent me. I click yes, but it keeps coming up even though their contact info doesn't change (what?).

Then if I try to copy a message from iMessage, it will randomly assume a number is someone's phone number and ask me if I want to create a new contact (what?). If my fingers were fatter it would be easier to click "yes" and end up with a non-phone number added to some person's contacts.

I only trust the contacts that I add manually, everything else is suspect.
> The covid crisis was an actual event in physical reality not caused by admin policies.

Sortof yeah, but also sortof not. Basically any non-Trump president would have been briefed about Covid in January 2020, and most of the previous ones invested a bunch of resources into making sure that the disease was contained far away from US shores.

Even Bush II would have done that (and did, I believe for SARS).
The blogpost claims they are already running "all the tools", can you please be more specific which one they are missing? Maybe the tool to avoid this kind of lifetime issue just happens to be rustc?
Achieving Scalable Entanglement of Remote Distinguishable Qubits
> It probably depends a lot on what you are using them for, and in general, I think it's still too early to say exactly where LLMs will lead us.

Even approximations must be right to be meaningful. If information is wrong, it's rubbish.

Presorting/labelling various data has value. Humans have done the real work there.

What is "leading" us at present are the exaggerated valuations of corporations. You/we are in a bubble, working to justify the bubble.

Until a tool is reliable, it is not installed where people can get hurt. Unless we have revised our concern for people.
> That means education system is bad and has failed people

What if the education system can't fix this? Not just the current one - any education system.

> that people are so desperate with their living standards

What if people's propensity to believe utter bullshit is independent of their financial situation?

> Either way, those are symptoms, not the cause

What if the tendency to believe bullshit is the cause? You have failed to prove it isn't, so your proposed solutions probably won't work and indeed may make matters much worse.
A Small Haskell Task
Old Vintage Computing Research: MacLynx Beta 6: Back to the Power Mac
> The reality is that we spend FAR more time reading code than writing it. That is why readability is far more important than clever, line saving constructs.

In JS sometimes chain two or three inline-arrow-functions specifically for readability. When you read code, you often search for the needle of "the real thing" in a haystack of data formatting, API response prepping, localization, exception handling etc.

Sometimes those shorthand constructs help me to skip the not-so-relevant parts instead of mentally climbing down and up every sort and rename function.

That being said, I would not want this sentiment formalized in code guidelines :) And JS is not C except both have curly braces.
There are a compilation of these salutes of top Democrats doing similar gestures. Has there been anything more by Elon on this front in addition to moving his arm (accidentally) in a specific angle?
I’ll be honest I would have left by now if I could have, but I don’t regret my career in the slightest. I still code for fun, but our jobs are rarely about just coding, and the money has brought in a lot of toxicity.
I feel like you are jumping to conclusions here, I wasn't talking about the achievement or the AI, I was talking about the article and the way it explains finding diamonds in minecraft to people who don't know how to find diamonds in minecraft.
Hard to say for sure, did SourceForge put malware in their installers many millennia ago?
Or they’re not trying to understand how it works
see [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43609826
> One thing that open source libraries do tend to miss is that very important extra metadata - for example, Phase One IIQ files have an embedded sensor profile or full on black frame that is not yet encoded into the raw data like it typically is for a NEF or DNG from many cameras.

In astronomy/astrophotography the FITS format[1] is commonly used, which supports all these things and is, as the name suggests, extremely flexible. I wonder why it never caught on in regular photography.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITS
Cybersecurity and LLMs
Than any silly idea can be a business model. Suppose I collect dust from my attic and hope to sell it as an add-on on my neighbor's lemonade stand, with a hefty profit for the neighbor, who is getting paid by me $10 to add a handful of dust in each glass and sell it to the customers for $1. The neighbor accepts. It's a business model, at least until I don't run of existing funds or the last customer leaves in disguist. At which point exactly that silly idea stops being an unsustainable business model and becomes a silly idea? I guess at least as early as I see that the funds are running up, and I need to borrow larger an larger lumps of money each time to keep spinning the wheel...
Haha I love that name spelling $deploy! Never wrote it like that
> Germany is in an energy crisis and a few other members are close to a sovereign debt crisis. Domestic production of weapons will be tough and expensive. The EU’s plan to sell bonds to pursue war with Russia looks horrid. They’re in no position to be in a trade war. In a few months time when this reality sinks in, they will have to make a trade deal and remove US tariffs.

This really, really depends on how things evolve this week. Like, the EU will 100% tarriff the US (and probably China to prevent dumping) this week.

The big question is whether or not they use the Anti-Coercion Instrument, and hit US tech and financial services. Selfishly, I hope they don't (as I work for a US fintech while I am based in the EU), but this will probably happen if Trump retaliates to this week's sanctions (which he probably will).

This is gonna get a lot worse before it gets better, unless there's a unilateral pullback on the part of the US (which seems very unlikely).
Countries really need to stop unfairly penalizing Chinese EVs. If they aren't allowed to compete, local industries will never have an incentive to improve. No argument about safety has ever had any merit - Teslas burst into flames all the time.
The chances of a startup failing is way higher than gold degrading in price.
3-7 million is somewhat proportional to the # of TI 99/4a (my first computer) which sold 2.5Million or so, but many of those were probably on the fire sale, and at least some of them probably went to backup parts for people that already had it. While the 99/4a is remembered somewhat fondly by those who had it (speech synthesizer, expansion modules for p-code, forth and others), it wasn't a system that had a huge amount of development done for it, and died a pretty quick death.
German bureaucracy is a constant hindrance. Your first year in business is pure compliance work, and waiting for various paper-based processes to complete.
Economic Policy Uncertainty Index
It's the other way around. Python notebooks fall short compared to this because they don't have the same kind of interactivity with the data as GT has.

A single tool in the toolkit is already equivalent to notebooks, at least from what I glimpsed at the introductory video. Then you have the rest of the tools, how it can easily inspect the objects, and probably manipulate them.

This is probably one of the future ways in which we will work in programming in the future, when someone creates some similar tool, around a mainstream language, that can easily interact with LLMs, APIs, and data visualization tools.
This is completely wrong and also russian disinformation.
"Sony’s software for processing ARW RAW files is called Imaging Edge. Like most first-party software from camera manufacturers, it’s terrible and unintuitive to use — and should be saved for situations like a high-resolution multishot mode where it’s the only method to use a camera’s proprietary feature."

I think the primarily reason is that they have great hardware developers and terrible software developers. So, having ARWs it is maximum they could provide to photographer, so they could take the files and run away from sony as soon as possible (i.e. do the rest in the better software).

Pentax could save DNGs, there are zero reasons for other companies not to do the same.
starcraft provides replay files that start with the initial game state and then every action in the game. Not user inputs, but the actions bound to them.
"A True Crisis Moment": Ex-Nintendo PR Managers on Price Backlash
I'm not sure about your argument.
For example, symphony can be used as a micro-framework since a long time (https://symfony.com/blog/new-in-symfony-2-8-symfony-as-a-mic...) and very few dependencies are required.

Relying on such heavy tested is a no brainier for me, especially because it offer well designed abstractions.
You seem to see them as dragging you down, I see them as opportunity to have hooks at the right place for free.
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Since diamonds are surrounded by danger and if it dies, it loses its items and such, why would it not be satisfied after discovering iron pick axe or somesuch? Is it in a mode where it doesn't lose its item when it dies? Does it die a lot? Does it ever try digging vertically down? Does it ever discover other items/tools you didn't expect it to? Open world with sparse reward seems like such a hard problem. Also, once it gets the item, does it stop getting reward for it? I assume so. Surprised that it can work with this level of sparse rewards.
How do you make homework assignments LLM-proof? There may be a huge business opportunity if that actually works, because LLMs are destroying education at a rapid pace.
3 days later and we’re in a global economic crisis. How’s that Brexit dividend paying off for the UK now?

Oh right, we’re fucked like everybody else.
How did you assign points to llms. I feel like we can elaborate on meterics. Beside that this is amazing
Yes the latest Goldman Sachs recession forecast is 45% probability, which is what makes it into the headlines.

However the report says this is assuming the tariffs won't go into effect. The flagship policy Trump just announced after going on about how the most beautiful word is "tariff" for four decades.

If they go into effect it goes higher. But why assume that the President of the USA will actually do what he just said he'd do in a big speech with giant printed props.
Ask HN: Is there a place on the internet where I can speak without a censorship?
I agree to see a lot of spam, insults, I agree that the installation can be difficult, and the number of users is small. I just want complete freedom of speech like in the good old unmoderated IRC and no upvotes/downvotes.
Show HN: NightScreen Mode extension to reduce eye strain while working late
I built this after getting tired of burning my eyes working late at night. Most such extensions either break websites or don’t filter blue light properly.

So what it does is, it adds a clean dark mode and an amber light filter that helps reduce eye strain and improve sleep quality. It also allows you to manage brightness, contrast of the screen and you can add black and white mode too. It works on all sites and has no ads.

You can check it out here: https://nightscreenmode.app

Would love your feedback or suggestions. Happy to answer questions!
> Some quick searching indicates that the startup rate (per capita) in Germany is about 1.1%, while the USA is 1.5%. Not a huge difference, but the USA doesn't have any of those initiatives afaik.

I believe there's differences between east and west Germany, so if you look at the west specifically, the gamp might get a little bit smaller.

Beyond that, Germany doesn't have as much of a startup culture as the USA, which is precisely why we need to incentivise people in a way that others don't.

> Just wondering what actually moves the needle and how to better create a society that is entrepreneurial

Willingness and awareness, where the latter is probably easy to fix but the former is a bit trickier: You need those people who have the ability to pull it off to want it in the first place.

And there I guess it splits into a) the benefits of entreprenaurship b) the benefits of employment and c) the cultural influence on how these are weighed against each other.

So tl;dr: a) make starting a company attractive, b) make employment suck more and c) convince people that independence beats security.

Employment in Germany is definitely a lot cozier than in the US, so unless we want to get rid of that, a) and c) are the options we have. If you want to achieve it without propaganda, then all you can really do is a), and that's what these programmes are already doing.

I think reducing buerocracy and offering good social safety nets so a failing business doesn't translate to a ruined life are the way to go, at least in the short term.
And all files from NTFS have +x. :|
I expect all of them to be copied except for specifically the owner and group. Created date, modified date, ACLs, extended attributes, eeeverything else.

My expectations are more specific than "not all of them", so please don't misrepresent them.
For a moment I was thinking now that's some astronomical feature creep from the Aegis Authenticator app that I use... https://getaegis.app/
See Maniac on Netflix. They call them "AdBuddies" and they are people reading you ads in exchange for payment.
Why are you posting here when you could be crushing it™ delivering 100x value to your shareholders? You've already failed.
Two Years Building Workbrew, a Remote-First Enterprise Homebrew Startup
Oh so you have one of the new Kindles!!

For reference my gen 2 kindle is 16 years old.
Depends very much on the assembly line. Some are quite reasonable, especially in smaller firms where you don't have a completely detached management in their ivory tower passing efficiency edicts for grinding through disposable anonymous minions. You can't abuse your staff too much if you have to sit next to them in the canteen! It's not exactly stimulating work and obviously not a rockstar salary, but it's comfortable enough indoor work and you don't have to pee in bottles and have a psychopathic delivery schedule every day.
How The Pentagon is adapting to China's technological rise
Running companies like this is how you end up with the current state of Boeing. Only valuing engineers who are directly earning you profit and firing the ones who only have an indirect role in your profit centers.

> If your work isn’t clearly connected to company profit, your position is unstable

You know what really makes your position unstable as an engineer? Delaying a product over "safety" concerns, thereby doing work that's clearly connected to preventing company profit. Only young, bright-eyed engineers would be naive enough to bring up safety concerns right?
This is part of the reason I don't keep contacts on my iPhone anymore.
What is that term?
Why an overreliance on AI-driven modelling is bad for science
Could it be because those companies are full of people who somehow occupy important positions without understanding the basics of the engineering work.

Every company I've ever worked at has more work that they would like to do than they have engineers to do it. The problem often isn't that they don't understand why fixing technical debt is important, it's to decide if fixing that particular technical debt right now is the best use of these resources right now. Also they might also know things that I might not know, like long term plans for and the relative profitability of different projects, which will affect how they make decisions. No point in spending effort fixing technical debt if that project/department is already slated for closure.

Also maybe it's a US vs EU thing, but at every engineering and IT company I've ever worked in Europe, the person two steps above me was basically always an engineer or at least has a science or technical background.