skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kiln drying is an interesting idea to speed it up and prevent premature rot, but might offset some of the carbon impact since most industrial kilns use fossil fuels directly or upstream if electric.

Maybe it would be more effective to drop wet lumber off in the desert for a few years by rail before moving the dry lumber to permanent underground storage. This assumes two stages of transport to and from the desert would cost less carbon than transport to a kiln and then to storage.

I’m not convinced that the wood even needs to be dried before burying, though.
Isn't it just insane from your point of view. For somebody else couldn't the same offer be appealing?
Are there any precedents for a subscription service that went from 0 to $5 billion in revenue in two years? I also think, they are doing a ton of expensive R&D, but as far as I can tell that $5 billion in revenue is a profitable and sustainable business. It's not like they're selling compute below cost.
I love bookmarks. I have made RSS app with bookmarking mechanism.

My links about bookmarks and links below.

https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive - django app, RSS client, simple web crawler, under construction

https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database - my bookmarks repository

https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2025 - RSS links for year 2025

https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2024 - RSS links for year 2024

https://github.com/rumca-js/RSS-Link-Database-2023 - RSS links for year 2023

https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database - I also maintain a list of domains found in the Internet

https://rumca-js.github.io/search - search that uses links maintained in zip files

https://rumca-js.github.io/music - my music library, browsable

https://rumca-js.github.io/bookmarks - my bookmarks, browsable
> Wooden bodies allow skilled users to adjust the blade depth within microns without sacrificing stability.

I know nothing much about hand planes except what they are

But why couldn't a metal-bodied plane to do the same? Wouldn't it potentially be stiffer and more stable?
For some reason I thought they had already dropped Star Trek when it all moved to Paramount+. That's how I watch Star Trek these days anyway. If all you watch is Star Trek it's probably worth switching, because Paramount+ is cheaper than Netflix.
HTTP Server-Sent Events (SSE) does not natively support batched streaming with explicit completion notifications in its core specification.
Life saver. I do not use the raw dataframe API, inconsistent and error prone.
I'm from a part of the world where people regularly die by going for a walk unprepared (google 'tourist dies in outback' for a repeated history of such).

Having said that i cycled a fair way across Europe in my youth with nothing but a light bag, water bottle and wallet in my pocket.

So basically it depends. Yes you can get away with it in certain parts of the world but i would never argue for unpreparedness since it's way too common for people to die from lacking the basics of preparation.
My company sells AI tools, so there’s a pretty big incentive for to promote their use.

We have the same security restrictions for AI tools that weren’t created by us.
Yeah, sounds like they got something right.

Real world, sometimes a doctor will think up a novel use of the effect of a drug. And sometimes they'll throw stuff at the wall and see what sticks. When you don't have a good answer this can be sane medical practice. But there should be a requirement of reporting it to something like this database.
also, for what it's worth, I've moved on to mexp in my old age. Just easier to figure out where things begin and end without all those parens. And they more-or-less mechanically convert to sexpr when you need them to.

And back in my day you couldn't get a CS degree without a class on parsing and interpreting structured data. Usually it was the compilers class. Now we don't require kids to take a compilers class so an entire generation doesn't understand why regexes don't work in all cases. When kids in my organization try to "parse" HTML or XML with regexes, I hand them a copy of the O'Reilly Lex and Yacc book. And when they come back saying they can't understand it, I hand them the Dragon book. I guess I just think we should all feel that particular pain. Sorry for the digression, but I was triggered by "regex" and "parser" used in the same sentence.
> "expressed interest" is a funny market research term.

I don't even know what you're trying to say here.

> As I mentioned, my assessment is that "expressed interest" might not be what it really seems to be.

Yes well I'm not sure how it really seems to be to you. You say these groups aren't lonely, but what they really need are friends...?
While C was adapted to the PDP-11, this was adding byte-level memory access. Otherwise I do no think there is anything in C specific to the PDP-11, or what would this be?

What makes C low-level is that it can work directly with the representation of objects in memory. This has nothing to do with CPU features, but with direct interoperability with other components of a system. And this is what C can do better than any other language: solve problems by being a part of a more complex system.
It's always impressive how far people can take TypeScript and even build parsers with it. But this is limited to inlined string literals and cannot read files (a TS limitation).

I wonder if the author has a use case in mind for this that I don't see. Like if you are only using TS, what's the point of protobuf? If you are exchanging data with programs written in other languages why avoid the protobuf tooling that you need anyway?

Maybe this is just a fun toy project to write a parser in TS?
Also... HtDP (How to Design Programs) is a good follow-on to SICP.

Oh... and I think we can't mention SICP without referencing this (relatively recent) video about why MIT moved from Scheme to Python for intro classes: https://youtu.be/OgRFOjVzvm0
Rust is easy? Go is hard?
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That does not capture API usage. I use Claude every day but never through the app. It is very far from crappy. It is top tier.
That's why I qualified all of my statements with "may" and "might". Still, I think it's extraordinarily unlikely that human brains could turn out, for example, to have no special bias for learning language. The training algorithm in our brains would have to be soany orders of magnitude better than the state of the art in ANNs that it would boggle the mind.

Consider the comparison with LLM training. A state of the art LLM that is, say, only an order of magnitude better than an average 4 year old human child in language use is trained on ~all of the human text ever produced, consuming many megawatts of power in the process. And it's helped with plenty of pre-processing of this text information, and receives virtually no noise.

In contrast, a human child that is not deaf acquires language from a noisy enviroment with plenty of auditory stimuli from which they first have to even understand that they are picking up language. To be able to communicate and thus receive significant feedback on the learning, they also have to learn how to control a very complex set of organs (tongue, lips, larynx, chest muscles), all with many degrees of freedom and precise timing needed to produce any sound whatsoever.

And yet virtually all human children learn all of this in a matter of 12-24 months, consuming, say, and then spend another 2-3 years learning more language without struggling as much with the basics of word recognition and pronunciation. And they do all this while consuming a total of some 5kWh, and this includes many bodily processes that are not directly related to language acquisition, and a lot of direct physical activity too.

So, either we are missing something extremely fundamental, or the initial state of the brain is very, very far from random and much of this was actually trained over tens or hundreds of thousands of years of evolution of the hominids.
CloudMailin [0] is also great for parsing incoming email and doing stuff with it (ex. forward to a webhook / POST target, outbound capabilities, etc)

I've found it to be very reliable with a detailed dashboard to track individual transactions, plus they give you 10,000 emails a month for free.

Not an employee, just a big fan!

[0] https://www.cloudmailin.com
> 4. A CVE exists

Of course a CVE exists. Thousands of them exist.
The units for the free memory are interestingly wrong;
'Executing shell command: free -m'
The total system memory is 64222 bytes, with used (available) 8912 bytes.

which given that there seems to be no way to specify any data structure or typing in this MCP interface is hardly surprising!
Yea. California’s government delivers a lot of services that protect ecosystems, a healthy economy and quality of life. All three of those examples are mutually beneficial.

You can disagree with some services but that’s because the state does so much, for example I think there is too much wasted on the carceral and military side.
"Content current as of:
06/08/2020"
Worth trying. If it suceeds when US, URSS and Germany failed before, it will be a Sputnik-level feat for China. Great way to showcase technological advancement. If it fails, it will be the fourth time somebody failed, so not particularly embarassing.
Sure, but it being delayed still matters a lot, particularly if it's "renewable" in the sense that trees falling into streams and being preserved underwater will be replaced over time by other trees that fall into that water on top of them.

It's the same logic for construction materials. A house has dozens of trees worth of lumber in it, and that carbon is now trapped in the house for however many decades it takes until the house eventually burns down or rots. Meanwhile the trees that were cut regrew, so the total "inventory" of trapped carbon has increased. (Appreciating of course that the lifetime carbon cost of the emissions required to maintain and climate-control a house will far exceed the modest value of what is trapped in its walls, but all of this is just for the sake of argument.)
I've liked some of Ed's previous writing, but this is a craaaazy statement: "The Future of Generative AI Rests On OpenAI".

OpenAI is an over-hyped, over-priced, and under-performing AI company. Fortunately, the underlying LLM/transformer technology is real and valuable and not at all dependent on OpenAI. It would be good to deflate some of the hype around OpenAI and other non-viable companies.
Not trying to oversimplify the appeal, but I personally found their juxtaposition between the absurd and highly intelligent social commentary endlessly entertaining because deep down it felt like they were saying something is really really wrong with society and existence in general. They wrapped it up in comedy, because what else can you do in the face of an existential crisis but laugh at it? They always felt like a group of very angry young men trying to disrupt the stuffy old system from within. Very subversive stuff, especially for it's time. It really resonated with me as an angry/angsty (and relatively intelligent) adolescent male.

Go watch Brazil and tell me that Gilliam isn't furious with humanity and the state of things in the world.
No, it's not crazy, all the companies making expensive software are moving to subscriptions and they love the result. It is a lot easier to sell and to get people to renew their licenses.

And 20$/m is not what I would call "very expensive" in the context of a professional product used by people and companies who make a profit from it. By comparison, Autocad and Revit are 350$/m each
That looks like a pretty heavy-weight solution, with a lot of complexity, and I don't mean that as a criticism at all. I'm not a 'go' developer myself. I've always wanted a pure JS solution (as a browser extension, maximum of 200 lines of code) that can capture the content of a web page (doing a virtual scroll to the bottom, to capture the whole page). Since there's no perfect way to translate HTML to PDF, my idea had always been to capture the IMAGE of the page (aside from capturing keywords for DB indexing which can be done separately just for 'search' support later on).

The fly in the ointment is of course the scrolling too, because some apps have "infinite" scrolling, and so in many SPAs there's literally no such thing as "The whole page". Anway, I haven't tried your app yet, because of not-JS and not-Small, reasons, but I'm just sharing my perspective on this topic. Thanks for sharing your project!
British Laws Are Not Fit for Social Media Age, Says Report on U.K. Riots
Shrodinger's Europe. It could be homogeneously like Denmark, Sicily, Monaco, Hungary, London or Belarus or anywhere else. You don't know which until you have an asinine blanket statement you need to back up.
https://archive.ph/GH0s9
It's unclear how OpenAI intends to quadruple its revenue? They just doubled their active user count in only a few weeks and their Pro subscription was a new offering as of January. I'd be surprised if their revenue wasn't at least four times larger by the end of this year.
My two cents of common sense would suggest that API usage looks very similar.
I prefer to pause reading at chapter breaks or, if necessary section breaks. Of course, with some authors you may be looking for paragraph breaks (and in the case of Proust, even those might be dozens of pages apart). Natural breaks in the narrative just make the most sense for stopping off and resuming a read.
Julia is what I mostly use. I used R in the past, but I was all the time puzzled from the documentation. It did not work for me. Sometimes I fire the REPL for some interpolation, but I limit myself to what I understand.

BTW I am a senior Java / Python developer
The authors of the paper want to understand how to make inclusive computer interfaces. I am trying to remain in that scope.
Posts from a regional subreddit, where world events seldom happen and traffic and roadways are the prime topics of conversation, are not making it to /r/all or the front page.

Yet political posts get +2000 out of nowhere and an influx of commentators who don't usually comment in that regional subreddit or don't even likely live there.
One can also use "as" in that spot, no?
I don't think that was a confusion of mine? Microsoft may well have bought Mojang to develop Windows 10 Edition and then once Bedrock Edition became sooo cross-platform they just. Happened to miss macOS. By total mistake. (A port even exists as part of Education Edition and they're not selling it as part of Bedrock Edition.)
Theory in Practice: Why Treating Metadata as Relations Pays Off
There aren't enough trees to support industrial civilization. Britain was burning coal before the Industrial Revolution and would have quickly exhausted all land for wood. Wood is useful for other things, buildings and paper would compete with fuel. It is the same problem with turning food crops into fuel.

Solar doesn't require high tech. We use solar panels cause we are good at making circuits. But solar thermal with mirrors should work for lower technology. They wouldn't have the chips for controlling mirrors, but could have some system of central control or just have people move them.
I’d be more interested in user retention. Every AI product I’ve seen (from the investment side) does not speak of this. I have seen some data though that suggests user retention is short (3mo avg). People try it, find it’s not that useful or even harmful after the initial experimentation and dump it.

Gotta keep hype to keep MRR up though even if it’s from different people. They will run out of interest and new users soon. Going to be a big fall.

Models will stagnate on this funding crush and the promises will be gone in a puff of smoke. And everyone will have to unfuck their dependency on it for upselling their existing crap to end users.
What does that have to do with my question?
Dopamine is not permanent, though. We're talking about long-term synaptic plasticity, not short-term neurotransmitter modulation.
I don't think they are differentiating between types of users, just amount of users.
Many if not most engineers are working on things 2-5 years out, not keeping services running.
Apparently[1] this is a successor to 4o (multimodal), unlike GPT 4.5 which released last month and is huge and expensive but is text-only.

Why can't we just have gpt-text-1, gpt-multimodal-1, gpt-reasoning-1?

[1]https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligenc...
Indeed charcoal fueled the early stages of the industrial revolution, and its massive production was one of the primary reasons Western Europe lost most of its forest cover. As wood became scarce, charcoal was replaced by the more difficult to extract coal and lignite.
"Why I Program in Lisp"

because you don't have money to waste on doctors?
Hacking My Coworker (In Minecraft) [pdf]
I don't know why "avec-serif" isn't the standard term. It should be.
> host with no cost associated to it

Home server AI is orders of magnitude more costly than heavily subsidized cloud based ones for this use case unless you run toy models that might hallucinate meetings.

edit: I now realize you're talking about the non-ai related functionality.
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Uh, they are selling compute below cost. They are losing money on every subscription.
You should be able to intercept inspect and modify any data in any device you own. I’m not even sure what the reason for locking things down really is anymore. It isn’t any more secure as hackers breach into these things routinely anyhow, and everyone running the same software expands the risk envelope and reward of hacking greatly. It turns power users away who might have added to sales just buying your product to use as a dummy sensor for some other purpose vs the ones marketing come up with.

So it is arguably more dangerous and leads to fewer sales. But again businesses don’t take positions that are rational if they can take an irrational position that every other business in the sector also takes and therefore easily justify to shareholders without having to present actual numbers they might reject anyhow.
The post-increment and post-decrement operators mapped directly onto PDP-11 CPU addressing modes.

The integral promotion rules come directly from the PDP-11 CPU instruction set.

If I recall correctly so does the float->double promotions.

CPUs started adapting to C semantics around the mid-80's. CPU designers would profile C generated code and change to be able to more efficiently run it.
I made similar experiences - some also through hitch hiking. One major takeaway for me was how often my "flash judgements" are wrong or unfair. I'd also say that asking for help and trusting is more of a strength one has to develop and nurture than a sign of weakness, which is what I used to believe.
How would they look similar? I just told you I don't use the app at all, not 50%/50%? Anthropic targets the enterprise, while OpenAI targets the consumer. Anthropic's primary product today is the API.
Let me know how many people contact you and give you their information because you wrote this.
I recently blogged about the developer experience with server-side Kotlin at https://glennengstrand.info/software/coding/csharp/kotlin so you should know that the IntelliJ folks offer a community edition of their IDE that works great with Kotlin. You don't even need the IntelliJ IDE at all. I was able to code up that Kotlin service using VS Code which was also a great experience. Nothing felt limited or dummied down at all.
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The article you linked says that 60-75% of Anthropic's revenue comes from API calls (which would include things like Cursor).
Ah, I take it that's "Growing a Language"?
The US has some of the highest levels of public health research (NIH) and science funding (NSF). And despite not having universal healthcare, we have I think the highest government funded health care spending in the world (~8% of GDP or ~2 Trillion).

Part of the way to gain this funding is to label things 'associated' or 'related' in order to trigger a funding grab for your particular field of interest. NIH and NSF funding is mostly adversarial, for the most part the pot is fixed and you can win by making your case more dire than the other guy. Thus you have weird stuff like anything remotely having a connection to COVID or pregnancy getting tagged in to influence the purse strings.
> It's a fact of life

I will argue the contrary. Companies with US mindset makes us think that.

Countries with social safety net have a better way of handling it. Even in the country where I am now living, Hong Kong, which is very liberal, half of the companies let you have 1 month of notice period.
this is rather amazing, I've always thought that my observation that I feel better in my brain after a good fever has to be imagination
>And the bleach argument was the supporting argument for the statement regarding intelligence.

It was but one example of a list much longer than the post you responded to, which anyone who was fair would recognize.

>Yes really.

No, not really.

>No. The poster used that bleach argument as the reason here - which is a completely dishonest argument. It's not a minor detail.

The bleach argument was one example and you're being nitpicky about it anyway.

>Is this how the discussion should go, in your dream world?

Strawman.

>Since, according to you, actually discussing the exact cases/reasoning brought up is quibbling over minor details, nitpicking.

You're not engaging the substance of his argument while decrying that exact failure in everyone else. You say people should focus on main points and not quibble about small details and it's exactly what you are doing.

When did you engage with the main point that Trump has poor character and is unintelligent? You didn't. You're bickering about whether or not he literally said inject bleach. Okay, throw out the bleach part. The point still stands but you don't want to discuss it because you just want to quibble about the bleach. It's a complete waste of time for anyone interested in engaging in a conversation. Maybe he was wrong, maybe he misremembered, maybe in this one instance he isn't being fair. You don't engage in any of that and you assumed the worst. It's exactly what you're complaining about and I'm not going to sit here repeating myself because you like to argue.
This is definitely how the capital class views labor. Don’t be fooled, and ignore at your own peril.
Well sounds like you are confident and we are going to get into a semantic argument about what qualifies as a pointer.

So which of these languages do you think is a better representation of hardware and not a PDP-11?
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> For example, what they call a lime in a lot of countries (for example Calamansi) would be called a tiny orange in North America (we don't have that fruit here).

Calamansi limes are grown in California and usually called Calamondin limes. They're typically anywhere from orange to yellow/green when grown here.

> What we call a lime they wouldn't recognize, but if they saw/tasted it they might think it's a green lemon or something.

What country doesn't have what we call a lime? The Key lime, like the Calamansi is is native to the Philippines and available everywhere the Calamansi is. Persian limes are exported nearly everywhere.

Lots of languages don't differentiate between lemons and limes though.