when I was a kid, my parents taught me that making fun of other people's names, especially surnames, is the lowest form of action.You have my deepest sympathy that your parents hadn't quite evolved to that level of civilisation to teach you the same. Life must be tough for your childhood in such primitive and vile family.

That could work.I've only heard similar claims repeated by Reform.

And then for his next work to be The Wrong Trousers, a near perfect film with the ending train sequence widely acclaimed as one of the best action sequences ever put to filmhttps://youtu.be/jrmZIgVoQw4?feature=shared

The last thing I want at that time is to have to reason about any of this.I think I’m realizing that what I cherish about the healthcare system up here is not just that I don’t pay bills, but that I don’t even see a bill. Not that the bankruptcy inducing costs aren’t wretched, but I just cannot even imagine being put into a fucked up bureaucratic hell while my family is in a life altering crisis.

> "I was at a conference ... these morons had in mind that electricity demand should decrease"For a long time (several decades) electricity demand has been decreasing in the UK, largely due to efficiency improvements. But now days pretty much everyone agrees that electricity demand will increase significantly in the future due to electrification. The UK has been planning for this for some time so if this guy was really from National Grid, he sounds like a bit of a rogue!> "their great idea to de

>But for me the take away still is: “hardware is as hard as you make it”.I dislike this statement. Hardware is as hard as the product dictates it needs to be. A 25 component PCBA and a clamshell of 2 injection molded parts is about as simple of a product as you can make. Heck, most people would just buy an off the shelf clamshell for that type of product.That doesn't work for the vast majority of products, building a product with 20 COTS parts plus 60 custom tooled parts, and 4 complex PCBAs is

I agree completely; it's been observed "LinkedIn people" are somewhat psychotic.

It’s far from a perfect analogy but I would imagine that people were pretty hyped about the novelty of the first legitimately useful compiled programs where they didn’t have to allocate their own registers. I wonder how long it took for that novelty to wear off?Or in other words I’d argue novelty is contextual and that these kinds of discoveries’ novelty will eventually wear off too but for right now it’s pretty cool that the “math discovery compiler” works well enough to do this (again imperfec

Really no different than the content that is usually on LinkedIn. It's been a worthless dumpster fire for ten years at least.

This shouldn't be ignored in the discussion here: The job performed by the humans was broader than what was requested of the model in this benchmark: humans also had to find the relevant invoices (searching through mailboxes, or requesting them from providers) and reason through any circumstances which cannot be inferred from the bank feed and invoices/receipts on their own. In the benchmark these circumstances are presented to the model as “user notes." This is precisely the kind of fine prin

Yeah, hardware is indeed not too hard if you have a trivial hardware project and ignore all the hard stuff.Complexity-wise this is probably the easiest board one could imagine. It's an off-the-shelf MCU module, a 1:1 copy of the MIDI circuit from the specification, and some ports wired straight to the MCU. Throw in a trivial I2C-connected RTC and HSM for good measure. You could probably design this in an afternoon. But indeed: that is a good thing. Not everything has to be complicated, and plent

Just grab two of these spec-violating chargers and a C-to-C cable.I don't think the right solution to problems coming from spec-violating garbage is producing differently spec-violating garbage.

When John Darnielle from The Mountain Goats started recording albums to cassette on his portable Panasonic stereo, he got a sound that was so much more lo-fi than what could be obtained in a studio, or even with a more expensive recorder and microphone.His genius was to realise he'd made a sound that most professional musicians would never bother with, and thus it became his own and his signature.

This might be just the thing for my elderly mother. She's used an iPhone for many many years, but struggles lately with motor dexterity, vision, and a bit of cognitive challenge making phone usage difficult. Lots of things I'd like to just hide she doesn't need to get to (like Settings).

Yeah, but your kid can also walk to school without a map, it's not a big deal.

I can't imagine a worse use case for AI. Literally thought the title was a clown

> The US accounts for more than 20% of global tissue consumption despite having only 4% of the world’s population. The average American uses 141 rolls of toilet paper per year, making them No 1 for No 2s globally, just ahead of Germans, each using an average of 134 rolls annually.Wastefulness is a national pastime.

I mean, who the hell ever read that utter garbage on LinkedIn anyway?

I would never use any product that can't explain on its own front page what it is and why I should use it.

It makes sense to me that LinkedIn has devolved into this because it was designed as a professional circlejerk, or at least that’s what it’s ended up as. What I can’t understand is why people use it on their personal socials, for all the reasons you described. Like, isn’t the point to, you know, interact with other people?

Unlike the unit distance problem, the impressive thing here is that it is a proof rather than a counter-example.However, it seems the proof is extremely concise so it seems that it is exploiting a clever trick that somehow all the experts missed.So not to dunk on this amazing result (or move the goal post), but it seems now the only achievement that AI hasn't managed in mathematics is presenting an autonomous "theory-building" proof of an open conjecture. That is a proof that requires creating a

> My son only gets Calls, Messages, Maps, Camera (so we can video call, but I've ruthlessly turned off selfies), Photos, and Music. Nothing else.I get that the internet is an addictive scary place with lots of content potentially dangerous to a young person.But why would you care if your child took a selfie? That seems pretty draconian.

Way I see it, most parents give their kids early access to phones just to keep them sedated and occupied. There is zero benefit for under 14yo to have unrestricted access to the smartphone or internet. It only benefits the parents.

The original recordings sound much better and more interesting to me. Way better. The AI generated versions sound slicker in some sense but... like the re-recorded versions of old hit songs from the 60s you hear at the grocery store sometimes. Technically the song is still there, but it blends in with the rest of the muzak.I'm sorry to be so negative, it's great you're returning to the material after all these years, but the AI versions I've listened to all have the same smoothed-over quality th

My mind sort of shuts off once I recognize something is written by AI. It's really hard to try and force myself to keep reading. Even if a piece of writing walks the line of being written by a human or AI, my mind will want to disengage.

His kid doesn't need a phone and doesn't need to be tracked to walk to school. Get over it.

It's really neat that the prompt was released!I'm curious how many unsolved problems are tried against frontier models when they come out. Are we trying every problems against every release? What is the solve success rate? Is there a sub-community within Mathematics that is coordinating this effort? How much untapped opportunity is there here?

Zig uses a "single compilation unit" compilation model, so even if we did what you're suggesting, pretty much everything in the post would still be relevant, especially the whole-file stuff and the semantic analysis stuff. Note that there's not really anything special about putting things in separate source files in Zig---files are just a unit of code organization, like namespaces. They don't help the compiler at all (aside from in that very first part of compilation, but that's fast regardless)

Next YC batch: "We're Mollusca and we're democratizing access to nature's strongest material"

Power management (ACPI) in desktop computers also arrived in the late 1990s. Power saving sleep modes have a big impact.Computer fleets across a country do not upgrade immediately so the lag may contribute.And ACPI was just one energy saving initiative of that era.

Yup. Heating and cooling are 2 things that can be delayed in most cases with little negative effects. A hot water tank set at 60C isn't going to be harmed if it's allowed to cool to 55C due to high power demand it also doesn't instantly empty out with usage.The same is true about climate control. 1 or 2C from the desired temperature is still pretty comfortable but can make a huge difference in power savings, particularly if it's coordinated.That said, I suspect that the even better route for

Yeah I mean this hardware isn't hard because its a fricking breadboard.(Although I spy an SD card slot, a favorite of the "hardware isn't hard" faction that will explode in their face)

In the '70s you weren't guaranteed to get the electricity you paid for:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Day_Week> From 1 January 1974, commercial users of electricity were limited to three specified consecutive days' consumption each week and prohibited from working longer hours on those days. Services deemed essential (e.g. hospitals, telephone switchboards, supermarkets and newspaper printing presses) were exempt. Television companies were required to cease broadcasting at 22:30 to conserve

And the RF is a pre-certified module. Of course hardware is easy when you've offloaded the hard part to the supplier. Not to mention, a three year turn around? For this? Three months, six max with mistakes and reworks would be industry expectations "pre-LLMs". Everything is easy when you have 6x to 12x the timescale your competitors expect.

That "nearly" is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting. It doesn't matter if your AI model is 99% or 99.99% accurate. For a tax return it has to be perfect every time or someone is at best getting a fine or at worst going to prison.Sure, human error happens too, but humans take accountability. That's why accountants are a regulated profession. Until an AI company CEO is willing to go prison if the output of their model is wrong, these tools are worthless.But don't take my word for it, head on over

This is cool. I feel like I shouldn’t be the only one who as a kid connected up an extra mouse to their computer with their buddy and was disappointed to still only have one cursor.The way screen sharing solutions like Teams handle the multi cursor thing is to just keep the main cursor jumping around, which works, but meh.Having multiple cursors within the same environment theoretically enables such interesting collaborative experiences. Imagine a large surface in which everyone has their own wo

How would personal trouble in Huang’s life hurt Trump? Compared to all the other things that Trump has done to hurt himself, culminating in the midterm results?And China, really? What dissent is this going to cause? As for disruption, Nvidia essentially has a monopoly on what they do. Who the person in charge is, or what he’s doing, barely matters at this point.> watch any TV mini series for example after example.You might have been watching too many of those.

The value proposition of Markdown is that you don't need a special editor, you can open it with any text editor that comes with your OS and it's human readable already.

This is just incredible, I had absolutely no idea of the context of 'a Grand Day Out' being a solo school project.There's no way I'd imagined it wasn't done in a professional setup by a full team.A real standout part is how he commuted by bus to the studio for years, to work on it mostly alone. Truly amazing dedication to a passion project.I haven't watched it in probably 25 years but I'll find it now and appreciate it all the more for knowing this!

The linked iea data shows that the reduction is roughly 50/50 industrial and residential. So the deindustrialisation narrative is part of the story but improved efficiency at home is also a significant factor.

Hardware has a reputation for being hard for three reasons. First, it scales differently than software. It's far harder to design something you want to make a million of than something you want to make ten of. Second, it's harder to anticipate, test, and correct all the things that can go wrong on the user end. Some people will put batteries the wrong way, some will drop the device on the ground, some will connect it to some vintage equipment you have never seen in your life, etc. And third, the

The amount of free trial subscription slop SaaS software has really gotten out of control. The gall people have to attempt to sell a subscription to something like this is something else.

If you use Firefox (and will pardon me plugging my own project), you might be interested in a version of this I made a while ago as a browser extension:https://github.com/jstrieb/hackernews-buttonMy project is somewhat different from the userscript in that mine uses Bloom filters to check whether a link has been submitted, whereas this userscript sends every page you visit to the Algolia search API. Using Bloom filters means that there are no external requests unless you actually press the butto

The AI-generated thumbnail that is embedded is social media posts is in particular poor taste. It appears to show most of France in a blaze of death.All the while showing Portugal as not having a single fire at all.I understand you might be focused on Spain, and that’s fine. But please understand that people are dying or losing everything, and being a tad sensitive to that could go a long way.

I wrote a post on linkedin last year titled "Do not use AI to write."Boy, was it controversial. I could not believe how hard some people were pushing back in the comments.Quoting from myself there:"When you write your own words, you are forging your own voice. It is distinctive, conveys your unique world view, and connects with others in a way that is specific to you alone.If you use an AI tool to write for you instead, you lose all of that."That seems blindingly self-evident to me, but apparent

This is very similar to last week with that mind reading startup thing. Please read the paper before commenting.This is a tool to help researchers in figuring out what different parts of the brain are actually for with less experimenter bias contamination of “well we think maybe it’s about this so let’s show it video of x to see”.The essence runs on having someone sit in a scanner for a couple hours watching all sorts of things, and then feeding that to a model that will then build its own repre