MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by razodactyl | 2025-10-26 13:24:54+00:00
The feedback from compilation tools / linters fed into the training loops is an example of this.

What we end up with however is a model good at coding for example but bad at something else. And without enough general coding, good at one language over another.

And we're back to square one. The problem of being able to achieve true intelligence by distilling the essence of it not just knowing the answers to specific problems.

Given enough time, we'll plug the gaps and maybe get good enough but it's not true intelligence until it can learn in a way that excels at all fields in a cross-disciplinary way - much better than the side-effect way it's doing now where some other knowledge does actually contribute to achieving goals in other domains.
by lanfeust6 | 2025-10-26 13:25:24+00:00
I'm into Neal Stephenson and PKD. Currently reading Nexus by Naam. Near-future post-cyberpunk tends to be a hit for me, but I'm hoping to find a good space opera. I thought the first Culture book was basically a Schwarzenegger space-adventurism movie in book form, which is nice but not what I wanted.
by BiteCode_dev | 2025-10-26 13:25:43+00:00
A E Van Vogt can hardly be called unheard of, the null A series is quite a cult classic. But yeah, the Space Beagle is not his most well-known work.

It always surprises me (although it shouldn't) how many underrated gems there are still in the world. And new ones are produced every day.

E.G: I still think QTMN will deserve a place as a classic sci-fi author among the great ones, for "there is no antimemetics division" alone. And yet despite a solid fan following, it has never exploded in popularity. It is 10 times better than the 3 body problems, which comparatively had stratospheric success.

In movies, "Amelie" has been a planetary success, but from the same author, the excellent "The city of the lost children" is practically unknown.

Even last month, a tv show named "Nero" came out on Netflix, and while not revolutionary, is clearly above most of the crap that regularly comes out. Yet, nobody talks about it.

Popularity is a cruel mistress.
by motorest | 2025-10-26 13:25:50+00:00
> I tried this and it is never as smooth as described.

I think your comment shows some confusion that it's either the result or cause of some negative experiences.

Starting with GitHub. The primary reason it "just works" is because GitHub, like any SaaS offering, is taking care of basic things like managing servers, authorization, access control, etc.

Obviously, if you have to setup your own ssh server, things won't be as streamlined as clicking a button.

But that's obviously not the point of this post.

The point is that the work you need to do to setup a Git server is way less than you might expect because you already have most of the things already set, and the ones that aren't are actually low-hanging fruit.

This should not come as a surprise. Git was designed as a distributed version control system. Being able to easily setup a stand-alone repository was a design goal. This blog post covers providing access through ssh, but you can also create repositories in any mount point of your file system, including in USB pens.

And, yes, "it just works".

> The official Git documentation for example has its own documentation that I failed to get work. (it is vastly different from what OP is suggesting)

I'm sorry, the inability to go through the how-to guide that you cited has nothing to do with Git. The guide only does three things: create a user account, setup ssh access to that account, and create a Git repository. If you fail to create a user account and setup ssh, your problems are not related to Git. If you created a user account and successfully setup ssh access, all that is missing is checking out the repo/adding a remote repo. If you struggle with this step, your issues are not related to Git.
by logicalshift | 2025-10-26 13:25:56+00:00
Had a look at my bookshelf to see what I could find that was obscure, maybe these would be interesting:

First Contract (Greg Costikyan) - a book about the economics of first contact

John Courtney Grimwood (author) - science fiction, generally cyberpunk, told from the point of view of characters who don't understand the tehcnology, which gives his work a kind of mystic vibe. (Eg, Nine-tail fox is about a detective trying to solve his own murder)

Footfall (Larry Niven/Jerry Pournelle) - was a big release back in the day, but not so well known these days. Hard SF alien invasion novel (Independence Day might have ripped this off a bit)

The NASA trilogy (Stephen Baxter) - dark alternative future books, with bleak endings but great science. I think not so well known these days because of the bleakness, but that's also part of what made them memorable when I read them.
by idoubtit | 2025-10-26 13:26:02+00:00
I've read 3 out of those 5 books, and I see our preferences differ. For instance, I've a few books from Van Vogt, and I can't imagine I could like anything he wrote.

- "A voyage to Arcturus" tried hard at being strange and philosophical, but it seemed shallow and I did not feel interested.

- "The worm Ouroboros" was better, with a very unusual epic style, both in writing style and in the story. But some points made me cringe, e.g. the focus on nobles and the despise of common people, even heroic characters. Then it got repetitive, with a final trick that felt like a mockery of the whole story.

- "The dying Earth" was a good book, but it is far from my favorites. I prefer continuous novels to collections of short stories, even when they share a common setting. The book sometimes felt like a poetic tale, with nature and nostalgia as strong themes, though it was also quite brutal.

Since anonymous suggestions aren't very useful without any context, I'll match little-known books with famous books:

- If you thought that "1984" had good ideas, but also many stupid parts that spoiled the whole book, then try two older books. "We", by Zamiatin, is a bit old and naive but enjoyable. It was a source of inspiration for "Brave new world" and "1984". The Swede "Kollocain" (1940), by Karin Boye, is excellent, and much more subtle than the latter.

- If you like collections of related short stories, like "The dying Earth", then "The carpet makers" (1995) by Andreas Eschbach is a must. I remember the joy when I finally had a global understanding of the whole situation.

- If you wish for bizarre fantasy, not the epic Tolkien style, not even the dark saga of Ouroboros, but something more gothic and unsettling, then Mervyn Peake's "Titus groans" is perfect.

- I think "Brain twister" (1961) is the only funny book I've read in SF-Fantasy-supernatural.
by doctorleff | 2025-10-26 13:26:19+00:00
I recall James Goodnight of SAS coding while being a CEO. As per https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterhigh/2014/05/12/an-intervi..., he still programs from time to time but doesn't have a specific part in development. In looking at the articles to refresh my memory, it is clear he is one of the good CEO's
by d3Xt3r | 2025-10-26 13:26:24+00:00
Funny how a lot of us got into computers that way. For me, it was wanting to play Prince of Persia and other DOS games on my cousin's PC when he wasn't around. Figured out what CD and DIR did and how I could run different games by varying the commands. In a few years I was whipping up my own game launcher using AUTOEXEC.BAT, which got me into scripting. I learned to love DOS, and so the eventual transition to Linux was easy for me as I already a CLI fan and I was blown away with how much more powerful the Linux terminal was. It was basically love at first sight.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-26 13:26:34+00:00
It is one out of many since 1958, starting with JOVIAL, how the industry has been aware of the security flaws that C allows for, which WG14 has very little interest in fixing, including turning down Dennis Ritchie proposal for fat pointers in 1990.

Note that C authors were aware of many flaws, hence why in 1979 they designed lint, which C programmers were supposed to use as part of their workflow, and as mentioned above proposed fat pointers.

Also note that C authors eventually moved on, first creating Alef (granted failed experiment), then on Inferno, Limbo, finalising with Go.

Also Rust ideas are based on Cyclone, AT&T Research work on how to replace C.

It was needed the tipping point of amount money spent fixing CVEs, ransomware, for companies and government to start thinking this is no longer tolerable.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-10-26 13:26:46+00:00
I've got a book here on my shelf which is a summary book of all sorts of approaches in prototype OO programming:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/180324.Prototype_Based_P...

From that, and my experience with both Self and with other prototype OO languages (like LambdaMOO & offshoots), I just find the JS implementation to be ... uncomfortable.

Plus from the earliest days people just seemed to be embarassed by the prototype thing. They shouldn't have been.
by cl3misch | 2025-10-26 13:26:54+00:00
> This is a great way to [...] work on server-side files without laggy typing or manual copying

This is the usecase mentioned in the article and it wouldn't work with a bare repo. But if the server your SSH'ing to is just a central point to sync code across machines, then you're right: multiple hoops mentioned in the article are solved by having the central repo bare.
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-26 13:26:58+00:00
My experience with the Apple support forum is that everyone that bothers to write an answer will tell you that you're using the product wrong, you're wrong for trying to use a product the way you want, or that your problem is actually a feature that you're misunderstanding.

It's as useless as Microsoft's forum except it's run by people who want to defend the company's honour more than they want to tell you to do a clean install of your OS.

Of course, neither is an official support channel. They're just users offering support to other users. Many of them don't seem to have all that technical a background, they've just used products they're suggesting solutions for for a long time and have gathered some useful tricks, which may end up causing some cargo culty suggestions.
Ask HN: Rigorous study on what jobs are declining due to AI now?
by AznHisoka | 2025-10-26 13:27:20+00:00
All the articles and studies I've seen are just hand wavy projections, and not looking at any real data.

They do things like analyze what % of tasks of a job can be done by AI and project that x% of those jobs will be gone.

Are there any actual good studies that show what jobs are declining right now due to AI? not what theoretically could be?
by thaumasiotes | 2025-10-26 13:27:29+00:00
> A Canticle for Liebowitz for example mostly feels like some kind of fantasy but for the fact that the reader knows it's set in a post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland.

You might compare The Sword of Shannara, which is a character-for-character, scene-for-scene copy of Lord of the Rings, but which is technically set in the postapocalyptic future (it's easy to read the book without noticing this) rather than the legendary past.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-26 13:28:07+00:00
The last time I worked for a product company was 2020. I was the second technical hire by a then new CTO of a growing company started by a two non technical brothers who hired an outside consulting company to do all of the work.

When the company found product market fit, they hired the CTO to bring the technology leadership in house. Early on he would do experimental POC work that he passed on to me to make it a working system as I was swamped doing my own architectural herding cats work as the company was growing.

But as the company grew he had to deal with more of the business side of the things. He still set the broad outline of priorities. But he gave me mostly free reign of determining how and I would just give him a brief high level of overview of my decisions. He did what a CTO was supposed to to do - grew the capabilities of his team.

I’ve been working full time for consulting departments/companies since mid 2020. My goal on any project I’m on with more junior people is to development them. I purposefully give them ambiguous technical requirements with broad guardrails so they have the autonomy to learn and grow and then help them when needed and I put them in front of the customer early on to I present their “workstream”.

From a hands on keyboard side, I let them pick what they want to work on first and I take the left overs.
by bitbasher | 2025-10-26 13:28:21+00:00
I understand where you're coming from, but this seems like a terrible defeatist attitude to have.

What are we supposed to do ... throw our hands up because GitHub won?

I'll be down voted, but I'll say it. If you hold that attitude and you don't learn the fundamentals, if you don't understand your tools, you're a bad developer and a poor craftsman. You're not someone I would hire or work with.
by Ray20 | 2025-10-26 13:28:27+00:00
Isn't asbestos used pretty much everywhere in the world (except rich countries)?

So yes, it's dangerous. But it's very cheap, and poverty is far more dangerous than asbestos. It's simply a fact: residents of most countries simply can't afford a 200k dollars asbestos-free house, like Americans or Europeans can.

If Americans had less affordable homes like the rest of the world have, they would still be building them out of asbestos.
by CGamesPlay | 2025-10-26 13:28:43+00:00
Check the docs for the post-receive hook, it does give everything you need. I don't know what you have in mind by "GitHub/Gitlab style", but it's just a shell script, and you can add in as much yaml as you want to feel good about it.

I did a quick search for "post-receive hook ci" and found this one: https://gist.github.com/nonbeing/f3441c96d8577a734fa240039b7...
by imiric | 2025-10-26 13:29:22+00:00
> Why is GitHub popular? its not because people are "dumb" as others think.

> Its because GitHub "Just Works".

Git also "just works". GitHub simply offers a higher level of abstraction, a graphical UI, and some value-add features on top of Git. How much better all this really is arguable. I would say that it's disastrous that most developers rely on a centralized service to use a distributed version control system. Nevermind the fact that the service is the single largest repository of open source software, owned and controlled by a giant corporation which has historically been hostile to OSS.

GitHub "won" because it came around at the right time, had "Git" in its name—which has been a perpetual cause of confusion w.r.t. its relation with Git—, and boosted by the success of Git itself largely due to the cult of personality around Linus Torvalds. Not because Git was technically superior, or because GitHub "just works".

> You don't need obscure tribal knowledge

As others have said, a bare repository is certainly not "tribal knowledge". Not anymore than knowing how to use basic Git features.

> Like the adge goes, "Technology is best when it is invisible"

Eh, all technology is an abstraction layer built on top of other technology. Whether it's "invisible" or not depends on the user, and their comfort level. I would argue that all abstractions also make users "dumber" when it comes to using the layers they abstract. Which is why people who only rely on GitHub lose the ability, or never learn, to use Git properly.
by t-3 | 2025-10-26 13:29:30+00:00
They're usually the same thing, differing only thematically. Some "hard" sci-fi may be completely grounded in reality, but for most the "sci" is just a background setting. Many space operas are even more fantastical than wizards throwing fireballs at each other. Some fantasy writers go far out of their way to build coherent worlds governed by physical laws just as strict as our own. Both/Either/The genre(s) use the flexibility of an imagined world, whether that's an imagined future or some land of myth, to contrast with the present, and as with the fantastical myths of old, to make moral or political points that couldn't be so easily expressed if weighed down by history and nuance.
by CXSHNGCB | 2025-10-26 13:29:30+00:00
No, it isn’t. Nobel Prizes are generally awarded to those who are either working toward a peaceful resolution to a specific cause or have achieved something relevant to advancing that cause. In the first case, the prize is often given as a symbolic gesture of support for whatever the winner is trying to accomplish, as long as it aligns with the values of the Nobel Committee — as in the case of María Corina Machado.

Overall, she didn’t achieve anything concrete, but she was receiving support in her fight against Maduro. She is a somewhat far-right, controversial figure who also endorses far-right movements worldwide, including in the U.S., Israel, and Europe.

She has also been quite vocal recently in favor of a military invasion of Venezuela and has explicitly endorsed a series of failed neoliberal economic policies as remedies for the country’s economic problems — especially nowadays, when both the right and the left are distancing themselves from neoliberalism across much of the Western world. Her videos in which she says she would sell everything in Venezuela to foreigners are particularly telling — as if doing so would suddenly attract people genuinely interested in developing Venezuela’s economy from the ground up, instead of a wave of rent-seeking foreign investors.

The fact that she is unwilling to work alongside other Latin American leftist leaders who oppose Maduro further shows how deeply she embraces far-right identity politics — especially compared with someone like Zelensky, who is open to working with anyone willing to help him fight against Russia.

She is, above all, a political force that tends to escalate conflict, believing she will prevail through chaos. Let’s not forget that many of her far-right allies have been involved in several coup attempts in Venezuela’s recent history — dating back to the early 2000s — and that they lack any coherent plan for real economic development to help the country recover from the catastrophe it faces under Maduro.

These are the main reasons her winning the Nobel Prize is so problematic and motivated the strong reaction from the Norwegian Peace Council. My advice is not to expect anything from Venezuela’s far right. They are at least as problematic — if not more — than Maduro.
by sylware | 2025-10-26 13:29:54+00:00
Come on, that was to avoid the robots to parse it.

That said, the ffmpeg and qemu creator, and quickJS, did code one in plain and simple C you can compile with most, if not all, C compilers out there (not only gcc and clang abominations).

see http://bellaqd.oqg (replace q with r).
by razodactyl | 2025-10-26 13:30:27+00:00
But test-time inference leads to better data to train better models that can generate better test-time inference data.

There's an obvious trend going on here, of course we're still just growing these systems and going with whatever works.

It's worked well so far, even if it's more convoluted than elegant...

What puts my mind at ease is that the current state of these AI systems isn't going to go backwards because of the data they generate which contributes to the pool of possible knowledge for more advanced systems.
by jasongill | 2025-10-26 13:30:47+00:00
I was in the space from the late 90's, acquired ~30 brands and was the largest private consolidator of shared hosting, and sold to a Fortune 500 in 2015. Sounds like you had a similar experience as mine. There's no way you can deny that the glory days of shared hosting are over - while there is still a little money to be made by setting up a VPS with cPanel, and money to be made if you are WebPros or Newfold, the market is contracting and has been for years due to the factors I listed. The Cheval list used to be the hottest marketplace on the planet and now is just a shell of it's former self, unfortunately.
by 0xEF | 2025-10-26 13:30:51+00:00
Weir gets a lot of praise because his writing is accessible. While I also demand a bit more from the sci-fi I enjoy in terms of their narratives providing thought-provoking moments and a certain depth of information that we tend to call "hard" sci-fi, I'm not about to take a dump on Weir's work. He knows what he can do and who his audience is, so he writes for them. That is, arguably, the smartest thing any author can do if they want to make a living at it.

I had the same vitriol you do for Weir toward Ernest Klein. Absolute shit author in my opinion...but my opinion doesn't matter. His first book was still a wild success with a movie adaptation despite having one of the weakest plots and and some of the flattest characters I have ever seen in print, dressed up in a patchwork coat of nostalgia, which is the only reason it had the mass appeal that it did. But the book was not written for me, was it?

I think we forget, sometimes, that authors don't really owe us anything, that they're trying to pay the bills doing what they do, so our approval means little and only makes us look like self-rightious jerks so I had to learn to let that go and just not read those books that weren't jiving with my tastes or demands. In the end, let people have their books they like because, well, at least they're still reading and not watching TikTok or whatever.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-26 13:32:01+00:00
> CL saves me round after round of bugs that in clojure aren't found until you run the code

It is true that a lot of things don't surface until you run the code, but the way you run code in Clojure is also different than other languages (but similar to CL) where this isn't that big of a problem.

Usually you evaluate the very code you're working on, as an isolated unit, after every change, with just a key stroke. Again, not different than CL, but very different than the rest of the Algol-like languages where you'd put the code you're editing under unit tests or worse, manually run the full program after each change.
by sunscream89 | 2025-10-26 13:32:25+00:00
This is not quite accurate.

Consciousness is the feedback mechanism (inflection) and the hologram is the image of “self” or whatever the subject of thought may be.

More importantly, quantum holography is the future of quantum computing. The qubit is a dead end.

It is probably more accurate to say consciousness is the inflection of the (quantum) potential of existential being and “qualia” is the hologram.
by casper62 | 2025-10-26 13:32:40+00:00
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by razodactyl | 2025-10-26 13:33:45+00:00
Well mostly but they can generate more state that can push old state out of context.

If an LLM were sufficiently trained to be able to roll-forward and correctly set the current state of some registers written into the conversation..? I wouldn't trust it though, leaves too much to chance.

I too make mistakes trying to keep track of things, I end up using tools too.