skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s no algorithm, so just posting content isn’t enough. If you don’t follow people on other servers you won’t see anything in the feed, and reply threads will be empty. It took a while to find the right people to follow but now I get as much out of it as I used to get from Twitter. Hashtags are a lot more important too for discoverability since there’s no search function.

My engagement is still low, but on Twitter I would post something and it would just never get seen. Now at least a couple of people will often reply.
Don’t confuse the ai market with the foundational llm model market.

Think of LLMs as the understanding component in the brain, once you can understand instructions and what actions need to happen from those instruction you’re done.

The rest is integrations, the arms legs and eyes of langchain.
Then memory and knowledge from semantic search, vector databases and input token limits.
Given the field's record of AI winters, it would be naive to think progress will certainly continue, but given the amount of progress that has been made as well as how it's being made, it would also be naive to think it will certainly not.

The advances that have come in the last few years have been driven first and foremost by compute and secondarily by methodology. The compute can continue to scale for another couple orders of magnitude. It's possible that we'll be bottlenecked by methodology; there are certain things that current networks are simply incapable of, like learning from instructions and incorporating that knowledge into their weights. That said, one of the amazing things about recent successes is that the precise methodology doesn't seem to matter so much. Diffusion is great, but autoregressive image generation models like Parti also generate nice images, albeit at a higher computational cost. RL from human feedback achieves impressive results, but chain of hindsight (supposedly) achieves similar results without RL. It's entirely plausible to me that the remaining challenges on the path to AGI can be solved by obvious ideas + engineering + scaling + data from the internet.

We've also gotten to the point where AI systems can make substantial contributions to engineering more powerful AI systems, and maybe soon, to ideation. We haven't yet figured out how to extract all of the productivity gains from the systems we already have, and next-generation systems will provide larger productivity gains, even if they are just scaled up versions of current-generation systems.
I feel like there is a stronger case in saying open source is dying, or at least being corrupted. The vast majority of OSS is served by github, a company owned by Microsoft which already uses it for its own profits. In time the OSS movement may be completely compromised. Perhaps FSF shouldn’t change much and continue functioning as a beacon to guide us rather than a motor to drive us.
Big reason for this is that most “FOSS” teams are hard-core keyboard navigation nerds (no offense intended, we know who we are), and so, their preferences are completely different from what normal computer users want, so even with access to source and unlimited free time, there is a high probability that a pull request would be shut down because the maintainers don’t want or don’t understand why spacing between elements is 8pt (“2px is just as functional as I want it”) and why keyboard autocorrect should be off for that text field (“what is autocorrect? Never heard of it”).
all of the classic packages could use younger people involved. Its not an accident that you read about young talented people here spending a year or three on some private project.
The goal of FSF is not one which people inherently identify with. You can either die on that hill (and you surely will die), or you can go out of your way to try to be diplomatic and convince people of your mission.

If living the FSF moral means being like RMS, you'll never convince anyone. Here is how he browses the internet:

> I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it.

https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

This is the behavior of a lunatic, and not someone who I consider tethered to modern society or the economy that relies on technology. He reminds of the guy in "better call saul" who has removed all forms of electromagnetism in his house. If I met this person IRL, and he tried to convince me of literally any opinion, I would assume outright that these are the ravings of a mentally ill person with paranoid delusions of grandeur
Me too. But what I earn is not even close to half of that.
> This is hilarious to me, in that the disgruntled departure just did a 180… how long until the next disgruntled spin-out for higher reasons chases the dollar too…

The cynic in me wants to ask "What makes you think his departure was because of an anti-commercialisation position?"

My take (probably just as wrong as everybody's else take) is that he saw the huge commercialisation potential and realised that he could make even more money by having a larger stake, which he got when he started his own venture.
Some great resources here. One thing I want to point out: Rustlings follows the path of The Book and provides references for each section where appropriate. So I would not advise treating them as separate learning paths. They work best when used to reinforce each other.
It all depends on if they're in the business of producing the whitepapers that drive ML advancements in the first place. AI is far from a solved problem and whoever gets to it first wins. We have GPT because of a billion dollars worth of data, not algorithms.
> The vast majority of jobs don’t pay $80/hr

And they'll still be out of a job and be screwed.

> unemployment will push powers that be to fix them

Governments will suppress their populations at a massive scale to avoid doing anything about it. Just look at France recently. Or Iran. We're seeing a shift of power away from the people that will mirror much of our history before WW1/2.
Emacs 29.0.90 pretest is available
> off-road vehicles with “endless” tires.

What are 'endless' tires? Google didn't help.
> Like literally what could blockchain offer the California DMV that a centralized database could not?

A lot of mumbo jumbo.
Taking all payment in Ethereum doesn't matter when you have to pay for servers and domain names in fiat.
You should come for a holiday to India. ;-)
Is it possible to test it somewhere?
Opening themselves to counter-fire. Hiding a tank's thermal signature is one thing. Hiding the trail left by the shell it shot is another.
Exactly. This emphasized that '===' semantically means 'is'; '==' means 'equals'.
I imagine this is how professional engineers feel about HN folk calling themselves software engineers.
Well, I suppose it’s worth asking what a coal or gas fired plant is made of. In any case, it appears to be a problem people are working on
AI will transform project management
The following quote was written in 1930, in the New York Times:

"Some day no one will have to work more than two days a week... The human being can consume so much and no more. When we reach the point when the world produces all the goods that it needs in two days, as it inevitably will, we must curtail our production of goods and turn our attention to the great problem of what to do with our new leisure."

Given the advances in productivity over the last century, why do I have to work 5 days a week?
Ask HN: Why did all the Intel Nervana projects get archived on Jan 3, 2023?
I was looking into some linear algebra libraries built on top of Neon and started to look into the projects by Nervana Systems, but I then I saw that they were all archived on the same date. I saw some news about going back to Feb 3, 2020, but I wasn't sure how it was related?
Human brain is just an ultra large scale analog spiking neural network with some particular state realizations, not too much difference (the architecture is different, but computation seems to be universal). We even employ some internalized language models for communication purposes (together with object persistence and mental space-time models). So, while we are not yet at the level of full scale human brain emulation, we are not too far away.
Heaviness of EV trucks is one of the reasons I can't actually buy one. I'm in sand pretty often and after watching videos of trucks like the Hummer (which is probably the heaviest of them all), I don't think I could safely use one without fear of getting stuck when they all weigh 7000+ pounds. I think the lightning might be the lightest but then you'll end up with 150 miles of effective range. The hummer weighs about 10,000 lbs!
Then something in the UX is broken. From your store images, I understood that clicking on that tab menu item, it would display last archive date and ask to rearchive, no?

There is a reason why most Safari extensions apps do not just show an icon and a label, but actually explain how to use their embedded extensions.
That's probably because it's an ASCII symbol[0] ♥

Emojis are Unicode, not ASCII (I think, not an expert myself).

We should also be able to use arrows ⇒, the trademark symbol ™, whatever this is ∴, or maybe this ℜ.

But we can test it, maybe HN supports Unicode Emojis but nobody is using them...

EDIT: I was listing some Unicode Emojis here, but you were correct, they were removed after posting. At least the ASCII symbols show up :)

[0]https://www.ascii-code.com/html-symbol
The right leaders are (1) grade A hackers who (2) don't make women feel uncomfortable, selected from a pool which does not arbitrarily filter for skin tone et al. Bonus, we could even consider cultivating an environment where more people feel safe, represented, and included, and if they learn how to be grade A hackers in this environment we can expand our volunteer pool to include the majority of Earth's population that is not an English-speaking white cishet man.
Where are you scraping this data from? This is the main question

> “M. Smith had a promising career in business after graduating with honors from a prestigious school, but an unplanned pregnancy caused her to quit her job in 2006”

The main issue is how that statement ended up there in the first place. Even then how many "M. Smith" have studied in prestigious schools? By itself that phrase wouldn't be PII

Now if you have a db entry with "M Smith" and entries for biographical data that's definitely PII
I use a power bank with standard electrical plugs at least partially for this reason. All a malicious receptacle can do is start a fire, which is relatively obvious.

Anker GaN Prime Powercore if anyone’s curious.
And yet, it's a decent proxy. That, and the number of specs required (many of whom are locked behind IEEE, IEC etc. paywalls)
Those are luxuries for the top of the pyramid. Supply will easily exceed demand in the case A(G)I will supplant all of us.

I don't suppose I as a normal guy would suddenly acquire the taste for expensive handcrafted wooden dining tables. So I won't be paying for it, perhaps rich folks, but again those are a minority. Unless we all become rich I don't see this ending well.

But then again, maybe I and my kind will suddenly aqcuire a taste for handcrafted stuff and demand skyrockets. I hope so.
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You can always point to Stripe. I’m pretty sure their high quality docs were a huge part of what launched the company. It’s such an important part of the UX.
I don't think that's the reason. You wouldn't get anything "NSFW" if you don't ask/prompt for it.
The frustrating thing is that companies will likely be getting away with stating falsehoods and/or not following through on what the AI claimed they'll do.

Like how in the old days, if you sent a company a contract offer and they accepted it, they would be bound by it. Today, if you send a request to a company's server that they didn't expect and they confirm the contract, they're still later able to renege since you "hacked them" by removing some client-side constraints.

In the same way, I imagine that companies will claim no responsibility for what their AI says, essentially making the experience much worse for consumers. Today, if a customer service rep states something, the company is mostly bound to it. In the future, they'll just claim it was an "AI bug" or a "query injection attack" so they won't honor it.
> This isn't going to happen for any number of reasons

I label it an “outlandish prediction” because that’s exactly what people said about AI taking creative jobs — based on the technology at the time it was totally impossible, and then one technological breakthrough later, it’s an everyday occurence :P
Plus first-mover advantage has consistently shown to not be a legitimate strategy as there are a ton of cases where the first winner gets taken over by a new entrant once the market matures (Friendster being the classic example). Often the later companies learn from the mistakes of the first play.

R&D heavy markets might have some different characteristics but it's still way too early to say with AI.
I find the proposed changes a bit disingenious. The gist is that Stallman should hand over the FSF franchise, to some unspecified persons, with free rein to do whatever they want with it, as long as it is loosely relevant with free software.

It's only natural that Stallman will refuse, and I can't blame him for that.

I mean, why not start your own "Libre Software Foundation" and get those unnamed "emerging leaders" behind your agenda? Why would you need to be the continuation of FSF if you plan to radically change it?
Additional possibilities to pay out high consulting fees to friends
$100,000 a month is nothing. That’s like 1-3 full time consultants, at like a $200-600 bill rate.

My current client is spending $300M+ a year on an implementation program, and they are going on their third year with 2-3 more to go.

When I say pay little, they need more people and/or more experienced people to actually get the job done right. But they end up off shoring to teams in India or green consultants with zero industry background and limited experience.

They choose the firm with the most compelling economics, but severely overlook quality. They forget that these are organizational changes that impact humans. That outsourcing to lower skilled or different cultural regions will impact communication and team dynamics and overall ability to get things done properly.
You haven't missed much. The overall developer experience is still... poor.

Dynamo has its use cases. Imagine a database with 100K+ of devices sending different metrics out every minute or so. You need to retrieve metrics by device ID:metric and date/time range. I migrated a similar DB from Cassandra to Dynamo, and it worked really well (for that use case!)

In the years since, I've worked at other companies and seen Dynamo used where it was a really poor fit: tons of filtering/scanning, relatively tiny datasets that require many secondary indexes. I even know of one app that starts up and loads an entire DDB table into memory! If you're not absolutely sure Dynamo is a good fit, it isn't. Use a relational database.
QuizWhiz – Generate MCQs from any text
An AI-powered app that generates MCQs from any given text.
Even more the reason to try and make sure it never happens to real computers.
Consistent Hashing Explained
Yeah, it's such a weird outrage. I went and compared it to the node foundation one and its very similar. Some of the other issues he has are kind of deranged. I'm glad the Foundation want Rust meetups to be firearm free. Good Lord. Is that really worth getting so upset about?

I've got a couple small things I don't like, but once again, it seems to be right in line with other open source trademark policies. I just had never looked closely at them before
> If the foundation is set up to allow this, then that's a fault of the structure of the foundation.

"If I'm able to exploit you, it's your fault" is a strange take. Just because something isn't expressly forbidden doesn't make it ethical or moral.
When you think of the primary roles of each member, this conflict definitely makes sense. John: rhythm guitar. Paul: piano and bass. George: lead guitar. The Beatles catalog is very accessible so it follows that they put a lot of effort to avoid getting bogged down in, as the movie Amadeus put it, "too many notes".
Note: at the end it asks for an email. It accepts fake email addresses (sorry) and will give you a summary. 3-5 minutes to complete the questions.
The fact is nobody can risk not owning a piece of the foundational models. There is waaaay too much upside risk that they will tots dominate the market.

I mean, maybe they won't like you say, but what if they do? Then you're probably screwed. Better to gamble a few billion, imho.
If the client sent off the spec sheet to the robots and the result was good enough why have a middleman?

Higher end stuff, maybe. Just don’t tell them the AI wrote the majority of it because they’ll wonder where their $80/hr is going.
On the other hand, Tailscale is doing pretty well https://hachyderm.io/@tailscale

But really, I think one of the things that attracts users to Mastodon is how uncommercial it all is. The current audience explicitly does not want display advertising or a website full of #brands
I can maybe see some "chain of custody" type stuff for vehicle titles and transfers. But, of course, regular old cryptographic signing into a regular ledger works for that.
What if it had been shellfish instead of onions and the person had suffered a life-threatening allergy resulting in anaphylactic shock?
Your job title is engineer because you went to a university and had to be educated in fields of study with real utility, such as statistics, topology, thermodynamics, kinetics, quantum mechanics, cellular biology, category theory, etc.
Talking to people being part of a job 'engineer' doesn't define talking as 'engineering'. An actress writing an email doesn't make them an engineer just because they overlap on some of the job requirements.

Structuring 'better' prompts should simply be that - writing 'better' prompts.
We have no idea how human consciousness works.
I thought heavier vehicles did better in sand? The beach near my house allows either 4x4 or an RV. (The RVs on the beach are not 4x4.)
Pity the maker of the video didn't start their own car company to smash the competition with their superior as strategic talent.
Is it region lock? I cannot access the page from France.
Yes they do. Don't they? It's a very unfaithful simulation of a life.
The world of bits and bytes is a lot easier and faster to change than the world of hammers and nails.
Note: you have to both enable the extension and set its permissions for "All Websites" to "Allow". If you have its permissions set to "Ask" then it will take you to archive.ph but not actually load the current tab's URL.

This explains the behavior folks are commenting on here where it appears not to work.
> convince gullible investors that there's money to be made with foundational models. There's not.

This is a ridiculously myopic statement. Foundation models are an extremely powerful technological advancement and they will shake the global economy as very few things did in human history. It's hard to imagine how this is not obvious to everyone right now, specially here in this forum.
They might make it summarize intermittently behind the scenes when the context grows too large. Which would be how it has a gist of the stuff that was mentioned way earlier even thought it doesn't know the specifics.
Agree. This market is currently cornered by WebKit, which is easily the most language and UI framework agnostic engine there is. Blink might be similarly easy to embed but I’ve not seen it used that way — Blink embedding tends to be via Electron, CEF, or Qt, whereas you might run into WebKit in some random program written with any number of UI frameworks.

There used to be Gecko as an option here too, but Mozilla decided that it shouldn’t be usable outside of XULRunner and made it effectively unembeddable unless you’re willing to commit to XUL.
It would require a massive grinder with very hard steel discs. It would be hard to avoid congestion issues with such hard materials going through it. Maybe this is solved problem territory, but grinders seem tricky to make right at all scales. Plenty can go wrong because such massive forces can be involved.
I think I have read 5 of these turbine recycling articles and I really don't get the problem. My best guess is that countries that export or incinerate the majority of their trash have no place to bury the blades, so recycling is the best option to get rid of them.
>> These events cause developers to feel fatigued, frustrated, and angry.

This type of thinking is the biggest assumption in the whole article, and something I often see pronounced as though it were fact by some default. Humans can have a strong degree of control over their emotions, and do not have to react to any events with any particular emotion. The reaction is often associated as 'being caused by' such and such thing, but when a feeling arises within, one can allow the feeling and not become overwhelmed/consumed with the effects of an unchecked emotional reaction. This allowing is the action of acting, rather than reacting. We do not have to behave as we always have, and get the results we have always gotten from our 'usual' states of being. We do not have to place the blame for our internal state on the external world, but benefit greatly by taking the responsibility for our own state.
Germany is notoriously bureaucratic. And Spain is just pure fucking hell. Notaries should be hunted for sport.

Britain is great. I can file my taxes online relatively painlessly for any non-employment income. Employment income is done automatically. To set up a small business, I buy public liability insurance and a domain. Many tasks that require multiple notary appointments in Spain can be done online or, for some obscure processes, at the post office.

I suspect that business climate divides sharply between the north and south, with Germany and France being honorary southerners. I'd love to unpack the link between Catholicism and stultifying bureaucracy, since both involve archaic institutions imposing themselves between oneself and one's goal.
FWIW CLion is worth the $$. For Rust and for C++. The debugger interface is fantastic, in both Windows and Linux. And also for WSL2 (run IDE in Windows but edit and run the binary inside your WSL2 container.)
I'm going to differ with you and a lot of other people echo-ing.

Sure, if you know you'll do a lot of soldering, by all means take the expensive iron. But if you only need to fix an appliance here and there? Go with the basic one.

I've been using the same cheap iron someone gifted me 10 years ago (probably a 30€ one or so), and ... it works. It takes some time to heat up, so I'll just turn it on and go grab a coffee, and it's not super clean or whatnot ... but I fix appliances, I don't care as long as it's fixed.

I'm not trying to get good at soldering either. I'm probably bad, but I don't really care. My appliances get fixed regardless. I really only need a basic level that's used once, perhaps twice a year, and for that, the cheap soldering iron is more than enough.
It is not clear if (i) a lot of the surplus will be captured by the AI providers and (ii) that the impact will be anywhere as big as people now guess/want it to be. Making a bet on the future is fine, of course.