skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(non-English speaker so bear with me)

1. "Choose boring technology"

The new situation for tech investments will force a change in how startups choose their technologies. The number of "innovation tokens" will be limited, as the runway is shortened and they can't afford to spend time on immature technology or pretend they have to design a product for Google scale.

Startups will be forced to make safer choices. Example: If you are an average startup, you don't get to choose an esoteric programming language or create your own database server, unless that language or database is your actual product.

2. "Low/No code is still not ready, but many startups will fail because of it"

Due to #1 many managers and VCs will consider lowering costs by trying low/no code tools. They may get an initial MVP quickly, but will waste lots of time and money once they move outside the market fit for their chosen tool.

4. "AI is the new blockchain"

We will see an increase in startups using "AI" as a keyword for attracting VCs. Those that focus too much on AI will often fail to provide a decent product, while those that considers it another tool in the toolbox will have an advantage. Prices on graphics cards will still be high, as the AI startups will need a lot of processing power.

5. "Sh*itification of streaming services"

TV/Movies are too fragmented and it will start hurting the streaming services. Consumers will increasingly become periodic subscribers, where they subscribe for a period and then pause the subscription until the next season of a good show is released. This will cause panic in the boardrooms and they will make many bad decisions that makes the product worse.

We will look at the years prior to 2025 as the golden age of streaming, until the product eventually becomes so bad that piracy and bankruptcies forces a more distributed alternative where a tv series is not tightly coupled with a streaming service (it may take several years)

6. "Twitter / X will still be there"

I think that they will be profitable and still be a major source of traffic. Some of the changes may be reversed (such as the name change and re-hiring moderators), but I think many in tech are underestimating the advantage they have by their size. They can expand their product and increase their revenue enough to become profitable even if they don't conquer the world.
One approach seems to be to just double down[1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/06/1...
> If such a pause cannot be promptly established, regulatory bodies should intervene and declare a suspension.

Wow. This pushes my buttons! And should redden the face of anyone asking for the same in the AI field.

> Cornelius Cryomesh, Liquid Nitrogen Wholesaler

It even has the plain-as-day conflicts of interest! Beautiful!
ha I just noticed the domain name too
Yet when it came out six years ago, Rising Star was mostly ignored; as a result, its most scandalous and perhaps revelatory passages, such as Obama’s long letter to another girlfriend about his fantasies of having sex with men, read today, to people who are more familiar with the Obama myth than the historical record, like partisan bigotry.

Yes. So I emailed Harvey, said, “Go to the Emory archives.” He’s spent his whole life at Emory, but they won’t let him take pictures. So Harvey has to sit there with a pencil and copy out the graph where Barack writes to Alex about how he repeatedly fantasizes about making love to men.

Yup, the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, is a homosexual. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. He’s not even the first, nor the last.

People like to dismiss the idea of large, prolonged conspiracies: “How could so many people keep a secret? People talk!” Yeah, they do.[0] But it doesn’t matter. The dismaying reality is that if le Fourth Estate doesn’t report on it (or, equally often, just lies about it), it might as well never have happened. I’ve seen that happen with my own eyes.

And, even worse, it’s so digustingly easy to get people to play cop, against their better judgement.

[0]: In some areas they don’t. There are stiff punishments just in case. The Manhattan Project is an obvious example but there are better, more recent ones.
Impressive! I've made something a lot more hacky and limited for simple realtime use cases: https://github.com/fdkz/aniplot

Screenshot of a program that uses this library: https://fdkz.net/static/images/20171215-aniplot.png
Also, the read ports are asynchronous, which is bad:

assign rv1 = registers[rs1];
assign rv2 = registers[rs2];
Ocean SURFACE temperature
I think this is the best kind of typo. The spelling given by the original comment pronounces the same way as the correct spelling, we've just all memorized that one of them is the correct way to go from verbal to written.
GCP shuts down.

Massive outages on AWS will force companies rethink their strategy.

China relationship causes massive rejection of made in china tech.
Doesn't that make it a good joke?
Mountain View does not have any hotels? Sounds weird.
It has a therapeutic index of 10, which is quite low (easy to overdose). I stopped taking Paracetamol almost completely after learning what it can to your body.

Also, there was a story about the developer of DirectX who alledgedly overdoesed on Paracetamol/Tylenol:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201223122742/https://www.wsj.c...
ESR used to be a widely respected figure in open source. Open source has pretty obviously become much less politically tolerant over time.
Non-SteamOS Linux users using Steam are using that exact same compatibility layer. There's really no difference.

The only reason why SteamOS might conceivably not count, is because the users didn't explicitly, knowingly choose Linux. They chose Steam. Valve pushes the Steam deck to its users, and those users buy it, possibly not even caring that it's running Linux rather than Windows.

Doesn't matter though. It's still Linux, even if the users may not be aware of it.
>I don't understand this point. Classic liberalism is a set of ideas that gave birth to many forms of government - are you trying to make an analogy? If so, it doesn't track very well for me.

The government in America based on classic liberal ideas - to be specific, is being overtaken and replaced.

>I may be reading into your tone incorrectly - do you view this as a good thing?

It's not a good thing. But one also has to see why that form of government was overtaken the way it was. It becomes hard not to view classical liberals with a certain amount of contempt when they just advocate a return to a form of government that proved very fragile under pressure.
I'm not sure about its actual addictive power but I do know that a sad amount of people like to get ambien drunk.

> According to a report by the Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN), in 2010, about 57% of ER visits and hospitalizations caused by taking too much Ambien also involved other drugs. Ambien combined with alcohol accounted for 14% of those visits, or 2,851 people total. Combining alcohol and Ambien increased the person’s likelihood of requiring transfer to an intensive care unit (ICU) due to overdose.6

That could be because insomnia and alcohol dependence often go hand in hand. Additionally, alcohol works on the same GABA receptors in the brain as Ambien, increasing the effects of both Ambien and alcohol. Reported rates of sleep problems among people with alcohol use disorders (AUDs) in

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/30/615421269...

https://americanaddictioncenters.org/alcoholism-treatment/mi...
Another big difference is Google's name and marketing behind it. It had its own website.
Mentioning Digital Ocean and Cloudflare as on-prem companies makes as much sense as listing AWS and Google. Digital Ocean is one of the world's top ten largest cloud providers and Cloudflare is one of the world's largest CDNs.
TBH, I've never understood why they don't just decouple the browser from the OS and keep providing browser updates for as long as possible.

They wouldn't update the base kernel, but they'd be no less secure than the average windows box.
The SPD, right. My mistake.
Restore the Integral to the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus (2009)
I think there is a number of reasons this blew up, but I think the biggest one is the lack of good news.

We all see weirder weather than we used to and man made climate change is implicated.

War in Ukraine.

Tensions with China.

Political turmoil in the U.S. with small minorities driving the news cycle with crazy talk.

We just got through COVID, and hopefully end of the inflation scare.

Housing prices suck the hope out of most on a daily basis.

Suddenly, a miracle material seems to appear that could change the game at so many levels, not owned by one corporation or country. And its a magnet, and everyone loves magnets....its the one things we've all experienced that feels like magic...and that magic was going to save us.

So yeah. That's my diagnosis.
This isn't RAM, and you want to read the old value anyway.
I think twitter used to be for getting ad hoc, asap support at one point. Good luck.
Class-action lawsuit against antivirus firm for selling data of millions
For bird sounds in movies the one to listen for is the loon. Admittedly a pretty striking call but it's everywhere in movies - and more often then not outside the actual range where you'd really find a loon.
MALLOC_PERTURB_: Everyone should set this envvar
Are you able to convey some more general or high-level understanding, such as: "A procedure has a starting point, steps in sequence, possible repeated steps, and an end point." For example, one could start with trying to describe/document how to move physically in a room to get from one place to another. Then suggest, e.g. as a bridge, most computers can only work with a written descriptions of a procedure.
How about, no.

We may be on the verge of a massive transformation in so many industries, plus a major tool to help climate change.

Let's add proccess and stop people from doing science to move humanity forward is not a viable option.

Edit: Really should have read the 'authors'
> Google CEO Sundar Pichai took it one step further and is actually requiring employees to pay for the rooms with no reimbursement from the company

It says that in the article
I was just reading a piece the other day about how one of the two baker's dozen grandfathers of superconductors had his wife call in a panic after seeing the LK-99 news, worried about what this would mean for their child's future.

We as humanity must come together and put Pandora back in her box so we can leave future generations with only existentially threatening climate change and threats of nuclear annihilation, as opposed to an unexpected possibility of a deus ex machina.

Ignore those naive optimists who talk about things like opportunity costs inherent to delay or obstruction.

I've been raised on DECADES of Sci-Fi that have convinced me that superconductors are inherently alien and evil and the natural enemy of all humanity.

We must act now.

Won't anyone think of the children?
Wow, this really hits Poe's Law hard. Almost took it seriously.
My team does collaborative sessions twice a week with the whole team, and has a game session once a month. Between all the rest of the meetings, and between the important work we get done through chat, I feel that we do get to know each other and enjoy the time we spend together online. Plus we have public and private social chats full of devs of relatively the same level or age groups where coworkers feel comfortable chatting about sensitive topics. I feel socially fulfilled by this but I can't know if everyone else does.
"A vegetarian or vegan diet can be suitable for everyone, regardless of their age." - NHS UK

This is definitely false. Newborns not given mother's milk are worse off than those that receive maternal milk. Newborns given milk that is non-dairy substitutes not incorporating dairy are unlikely to living a long time. People in predominantly vegetarian countries like India and those that eat far less animal protein live significantly shorter lives than those in countries that eat more meat.
Corporate just won't give up.

I can't believe a software company is so bad at leaving people at home doing their work.

If they can't work from home something is wrong with how the company approach work. 10 people can often do what 100 is expected to do.

If people don't actually provide value fire them. I imagine Google easily could lay off a lot of people without any productivity change at all.

Same goes for all other corporate software companies. They are a labour intense communication hell.

What's next? A Google village ?
I think this was posted here before about a week ago, but honestly it's worth reposting.

It's a very good read and does a great job of laying out "how we got here"
Ok, perhaps don't throw it away. When I come up with an idea (for an app usually), I use "a few" A4-sheets (anything between 5 and 20), scribble and draw on them with a pencil, draw screens, buttons, data flows, activities, write notes (in various font sizes). Then I use my CamScanner and call this a v1.

Then email me the PDF and store the papers in a box, and a couple of days later I start the v2 (same process), then v3.

By v4 it's 'good'.

I also use the same method on my 9-5.

I take VERY seriously the Abraham Lincoln quote “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe” on almost everything.

I consider the v1, v2, v3 as the "sharpening the axe" and the v4 on the actual cutting.

In that spirit, the article has a similar approach, as the v1, v2, and v3 may take you down an (more than) imperfect path.
I didn't find it particularly funny but it's a good mirror to show how ridiculous the AI doomers are. I hope they are more widely ridiculed, they should have been from the start, especially the ones that know better. People have been way to accepting of their grift.

(And it's sad to see the story flagged, it's valid and timely satire, and "of interest to good hackers", I hope it's people without a sense of humor and not for political reasons. I mean that satirical story about the dev retiring stayed on front page for hours yesterday )
Performance Analysis Methodology (2020)
They have started doing just that with "LaCros" [0].

[0] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/l...
200M is not enough to maintain the current level of technology. There simply won't be enough people to develop new cpus, build rockets, maintain enough communication cables and satellites, research new treatments.

On the other hand 200M is quite enough to destroy ecosystems and cause mass extinctions, like we did with megafauna https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_extinction_event.

How can one live a decent life, if his loved ones die from illnesses that would have been treatable if there were more people, and if one knows that all of his descendants eventually will die from a fall of an asteroid because there is not enough people to ever develop measures against that.

In fact we live much better lives than what any of our ancestors did. And earth can sustain much more than 10B. We'll use gene drive to eliminate species like bark beetles, and when we double the population we'll be able to control the weather, solving by that climate change issue, and allowing population to double again.

> Nothing in nature grows for ever

maybe, but there are no signs that we are at a point that we can't grow anymore, because there is so much unused space around us. 30% of land are empty deserts that can be used with new technologies, 3x more is sea surface that can be used when we have enough people to develop seasteading, and after that there is virtually infinite amount of empty planets in our galaxy, so we are not even near the limit.
It may be the exact same sin, but that's not the point I'm making.

Though TBH, as others note, I doubt this is normally meant for local employees. At some scale, it makes sense for a large company to have their own hotel (either run by them, or contracted out) to host employees traveling in.

And if you've got a hotel like that, you have a certain occupancy rate that separates profit and loss. Advertisements to local employees make sense, in such a situation.
Same with strava, even Mountainproject ticks. We're being programmed to be achievement machines.
Well then pay for it. Requiring to travel but not paying for it is the part that’s problematic, not the travel part.
LOL, they want me to pay to go hybrid?
Although women have more reason to lie.
I agree there is an issue. I don’t agree about what the issue is.

The problem is not Unicode rendering. The problem is improperly mingling information of a different nature. File extensions are not a good way to tell you if a file will be executed (Unix got that right from the start). Then executing a file involuntary shouldn’t lead to significant risks for your data and your system. That’s the actual problem which needs to be solved. Mangling text rendering is not the solution.
Your work on Clojure and other projects has been truly influential, and your talks are some of the best out there. I remember watching your "Simple Made Easy" presentation and being blown away.

The impact of Clojure cannot be overstated. It's amazing to see how far it has come since its inception. You've inspired so many developers, including myself, to explore functional programming and think differently about software design.
Now there's a name I have not heard in a long while...
> but at this scale there's a high cost in everyone pausing their research to replicate LK-99

The people deciding to pause their research are experts with their own agency. If they are pausing their own research then it's because they've made an expert determination that it's worth doing so. So you don't need to worry yourself over it. Open the information up so that other experts can decide what to do with it.
Note superseded by glibc.malloc.perturb:

https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Tunables....
This is _excellent_ work, I've been adamantly against MoE for a set of reasons, this is the first compelling evidence I've seen that hasn't been on Substack or a bare repeating of rumor.

I had absolutely no idea GPT4 was nondeterministic and I use it about 2 hours a day. I can see why a cursory looking wasn't cutting it, they "feel" the same in your memory, a lot of similar vocab usage, but are formatted entirely differently, and have sort of a synonym-phrase thing going where some of the key words are the same.
Legendary game designer John Romero’s memoir is a generous feat
Hah, I actually came to this comments thread to link to this. I had a similar experience with my SO!
Currently working on a project like this.

It's a 20 year old codebase, so it's gotten so bad that we spend 2 weeks planning something that could take me 1 week to write in the current codebase or 1 day to write in a sane codebase, on a product that I could probably re-write from scratch in a month.
This is standard practice in journalism which is widely used.

If you weren't so involved in the field, would you even care?
i honestly don’t know what your point is. There is also cheap public transportation in the Bay Area. Is it as cheap and good as NYC? No. Do I personally still choose it over Uber and Lyft while in the Bay Area? Yes.

Anyway the original poster was clearly pointing out that public transportation in NYC is a reasonable alternative to Uber in NYC. Your bringing up the Bay Area is about as appropriate as my bringing up Prague where I live. Both are irrelevant.
Upper dose for melatonin has not been established, generally considered safe. https://ajac.substack.com/p/melatonin for references.

I'm on 40mg every night, gives me deep restful sleep.
So it might be they're using an outdated version of Wine, whereas leaving it to Steam means you get the latest Proton version?
Even if a few companies go bankrupt, the demand for AI training hardware is absurd and likely won't go down any time soon - and unlike all the shitcoins, there is no (viable) threat of ASICs outcompeting GPUs.
> I can't believe a software company is so bad at leaving people at home doing their work.

You almost got it. A software company is still a blood sucking company. Y’all get fooled all the time.
Hard like building a virtual machine in an image decoder? If there’s a way there’s a will.
LXC doesn't have a Dockerfile concept though.

I think a Dockerfile as a recipe for an environment is pretty elegant.

I've used LXC with proxmox and managing what's in a container is kind of like being a sysadmin.
I've been aiming for 12 books a year for the last 5 years or so. Sometimes I'll go months without picking up a book, and the challenge is helpful for getting me back into it.
First time I've seen someone refer to Twitter as X in the wild. Looks like a variable that will be entered later.
Mathematicians usually write papers in LaTeX, which predates Unicode and doesn’t rely on it. You then just type \pi in a math context and get the right symbol. (Though here are modern LaTeX implementations that support Unicode input as well.)
thats a 2012 account, too. i think we need more of this, pointing out when people made comically wrong predictions. we see all these confidently wrong predictions and it just gets tiring. i think HN should have some ranking system for getting predictions right. it would incentivize people to comment less (needed) and it would allow people to filter out big mouths.
I'm not a lawyer, but to me it is obvious google engages in flagrant anti-trust practices with its search. If you don't believe me, google "migrating off of google cloud" and see what comes up (nearly 100% results about how to migrate TO google cloud). I'm sure they're doing stuff like this everywhere, who would stop them?
I guess, but I’m checking HN for LK99 updates, because of the bs filter here… if I want garbage I’ll go to reddit.

I respect the effort of this satire, but the timing is kind of annoying.
$99 is steep. I found <$75 ABNB rentals in Moutain View.
Good parody illustrates the ridiculousness of sama's attempt to form a cartel / regulatory capture.
I'm always flabbergasted by the price of fiber plans in NA. The max you could pay for a household in France is less than 50€ for 8Gbps (and i assume prices are similar or lower in other EU countries), even accounting for wage gap it's quite a difference.
That some of these cost as little as $69 brand new is alarming to me. Tech that cheap is usually destined to become e-waste. Used models that were more expensive than that when new are better for the planet and the user.
I expect they'll lose value in the step-function shape that's typical of technology, where each new generation decreases the value of the previous one. But that's fine, as long as each chip generates more revenue over its lifetime than it cost. And the lifetime can extend through multiple generations, as long as each successive generation is only a marginal improvement over its predecessor.

Personally I think the bigger risk is software innovations making CPU training (and/or inference) sufficiently viable that it's cheaper to train models on a commodity CPU cluster than on some proportionally expensive GPU cluster. I don't know enough about the space to say whether that's likely, but it seems like a low risk, since pretty much any parallel algorithm will always be faster on GPU than CPU - it's just a question of the marginal benefits and cost (e.g. maybe it takes more CPU to train same model in same time, but cost of CPU is so much lower that it's worth buying more of them).
Yes, I care. I've been a subscriber since the 80's, Nature, SA and the Lancet. I don't think any of them should pull a 'Ted-X'.
These… are not ideologically convenient results.

More generally I’m curious for some deeper research beyond these correlations, but don’t expect it to happen
I have all my papers in Zotero which I assume has a folder full of PDFs somewhere on my system.

Can I plug reason into my existing workflow?