skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What happens when biotech enables effectively (or in practice, externally undetectable) seamless integration of artificial storage into the brain?

I would[2] put good money on "will never happen"[1].

[1] Or at least "any chance of it happening are on a timescale long enough that human civilisation will ruin itself well before we get there".

[2] But for the fact this is a long term bet and I am already old.
Additionally, from the website itself:

> What are the sources for the information in the database?

> InfluenceWatch

> Wikispooks

> SourceWatch

> On Think Tanks

> Conservative Transparency

> ProPublica

> Duke Reporters’ Lab
While absolutely acknowledging D&D's impact of spreading the hobby of RPGs, it is still one of the worst (at least relative to its popularity) games on the market.
> Just 3 lines ago didn't you point out a massive company successfully building on GPL code and not giving back, touting their ability to do so as a pro for GPLv2?

No, I did not. I pointed out how strictly adhering to the GPL was not in any way an impediment to the success of writing device drivers.

> Or you took someone else's code, paid a third party for business-critical customizations, and expect the product you paid for to not wind up in the hands of a competitor.

If you don't want your 0.001% of contributions to a product to benefit others, including those who built 99.99% of the product, then don't contribute to it. Put your 0.001% effort into some other product that lets you keep the entire 100% for yourself.

You're effectively arguing that it's unfair that you can't take someone else's labour and sell it on without their permission.

I really don't feel bad for you in that case. It's someone else's labour, not yours. Crying "unfair" because you want to add 0.001% of value and want to keep 100% of value doesn't get you much sympathy.

Especially when, as you pointed out when you referred to my nvidia example, this isn't a hurdle to someone who simply wants to use the GPL software and add their own value into it without violating the license.

It's perfectly possible, just not palatable to people who want the original labour for themselves. NVidia supplying binary blobs aren't trying to own the entire Linux kernel for anyone using their blobl. Someone supplying some proprietary driver, and wanting to keep that driver secret, is doing the opposite.
And in keeping out the parasites, nothing of value was lost :-)
Writing by Numbers
You're trying to discuss Google's inability to be perfect, I'm trying to give you a chance to ground this discussion in reality. So far you've dead-stuck on hating Google just for the sake of it, even if they'd deserve it, you're making the discussion ridiculous and useless.
Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
If he relied on CNN and similar outlets would you be just as concerned for the truth?
You write requirements and your expectations and make the model match your expectations.
Until you have clear expectations of what you want from it, prompting LLM is pretty useless. It cannot do highly specific task because those are limited in the original training corpus too. However, for more generic task, it has seen most of the stuff out there, so it should be good enough. Having clarity on your problem is the key.

You have to make sure to couple chain of thought with branching, analysis and evaluation, then you can get pretty good results.
This[0] is Wikispooks' page on the Holocaust. Wikispooks is one of this guy's 7 listed sources. However much I may distrust 'mainstream news', I automatically trust the whole lot of them more than I trust Holocaust deniers.

[0]https://wikispooks.com/wiki/The_Holocaust
In significant amount, proportionate to the context.

> Does that mean

It means that education must return to be taken very seriously.
I read the Quanta article because I am interested in optimisations for deep neural nets.

Am I right in concluding that your work doesn't apply to that area, as it is looking at a much 'easier' case?
Connectors like HDMI ports should not be the first point of failure, especially in monitors. That sounds like planned obsolescence.
The purpose of code is first and foremost to make a computer do things. Legibility is, strictly speaking, secondary.
The problems of Capitalism and Vanguardism are well described here. However, it completely lacks a detailed plan how Libertarian Socialism would and should work. It just shouts the slogans we all have heard millions of times before. That is why this will not get anywhere at all. You need a plan. And a very detailed one. Something like what the founding fathers of US did.
Let me tell you, there was more than one
In Australia there are certain requirements on how long a product must be at a price before you can advertise it as discounted, and say things like "save 50%".

This is to prevent this exact practice where a store either lies and slaps a discount sticker on it without any discount to mislead a consumer, or from them putting up the price for 24 hours and then discounting it.

There is no exact length of time, the law says "reasonable". So it'd be up to a court to decide.

You can learn more here
https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/pricing/price-displays
from most of these things you get the energy out that you put in. You can't be part of amazing culture without manually sifting through niche culture on the regular. Without reading forum posts by frankly rubbish amateurs. Without going to the bar where different garage bands host their first gig every night. Almost by defintion anything media promotes to you won't be interesting and new.

If you just sit there and wait for it to come to you, you only get the things for which its worth people taking it to you. The things that extract the almighty dollar.
Love this kind of article, I think everyone should write one every ten years to reflect, not necessary to publish it, it can be a simple private exercise.
Please explain what the corporate D&D architecture is and how the woke have destroyed it?
Go is popular in dev ops right? It could theoretically languish there for a while, like Python did, before becoming popular for other things.
With RSS you are at the mercy of the server, though. The content creator may only syndicate an excerpt of the whole article, remove pictures or formatting, yada yada. But yes the Web would be so much nicer if more websites provided at least some form of content syndication...
I had mild nitrogen narcosis once at about 15m (regular PADI open water diver) despite doing similar depth dives before.

It was a worryingly pleasant experience. Like 3 or 4 pints on a warm summer’s afternoon.
Microwaving safe plastic baby food containers release billionsof toxic particles
The irony of ironies:

The same people who seem to fear "premature judgement" caused by this extension

are the ones who skim the author's Twitter page for a few keywords, returning immediately with a judgement.

Don't we need more such geniuses.
You wouldn't say so if you only read HN
You are right. I haven't read the article and just assumed. It's actually about how they enabled introducing "breaking" changes without actually breaking backwards compatibility with existing code. Which is best possible outcome.
If 50% of people choose blue pill, everyone lives, otherwise blue pills die
I have zero design skills and I had to create something using javascript. I gave some prompts and it was able to come up with a pop-up box. It needed some tweaking but having to not write all of that was really satisfying.

https://chat.openai.com/share/cb3a477b-57bd-46fd-92c9-4a3016...

I have attached the example in the above chat.
Shouldn't the plaintiffs then single out that particular popular record, and not try to take down the entire catalogue? It goes both ways - if you ask for all you get data about all and that data shows one access/month.
Why not try the WebAssembly version? https://www-fourier.ujf-grenoble.fr/~parisse/xcasen.html
Interesting post. The "build abstractions on top of the platform" approach reminds me of Deno, which encourages provides both web-standard APIs and a standard library.
I really can not confirm this, or my power is perfect...

I moved in 5 years ago, most rooms where fitted with LEDs back then 2 had old lamps that got replaced later on, it's not a big flat.. so 15 bulbs first stage

The ones without LEDs? Replaced 4 bulbs in 2 years before replacing everything with LEDs.. (5 bulbs)

Not a single led one replaced so far, and some of them are burning > 6 hours a day.
In such a future, what do you do, then, with people who actually want hierarchies? The most important virtue for a monastic, for example, is obedience, and myriads of people deliberately seek out that lifestyle.
>4. Honestly, it's not advised to cut complete contact from your parents.

you should really stfu about situations that are none of your business. Society already pressures ppl enough that are raises by abusive or npd parents to reconcile. maybe read the associated link in the post to understand why you're not correct.
I mostly wanted to call attention to the lazy argument that we shouldn't do things that require human intervention.

"Use less water on lawns so we have more water for food, for humans".

That is a very one dimensional take. California's non-residential water usage doesn't just get used for human food, nor human food for Californians. Famously it gets bottled by Nestle, it gets used by Saudi Arabia to grow alfalfa for their cows, and it's used to grow almonds and other products that are exported outside of California.

So we have all these organizations using water in California, making a profit, exporting water from the state. (It's something like an 80/20 split for agriculture vs residential/urban water usage by the way).

So no, I don't agree that individual Californians should need to justify a patch of grass so that corporations and foreign nationals can continue exploiting our water resources. Sacramento should go fix literally all of that first.
Both the nyti.ms link and nytimes.com are actually t.co links for me. First one was slow, second one was fast.
Why it's a yellow flag?
The parallels with a certain US president keep piling up.
The affection precedes the Second World War. Victor Gollancz, a notable left-wing publisher at the time, wrote this mea culpae in 1939, after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact led to his disillusionment with the Soviet cause.

>Looking back, I think I erred more as a publisher than as a writer or speaker, and more by omission than commission. I accepted manuscripts about Russia, good or not so good, because they were "orthodox"; I rejected others, by bona fide socialists and honest men, because they were not. It was in the matter of the Trials that the inner conflict was greatest. I well remember a Christmas in Paris when I read the thousand-page verbatim report of one of them : it was like living in some urwelt of intellectual terror, where men had lost, or had never had, the pride of free and independent humanity. But every Tycoon in Britain was using that trial to stir up hatred of Russia, because, twenty-three years ago, she had abolished the exploitation of man by money. So I remembered Bolshevo, and the Red Corner in the Soviet ship, and the Prophylacterium, and the singing of the children when we went, in Moscow, to the Palace of Pioneers ; and I published only books that justified the trials, and sent the socialist criticisms of them elsewhere.

>I am glad to remember that, when directly challenged by questioners at public meetings, I always spoke my mind, giving the pros and cons as honestly as I could ; but I did not strive officiously to speak it, preferring to avoid awkward topics when the choice rested with me alone.

>I am as sure as a man can be — I was sure at the time in my heart — that all this was wrong : wrong in the harm it did to people from whom one was keeping some part of the truth as one saw it ; wrong in the harm it did to oneself (which was important, not because it was oneself, but because oneself was part of humanity) ; wrong in the harm it did to Russia, because that country, in which there is so much greatness and still more hope, can only be injured by a sycophancy that treats her as a spoilt child instead of as an adult with errors and crimes as grievous as our own ; and wrong above all in the harm it did to the sum total of truth and honest thinking, by an increase of which we can alone find the way forward.
> But the chief danger to freedom of thought and speech at this moment is not the direct interference of the MOI or any official body. If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they are frightened of public opinion. In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves…

Some things never change - this could have been written verbatim in 2021, and would still have been accurate.

If only I had a dollar for every time some apologist said "This is not censorship because it's not the government's Thought Police", or "Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences" whenever a large minority was silenced.

I always wonder why there is such a large and vocal support for thought police in these enlightened times. Do these supporters believe that they are exempt?
> The reason I believe this is because one of the greatest strengths of these AI models is to take in arbitrary text.

And they will get better at making sense of vague questions, and start asking for clarification, without the need for the black magic of a prompt wizard.

The prompt engineer can soon be replaced with a fine-tuned LLM. It's a thing already for SD prompts. No more need to know ridiculous magic prompt tokens.
Between alternative and traditional social platforms: the case of gab
That can work at a local level, I have a friend who was born into a Kibbutz, but what happens at the national level? Most Kibbutzim are agricultural, but there are some that operate capital intensive high tech manufacturing, including one that makes advanced military products, with huge revenue relative to the number of members. Somebody needs to allocate and manage strategic resources for big projects, and have the power to make it stick.

The problem with communism has always been accountability. This is why in the 1860s Bakunin was arguing that Marxist regimes would be one-party dictatorships unrepresentative of the actual proletariat, and that it would lead to the worst tyranny the world had ever known. He was saying this before Lenin was even born. Marx eventually kicked him out of the International for it. IMHO it's one of the most stunningly prescient political predictions of all time.
So we know where Jim Cramer descends from ...
> Communism is stateless, classless and moneyless society so you can ask yourself a question.

Communism is a specific historic movement. As Nietzsche famously said, “all ideas, in which a whole process is promiscuously comprehended, elude definition; it is only that which has no history, which can be defined.” It also rhymes nicely with what Marx said, “Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.”

> What you call Communism is actually ideology called Marxism-Leninism

Well, why what you call it is how it’s actually called and what someone else calls it is wrong? Language is arbitrary. I think it is a purely political question. Just like deciding whether to define racism as racial prejudice or as racial prejudice with power. It’s all about rhetoric, not about what’s something “actually called”.
> So, in this HR isn't getting any feedback

No, I said I wouldn't send it in an email. Somewhat ironically, I wrote it clearly, but you took it differently and built a large rant on that incorrect foundation.

Next time I'll filter my comments on HN through my skip manager (-:
If you think writing code is the most important, or even the largest part of being a (senior) software engineer - sure. In my experience it's not though. It's being able to communicate clearly, understanding and translating requirements (sometimes to code), knowing boundaries and saying no, deep understanding of systems and knowing how to debug them.

Transitioning from junior to medior (for example) is much more than writing x% better code. It's the process of falling and getting back up. Being stumped and learning when to ask for help (and not just technical, what if the spec is 'wrong'?).

I definitely worry that we are leaving future generations in the dust and that there'll be an experience gap. It's a disservice to take away something from them that we enjoyed ourselves.

No sane company should run on juniors, they're an investment.
I knew astrology was real. ;-)
Alan Watts: Work as Play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yWx7cqiSJI

I love his take on this topic. Hope you have time to listen and enjoy.
Can confirm, also mostly using IKEA bulbs..

Not a single defective one
I think that's a reductive take.

The cars I'm referring to are designed to be driven hard — they're performance vehicles.

It's also bad for just about any car to sit for long periods of time without being run. That's not what it's built for, and unless you design cars professionally and have some authority on the topic, it's lazy to call this poor engineering.
From experience, led lights with a separate driver (like those spots for ceilings) are very long lasting, the thing that breaks and needs to be replaced is usually just the driver, the actual leds almost never fail.

That (separate led and driver, or hoewever make the driver replaceable) should be the norm even for common bulbs, surely there would stil be some issues with the heat, but we would save lots of money (besides reducing the amount of electronic waste).
Monitoring as Code in Your Software Development Lifecycle with TypeScript
Well that explains why all those links I posted to maximizedlivingdrlabrecque.com never got any traction…
Continuous batching to increase LLM inference throughput and reduce p50 latency
Companies do
So, should we introduce freedom from consequences then?
So when are you going to get rid of the concept of a “bulb”, which is particularly poorly suited to LEDs? I live in Japan and here it’s more common to install circular, flat LED fixtures in the ceiling[0], so they have a nice big metal heatsink. Never seen one fail (I’m sure they but nothing like the complaints I read about LED bulbs)
[0] https://www.nitori-net.jp/ecstatic/image/product/8380185/838...
As an aside, I really miss videos by Surma and Jake Archibald.

HTTP 203 was one of the best resources for learning about DX tools I had ever seen. It was content-dense, with a cheeky tone and some nods to the fourth wall, but never to the point it felt forced or distracting. There's something to the format of watching two developers chat and have fun talking about best practices that is deeply compelling; it felt like a human side of google that they kind of lost in recent years (their current devrel videos really don't do it for me).

In the age of SEO spam everywhere, rich insightful content about webdev and DX is hard to find. I miss these guys.
Two different types of forbidden, one is the top down state driven kind, the other is the puritan witch burning kind. They are not the same
If only we saw this much thoughtfulness and consideration in both directions on the political spectrum.

Yet we have other commenters on here still using pejorative words like "anti-vaxxers" despite all the science that has come out.

Everyone likes to create "grab the pitchforks" moments when it fits their narrative.
Lately it’s even worse. And any AI agent that relies on open AI has gone down in quality too (phind). I find it’s more of a struggle to have the AI write code in the first pass, even when I explicitly say something like “I want you to write a function that does this {action}” and on average it takes about 3 messages back and forth before it actually writes it. Whereas before it would start writing it immediately, even though it was almost always wrong, I could tweak the result after. Now though, the stupid context memory is filled up with useless junk words not related to the actual function I want to write, since we spent multiple messages going back and forth.
The current unicorns are definitely not overvalued.
Language-level coroutines derive no direct benefit from Loom but it also doesn't hurt them. The benefit is you can just stop using those language features, or if you already have them in wide use, you can just wrap all your code in runBlocking{} and virtual threads. Also, no work is needed to start using virtual threads because they're a library/runtime feature not something a language has to support. One of the benefits of being a JVM language - free upgrades.

Exception: GUI code. Kotlin Coroutines is deeply integrated into Jetpack Compose. In theory parts of the framework are thread safe but it's not well documented and all the examples / tutorials want you to learn coroutines.
Ireland is not some PO box tax haven, despite what folks like to say on HN... ;-)

We have significant pharma and agri-business, plus we make microchips (see Intel, Pfizer etc...)
>Yes LEDs are DC but as a compromise you have to implement dimming on the AC side because homes are wired with AC power.

This isn't universally true. Here in Japan, there's commonly-available LED ceiling fixtures (that look something like UFOs) that are dimmable with a remote control. They surely use PWM dimming, but it's done in the LED driver circuit; the fixture is getting the same 100VAC at all times. They also commonly have bluer and yellower LEDs, so you can adjust the light spectrum with your remote control.
We have learnt how to cope with the small address space of IPv4. Full stop.
It could be because they saw they were getting low quality links from there. In any case, since HN prefers original sources, it’s less likely that a news aggregator would be a good source (the occasional Reddit comment notwithstanding)
Awesome content thank you!
I googled “Chomsky Orwell preface” and found this:

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/noam-chomsky-90th-...

(Search the text of the article for the word preface to directly find the reference).
I've never used ASP.NET, I mean they work fine in GUI apps where you click a button, start downloading a file, and then show a message when the file has been downloaded.

Making code nonblocking without threads and without callbacks = happy case for async. Writing multithreaded servers focussed on throughput is a whole other can of worms, which is basically my point.
I have a similar issue all my life because when I think about something I just start creating it.

There is a simple solution but it requires willpower and a good dose of optimistic nihilism.

Nothing of what we do is that important, focus on living life in a way that pleases your imperfect self, not on chasing the next million dollar trend.
If I count of all the chances I've missed millions on I could write a book about failure. I'm still able to live a good life so, why should I care if I have 10M in the bank?
You don't need anything, you just need to be content with what you have.

Even if AI plunges the developed world into chaos, you'll still have the chance to escape on some remote mountain and farm goats. It doesn't sound too bad.

Even if we get killed by an AI piloted robot army, did you really have a chance to make a difference? Enjoy not having problems when you're not existing anymore.

Once you're past your FOMO, controlling your screen time should be enough. It's very important especially at night so you don't wreck your sleep.
I uh, wish I had read this back in 1993 - although I would not have taken it serious, but thought of it as humour, sarcasm, slapstick or irony.
Judging by my family some older people are reluctant to have doctors poking about in their eyes.