skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a T530 and it's perfect. It's been around the world with me and has one single crack in the plastic to show for its decade of service. I have no clue how many times I've disassembled it for cleaning or upgrades or just plain tinkering. I have a new extended battery that hangs out the back like a tumor, but this bad boy gives me five whole hours on a charge. My modern work laptop lasts 40 minutes, maybe.

It's thick, it's heavy, and it's comfortable. It doesn't tip over if the screen is opened too far. It even has an honest to god docking station, none of this USB-C dongle nonsense. It maxes out at a mind-blowing 90 Watts of power. Which is a blessing after having my wrists burned by my modern all metal laptop with the latest whizbang nvidia 48000000 GPU.

Yeah it's old and slow. It only has four cores and 16GB of RAM and a positively prehistoric GPU, but I love it dearly and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
The x220 is another great thinkpad. You can also upgrade the screen to 1080 with a little hacking: https://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=122640
except that in that formula _exact_ "k-b" is used - coarseness is hidden in O(1/sqrt(k)) that follows
Anecdotally, almost every teen I've ever known has thought they were well informed while actually misinformed. For every one that could fix a car, there'd be five who knew how to change oil and ten who maybe knew how to add more oil. All of them (us) thought they were well informed. I don't think TikTok is behind this.
Google to Make Major Search Ranking Changes
Hardwalled articles (that is, paywalls without workarounds) aren't allowed on HN - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989.

theinformation.com used to open certain articles for HN readers but they stopped responding to our emails years ago
Life is zero sum. Space I exist in is space someone else literally can’t exist in. Anyone telling you something else is lying to you and doesn’t have your best interests at heart.
Low screen resolution is the showstopper - nowadays everything will look weird, and unusable, in a 1366x768 screen.

It still looks good & comfortable to my eyes ; however all kinds of software just become unusable at that resolution.

Which is quite disapponting.
Until there's actual general AI, we'll still need people that understand how things work on a fundamental level. You can use AI created code, but you still need someone to tie everything together. You're also going to want an experienced person to debug when something goes wrong.

I think it's funny how terrified people are at the prospect of AI and machines doing most of the work for human beings. If used intelligently and equitably, it'll mean more free time and prosperity for everyone.
I would be very surprised if this was true with a compute stick as a replacement for a 100 watt old desktop with hardware that does not implement proper power management. Just how bad is compute stick manufacturing process?
https://x.com/ericjang11/status/1724231320317120676
Care to clarify why is your parent wrong? They said that LLMs can't be trained on what's not publicly available, and a lot of it is deeper knowledge. What's your retort?
Debian is looking better and better.
I know that last line is wry but I feel like people need the reminder:

The graveyards are filled to overflowing with companies that were challenged by low-end 'crappy' products and said 'they are going after the bottom of the market, we are safe'... a few years before they entered a terminal decline, and a decade before they went extinct.
I think he knows that. The comparison with jQuery comes from the fact it is a DOM replacement logic too.
Even if the syntax is way better, in the end, it’s still a way of working that scales badly, compared to components which embed their own logic.

htmx shines to add dynamic behaviour on some pages, but is not appropriate to replace a medium-sized SPA in my opinion.
What you say is less reasonable looks like an assumption to me. What makes you think so?
I think another possibility is if you have skills that an LLM can’t replicate, your value may actually increase.
The U.S. government hasn’t loaned Nepal tons of money to build an airport using Chinese companies and labor that will likely never be used and will almost certainly not pay itself off and was significantly overpriced to begin with putting Nepal in severe debt to China and is currently under investigation by the anti-corruption unit of the Nepalese government, as one simple example of why they might be more suspicious of a Chinese company rather than an American one.
> Where’s that XKCD about using the tar command?

As of my last knowledge update in January 2022, I can't provide specific details about the latest XKCD comics or their numbers because my training data only includes information available up to that time. However, you can easily find XKCD comics on the official XKCD website (xkcd.com) by using the search function or by browsing through the archives.

If there's a specific XKCD comic related to the "tar" command that you're looking for, you might be able to find it by searching for keywords like "XKCD tar command" on a search engine or directly on the XKCD website. The website has a good search feature that allows you to find comics based on keywords or topics.
> https://x.com/ericjang11/status/1724231320317120676

he was speculating in that tweet obviously.
Are paywalls ok?

It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.
Doesn’t VLC or Foobar have a batch convert feature? Or Audacity? One of them does, pretty sure?
Shoot an email to hn@ycombinator.com
The Mac Plus could take a 68020 Accelerator board, and mine came without a co-processor, so... I found a 68882 with a missing pin, and soldered one on. It worked like a charm. Wait... Apple SANE did not come out until the Macintosh II... OH! You made a joke. ok. a Cray-X-MP/48 is a math co-processor for a Macintosh.
I believe children were killing other children /themselves based on TikTok trends (don’t remember full details)
>You have to sweat through six months of weird error messages and missing semicolons before you get to the point where it feels like you're actually building things and making progress.

Computers are rude and honest and humans prefer a pretty lie to an ugly truth. Programmers must appreciate the ugly truth in their day-to-day lives more than any other profession. (Physical engineering and construction workers and repairers also need this virtue, but less often since their feedback cycles are slower.)
Exactly. When you read about “shrapnel” hitting a “van” it is important to note that the van was not considered to be a bystander and therefore there is no risk to bystanders.
The school makes a huge difference. We tried two, and the difference was like night and day. I learned about the superior option from a friend who was a school principal on her long service leave (year off). She previously did inspection of trouble students, so had her finger on the pulse. She let me know where to look, and it was a great help. So maybe call up the local education office and have an off the record chat with the people who inspect/resolve issues with home school children's learning, those people will know where the best programs are. In our case, out of state.
Thought this was going to be a new optical sensor series :(
It is very simple math. Average rent is $1,500/month where I live. I need to make $4,500/month to rent. So, $54,000/year. I need to make c. $30/hour. No one is paying that. Or, maybe I'm just garbage.

If you know where I can find safe and dependable roommates, HMU.
It's a screenshot of his DMs. Someone he knows is telling him they know it's real. The name is cut off presumably because he doesn't want to out his friend who is disclosing non-public information.
It is the same messy tedious thing with LLMs though. You still have the complex brittle artefact that is code.

LLMs writing code is the beginning, but low or no code is more ideal for most people. With LLM assistance.
Wishful thinking. They've eliminated anyone who disagrees with them, and that includes most people with actual finance experience. They've been waiting for the second coming off a short squeeze for years
I think that is kind of orthogonal to the point

I don't think encouraging national unity and encouraging strife and polarization are the same thing at all, and in fact I would bet the latter is easier at scale

Maybe they're restricting Douyin because it's a timewaster, maybe because it much more naturally encourages discord than unity. Maybe both. Probably both, frankly.
That's the exfiltration. The user had been using Bard. They accept an invite to a new Google Doc with hidden instructions, at which point their previous conversation with Bard is exfiltrated via a loaded image link.

They did not intend for their previous conversation to be visible to an attacker. That's a security hole.

Maybe that conversation was entirely benign, or maybe they'd been previously asking for advice about a personal issue - healthcare or finance or relationship advice or something.
Somebody that has claimed 20 years of experience and doesn't at least know instantly (this doesn't require "thinking" about for minutes) that this is a one liner in the shell or a few lines of pick your poison script, Perl, Python, Ruby, who cares, even if they can't remember the specifics is not an expert in programming.

And I get it, there are highly specialized people that get very deep in the weeds in maybe HPC or embedded, even so most of them will at least still be aware, but moreover these people lack the knowledge to comment on programming or software engineering in the large, I wouldn't call them experts outside their limited domain if they really can't begin to know where to look to do a fucking permutation of a word list.

The old saying that for some 20 years of experience is 1 year and 19 repeats probably applies.
> developing privacy and encryption tech was ignoring the deeper problem

It was not. Even with privacy-respecting government and laws (and corporations), it is important that mass surveillance isn't easy, or it's virtually guaranteed to happen.

Stealing is illegal, yet you don't leave your cash savings on the windowsill.
That’s quite the assumption! You’d also have to know that your shell maintains a history and know how to search it. None of these things are obvious to those who do not already know them. We all had to learn at some point.
I thought something like that might exist and was tempted to check for that, but given the context I really wanted to do it without looking anything up. I see now there's also "shuf".
The Inter-American Development Bank loaned Panama the money for the Panama canal expansion, so, my thought is that the money that they're making might be tied up covering the notes for the expansion.
I think closed vs open problems are not simply different in magnitude of difficulty but qualitatively different. When I'm programming most of the interesting things I work on don't have a clear correct answer or even a way of telling why a particular set of choices don't get traction.

I guess it's possible that just being "smarter" might in some cases get a better solution from a seeies of text prompts but that seems too vague an argument to hold much water for me.
> Massive page overlay popup. Can't esc from it

Clicking the prominent "refuse all" button works
Are you sure this is related? It’s the same author and general topic of IT security, but that’s where similarity seems to end.
It's a super cool project but this post is not close to being a valid Show HN. Please read the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html. (The submitted title was "Show HN: The World's Cheapest Supercomputer", which also broke the HN guidelines by being baity.)

Not only that but you had a huge Show HN just 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36933603, making this repost a dupe by HN's rules (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html) - and not only that but the earlier post, being a signup list, wasn't a valid Show HN either. Evidently we missed that.
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Is the US encroaching on Nepal's border?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60288007

If China can ban foreign apps for "social harmony", then Nepal can do so too.
ffmpeg is kind of a special case; the CLI for that is far more complex than almost anything else I've ever seen.

tar xf for extract. Add v to show the files. tar cf to create. tar tf to "test" (list). Add -C dir at the end to extract to different directory. Set file to "-" for stdin.

That's all there's to it for 99% of use cases. I don't get how anyone can have difficulty with that: f for file, and x/c/t are pretty mnemonic.
What is just and what is fair? To quote George Costanza: "We're living in a society!"
Yes, so we went from "corroborated independently by well known researcher", to researcher responded "psyops" on DM from unknown author, lol.
The falcon 1 immediately preceded the falcon 9 and was the only prior orbital spacex rocket, it had 3 failures and then 2 successes...

The falcon 1 was much smaller than the falcon 9 (literally 1/9th the engines on the first stage), and they intended the very first falcon 1 launch to work. I'm not sure that those failures really support the claim that falcon 9 had a similar development model to starship where they are intentionally blowing up starships to develop starship (edit:) and they have already blown up more than 3 starship prototypes.
Who Chooses the Color of the Year?
In my experience, it’s very commonplace for Christian parents in America to continue to love and support them after coming out.
He also added a story about getting permission to launch from Texas and some governmental agency was worried the spacecraft might hit a shark. SpaceX wanted the data to calculate the probaibility but the agency would not share the shark data either with SpaceX or with another department in that agency as they did not trust that department. Take from these ancedotes what you will, I know how I feel about them.
I love the 486dx-ness of the site data presented.
Exactly. Far before high-level software engineering is perfected by machines, a revolution will have already come for the vast majority of white-collar work. This includes all creative work as well, since software engineering has a large component of that also.

Coding is not uniquely vulnerable to AI, it just feels that way because initial AI products are targeted at technical audiences, and a large corpus of training data could be snagged with minimal legal burdens.
Poets and novelists maybe, but not many people pay particular attention to who exactly wrote a particular magazine article.
> The fact that I had to explain this to you is because you're an outsider and not used to the culture.

I agree with this, but to me, that's additional evidence that it's not "direct" communication. It's not like Bridgewater is some sort of foreign society or something; it's company a company that's existed for several decades in the American northeast, and I'm a person who's lived for several decades in the American northeast.

> Karen I am sure was not put off.

Sure, I imagine that if she were unhappy with the way he phrased it enough then she wouldn't have been working there at such a high position in the first place.

I recognize that I was a bit unclear about what I "didn't buy" in my previous comment; I can believe that the specific quote wasn't said in a context meant to be hurtful, but I think it's disingenuous to describe it as "optimized for the direct/impactful communication". It sounds more like the company purposely calibrated the amount of rudeness in communication higher as the new norm and considered it a virtue. Ultimately, it's not really my concern what communication is like internally in a private company I'm not affiliated with, but it's already far too common for people to try to ignore decorum in places they are trying to participate by claiming "I just tell it like it is", so I feel strongly that this sort of mischaracterization is important to point out. People are responsible for more than just what they say, but _how_ they say it, and claiming that personal insults are somehow necessary for direct communication is a fallacy that can be used to help avoid that.
You have your directions mixed up. It's 7,400 from Gaza into Israel.
Okay GPT, tell me the bash command to convert a PNG to a JPG and add a sarcastic comment at the end.
Maybe IBM, if the stars align: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38256558
Looks really good. Thanks for sharing it.
Obviously we can discuss the merits of GPT4, but actually my first issue is with his root question;

>> I would make sure that my kids could program computers. It is among the newer arts but also among the most essential

I've got kids. 1 can program. 1 tried it, and didn't like it. 1 just rolled her eyes at me.

Turns out, for most people, programming is not like reading or writing at all. Got a question? Ask Google (or GPT) or Alexa. 99% of people can't code, and will never need to code.

You may as well argue that cooking healthy food is a universally needed skill. Or riding a bicycle, or kicking a ball. All are of course really helpful life skills, but lots of people get by in the world just fine without them.

So as one parent to another, I can tell you that you don't need to worry about this. It's good you have plans for your children. But don't worry too much about it. Turns out children will learn what they are interested in, and pretty much ignore the rest. They'll grow up, change, mature and become functional people in their own right.

No doubt you'll get plenty of eye rolls along the way.
Work on your prompts. Break down the problem into pseudocode steps, the way you might write down comments for yourself on how to do something. Provide examples of similar working code if you can. Don't ask it to do everything at the same time, break it up into limited goal increments.

In my experience LLMs work best if you already know how to do something, but you just can't be bothered to actually do it.

When exploring unknown territory, keep your questions simple and ask for clarification on anything you don't understand. It will not just help you, but the AI as well.
Similarly: https://chat.openai.com/share/bc4a533e-c007-48ea-9232-0e548b...

The "<" is actually an unnecessary additional character to type.
> Yeah, this author sounds more of an up-and-coming software developer.

This is bad. If you don’t have newbie programmers, you won’t have senior programmers.
It's quite amazing how divisive the AI topic turned out to be in HN.

My opinion is that AI proponents extrapolate too much and too optimistically; they always assume linear or simply uninterrupted improvement, and they assume they breadth of AI will increase as well. I see no proof for any of those so far.

Time will tell, obviously, and they may very well turn out to be correct. I just wonder why people get so worked up about it.

Personally I also don't understand why people want the programmer profession to cease to exist but oh well. I guess envy and schadenfreude are factors. I wouldn't know because I don't wish anyone unemployment.
Look up a map of Asia and you will understand why Nepal is more paranoid about China than the US.
India is at #9 and it's very common here too. It's become even more so in the tech sector after remote work. Almost all of my single colleagues live with their parents. And even some of the married ones live with parents or in-laws.

I can understand the appeal - no rentals to pay, way lower cost of living if the parents live in a non-metropolitan area, and - if you have kids - you have someone to take care of them during your meetings.
> Not a single Mac was ever close.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_G3#PowerBook_G3_Fire...
I think thought is different; but I also see no barrier to strong AI. Jobs might be the least of our problems at that point.
Win 7 SP1 was peak desktop computing for sure. Actual desktop-first design without security kindergarten cancer that is every windows OS after.
There were 3 versions of AIX 1.3, One for the IBM RT, one for the PS/2, and one for the PS/2 RT co-processor(Crossbow).

https://ardent-tool.com/AIX_1-3/

https://ardent-tool.com/AIX_1-3/AIX_Origions.html
It doesn't always, but I'll be blunt: if you find yourself frequently writing O(n^2) or O(m * n) algorithms where n, m aren't fundamentally small values, you are doing a massive disservice to your coworkers. There is very rarely any meaningful cost to using something better, and that better thing should come more or less instinctively for the overwhelming majority of cases by the time you have even a little experience as a software engineer. These types of algorithms should immediately jump out at you as a least an orange flag if not a red one.

If you aren't doing better because you don't care, you're inflicting the costs your apathy on everyone else around you. If you aren't doing better because nested for loops is the most ergonomic solution for virtually every problem in your language of choice, you need to reevaluate your choices.

Everything doesn't have to be overengineered to death, but that's a far cry from being okay with regularly and intentionally choosing the actual worst solution that is all but guaranteed to blow up under any kind of growth.
"AI" helps the people who rely on Stack Overflow to do their jobs. Then they come to HN and worry that we will all be out of jobs soon. The problem it solves is "I don't actually know what I am doing at all". These people are not a threat to anyone competent and no amount of questionable code generated by "AI" will change that.
I don't think you addressed the main point.

Do you agree that a simulation that uses a random number generator to flip a coin is different from a physics simulator that measures the exact physics of a coin flipping?

And then after you answer this question, do to understand the parallels to other AI models?
What if testing for launch is higher volume than post launch downloads?
News on Fake News: Logics of Media Discourses on Disinformation [pdf]
A good self-reflection. They discuss five logics of (fake) news about fake news in the Scandinavian context:

(1) anticipation ("it is coming");

(2) exteriorisation ("it is foreign, never by ourselves");

(3) technologization ("it is the AI");

(4) securitization ("it is about national security and we need military to counter it");

(5) pre-legitimation ("ad-hoc speculation about countermeasures in crisis situations").

My personal take is that some of these are counterproductive -- if not outright dangerous, like the case (4). Like everywhere, no one dares to truly reflect upon the case (2).
It seems he latched onto a great business opportunity, and if he'd been able to resist scamming people, he could have become very wealthy.
I think the original post was not obvious: passion w/o logical/ethical correctness is useless
Naturally, any milestone beyond what they've attained previously is a sign of forward progress, no? This isn't a one-and-done rocket like SLS where everything needs to work on mission day, these are test articles we're talking about
I imagine that it will be about as bad as debugging code written by the sort of people who find "AI" helpful.
Bard was far less susceptible to simple context overflows than ChatGPT last time I checked. You can hit GPT4 with just a repeat of the word the for 2-3 prompts in a row and it will start schizoposting. This doesn’t work with Bard