skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've found "Programming Sucks"[1] is a good way to explain to non-programmers what a shit-show it is.

> Imagine joining an engineering team. You’re excited and full of ideas, probably just out of school and a world of clean, beautiful designs, awe-inspiring in their aesthetic unity of purpose, economy, and strength. You start by meeting Mary, project leader for a bridge in a major metropolitan area. Mary introduces you to Fred, after you get through the fifteen security checks installed by Dave because Dave had his sweater stolen off his desk once and Never Again. Fred only works with wood, so you ask why he’s involved because this bridge is supposed to allow rush-hour traffic full of cars full of mortal humans to cross a 200-foot drop over rapids. Don’t worry, says Mary, Fred’s going to handle the walkways. What walkways? Well Fred made a good case for walkways and they’re going to add to the bridge’s appeal. Of course, they’ll have to be built without railings, because there’s a strict no railings rule enforced by Phil, who’s not an engineer. Nobody’s sure what Phil does, but it’s definitely full of synergy and has to do with upper management, whom none of the engineers want to deal with so they just let Phil do what he wants. Sara, meanwhile, has found several hemorrhaging-edge paving techniques, and worked them all into the bridge design, so you’ll have to build around each one as the bridge progresses, since each one means different underlying support and safety concerns. Tom and Harry have been working together for years, but have an ongoing feud over whether to use metric or imperial measurements, and it’s become a case of “whoever got to that part of the design first.” This has been such a headache for the people actually screwing things together, they’ve given up and just forced, hammered, or welded their way through the day with whatever parts were handy. Also, the bridge was designed as a suspension bridge, but nobody actually knew how to build a suspension bridge, so they got halfway through it and then just added extra support columns to keep the thing standing, but they left the suspension cables because they’re still sort of holding up parts of the bridge. Nobody knows which parts, but everybody’s pretty sure they’re important parts. After the introductions are made, you are invited to come up with some new ideas, but you don’t have any because you’re a propulsion engineer and don’t know anything about bridges.

> Would you drive across this bridge? No. If it somehow got built, everybody involved would be executed. Yet some version of this dynamic wrote every single program you have ever used, banking software, websites, and a ubiquitously used program that was supposed to protect information on the internet but didn’t.

> You can’t restart the internet. Trillions of dollars depend on a rickety cobweb of unofficial agreements and “good enough for now” code with comments like “TODO: FIX THIS IT’S A REALLY DANGEROUS HACK BUT I DON’T KNOW WHAT’S WRONG” that were written ten years ago.

[1] https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
I think the point would be excluding or otherwise filtering "flawless" copy from search results.

If that were the case I think it would benefit non-native speakers.
YouTube's fine for me mostly, unless logged out which is a nightmare.
It's hardly a PITA, I've done this a few times and as long as you use the dind docker image, it's easy to forget you're even using DIND.
"Yeah, it sucks for everybody and it doesn't work very well, but it scales!"

Not picking on you, this is a very common refrain. The apparent advantages of scalable processes seem to trump the demonstrable disadvantages, especially in hiring. The end result is a system most people acknowledge flat-out sucks, it just flat-out sucks in bulk. We say "hiring the right people is the most important thing we do, so let's mechanize it and spend as little time-per-unit as possible". I find it more sad than funny.
I've rented out a couple of cars on Turo, one an efficient 4-cylinder gas car, the other an EV. The EV renters seemed to have a realistic expectation of what to expect in terms of charging (I also included a level 1 charger for those with access to a plug).
This is why I'm paying for my email service, and use Linux with thunderbird.
So does GNU Guile and Gauche Scheme
Sam has stated he doesn’t have an equity stake in OpenAI

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sam-altman-says-doesn-t-20432...
It's a cascade of issues, but it really comes down to "people didn't want EVs when offered". For want of renters, the Uber was used. For want of Uber gentleness, the repairs mounted, etc.

I honestly can't fault them, they tried a thing and they ran into real issues.

I suspect that Tesla themselves could manage a (smaller) rental EV fleet for those who wanted them, and do decently well (they could rent out used cars they've prepped for sale).
Most people still have no idea how a website works, they don't understand what a domain is, how to attach email to it or what the difference is between gmail and email. for 80% of people gmail is effectively personal email and the desktop outlook app is work email, there is no further thoughts on this subject.
Boeing had an amazing engineering record, then it merged with a company known for having a terrible engineering record. The executives who ran the shoddy company basically took over Boeing from the old management. Now Boeing is a company with a terrible engineering record. Look at what happened to GE, it was the same style of management that ruined Boeing.
I like these explicit and "transparent" computers.
Does anyone know of a similar computer using LEDs as logical gates in a way we can "see" what and how things are being computed?
But it does! They, instead, hash each letter independently, that's how they can do this.
Ask HN: Has anyone used OrangeHRM as a HRIS solution? How was your experience?
You can use a Windows build on wine.
Something is very wrong with your system configuration if VS Code has issues showing keystrokes in realtime. It's not a VS Code or electron problem.
Lol. We exist.

I got the taste for raspberry ripple ice cream in my mid-20s, and ate 10 litres a week - that's 2000+ kcal a day just in dessert.

That's not binging. I put that on top of 500g dry weight of pasta with cheese and sauce, and kept it up for months. Plus breakfast, lunch, and several beers. And packets of chocolate biscuits. I was covering 10km a week or less, no marathons. No tapeworms, either.

You may be right that I was shitting a lot of it out; the horrible shits are what turned me off the ice cream habit. Nonetheless, I ate well over 4000 kcal every day, for years, and never put on weight. 6000 was typical. And most of that was potatoes and wheat, which are very bio-available carbs. I've always been a black hole for food.

I suspect I radiate it as heat. Exes have told me I'm hot - in a caloric sense. I feel the cold more, now that I eat less.

To the overweight, if it helps at all, know that I have other struggles.
> This stuff is too new to have been thoroughly researched.

Maybe i am too old. Does the name Alice says anything to you ?
Ashkenazi Intellectual Prominence
Genius (I use the term advisedly) list of this descent (that i could recall off the top): John Von Neumann, Stephen Fry, Edward Witten, Perelman, Bobby Fischer....
His point was that it's not the only factor, and if you read that paper he cited there is a breakdown of exactly what factors contributed to happiness.

A social support network was one of the highest ranked, much higher than GDP per capita (the wealth of a nation, which can be used as a proxy for personal income if you have a Gini index to weight it against).

Finland comes out well ahead even if you weight it against Gini, and Finnish developers aren't earning more than US folks by a country mile.
> the economy is shit for tech

Even this is overstating it. It's shit for some segments of the tech sector, but in other segments it's going gangbusters. On the whole, it doesn't seem unusually good or bad.
Apparently they thought that their staff were all always dishonest and this new computer system was finally revealing this truth, or something like that.
A rare exception to Betteridge's Law.
LLMs are in this sense the (economically) perfect business to be in: a near perfect solution to a catastrophic problem created by their own existence.

Modern top-flight LLMs are hitting to within 10 or 20% of Google at the very start.

Google in like 2001 or whatever was fucking magic: vast official data had been put on the “information superhighway”, the non-POSIX-spec stuff was people cool enough to host a website, and spam was, like on AOL or something.

You just got a white page, a box, a button, and the answer.

I suspect that for people under 35 or 40, LLMs feel kinda like Google did.
https://archive.is/72aRe
This was the original use case of bitcoin's Proof of Work system. Initally it was to impose a (nominal) fee on senders of email by mail clients.

If you didn't submit a proof of work of N or greater difficulty the email would be thrown out.
I got tired of typing bc -l years ago, I have a function so I can do it on the command line: calc 2^27 + 3^15. I wish somehow the shell would let me add parens here, instead of having to escape them with a quote.

function calc2
{
if [ $# -eq 0 ];
then echo 'pass commands for math evaluation, like calc l(2^32/17) + 3';
fi;
echo $* | bc -l;
}
On the Static Nature of Traversals
Answering the question by repeating the myth doesn't really seem to be what they are asking for.
idea: search engine that only indexes pages that don't have advertisements
In my experience with desktop Linux for a family set of users, only some of which are computer-savvy, LinuxMint was a really good option that provides a familiar UI/UX for Windows users, and generally "just works". I preferred mucking about with KDE and was also generally happy with Kubuntu.
One of those cases where Betteridge’s law fails - the answer is yes.
that's true, the economy doesn't reward human needs and the bad ones bubble up above and end up controlling your life..
What is all this based on?

> Biden being a public figure does though, as he would have to demonstrate "actual malice" on your part to win.

Imagine how many people write falsehoods about Biden with clear, actual, malice! Biden cannot sue them (in a meaningful sense).
Yes, more solar is great! But we already have working fission!
NB: "better than any book I've read" is easily satisfied by someone who doesn't read.
Maybe, Rent a gas car if your going to drive that much and not charge at home.
> a resale impact it doesn't matter much if the price is low or high

If you're actually trying to sell them, it does. If you're marking your assets on a balance sheet, the "price" matters more than the price.
I have a non-Tesla EV (Kia EV6). I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have gotten it if I didn't charge at home. (We've done a couple of long trips in it, including cross-country, but I had lower expectations of what the experience would be like)
Better cultivate meaningful relationships instead of reinforcing a sick institution like the fake office friendship.

Your family, friends, neighbors.
Do these AI accelerators even support common implementations for LLM inference or stable diffusion models?

Last time I checked, AMD's support was terrible.
What's his native language? One would need a dictionary going from English into that.
I worked in tech (DAX company) in Germany for almost a decade and we were unionized.

I'd say the union was one of the main reasons why we didn't have mass layoffs when the company was in a hard spot. Instead more acceptable options like part-time and voluntary resignation with exit packages were negotiated and still met similar cost saving goals.

In small shops you probably won't have a union but they don't tend to hire&fire like the big multinationals.
yep, i understand that view, but i'm going to keep calling it a library because i think it's a library, but I get it
Fast, trustable, and interconnected is a function of the infrastructure, so everyone who wants to host still needs a data center.
I agree that many packages in the JS ecosystem don't respect semantic versioning, which is why I pin my dependencies to an exact version. For updates, I rely on automated bots submitting PRs that update a single package at a time and run my test suites. But even if they did respect semver, I'd still use exact versions, because I want full control over when I update my dependencies, and I don't want lockfile updates leaking into unrelated PRs just because a developer ran `yarn install`. Yes, you can use `yarn install --immutable` (and you should in CI/prod), but this will fail if the lockfile changes, which it would if the semver resolved to an updated version. I just want to `yarn install` without changing the lockfile.

If you pin to an exact version, and use a lockfile, then you won't ever pull in any updates on `yarn install`, and installing your package in three years will result in downloading the exact same code as it does today. Just make sure you use nvm to pin Node, and corepack to pin your package manager, and you have a fully reproducible build chain as long as the dependencies are not unpublished from npm (which they can't be, after 72 hours of publishing).

The only time it makes sense to use a semver range is in the `peerDependencies` of a published library. Even the `dependencies` of a library should use an exact range. Why? Because firstly, if I'm following best practices, I should be bundling my library before publishing it as a package. And secondly, if that bundle depends on another package, that's okay because npm dependency model allows having multiple copies/versions of the same package. But if it's something like Emotion depending on React, where I only want one copy of the library at runtime, then I should use a peer dependency, and here it does make sense to refer to it with a semver range.
There's just little benefit in HTMX unless you have a live financial dashboard or something like that.

I find the opposite approach of local-first (database in the client).

It fits more solutions and solves many more things (free offline, syncing, undo support) and getting rid of caching, retries, and latency.

Of course the industry wants you to want more on the server though.

Same view applies to RSC (react server components).

Embrace CRDTs.
Well it's the way GE was run and look what happened to them. Caring only about your share price is a great way to ruin a company. The share price should be the result of a well run business not the true north of the company. By making the metric into the goal it totally defeats the purpose of the metric.
That's a cool thing for them to do, an interesting business choice, but cool. It certainly helps the companies feel a little better about vendor lock-in, which is terribly plentiful in the cloud.

The TLDR is that when you tell them you want to cancel, you have 60 days to do so and during that time you'll have no egress fees. Makes sense.

Biggest problem though is... if you have a substantial amount of data or need to do a complex and seamless transition - this probably won't work for you. I would have to be on the DevOps team that's told to move a complicated and data-heavy application, and they only had 60 days to do so. Also the bulk of the data movement is, in my experience, one of the first steps of migration - not the last.

My hope is that, if nothing else, this will spur similar behaviors in other large cloud providers ::cough::aws::cough::.
Reminds me of Numenta's Thousand Brains Theory of Intelligence.
> Cybertruck vs Cybertruck crash

An unstoppable force hitting an immovable object.
exactly. Let's assume 1k viewers and 2/3 of them watching on 'source' quality, which is usually 6 mbps. In this scenario, we're looking at 4 Gbps or 500 MB/s.
For a 4h long stream that's 7.2TB! of bandwidth, just for one streamer, excluding the viewers on lower quality
You’re saying things like “metamind” but I’m the person writing nonsense? Okay, bud.
Problem is that lots of cases just cannot be replaced, period. But probably those people will keep around some old ubuntu and will be hacked through those, also not removing but keeping around after the deadline until it needs work would also make sense. If work would be needed, then just remove. We might have like 2-10 years before that happens.

Whole stuff is about security and that kind of implies some “probably best before” tags anyway. Sacrificing security is not worth it and your reasoning is sane.
Recall your entire house is a thermal battery too!

In fact, all the four major energy loads in a house - Heating/Cooling, Water heating, EV Charging, House Battery - are extremely flexible.

But we're still lacking good standards for reliable control. Today we do stuff like tell your HVAC to stop via vendor X's cloud API. What happens if your router dies after we send a "stop" command in the middle of the winter?

For many of the minisplits I see control code for, they'd just let the house freeze, waiting forever for another command that'll never arrive.

For critical functions like "keep my water pipes from freezing" / "be able to drive to work in the morning", we need much better standards for reliable control and safe failure modes.
I presume you mean migrate from dynamic to static. check out Dart.
Can confirm. For a fleet owner, cost to repair vehicle is generally modeled as an [1] exponentially distributed rv, which has a positive skew, so [2] mean > median.

[1] https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/187618/finding-comb...

[2] https://i.stack.imgur.com/2w6it.png
I'd look mainly at the amount of code you have to provide to them and the infrastructure (e.g. JSX) they require.

Not saying there isn't a blurry line here.
I'm guessing no, as these newly announced processors are the first with those accelerators.

> AMD is also bringing the power of a dedicated AI neural processing unit (NPU) to desktop PC processors for the first time with the introduction of Ryzen™ AI
Actually that's a good point. People that aren't used to electric cars maybe can't be trusted with the absurd acceleration.

Even my parents Leaf leaps like a fish when you start it, I can only imagine how many people get into fender benders when driving a Tesla for the first time without really having a chance to get used to the feel.
> New AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Desktop Processors Bring More Performance to Legacy Socket AM4 Platforms

Wait, what? New chips for the old platform? I wonder what the driving factor even is to compel them to produce these?
Authenticity is so much more than "I am using a non-public number to mathematically sign this data", that's the whole problem. It's the same as crypto people not understanding that pretty much zero theft/fraud/crime happens through a simple man in the middle attack, so building a terrible machine that can ONLY prevent that method is mediocre at anything else.

Gram and Gramp are going to get their keys phished. An LLM screed signed by Gramps stolen key isn't authentic even though it 100% mathematically is. Authenticity is about the mindset and intentions of the creator.
Original (this is my video):

https://x.com/CityIsMyChurch/status/1745242580760027445?s=20
w3m is also available and also pretty good (but doesn't appear to have the lovely colour style system that Lynx has.)
I consider myself an old unix person, but I use dc. Possibly to make it more confusing to anyone who looks at what I'm doing.

It also gives the math result here of course.

% dc
9999999999999999.0 9999999999999998.0 - p
1.0
%
i'm in ur walls
there are dozens of us. dozens!

The big question is how are they going to do it without giving the vultures root access
This is an interesting thought. There are already some energy meters you can add to monitor all of the circuits in your house. It's a short step from there to have smart breakers or switches to help retrofit old-fashioned heaters, radiant systems, etc as thermal storage. Electric buffer tanks may become a cost effective installation when paired with an on-demand water heater and time-of-use electric pricing.
I'm not sure that I understand this.

The openssh developers supporting outdated systems and software forever also isn't a long term solution. Why should they pay this cost, but not you (or your company)?

If you can keep unsupported hardware in operation, why can't you keep a containerized openssh image around, or maybe a VM image, or ideally a statically linked executable?

Maybe your company can hire an expert in software archival to set this up and maintain it if needed, or an extra developer to maintain an openssh fork that supports your environment.

Expecting other people (who you don't even pay) to support your outdated systems doesn't really make sense.
Extreme integrated GPUs? Marketing department going wild
Well, we could try something with skin in the game. We could test our strategies. $1k to a charity of our choice 1:1? I'll say their best predictions today for capacity 2 years from now will be under the capacity 2 years from now.

If you're in SF, I'll send someone to make a deal with you. It's not on Kalshi or we could have some fun.
Facebook should be forced to pay € 251.88 per year to all the user who consented to keep the symmetry. It's only fair if that's how much data violating basic privacy is worth to Facebook.
The same thing happened with the Starliner, Boeing's space vehicle. Shoddy engineering, failed tests, long delays. Plus there's plenty of anecdotal evidence from current and former employees.
That's me, and I have yet to discover any upper limit - I eat less now because I'm bored of chewing.
Fruit Stripe gum has been discontinued after 54 years
> […] but this idea of "just" using past releases seems theoretical.

* https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=openssh-client-s...
Correction, I want nuclear. Put it in my back yard, even.
I mentioned Beat Saber? Did you skip reading the list?
He's using it to mean "high duty cycle over a time-period of minutes". That would be relevant if his criticism was "we don't know how to build lasers that use that much power for that much time" (which is true, currently), but in fact his criticism was that it would require industrial power plants capable of outputting 100 GW (which is wrong). The big power draw of 100 GW over ~minute timescales is for the purposes of launching one probe. After that your power draw stops and you can recharge for as long as you want before the next probe launch. So it's not high duty cycle over timescales longer than hours or days or years.
Nb their navy already barely existed, however.

[EDIT] I just mean that the magnitude of this event was a lot smaller than one might imagine from a context-free "half".
> Sure, I update the servers and software, but the actual amount of work needed for the site is, quite literally, zero.

I think this is what I said? Quoting myself:

> Even if it's a static HTML, you need to patch your webserver, OS, and migrate the whole stack to newer versions.

I don't think I said "you need to update/patch the webpage itself".

Huh. The password masking algorithm changes some words possibly.
I agree, if it was just the issue with showing me the car it would have been excusable, although I'm not sure what would happen to someone less tech-savy, but anyways. It was the combination of issues at every step along the way that made the experience less than stellar.
Same with me and my brother when I was a kid. Family story: we made our own Monopoly from paper & cardboard after our parents banned us from playing the game. Wonder where that ended up.

Monopoly really is a nasty game, because it models the nasty aspects of capitalism/markets + human nature quite well, I guess.
OpenAI's product might just print out the info you put in verbatim to another user if asked politely
AI Threatens to Crush News Outlets. Lawmakers Signal Change Ahead
Are they wrong? I would say they're right, oil is in fact vital to global security.
This just assumes someone else fixes the storage/overprovision problem, otherwise energy will get cheaper in the summer and more expensive in the winter until storing euros does not work.