skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One sometimes gets to a second take on that: you don't want to make machines that kill people, until invaders from another country ride into your country (or a country of your friends/neighbors) and start killing, raping and torturing. And suddenly, as you feel frustrated and powerless, you realize that even though you don't want to make machines that kill people, you pretty much have to, otherwise those people will come for you, your family and your friends.

I thought humanity would grow out of senseless aggression in 2024, but here we are. And yes, I am basing this on a specific real-world example of a country invading another country right next to mine, and my specific thoughts and beliefs.
"The housing crisis of the middle class is largely self-inflicted. "

Yeah. With current technology, you can build an incredible amount of housing in a year or so.

The most prominent obstacle is legal, and that's mostly NIMBY activity. You can sink anything into decades of quagmire by weaponizing all sorts of environmental laws and bylaws.
For 7 trillion dollars we could probably build high speed train from NY to London, Or Sydney to LA. Or convert every coal plant in the world into some version of green energy. It's a crazy large amount of money.

You're not old fashioned. You're sensible.
I wonder to what extent its output correlates with that of wind energy in the same region. Having a reasonably independent set of generating technologies might help with the intermittent generation of sun-based renewables.
I still get Next.
There are biological instincts to defend your stuff. Like animals will attack you when you try to steal their things.
There's also a recent US tax quirk that made employing any software engineer much more expensive.

https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/congress-is-running-out-of...
I want to say yes, but putting zfs on luks could leave you with issues where you couldn't import the pool, I wouldn't recommend it personally.

I believe FreeBSD didn't have any qualms with putting zfs on geli, but I'm not the best person to ask about that. In what little I've used FreeBSD, I never bothered with geli.
I love the idea and effort, but when I first tried using it I got a network timeout error when I tried uploading 1 chapter of a PDF book (45 pages, 7MB).
"Brain volume, energy balance, and cardiovascular health in two nonindustrial South American populations"

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2205448120

[Significance]

This article explores brain volume and aging in two indigenous societies. Whereas brain volume is lower with greater body mass index (BMI) in industrialized populations, the association of BMI and non-HDL cholesterol with brain volume is largely positive, only declining with high BMI and cholesterol. This discrepancy represents a form of evolutionary mismatch we call an “embarrassment of riches” due to recent changes in diet, activity, and other environmental exposures. The minimal dementia and coronary artery disease in Tsimane and Moseten, combined with these findings, imply that aging outcomes are optimized at intermediate lifestyle values. Future research should focus on how our evolved biology interacts with conscious goals in relation to eating, exercise, and physiology.

[Abstract]

Little is known about brain aging or dementia in nonindustrialized environments that are similar to how humans lived throughout evolutionary history. This paper examines brain volume (BV) in middle and old age among two indigenous South American populations, the Tsimane and Moseten, whose lifestyles and environments diverge from those in high-income nations. With a sample of 1,165 individuals aged 40 to 94, we analyze population differences in cross-sectional rates of decline in BV with age. We also assess the relationships of BV with energy biomarkers and arterial disease and compare them against findings in industrialized contexts. The analyses test three hypotheses derived from an evolutionary model of brain health, which we call the embarrassment of riches (EOR). The model hypothesizes that food energy was positively associated with late life BV in the physically active, food-limited past, but excess body mass and adiposity are now associated with reduced BV in industrialized societies in middle and older ages. We find that the relationship of BV with both non-HDL cholesterol and body mass index is curvilinear, positive from the lowest values to 1.4 to 1.6 SDs above the mean, and negative from that value to the highest values. The more acculturated Moseten exhibit a steeper decrease in BV with age than Tsimane, but still shallower than US and European populations. Lastly, aortic arteriosclerosis is associated with lower BV. Complemented by findings from the United States and Europe, our results are consistent with the EOR model, with implications for interventions to improve brain health.
Anything that balances is mechanical, you will always end up moving something to compensate for being off center. For instance, you could have two fans spinning to pump air from one side of the device to the other but that would still be mechanical. You could do the same with fluid and so on. But all of it would eventually require a mechanical component to output the reaction force.

Ion drives or selectively colored surfaces don't have enough impulse to do the job, those are the only non-mechanical reaction devices that I know of, but maybe there are others that could work?
Well, the code generation was a mistake, but drawing diagrams is explicitly what the guy in this story did:

He started by sitting at his desk and drawing a lot of diagrams. I was the project coordinator, so I used to drop in on him and ask how things were going. "Still designing," he'd say. He wanted the diagrams to look beautiful and symmetrical as well as capturing all the state information.
Mullvad VPN – an interview with the Swedish mole
Mullvad means mole. The company was founded in March 2009 and we recently spoke to the Managing Director Jan Jonsson.
The real reason is 4: sending the signal to investors that they are a serious big boy company that can make the hard choices and cut budgets when they need to in order to continue to have YoY record profits in fiscally challenging climates.
https://theoldreader.com/

Just toss in a site you like, it'll (try to) find the RSS feed, and you're done.

I have about 50 sites added in the old reader, and it makes following them easy.
My first too; I enjoyed it but if I wasn't meeting up with old friends, I wouldn't have bothered.

Coming from the UK, the city trash and cycling standards seem fine :) There is a darned hill in the way of everything in Brussels, but I brought my bike helmet and buzzed around on hire scooters.

I agree with another poster here, the ventilation in some rooms will just be intolerable for some people. Sometimes windows are opened and you can sit near them, sometimes not. Quite often you will have walked across campus and squeezed onto the floor at the back of a busy room to sweat, straining to hear someone mumble.

The atmosphere around the grubby 60s uni & grey weather is non-existent. But the live streaming is apparently excellent. You don't need to travel to see the talks, and it's easier to quit out of a bad one :)

It's a logistical marvel in some ways, but also a total white boys club, the most homogeneous conference I've ever been to.
And I thought it was because of the draconian conditions of the Versailles peace treaty that ended the Great War. [0]

"Germany accepted responsibility for the war and lost 68,000 km² of territory, including Alsace and Lorraine, which had been annexed in 1870, and 8 million inhabitants. Part of western Prussia was given to Poland, which gained access to the sea through the famous “Polish Corridor”, and Germany agreed to pay the crushing sum of 20 billion gold marks in reparations claimed by France. In addition, it lost most of its ore and agricultural production. Its colonies were confiscated, and its military strength was crippled. Humiliated, Germany seethed for revenge. A new war, which everyone had hoped to avoid, was already blowing up on the horizon almost as soon as the German delegation receded over it." [1]

But thanks for your comment anyway.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles#Germany

[1] https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/key-dates/t...
Cover the sides in something soft? Also it might be possible to control the fall so that the reaction wheel spins up just before estimated impact.
TBF, the current dev team might right now is aware of the edge case how to deal with it, the poor shmuck three years down the line when blood moon eclipse witch chant happens probably wont.

In particular, these edge cases tend to be more complex, require more knowledge and have less margin of errors than the standard errors happening 90% of the time. Leaving them as a gift for the future maintainers is a special kind of dick move.
The problem will come when the distros abandon GTK2 and HexChat will no longer be easily buildable.
Commit messages derived from only code differences (doesn't matter whether they are generated by human or LLM) are generally useless.

A commit message should describe the context and reasoning which lead to a code change.

Describing the change itself is pointless, since you have a diff already.
Feasible, maybe. But has it ever been done before? Are you aware of any papers where lidocaine is used as a treatment for solid tumors, and not simply as an analgesic during or following surgery? Studies in humans would be most relevant, but I'd even be interested in rodent studies if lidocaine is used systemically. (i.e. given orally or injected IP/SC/IV. Having researchers inject lidocaine directly into mouse tumors is not terribly relevant to what you were recommending.)
Well no, it's not in pivot to AI. That's the OpenAI/Microsoft/Others narrative that the FT happily goes along with.
It's because another thing called capitalism and free market. They just hired too many people because of low cost of money, covering many project bets that they wouldn't have pursued if money wasn't as cheap. Now they're cleaning up. That's it. It's not AI. Shame on the FT for pushing the narrative.
I often find it easier not to introduce bugs while I pioneer something than when I integrate with a mountain of existing stuff.
That would seem a fair insight.

But then wonders what the drivers are.
In 2024, the world experienced the warmest January on record
There was the old saying about not using anything with version <= 3.1 from Microsoft.
If they released the movie to the public domain and set up a torrent, wouldn't the value of it be zero to them? And that in an even more irrevocable manner than destroying the copies they have (since you can never be sure that anyone has squirreled it away). Then they would get literally all the critics off their back.
No, it's called reality.

X is going the way of the dodo despite being the former dominant GUI framework on what was at a certain point the dominant workstation OS.

That's how good and used (and valued!) this core functionality is.

https://xkcd.com/1172/
I am not sure if you can "rule investments by fiat" like this. People invest in housing because they distrust investment in businesses, or at least expect smaller returns. That has some underlying cause.

If you ban investment into housing, it does not follow that people will start trusting businesses more and give them their money. I would rather expect the money to find some hitherto unexpected side channel elsewhere.

If, on the other hand, housing ceases to be a good investment because of a glut of housing, people will start investing into something else even without legal pressure to do so.

What almost the entire West has is artificial scarcity of housing, because of overregulation weaponized by NIMBYs. Artificial scarcity can be remedied, though, just like they did in LA.
Google engineer: AI is a serious risk to our business
Neither the resources or the labor are public.
I misinterpreted the article headline in the same way as I think you may have.

This is not suggesting that companies are pivoting from employees to AI, it is suggesting that companies are pivoting to development of AI products, and in that process, "re-skilling" and laying off teams that will be unnecessary for that trend.
But in this case, the "napkin" math of 95 years would be off by 200 years! Hardly a useful estimate for this particular topic. Still confused where you come up with 105 years as an order of magnitude from 30.
Stop blatantly lying. Quote a single sentence in the article where it says Americans think this is normal.

There is a news article about this because we all know this is not normal and this is extremely awful.
> you might have an extra mouth to feed for the first 15-20 years

more like 5-10 years
The U.K. government imposes Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) on the acquisition of land and properties over a specified threshold value. Stamp duty is a crucial aspect of property transactions, often representing a significant expense for buyers.
> maybe not the Faroe Islands

Capital and largest city:

Tórshavn, 62°00′N 06°47′W
I'd add, propagate their /memes/, which originally meant the ideas (and values) that get transmitted through personal connections (not necessarily in gif format). The primal way you get your education, religion, values, etc. is through your parents.
Neither, just an interesting factoid that highlights just how zany the VC landscape was in the MDS space just a few years ago.

https://airbyte.com/blog/the-deck-we-used-to-raise-our-150m-...
In coding the implementation is done by computers, devops, and business people, your job is pretty much like detailed planning, aka writing code.

In woodworking the plan is basically trivial compared to how hard the implementation is, and does not exactly define the finished product, because there's made-to-fit steps.
What about vtune? I was under the impression that it is pretty much the state of art in profiling
Yes that whole section is extremely off:

> How do we know that $7 trillion invested into LLMs and their infrastructure would not simply exacerbate those costs, grinding down content creators, women, and the environment, undermining democracy, destroying jobs, etc?

“Destroying jobs” is pretty much a _good_ thing. I think we’re all pretty happy we don’t need dedicated people anymore for a lot of tedious tasks that we take for granted these days (washing clothes etc)
JointJS releases a 'no-dependency' v4.0
JointJS, an open-source diagramming library based on SVG, has released version 4.0, which finally operates without any external dependencies. Eliminating jQuery, Lodash, and Backbone was (not that surprisingly) a wish of many developers. Now, they can create interactive diagramming applications with a leaner, more intuitive, and high-performing version of the JointJS library.

Here's what's new in v4.0:
• No external dependencies (jQuery, Backbone, Lodash)
• Extensive refactoring for improved performance
• BPMN export to/import from XML, enhancing collaboration across the BPMN tool suite (available in JointJS+)
• Plus, a lot more (read here: https://www.jointjs.com/blog/introducing-version-4)
Ah yes, what I said was toxic because I would have to thank a lot of things for any success I had. Frankly, above a certain amount of income, no one has earned it. That's not toxic, it's just fact. You are welcome, my tax dollars have allowed you to become rich. I'm very glad you were as fortunate as you were, just remember to give back to the society which enabled your wealth!
https://x.com/jaschasd/status/1756930247633825827 :

> So it shouldn't (post-hoc) be a surprise that hyperparameter landscapes are fractal. This is a general phenomenon: in these panes we see fractal hyperparameter landscapes for every neural network configuration I tried, including deep linear networks.
Ask HN: Learning resources specifically about character animation systems?
I.e. how to program one.

Thanks!
C++ Comparison Operator Craziness
Its foss, vtune is proprietary.
> your monitor simply doesn't support the brightness control commands

Or it does but the state of DDC/CI (and HDMI-CEC) is very sad as implementation is inconsistent and subpar to say the least (from order of commands to timing to subtle difference in required payloads that would make the display reject commands).

A dedicated device would cut the GPU out of the equation, but most likely patching ddc tools can be equally fruitful.
That's exactly what TFA says?
> it's pretty much an "alternate universe" situation

Yup. In the early days, hardly anyone paid for software (as such); when you paid for your mainframe, the software, complete with source, was bundled. You also got training, and engineers to help you use the thing. When hardware became cheap, everyone and his dog started writing software, just to learn (or play) with the new hardware.

It's very hard to envisage a scenario where cheap, powerful machinery can't spawn a community of hackers producing free (or very cheap) applications. If your counterfactual scenario contains internal contradictions, it isn't really possible to draw useful conclusions about how that scenario might develop.
The "pivot" is not from employees to AI, it's from other products to AI products.

The headline is a little ambiguous on this, but the article is clear in its premise and conclusions, and I think it's fairly clear to anyone watching the industry that all sorts of companies are jumping on the AI hype, and it's reasonable to expect that a major platform shift like that would come with changes in the necessary skills. Whether that's the real reason or just an excuse is up to you, but that's the premise of the article.
Houses are more like software projects than furniture.
>Ok.. and? Why would that translate to these kinds of valuations?

I don't know. No one knows. It's just a thought. They could be on the verge of GPT5 and will continue to dominate for years to come? They have developed an extremely cost effective LLM delivery platform that open source can't compete against? They have a huge backlog of customers that they can't serve yet because of AI chip shortage?
To be fair, I believe the test suite has improved over the years, but adding new features requires meticulous caution to make sure you don't miss any edge cases, at least on the functional side. But then you occasionally get bugs like
https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/15453 which can't easily be caught by test suites.
Remember when Elon tweeted out that he would spend his potential $6bn tax write-off to save world hunger if only someone would give him a plan, then the UN sent him a plan that would save 42 million people from food poverty, then instead of doing that he donated it to his own foundation instead?

https://truthout.org/articles/musk-pledged-6b-to-solve-world...
>> Give a dev a clear API and a well defined set of criteria

If you've got that - why do you need the developer? Genuine question. If the technology requirements are that well defined why on earth do i need to pay engineer level salaries for such basic work? As you said, and i agree:

>> Give a dev a clear API and a well defined set of criteria, and most will write code that works very well

At that point of having clear criteria, there are only 2 tasks left:

1. write some code that satisfies this outcome
2. write it in a way such that it can be cheaply changed in future

As a business owner, i care about 1 to make bank and as an astute business owner, I care about 2 to keep making bank.

But but but performance! durability! ... <many more of the -ilities of software that an experienced engineer will claim to just take in their stride...>

As a customer of this software developement process, these are just the next cycle of requirements to feed into the machine - hey take this thing you did, make it faster while obeying rule #2 above.

It would not surprise me if ChatGPT were able to cover 80%+ of a problem that well defined.

I totally get the attraction to focus on the fun bit, but it's not how the business world is designed to work in most cases.

For what it's worth i think you nailed the actual value opportunity for a strong dev:

>> no one actually knows what they're building

If you can nail that, you're always gonna be valuable. We talk about programming and coding but actually, this is more of the role. The coding part of the puzzle is easy in comparison.

As for:

>> and even if they do it keeps changing because "agile"

If your understanding of why requirements are in constant flux amounts to pinning it on "agile", you're not even on the field yet never mind winning the game.
The benchmarks are there, just run `cargo bench`
nope. not even your own ringtone for their chimes. No control whatsoever
When major corporations say they are cutting jobs due to AI, it’s not because of internal productivity gains (and this is not what they are claiming), outside of niche cases like content moderation, etc. Rather, the layoffs occur because these companies are making large capital investments, billions of dollars, into additional compute, training data, etc. Vast sums of money will continue to be spent in hopes of… something or other.

Ex. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/google-layoffs-2024-sundar-...
What's confusing about the term "pregnant person?" It seems very clear to me and has the benefit of being more inclusive.
One at 8, the other at 9, but it was a bit more complicated with the older one because we wobbled and sent her back to school.

I home educated them. We started with a focus on interesting stuff, when they were ready we started studying for GCSEs (UK exams taken in schools at 16 - roughly the same level as a high school diploma in the US) which we spread out by taking some early rather than all at once as at school. Both my daughters did/are doing very well in these. Lots of time for other interests, hobbies and socialising too.

After that back to a sixth form college (a school for 16+) to do A levels (roughly equivalent level to APs in the US). Younger one has not got to that stage yet, the older one did very well (AAA*A for anyone from the UK) and is now doing a degree apprenticeship (working while studying, gets a salary plus university fees paid) in electrical engineering.
It is - in the generation of my grandparents one income could feed an entire family AND lead to a house (no vacations though, and not much luxury)

Nowadays even if you have good jobs it really depends on a lot of circumstances if you can afford such a life (albeit mostly with more luxury and vacations) with two incomes.

Effectively the worth of income nearly halved.
Well I’ll be damned, apparently they do. Thanks!
I don't know if anyone mentionned it yet, but a big thing is that, while woodworking, you spend most of the time standing up AND moving around.
Or: it’s a good excuse to procrastinate another day and grade those exams next week.
If FF dies Mozilla is over.
Wow, that's a pretty extreme interpretation of all this.

Like a sibling poster, it reminds me of all the religious people who claim that atheists can't be moral because we don't have a god to guide us.

I do have skin in the game, even without kids. On a basic level, I care about the rest of my life, which hopefully will last another 50 years. I care about the planet and about future generations because that's the right thing to do, because short-termism and excessive consumption is a cancer.

And even if I won't have kids, I have nieces and nephews, and I have dear friends who have children. I want them to be able to grow up and live in a good, safe, comfortable world.

Frankly I find your point of view profoundly condescending and insulting. You don't need to have children to care about the future.
What is not realistic? We're talking about Sweden here.
There could be various other reasons as well. For instance, males tend to be older in a family than females, so the 35-year cut-off may be too early to consider. Additionally, there is the desirability factor, where the most successful or desirable males may have multiple 'families,' or at least children from multiple women