skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't follow at all. It just means that there are still low-hanging fruits to pursue for better (smarter, faster, larger context etc) new models, but it doesn't say anything about the stability and usefulness of existing models.
Yes. These companies are faceless entities, literal money printing machines where some people in charge are the gods who get to decide what to do with the money printer.

They hold an insane monopolistic position. Often these companies utilize verticals which obliterate entire business segments because they are allowed to give products for free (MS Teams for example).

This should not happen.
this is the correct order of operations for sure
> The world of the 1800s was a world of hereditary title

what book did you read that in?

"titles" never existed in the US. And AFAIK, there weren't any "garage startups" in countries that still had them in the 1800s.
> Did he see the disaster as an opportunity to ply his trade at an even greater scale?

So what? The artist had a style of art in which he was an expert and known for. I totally get and respect that his art is not your cup of tea, but I don't see any negatives in the fact that he did see the opportunity to build this as a opportunity to "ply his trade" as you put it. Would you rather have him build something in a style he's totally unfamiliar with and bad at?
Congratulations!

If you have bad weather, it may ruin the eclipse. Don't let it ruin the wedding by letting it ruin your attitude.
Frozen embryos are children with all rights? What's next? Women who have periods are serial killers and must be kept pregnant at all times? Most of those frozen embryos are less than a dozen stem cells. You lose far more skin cells every second.

There is no way to describe this other than religious crankery.
Well hopefully they take it more seriously.

Because based on them raising $8m in a seed round middle of last year they aren't going to have much time to decide and implement a strategy before they will need to start thinking about raising a Series A. Or maybe Jack does become a bigger investor.

Either way I think it's insane to prematurely rule out advertising.
One possible alternative is to combine PROGN with LET, which you might then call BLOCK, with the macro definition of BLOCK looking for `VAR`s. The VAR syntax wouldn't make sense anywhere else. More exactly:

(block
(var first-thing 'EXAMPLE)
(do-something)
(var foo 'EXAMPLE)
(do-something-else))

Expand this into:

(let ((first-thing 'EXAMPLE))
(do-something)
(let ((foo 'EXAMPLE'))
(do-something-else)))

This would reduce indentation. But it would also involve big changes to Common Lisp.
Yes. Getting fired ruins lives. It causes divorces, suicides, depression, home defaults, and more. Firing and laying people off should be more painful for the company than it should be for the firees.
Ask HN: Has AI Solved the Embodiment Problem? Stumbling Upon Virtual Embodiment
Perhaps the phenomenon of embodiment is not as monolithic as it seems.
We understand embodiment as physical, reliant upon senses, contact, proximity etc. and that the condition of embodiment confers the capability for practical, existentially sustainable interaction with a physical environment that a non-embodied AI would not be expected to have.
But what if it turns out to be possible, in the course of successfully representing those things within the AI, to reach a state which one might label as being synthetic or virtual embodiment.
Perhaps the latest developments in AI such as Sora, in their 'creation of relatively convincingly realistic virtual worlds' from their interpretation of a prompt combined with their training that acquaints them sufficiently well with the practical characteristics of the physical world, turn out, unexpectedly, to have a sufficiently workable appreciation of the nature of the physical world such that they ‘feel’ sufficiently embodied in a virtual world (or even under certain inherent potential constraints, the real physical world) to equip them to deliver the level of competence of interaction and insightful intuition that would otherwise have only hitherto come from physical embodiment.
Probably a good way to cultivate your garden of technical debt.
Too many words to just say "Google has bought Reddit data wholesale to train its LLMs".
For the sake of argument, does that mean all those employees were useless or does it mean the management isn't doing a good job of allocating them to effective work? I've been at a few companies that were rudderless and yeah, letting go of people wouldn't have made much difference because the leadership didn't know what to do with them anyway.
Bluesky Pds
ReactOS is supposed to be able to use Windows drivers, IIRC, which definitely could be are advantage over Linux.
> when robots entered the chat and manufacturing jobs got outsourced

FWIW: Car manufacturers have started moving back away from robots because productivity gains have not quite materialized. Turns out humans are really really good at solving small problems in real time without needing a bunch of hand holding.

> Research in a highly automated German car body production plant found as many as 20 to 30 human interventions per shift were needed to prevent major flaws in quality and productivity. Agile, cost effective, and high-quality operations in the automotive industry require adaptability and the ability to change quickly, and humans can be more flexible and capable than production line robots.

> Human labour also won in studies conducted by Toyota comparing the time it took people and machines to assemble a car.

https://www.performancedrivers.com.au/single-post/robots-hum...
> THAT's why you go to an Ivy. It's where the successful go.

I'd rephrase that as 'going to an Ivy (or equal non Ivy notable school like Stanford) - gives you - all things equal - a better chance of success' (by various points made by others who have replied to the parent comment).

Now what's interesting is the parent comment 'why would anyone ... a joke' clearly shows that they don't understand at all the value or branding. As if it's some type of mass delusion of stupid people.
so, this is the AI company they got $60M from, lol.
Here's a nice guide to home-garage-level designing and prototyping of electronic devices:

https://predictabledesigns.com/how-to-develop-and-prototype-...

Note however that the post-design prototyping stage is all done with off-the-shelf boards and similar components, there are no recommendations for developing surface mount soldering skills [1] or home semiconductor fabs[2], which are indeed cool but more in the hobby/art space. (look up 'surface mount assembly' on YT for why, e.g. Bittele)

[1] https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/a-beginners-guide-to...

[2] https://www.wired.com/story/22-year-old-builds-chips-parents...
Must be one of them fabled 10x engineers.
Are there any independent projects implementing the AT protocol?
"A recently departed employee had a core router's power going through a wall switch. This was done to facilitate quick reboots. A cleaning contractor turned off the switch thinking it was a light. It took us several hours to determine the situation and restore power"
I hope you are not an education professional with a view that narrow-minded.
Yes, and the point about security through obscurity is what I was addressing in my response. Security through obscurity is, especially by itself, bad security. By bad I partially mean ineffective: Attackers (e.g., to continue using your examples, the person who really want to signal that they really do not like black people to fellow racists, or the person who prompt-engineers GPT to replicate bomb-building instructions from the internet) can still get what they want done with some extra effort, and the threat model isn't actually such that subjecting them to inconvenience in doing this really matters a lot. Also, independent auditors can't adversarially improve the system, which is a staple of how robust security systems work and have worked for decades, despite the protestations of big tech companies who stand to profit from additional secrecy and, often, plausibly deniable security failures. By bad I also mean detrimental, because not having clear policies creates Kafkaesque situations for users and removes accountability for the choices made in those policies. Even if this somehow helped security - which again it doesn't - these negative effects of that secrecy would be a tradeoff
It's the only place in the house where the wife can't harass her husband to tidy up.
Welcome to the Future of Television: The TV you strap to your face
> However, dealing with a Raspberry Pi is a hassle: plugging in the wires, booting the board, accessing the shell, etc

Probably just could have configured USB OTG, so its powered by the device you plug in, enable shell, then scripted this. Then you can configure mounts over ssh, commands over ssh, probably even mount the device.

That being said, I encourage people to try to understand their devices, read the kernel, etc. Its something I strive to continually improve. Lets fix our own shit :D.
I don’t understand people in the comments who think Google wanted this. Google disabled image creation of people to fix the bug. It’s obviously not desirable behavior, but it plays into the narrative of a certain flavor of culture war.
Ask HN: What would stop me from building the original version of ruined service?
Let's take NextDoor for an example. It's a good idea and it used to be a better site but it has gone the way of enshittification. If you tried to build from scratch a competitor which is more like the original version of the site, what kind of troubles would you run into? This is not specific to NextDoor it could be any app or service that got ruined.
No video in 2024 is a total deal breaker for most users. That's insane.
Rather underwhelming from which point of view?
> and there is no visible dip in the productivity, is it really a bad thing?

A few issues to consider:

1. Many companies can continue to operate for a time purely based on momentum and existing pipelines. That does not mean that this is sustainable.

2. The lack of a visible dip does not mean the internals are healthy. Often layoffs are accompanied with an expectation to "do more with less", which generally means the conditions going south for remaining workers.

3. In an economy that is predicated on everyone having a job or enough income to spend money to support the continued existence of companies, it is not sufficient to look only at the output of the company itself.

Bullshit jobs may be a real thing, but much of the system is built on "bullshit", all in service of perpetuating the ongoing success of the system.

If every company could automate every function and there were no employees anywhere, this would obviously not be sustainable in the long run, and it becomes more apparent that the role of the worker is not just about the company's output, and is intrinsic to the whole system, and that's something we'll have to contend with eventually.

I'm not arguing that this is a good thing, or that companies should keep people for no reason, but we're in an era where technology is increasingly disrupting core aspects of the system.
It looks like a relatively easy to learn language.

The QT bindings are pretty up to date according to the wiki:

https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Qt5_Interface

https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Qt6_Interface
So basically what you have to do is create a social service , make sure everything is open with an easy to use dev API to get the enthusiasts and third party clients going.

And then once you’re big enough you close all the doors and then try to get big players to pay you for access?
For the original post (OP): Didn't see
any mention of market. Hard work,
youth, talent, dreams, obsession,
dedication, novelty, risk taking, and an
available empty garage -- these don't mean
that there is or will be a market. No
market, no successful company.

As I read the OP, all or nearly all the
successes had two things in common but not
mentioned: (1) There was a market or
nearly so; i.e., there was a nascent
market. Plenty of people wanted the
product or soon would after seeing it.
(2) Not only was there at least a nascent
market, due to various external
circumstances, that market was growing
quickly.

Exercise:

Ford cars? NYC had lots of horses and,
thus, some very dirty streets. Cars
didn't poop. Out in the country, a Model
T was a better way to get to the retail
stores in the nearest town than horse
power.

"External circumstances:" The oil
industry was ready to supply gasoline and
lubrication. The oil industry? The
steamship Titanic was powered by oil.
Wars, which wanted motor powered vehicles.

Google? The Internet was exploding in
bytes per second, users, uses, revenue,
.... For many parts, especially social
media, and as a whole, the Internet had a
gravitational effect, i.e., the bigger
it became, the faster it grew in, e.g.,
number of new users, revenue, ..., per
month. So, quickly there became a need
for Internet (Web) search, and Google
grew.

Facebook? As in the movie The Social
Network, the small start of Hot or Not
at Harvard spread quickly among
universities and then, as it became
social with the gravitational effect,
had explosively rapid growth and, thus,
both contributed to and benefited from the
gravitational effect in general of the
Web, Internet, microprocessor based
computing, etc.

Boeing? From cars, gasoline engine
technology to power the airplanes. Wars
for a market. Planes that could take off
and land on water -- the planes didn't
need airports and provided a faster way to
cross oceans.

So, in general: The economy moves along
and creates a new need, i.e., a nascent
market. Some likely new circumstances
make it possible to meet this need, make
the nascent market real. Then more
circumstances make the market grow
quickly. Timed just right, not too early,
not too late, sometimes even a garage
sized startup can meet the need and grow
quickly.
I second this. Awk is one of my favorite programming languages (I would even say, one of my favorite tools) and "The AWK Programming Language" is definitely a worthy book.
That seems… cheap?
Nearly every school will give you a quality education, but elite schools will allow you to put that education to better use. There's nothing cynical about thinking of your education as an investment you'd want to optimize, indeed many people suffer for years because they spent way more on an education than they actually valued it.
The thing about MAD is that the button only needs to be pushed once. We're on a tight rope until we aren't.
> It's not about the quality of education at all, then.

As the saying goes, "It ain't the grades you make, but the hands you shake."
I'm pretty sure a lot of this is connected to the bond market. Companies are running out of operating capitol. When they try and get an operating loan the terms are onerous. Rather than refinance they are electing to perform layoffs to maintain solvency.

It does not matter how good you are doing in contrast to previous years. If your loan comes due and you can't afford another one to keep that revolving credit going you need to free up the capitol to pay.
The entire server? That's crazy. Are you doing FP8 training or did you encounter this with BF16?
i assume it didn’t. unfortunately, decentralised web projects don’t always do that well at having each others’ backs. (Matrix maintains a presence on Bluesky tho: https://bsky.app/profile/matrix.org)
Also, “Google has bought insurance against future subreddit blackouts”
If the goal is to have cheap, dedicated space where you can build stuff, it probably makes a lot more sense to buy an old but sizable house, with land, in a remote place. These are cheaper than garages, and no one will be there to complain about the noise, or how bad your activity looks to the neighborhood. The cost of living tends to be cheaper than in metro areas too.

There are drawbacks too, but it is not like you are going to commute, so one of the biggest one is out. For internet and utilities, some remote places are remarkably well served.

Now, if you are doing software, you don't need any of that, all you need is a computer and you can do it from your bedroom.
It is insane how much time is wasted in the interview process for an industry where the wages are so high. What a waste of talent.

If AI can be used to improve the process on the candidate side, can the same be done on the employer's side?

Is there an interview process that deduplicates effort across multiple job interviews?
Sure it is. The layout randomization is not at all like a cryptographic secret because it can be extracted from the contents of the binary. Kerckoff's principle means that adversary gets access to literally everything except the private key. If you've got access to the contents of the binary then you can get around aslr.
What the hell is a lead magnet?
> classical patent trolls

No, a "patent troll" is an entity that doesn't produce anything. Not one that actually developed things.

They did exploit their patents, but that was hardly unusual at the time. Henry Ford, in fact, was a victim of that, too, although obviously he overcame it.
Now I want one for my obsolete USR Robotics V92 modem (upgraded from 33.6k)
Google Fi works for great for moving around internationally but it's more expensive than you want.
In my 48 years of using Celsius I can safely say I have never cared about smaller increments of celsius than 1. You're not keeping a room stable with that precision, for example, nor will the temperature at any given specific location outside be within that precision of your weather reports. Or anywhere close. And we can, and do, say "low 20's" "high 20s', "low 30's" etc. which serves the same effect. It's again, never in my 48 years mattered.

Either system is only "worse" when you're not used to it. It makes no practical difference other than when people try to argue for or against either system online.

The only real reason to consider switching would be that it's a pointless difference that creates minor friction in trade, but there too it's hardly a big deal given how small the effect is and how long it'd likely take to "pay for itself" in any kind of way, if ever.
As described, something more akin to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return-oriented_programming#Br...

That page has a reasonable summary of the exploitation techniques and history motivating this work.
See https://bsky.social/about/blog/7-05-2023-business-plan
If the versions are locked, then after the first download, nothing should be downloaded again unless I explicitly change a requirement and/or a version. So after the first time with a given set of requirements and versions, I suppose "go run" would be fine since it won't actually download anything.

But for that first time, I still want to separate the two steps, for the reasons I've given elsewhere in this discussion.
CPU Cache
I know you're being snarky, but yes. Having money and being genuinely generous towards people will put you on good terms with them. Just like being nice and polite and friendly and considerate, same thing.
It's part of the LLVM philosophy that the compiler tools should be usable as a library. There was a not insignificant amount of drama[0] when the folks working on LLD (the then-new LLVM linker) decided they weren't going to follow that pattern. It was another 5ish years before they revisited that decision[1], but it's not a simple task to retrofit a project with proper error handling (exit on error is fine for a binary, but not a library), memory management (leaking is faster than freeing memory for a short lived process, but isn't acceptable in a library), etc.

[0]https://discourse.llvm.org/t/lld-status-update-and-performan...

[1]https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-revisiting-lld-as-a-library...
This looks amazing
Wanted to build something using HTMX first, but this seems like a great fullstack solution for simple UI's, like a Fullstack version of HTMX fully built with python
My Black friend isn't African. That's why. They don't give a shit about being called American, they give a shit about being assumed about being African because they are black.
Isn't this kind of weird? Some try to blame capitalism, but AI is not capitalism. It is technological progress. Every president and dictator, no matter what type of economy or political system they have, are trying to develop AI right now. It's something that goes beyond any economic system and is a fact and force that can't be stopped and one must simply reckon with.

What we have in the US today is not capitalism. It's cronyism, soft socialism, and an increasingly government-led economy.

Capitalism defined: "an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit." When the government gets its paws out of the economy, then we can blame our ills on capitalism. Until then, don't call it capitalism.
Show HN: I made a multiplayer browser game
same exp
“I stopped changing the oil and my car runs fine.”

Sometimes problems take time to present themselves.
Surely you can just turn off data roaming…
Those two aren’t really comparable
I asked if they tried sourcing from someplace in North America and they said they haven't found one.
As a ROP mitigation measure some recent CPU models have a feature that can require code to branch to a special instruction signifying a valid target; jumps to an address that doesn't contain that instruction result in a CPU fault. On OpenBSD such a fault is translated to SIGILL, apparently, which can also occur when the CPU encounters other issues, like an invalidly encoded instruction. This patch differentiates the new type of fault so it's easier to identify within process signal handlers by adding a new reason code, ILL_BTCFI, to SIGILL info (siginfo_t).

The full patch is at https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/88580652a3669007813512...

I'm not sure if this patch is noteworthy on its own, but perhaps it was posted because it implies this CPU feature is now supported or soon to be supported by OpenBSD.
Interesting! I guess that particular mechanism is ARM-specific?
Productivity inertia is a thing. It's common for things to keep rolling in the short term after a big layoff. Over time, though, the little things that so many faceless now-gone people were dutifully keeping going the whole time start to degrade and the cracks get bigger. It's not like these people were all working line jobs where there's an obvious productivity falloff like a now-unmanned conveyer dumping product on the floor.
That’s not true. Both good science and market-driven engineering favor continued iterations on existing ideas looking for improvements or alternatives. We’re often exploring a giant space of solutions.

Unlike many fields, the A.I. people are publicly posting many of their steps in this journey, their iterations, for review. While it brings lots of fluff, such openness dramatically increases innovation rate compared to fields where you only see results once or twice a year. Both people using cloud API’s and FOSS developers are steadily increasing effectiveness in both experimentation and product development. So, it’s working.
Side thought I had: I've met a lot of software developers that will say "I'm trying to automate myself out of a job". It feels a lot different when you actually do lose your job. I know that isn't what's going on here, it's other economic trends, but this just made me think of that.
I made it with raylib and Odin.

The game is open source https://github.com/avelican/boxfight
Interesting. I haven't even heard about unison. Just skimmed the website and it looks interesting. Thanks for mentioning it!