skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I developed strong opinions about fonts recently, and went to /r/typography looking for exactly this sort of material -- found it lacking :c

This is a treasure, I know there are a few "Little Big Things"-esque font-focused blogs, and my next hope will be traditional forums like high-logic.
> Capitalist Realism’s early chapters touch on what we we talking about last time: the “alternative” youth subcultures at the turn of the century who romantically imagined they were rejecting a bland and soulless Mainstream by eschewing Top 40 musicians in favor of buying and listening to records by NOFX, Korn, Nine Inch Nails, et al.

Music is just not a cultural carrier like it used to be.

Young people aren't buying music. I don't think music is a cool thing teenagers discover and make it part of themselves anymore in the same way they did in previous generations - there's just too much of it, it's chopped up into too many social bubbles, and no one except established regimes targeting older people can make money off of it. A 13 or 14 year old might obsess over some TikTok artist or band for a minute but it's not going to last a lifetime because the next thing everyone's talking about will replace it quickly.

I think we will soon see an era where young people don't care about music. It's not necessarily a bad thing, I don't really know if having rich popular, punk, whatever bands that try to coast on their fame for decades is worthwhile to society anyway.
A fair number of people get "stuck" at the senior level because they enjoy being ICs more than they enjoy being managers, but their company promotion track doesn't support having high leveled ICs so they either have to accept less money and prestige, or force themselves into a role that they don't like.
I think this would be a lot easier to read if each note was wrapped in a <details> element.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/de...
Appreciating *Casablanca
If AI makes junior developers "better" than senior developers then what stops senior developers from adopting the tools and becoming once again better than the juniors?
> Surely folks aren't generally so unimaginative they think the only two options are "shitty" and "shittier".

Thinking in false dichotomies is the human default in my experience.
I actually like to back up even further and start with this problem: There are 1000 doors. You pick one. There's a 1 in 1000 chance you get it right. Now, do you want what's behind your door, or what's behind the other 999 doors? https://dynomight.net/2020/09/17/making-the-monty-hall-probl...
> why parents are usually nonchalant and a bit dismissive of their children's "rebellious counterculture".

Indeed [1]. It seems to be a condition of youth, to a degree.

[1] https://historyhustle.com/2500-years-of-people-complaining-a...
For sure an interesting find, but was kinda hoping based on the title that there was a more straightforward way to do this.

I really wish that AWS had a simple way from an admin account to ask "where is X resource" within an organization to quickly tell me which account has a specific S3 bucket (and other things, but s3 buckets is the big one).

Admittedly this is mostly an issue with legacy buckets that existed before better practices and buckets all being defined in code. But with a ton of AWS accounts it can be tedious to hunt down a resource in an unknown account and possibly region.
AI “feels” more efficient for programming since it spits out code in a jiffy, but once I am done with a session of coding I really have to wonder whether it wouldn’t have just been faster to look up APIs and online discussions rather than repeatedly trying to fix what the LLM was doing or attempting to force it down a given path if you know roughly what you want. (Plus half the time it’s not clear why a method it wants to use isn’t there - not imported, or doesn’t exist and never existed, or defined elsewhere in whatever context used to be around this in training?)

It’s almost like using StackOverflow but a toddler is in charge of inputting your queries and only tells you a fraction of what he finds.
He's spoken up publicly about this. He was called to testify before Congress. He started a non-profit -- The Foundation for Aviation Safety -- to raise awareness about the issue. So it's not like this guy is keeping this to himself. He's actively trying to raise awareness.
>I was constantly annoyed at the opacity around models vs "questions"

Yeah, somewhere along the line Metabase decided to get opinionated on "self-serve". I imagine it works well for some teams and companies, but for the tech-oriented, it's annoying.

I prefer my BI tools to be platforms that make for easy charting and cross-filters, while I build and control the models behind the scenes with a tool like dbt.
The Impact of Reasoning Step Length on Large Language Models
Maybe it's a YC startup.
> we should do Battle Bots on Mars

has there ever been a sci-fi movie about 'No-limits barred" competitions on uninhabitable worlds?

like go ahead, make a nuclear-powered doomsday bot and fight them on this rock, no one is there anyway
Keys were just as vulnerable.

Can we allow the owner/end user to replace the security system (that allows the car to start and the doors to unlock) to match the level they need/want?

Currently, the car's engine control module (ECM) decides if the conditions are met to start the car.

We need a standard socket across the industry that sends a TTL signal to the ECM to say "It's OK to start the engine if you want to."

Yes, I said 0-5 V TTL because cars are like that. I will be very surprised if that TTL signal stays TTL and does not become a 12 V signal before this becomes a standard.
The socketed security system has a second TTL output

The socketed security system can read all CANBUS, but not write it.

The socketed system needs to be where it can receive RF, but it must also be secure so it does not become easier to replace this socketed security system than it is to replace the ECM currently.

Imagine realizing your daily driver can be easily stolen, so you replace the socketed security systems on your Dodge Ram, Ford Mustang, and Honda Accord so the same wireless key starts them all, and so they are all secure.

Modules could be made that replace turn-key locks that support this standard to eliminate mechanical keys.

Just a thought.

One last thing, this standard must not have government-friendly backdoors.
thanks! Quantum computing is fascinating
You would also enjoy "American Factory" (2019). It's a documentary about a Chinese company taking over an old General Motors factory and hiring Americans to work there.
Defend Internet Freedom with Tor in 2024 elections season
AWS Account IDs are not secret and don’t need to be. AWS doesn’t design anything that assumes your account ID is secret, and you shouldn’t either.
Google explains how it got Gemini image generation 'wrong'
They do and it has saved me a couple of times.

Even though the renewal app runs as a cron job weekly, it occasionally breaks due to OS updates or some other issue so the email from Lets encrypt that warns me at least a week or before the expiration has been fantastic.
Computing, automation and creating is great, but coding sucks.

I know some people enjoy the challenge and achievement and there are lots of people who are especially attuned to highly technical and particular things, but overall programming productivity and software design suffers badly because of it.

We can do better and coding should look completely different than it does now. Hopefully that will change.
Unless you have an illness, it's most likely you.

I'm not worries about the plastic part of a DVD at all but the metallic layer will last you 10-20 years if stored away from any UV
If which leg isn't mentioned than they can get any actor actually missing a leg (any leg) to play the part in a play/movie. Might be on purpose it wasn't mentioned.
Sounds like someone has finally asked ChatGPT for a feasible plan to consolidate the AI landscape.
Perhaps "coding" is indeed a source of value in the development of the core skill of problem solving, not unlike studying logic, pure math, and such. For example, many universities require introductory computability theory courses for CS degrees which I argue is invaluable for developing certain problem solving skills despite never being used in the software industry. Supposing Carmack is right, that coding itself won't be a barrier to entry, this does not reflect that fact that problem solving requires one to create solutions precisely, in ways that mathematics or programming does that natural language prompting (for instance) does not.
1.5 was probably released too late to be tested.
AWS account ID is also safe to be public.

That said, one thing I could think of that this could be used for is correlation. If you’re running multiple S3 sites from the same AWS account, people would be able to see that they’re hosted by the same account. Whether or not this matters depends on your threat model.
And yet, the latter is impossible to perform well unless you know a lot about the underlying tech.

Fortunately, there are fewer open positions at that level, so not all of us need to accept the mission.
Let’s be honest, intuitive is the last word we’d use to describe most Apache projects.
So basically me asking CoPilot for help.
I lost my Apple Watch streak (2023)
I'm honestly surprised how relatively close these values are. This says personal trucks use about 2x as much energy as mass transit. I would've thought the ratio would be much higher.
LLMs can only reproduce what has been done before. For many tasks like web programming it can do a lot of what you need because it was trained on that data many times over. When you need to use a concept or knowledge that's fairly rare or oblique it will fail. That's pretty much what Carmack is saying--problem solving will continue to be a needed skill.
Oh, I see. I thought you were wanting to use some other music client for Plex. You're right that you need a Plex instance to use Plexamp.
It must feel nice to forget that your boss can fire you. The bliss of ignorance.
Yeah, this was one of those headlines that stopped me in my tracks. Hackers for right, we are one down.
Very few rail corridors in the US are so sparsely populated that they can't be as cost-effective as in Europe, with the caveat that this doesn't mean cheap - a whole lot of European routes are heavily subsidised.

E.g. even the old closed Amtrak corridor through Southern Montana would today serve more people than some perfectly viable routes in Norway, over a similar stretch (and there is work underway to try to resurrect it).

But flights are often cheaper in Europe too despite subsidies for rail. Outside of the busiest corridors trains works best in those places where it's competing with cars or buses, not planes.
I just did a quick search on Walmart.com for DVDs <= $6 and found plenty of mediocrity but also:

- Shawshank Redemption
- Despicable Me 1 & 2 (for $5 total)
- Scream 1-3 (again $5 total)
- Beverly Hills Cop 1-3 (same)
- Tombstone
- Unforgiven
- ET
- A Star is Born (2018)
- Sleepless in Seattle
- The Thing (1982)
- Seabiscuit
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
- Titanic

I would say any of these movies is better than 95% of the movies available for streaming on Netflix (conservatively).
I Use Nix on macOS
I tried using https://www.npmjs.com/package/metascraper before which I believe does check this meta tag.

But a few websites set their updated date to the current date which was annoying, maybe to rank better in Google? And some people (including me) only mention the update time in the page text content.

I've used GPT to parse human formatted dates in another project too, it's quite reliable if you validate the output timestamp. And relatively cheap too if you only pass in the first part of the page text.
Here are some links to get you started.
If you asked about my idea economic philosophy 10 years ago, I probably would have gone on at length about Proudon's Mutualism.

However, now I think that like Georgism/LVT, it is outdated due to the focus on Material means of production, and doesnt account for the increasing importance of white collar knowledge work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon#Philoso...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism_(economic_theory)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism
For those interested, we put the code online here: https://github.com/tracebit-com/find-s3-account
I love Grafana but Grafana doesn't really support non-time-series visualization that well.
Read the product/language docs from cover to cover - preface to the last appendix

Just read it - like it was a novel

When you get a "goal", you will at least be nominally-acquainted with the language/product capabilities, and you should be able to find what you are looking for relatively quickly

That is how I [overview] taught myself to solder back in the 90s

And PHP 4

And Opsware SAS

And countless other things over the years

Sure - it is 'only' head knowledge until you use it: but making yourself aware of what you will later use is vital

Heck - it is probably how you learned math back in grade school: there was no "goal", you just learned it

It was not until much later that you were able to apply all that knowledge to any goals
Here's an interesting question: why are there lots of startups claiming they can create better bespoke DL hardware accelerators than Nvidia's offerings?

I understand how a bespoke architecture could in theory accommodate larger models and offer better throughput despite being based on older generations of MOFSET nodes. But if that was the case, wouldn't China simply create their own bespoke hardware accelerators? So what's stopping them?
Don't give someone a free pass just because there are people somewhere getting away with worse.

If you see bullshit, call it out.
Problems for the Degrowth Movement
See also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30688013

Popular Tibetan singer Tsewang Norbu dies of self-immolation protest (tchrd.org) 569 points by ilamont on March 15, 2022
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Bill Ackman Urges Business Insider to Correct Story or Face Suit
I recall reading a lot of the replies and one always struck me - a (I believe) teenager wrote a program that proved her right.

That person wrote a program and proved her right, while all these stuffy old men got just downright testy with her - one even getting misogynistic with here. It was gross to read about.

But good on the teenager for actually sciencing it.
Real-time serverless image processing with imgproxy (OSS) and AWS Lambda
The Ministry of Truth.

A bit hyperbolic, but the West really has fallen.
Because the truth that everyone is dancing around is that AI is not intelligent and to protect their moat, the people who currently dominate that industry wouldn't dare program it to make themselves (or their profit potential) obsolete.

It will all make sense when Doritos drops their own quirky LLM that guides you through a stressful gravity bong experience.
wow, congrats on the launch! just tried it and it is super fast! I wonder which tts, asr and llm models are used under the roof?
DVD is pretty bad for animated films. My Blu-Ray money has been going to those. For regular photography, a well-mastered DVD looks fine, in my opinion.
No built-in thick semantic layer, compared to Looker.

I wrote about Superset's semantic layer here: https://preset.io/blog/understanding-superset-semantic-layer...

One popular option is to use dbt or Cube for the semantic layer and pair with Superset: https://preset.io/blog/announcing-presets-ui-integration-wit... and https://preset.io/blog/open-source-looker-cube-superset/
> E.g. how do you reach the necessary temps in a blast furnace without melting your heating element?

Induction heating? As long as some ferromagnetic material has a higher melting temperature than what you want to melt, this seems solvable.
Sorry for this! I believe it's fixed now.

In which timezone do you live by the way?
If money is not a problem for them, I don't see how can we deny Chinese companies access to those cards.

The soviets were able to smuggle whole mainframes and mini-computers during the 70s. Giant fucking machines that you could only buy trough very specific sales channels. It was not like you could ebay yourself a S/360, and yet, they did it.
LLMs have been monumentally helpful for creating small tools/apps/games that I would have been too scared to try on my own because they require deep knowledge of languages & libraries that I don't care to learn.

The LLM is wrong and hallucinates sometimes, but thus far it's been a huge timesaver in actually shipping finished products. It's like if people still tried to answer your questions on stack overflow, instead of just downvoting with no feedback.
I got to see the IRS' free tax-filing software in action. Here's what I learned
Given, how many concerns this technology has posed, what type of testing did Google do before releasing it to the public? This seems like such a basic issue and should have been caught in internal dogfooding and testing.
GPT Pilot – what we learned in 6 months of working on a CodeGen pair programmer
I don't see why Mistral would acquiesce. Like the other comment says, Microsoft has a lot of chips on the table for local AI. They didn't even mention DirectML, ONNX or Microsoft's other local AI frameworks - suffice to say Microsoft does care about on-device AI.

So... would Mistral deliberately sabotage their low-end models to appease Microsoft's cloud demand? I don't think so. Microsoft probably knows that letting Mistral fall behind would devalue their investment. It makes more sense to bolster the small models to increase demand for the larger ones, at least from where I'm standing.
Interestingly, the article mentioned Voltaire as a countercultural figure (which I had never considered). But if you were to read "Candide", it would largely agree; the moral is basically to eschew philosophy and cultivate your garden, which could be construed as a metaphor for whatever your garden may be, but in the story is actually a homestead type situation. If you replaced Jesus with "the deity" or something like that, it would also fit.
Just because the paper is short, doesn't mean that Euler didn't spend significant time and effort dreaming up the solution. If it was a tiny task, someone else would have done it already.
I've been in this industry for a very long time. When I started, I called myself a "programmer". But then it became fashionable for everyone to all themselves "engineers", so I did the same. It's only a difference in marketing, but marketing can make a big difference.

These days, I just call myself a "developer". I think it's nicely neutral and gets me out of those awful "what is an engineer, anyway?" discussions.
Because we want to enjoy our wallpapers too.
Well Redash got acquired so development stopped, biggest difference between Superset & Redash. Preset.io supports Superset still
Care to break down that $1m per bus for staffing? I am in the UK so am not across driver, service engineer, cleaner etc. salaries in America.

$80k per year for for the bus

$50k per driver (https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Salaries/us-bus-driver-salary-SR...) let's say the bus needs 4 to cover the route 14 hours a day, inc weekends and driver holidays - so $200k

$100k engineer (guessing not needed full time for just one bus?)

$50k cleaner (guessing not needed full time for just one bus?)

Then $570k for fuel and management costs? I've seen figures around $150k per year for fuel.

Some (no doubt out of date) figures: https://www.liveabout.com/bus-cost-to-purchase-and-operate-2...

Just interested where the costs are, I can only assume that the company is making more than $1m a year on the route to take on that expense?
Can we go further, and find the email associated with an account ID?
> “Coding” was never the source of value, and people shouldn’t get overly attached to it.

Except when you're Carmack and you're able to make some "abstractions" (like Doom) come true precisely because you have super strong skills.

So there is coding and coding.
I'm with you on this one.

consider this conversation actually happened, this video is just a recreation of it.

Clarke and Dawe - The Front Fell Off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

Not all of them are so extreme but the idea is the same.
AI is replacing Google search, not programmers, at this point. It's great to see all the hype talk about replacing coders but the only "consistent" value it provides is answering questions quickly without ad spam.

I know once the investor subsidies end, monetization will once again stifle a great productivity tool. I'm old enough to have lived through Google's "Don't be evil" era.
Me in my late 20s would have wanted to go to prison for this. Having to pay college tuition to access academic material like this is so insane.
If you can't

1. resign your coding job,
2. get hired by a company which does not do code, and
3. earn a comparable or higher salary

then coding is a source of your value. You retain the same general problem-solving ability, but your salary will decrease, probably substantially, which should tell you that general problem-solving ability is not the primary source of most software developers' value.

Coding might not have been "the source of value" for Carmack himself: after all, he did make a comparable living doing rocketry at one pont, although he did return to graphics programming after that stint. Now he thinks he might make a living "managing AIs" in the future.

I don't know whether managing AIs will become a job in the future or not, but if Carmack thinks people will want to pay _him_ of all people to manage any important AI, he's deluding himself. Everybody knows his managerial qualities from Masters of Doom.

Of course, it's all academic: Carmack is a multi-millionaire who has no need for paid employment, and nor need to maintain good mental models of how paid employment works.
Exploiting incorrect/weak IAM permissions I would assume.
Metabase is a bit more user-friendly to be honest than Superset. Superset has a WAY more liberal license, so it's ideal for people who want to customize Superset and build data apps.
It still probably will be better to know how to program. You can use the AI as well to teach you.

I think the assembly/higher level languages analogy may not be entirely accurate. If I'm making a web app and want some JavaScript for my special UI, an LLM can write a lot of versions based on how I prompt it. But it will always be faster if I already know how to write code, and using it to speed me up/do any boilerplate needed. That's why copilot is so useful, even if it's not the highest quality.

And it's really not hard to get the basics of programming.. that's why I think it should be taught. I don't see why you need to learn more chemistry than programming in school.
I didn't see the mention of BAAs anywhere. Do you handle getting that signed with vendors like AWS?
Managers always underestimate the cost of maintaining software, with nasty consequences down the road. There's nothing new about it. It's just another form of technical debt. We're crossing our fingers and hoping that a better AI will come along that knows how to fix that debt before it all blows up.