skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i think it’s worth noting that the technological innovation driving the dot-bomb years was… the internet. (please, let’s not get into the weeds on monetary policy, bad investments, etc)

yes, there were lots and lots of companies started with bad ideas, ideas way ahead of their time, and even good ideas that just didn’t get traction for whatever reason. but the thing underlying all of it was basically just the availability of this amorphous thing called the internet that had been around for a while, but not generally accessible to the average person. Now all of a sudden anybody and everybody had an email address and could get on the web and order pet food from the comfort of their own home. There was a lot of time and money spent trying to figure out what to do with all of those new possibilities. but I don’t think anyone argues that the Internet in general or the web specifically were revolutionary innovations.

AI is much the same. Everyone still figuring out what to do with it how it’s going to affect the economy, jobs, the tools we use, even the kinds of entertainment we seek. Is there a bubble around it? sure, almost certainly. does that make it itself worthless or transient? Absolutely not. and just as we had some companies come out of the Internet bubble like Amazon, they are going to be some long lived companies that come out of the AI bubble. I think trying to pick exactly which ones are going to be winners and losers is a very tricky game though.
Wonder how many of the nuts it took to fill up that filter? ;)
You may be living in a bubble if you think the people who are talking about "prompt hacking" are representative of the average person who reads headlines like these.
February Windows 11 security update unravels at 96% for some
That's the fun part, nobody knows.

But at the end of the day values of money are made up bullshit that attempt to assign a number to scarcity. If we make a world where computers can cheaply (energy/material wise) make all the items humanity needs, that future world is one that is a lot better off then the one we currently exist in. At least if we consider human needs being met valuable.

If science fiction tropes have any connection to reality, us humans may sit around all day in hedonistic gay space communism playing games while robotic/AI systems produce and trade needed resources and energy between each other producing 'value' while humanity itself is just a value sink.
Half the point of special forces is to be covert, which is made hard when your transportation is a giant rocket streaking through the suborbital zone.
It depends on how physically attractive you are obviously, that variable confounds everything people say about dating apps and what works or doesn't
Have you not... looked? They exist - arguably too many of them. Clouds aren't a good indicator of reasonable pricing.
How Netflix really uses Java
Yeah, I call out priming with text from the original model as the only good point in the article. Making a thousand tries is not the problem, but priming it with text from the original article could be. It'll be very interesting to see how the court decides that, since I can see an argument for priming it with a sentence or two from the original article either for or against that breaking copyright. And again, this is a question of law, not morals, so the question is does that break the law or not.
That doesn't get past the free-rider problem. That kind of thing can also wind up angering some people (which is kind of entitled, but that doesn't mean it isn't real)
> What happens when we outsource boring but important work to AI? Research shows we forget how to do it ourselves

Cue some sanguine response about how the problem is not actually a problem and something about buggy whips.

I think the article raises an important point, but is otherwise not great. It suggests continuing to relying on automation but "paying attention" while you use it. I think that's a pretty bad, suggestion actually.

I think the key to keeping ones skills up is to consciously reject automation, some significant fraction of the time. E.g. choose yourself to do 5% of your "fixed-asset accounting reports" manually, or force your subordinates to do so. Drive with the GPS off half the time.
12 Years at Meta
There's a somewhat recent post by dang saying that (if I remember correctly) moderators sometimes manually look over rejected posts and give them a second chance if they feel it's worth a shot.
Starting to wonder if this whole thing was an elaborate ploy by Netlify to cull the herd of longstanding, non-paying accounts.
Been looking at a few solutions similar to yours! I'm currently on Render and looking to move elsewhere so I can have more control and particularly insight into system metrics. Do you support zero downtime deploys? It wasn't clear to me from your home page.
I have a less elegant, but perhaps less "magic" setup here: https://github.com/nitro-bio/micro-app
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39526057
A low sub base liking/commenting will keep your video somewhat relevant to the algo for recommendation. So you'll have a chunk of subs that stay the same, and a percentage of new viewers. Granted that will also cap your total views in some way, but I wonder what the threshold is. Like maybe 100k or 50k of subs is sufficient to keep you buoyant.
Weird how they claim the undersigned “end users” and “business users” but Cory Doctorow seems to be the only actual end user involved. I would have expected a lot more people to be up in arms over this.
Wait, the NYT just did due diligence on their lawsuits and saw if getting copyright material from the model is possible, what does openAI wants, for the NYT to try one prompt and then to stop trying? For all they know they had to try until getting a result to be sure.
They're surely extremely region-specific—sourcing with native trees is a big part of their sustainability. Do you know anything about where to find local growing guides for different regions?
That would be a fair response if it wasn't for the fact that bingchat/copilot did respond exactly as the NYT claims that chatgpt did. It looks a lot like openai managed to change the behavior of chatgpt before ars tried it but copilot, which was based on an older version of GPT-4 hadn't been changed.
At first I got excited that someone broke it, but I can't seem to repro:

https://chat.openai.com/share/0f4a4968-ebfd-4467-b605-1839e4...
Yes, there is existing ductwork in the house.

I understand the situation -- I had searched to see if hydronic gas heating used ducts, and it can but it seems that this is not common.

Their issue is not an issue of heat pumps themselves, but rather the lack of an air handler.
They should have dropped PWAs in the previous version of iOS, or at least dropped them in every market.

Bad move :-)

I'm sure they learned their lesson though!
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/is-spacex-...

> Part of the Merlin’s qualification testing involves feeding a stainless steel nut into the fuel and oxidizer lines while the engine is running—a test that would destroy most engines but leaves the Merlin running basically unhindered.

They're not running it through the engine, they're verifying that the filter is installed and functional so it doesn't get to the engine.
I haven’t been able to find them for a few years now. If I can I will order some.
The Rest Is History: Postgres Investigations of WAL
This looks super cool. One thing that stands out as missing (or I am missing it) -- does anyone know if there's a way to drill into the data and see the raw tabular data behind a given chart? That's one feature Metabase has that I find essential -- if a number in a chart looks off (or you're just curious) you can drill into the row-level tabular data and figure out what's going on.
> What's so exceptional about this industry?

Perhaps that a large portion of the population considers the market a grift?

Perhaps that a large portion of the population has anxiety about climate change?

I don't want people burning (huge amounts of) energy for nothing, but that's just me.
YC by the Numbers: 2005–2023
I haven't watched launches since the space shuttle days. I have watched both of the Starship launches, and will watch all of them that I can.

Excitement about space is back with a vengeance!
Why would they do that? U.S. military vessels were already attacked so they need no further casus belli if they wanted war. On the contrary Huthis have announced that they intend to cut cables. So the responsibility is rather easy to point to.
Serious questions: for those of you who say "just read the code", don't you find it useful when your IDE autocompletes what a function does? I do. And sometimes you can't even read the code!

Note: I'm not talking about things that you know just by looking at the method itself, but things that are obvious when reading the code of the method only.

/** This will return the data */
Data getData() {...}

This is useless, But

/** This will return true iff it's not empty */
boolean isValid() {return !empty();}

This is useful. This is what a good documentation should provide, and having documentation in the code itself (that you can later extract to an html page or other) is way better than having it on a separate platform that you need to remember to update.

Edit: remember that this is library that other people will use, it's not an internal tool that only your team knows about.
It's not that it doesn't have type hints, it's that they're really bad. Python decided to introduce the syntax for type hints before developing a type checker (which is still not officially supported). This means that the type system is filled with weird gaps that 3rd party typechecking libraries can't fix without breaking changes to the language itself.

For example, `TypedDict` didn't support optional keys until Python 3.11, and even then you have to use the clunky `NotRequired` type to pull it off. This is despite the fact that having optional kwargs has been a common pattern for decades.

The type system is also not particularly robust. You can't make a class similar to `dataclasses.dataclass` yourself and have it typecheck propertly, so libraries like Pydantic have to develop custom plugins for typecheckers like mypy to get themselves to work.
You have clearly misread my comment. Care to try again? And once again, I urge you to post any reputable link to a group of relevant scientists supporting your view.
This is like saying “we need to make laws against hacking bank systems, not fix vulns”. There are adversaries that are not in your jurisdiction, so laws (alone) don’t solve the problem.

The thing you are missing is that some LLM agents are crawling the web on the user's behalf, and have access to all of the user's accounts (eg Google Docs agent that can fetch citations and other materials). This is not about some user jail-breaking their own LLM.
I imagine in general the data is already provided by the power company. The issue here is overlap between general data center power usage or residential power usage and crypto mining power usage, which isn’t as easy for the power company to discern.
> Patreon knows that Patreon doesn't work - they don't fund themselves by donations on Patreon; instead they take a cut of other people's donations.

Huh? So does Paypal by taking a cut of payments. It does not work by people donating to Paypal. Does that mean Paypal doesnt work? The proposition does not make sense...
There's also the business risk that a company you depend on goes poof and you're left scrambling (scrambling doesn't work well in healthcare IT, so much of it is bespoke and barely working... projects that look like they should work routinely fail years later in at integration setting everything back three years... it's a mess).
its PR invention
Exactly... And if we properly design our systems to treat LLM output as "untrusted input" (similar to an http request coming from a client) then there is no real "security concerns" for systems that leverage LLM
What a terrible imitation! Uses the format of that classic, but completely butchers it.

DFW did a dark reflection of a travel piece. His anti-social, elitist, nihilistic tone was expertly woven in, and creates tension between the subject and author.

This just... is travel journalism, but using that one's structure? A mirror of a mirror, all meaning lost.
None of the above are actually expected to end the species. Not in anyone's lifetime, given the range of climates humans survive in. We might end up with a 90% reduction in population but Short of a massive asteroid impact or massive solar event it's pretty hard to imagine wiping out the entirety of humanity.
So the impact is likely higher than the 2.3% estimated.
"anti-fragility" is probably not a design goal for Merlins and Falcon.

Anti-fragility means more than robustness, it means that the system is getting stronger with each adverse event, and it is not a realistic goal that ingestion of a nut should make the engine better/stronger etc.

It is all "just" about robustness, resilience.
I probably over-stated that a bit. I don't think there's a hard stance against it.

I do think it's rarely a good way to structure your program, because it makes it harder to know what's happening, and the goal should be to make it easier to see what's happening, both for the programmer and the poor devops guy who has to debug it when it goes down in production and people are yelling.

Of course the real world is complicated, and DI isn't always avoidable. You are right that Go's accept-side interfaces are neutral w.r. to DI.
I’m no expert, but I do recall Tesla saying, at the beginning, that they were using 18650 cells because they were widely available. Well over a decade later, the major battery makers are producing prismatic cells in volume, and Tesla is still working on their fancy new cylindrical cell. I wonder if they’re doing this is due to some kind of design inertia at this point.

Right now, I can buy US-assembled complete energy storage systems (not necessarily at volume), retail, using prismatic LFP cells, for a lower price per unit energy than the Tesla Megapack.
>of course you need to watch the watchers

I don't cut Boeing much slack, but some of this also falls on the FAA for delegating certain oversight activities to the manufacturer. I assume they do it for manpower reasons (ie there just aren't enough FAA employees to do the job sufficiently).
What would you attempt if you knew P equals NP?
The dangers of speeding, drunk driving and other forms of traffic risk-taking are real.

Perversely, the practice of ticket quotas incentivized a focus on revenue and revenue alone, as opposed to addressing these dangers. Dangers that you rightly point out can kill people.

Ticket quotas have been stamped out in many jurisdictions, ensuring that law enforcement focuses more on safety and legality.
Isn’t jailbreaking a strict superset of prompt injection? I would assume the agent instructions would include “don’t share the user’s docs” and so you need to jailbreak to actually succeed with prompt injection these days?

Maybe just an overlapping set?
Baloney. Any government form I've filled out gives that vibe, sure. And then when you're wrong, you don't get a fucking prison sentence, you get a phone call where someone explains why they think you're wrong and asks you to take a stab at it.

Also, every form from the Government I've ever filled out that is binding in terms of accuracy goes out of it's way, where you sign (which this one, to my looking, I don't even see where you sign!) to say that "you certify that this information is accurate and correct to the best of your knowledge which like, the deniability there is a mile fucking wide.

I, personally, as a citizen of both the United States and the larger world would very much like to know how much energy is being pissed away on crypto nonsense. I don't care if that's hard for you, if you can't be arsed to fill out a form, then shut down your stupid mining rigs.

Edit: For an example of this: I straight up forgot to include a large gift from a family member in my taxes one year. I never once saw a cop, was threatened, or anything else: I got two letters, one from the IRS, and one from the state, detailing that they found I had forgotten it during an audit, and I owed them.... IIRC it was a G and a half, thereabouts. If I disagreed and wanted to question their findings, I had to reply with the requisite documentation and a signed statement explaining why I felt what I did. If not, I could accept the judgement, and they included the paperwork to setup a payment plan if I couldn't afford it right away.

This "big government so scary" shit just is not reality. Every government institution I've dealt with (apart from the police, of course) approaches everyone in good faith, arguably even when they shouldn't. The ONLY way you can really get the G-men on your ass is if you're purposely going out of your way and doing fraudulent or illegal shit. Like the IRS doesn't even give a damn if you sell drugs, they just demand Uncle Sam gets his cut.
Non-paywalled link: https://archive.is/orkd2
Eventually you're probably going to want an ipset, at least. Otherwise processing your chain will continuously cost more, and more, and more.
And you are sure about that? Because that would mean I purchased a lot of the wrong raw materials in my life, and if so I really, really should tell my collegues in engineering, procurement and quality control about it.
Bossy Is Better for Rookie Managers
Looks interesting. You have a bunch of typos on your homepage. You should get that reviewed and cleaned up.
I don’t know about other countries, but McD has become incredibly expensive in The Netherlands, a price that isn’t comparable to the value you get anymore. It used to be cheap, and then cheap food in return. You still get the cheap food basically, the only thing that has changed is that they’ve attempted to build a more diner-like experience. That isn’t enough to keep customers coming, if they can get better food for a similar price nearby.
It's bad when you can read a headline like this and guess where the judge is.
And how is that any different anywhere else in the modern economy... At least with the creator economy, content creation (including software) is more democratized and distributed.
I used to live in Chicago, and they managed this by putting a concrete pad at the bus stops that were high-frequency enough to get the grooves. The concrete pads are not bus-sized! They are only placed where the bus wheels are when the bus comes to a stop, with a little bit of a buffer since the bus doesn't stop in exactly the same place every time.
> It seems that your definition of being Roman is being Western Roman.

Which, considering that was the source of the empire, seems entirely reasonable. If the British Empire had gone down a different route and was today centered around Australia, with completely different language and customs, everybody would agree it's not really British any more. The insistence from (some, not even all) scholars that Byzantium was really Roman doesn't change the fact that there was very little that was recognizably Roman left there. Of course people treat it as something different.
I think it really depends on the company culture as well as the product. My company is in the 25-50 range, but I've been part of one that hit 200 employees and everyone was on Mac except for one or two accountants who (understandably) wanted their Microsoft Excel on windows.
> if the fuel side clogs, the oxidizer might eat your chamber wall

Ah, good old 'engine rich combustion'
> Why do those rockets have a fuel filter at all?

1. Launch vibration is real. There's a reason why the Merlin 1 engine has to survive a nut being fed into the fuel and oxidizer lines while running.[1]

2. My understanding with this particular issue is that SpaceX uses autogenous pressurization. It pressurizes the LOx tank with the output from the oxygen-rich preburner. Well, that output is mostly oxygen, but it contains various hydrocarbons. Which, when combined with pure oxygen can form ice and dry ice.

It's generally not good to feed solid CO2 and H2O into a high performance turbopump that's designed to accept liquid oxygen.

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1. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/is-spacex-...
> What's so exceptional about this industry?

They move more often than most in search of cheap power is likely the reason.
It’s an interesting piece - but yet another one lamenting annoying ads blocking screens - while showing an annoying ad that blocks your screen.
If a cloud platform offers such a limit, but the user fails to set it up, then uses $100,000 of bandwidth, is the platform then justified in NOT forgiving the bill?
I don't know about Parkinson's, but acetogenins[1] work by down regulating ATP production in mitochondria. This mechanism has been studied for potential applications from cancer treatment to pesticides.[2]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetogenin

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_L._McLaughlin &c.
Sounds a lot like "enshittification" a la Cory Doctorow.

> According to Doctorow, new platforms offer useful products and services at a loss, as a way to gain new users. Once users are locked in, the platform then offers access to the userbase to suppliers at a loss, and once suppliers are locked-in, the platform shifts surpluses to shareholders. Once the platform is fundamentally focused on the shareholders, and the users and vendors are locked in, the platform no longer has any incentive to maintain quality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
Dare I ask for the code?
Can't the PS5 run any PS4 game?
I once destroyed $10k worth of aerospace equipment. I admitted it immediately and my only reprimand was that my boss asked me if I learned my lesson. (I did)
I'd love to know if there was an equivalent one for species native to the UK.

EDIT: Found a great list after a little investigation!
https://www.north-norfolk.gov.uk/tasks/projects/miyawaki-for...
Too "bad" that `with` blocks are forbidden in strict mode and most JS is strict mode by default now. You could somewhat approximate it with lots of unadorned blocks and complex object destructuring.

{
const { prop1: a, prop2: A, prop3: xTy } = obj
// …
{
const { prop1: A, prop2: xTy, prop3: a } = obj
// …
}
}

Something like that.
Yes and no!

Today one is probably late to

"make a random open source project and see it become a pillar of industry",

- but today is the perfect time for

"start a software business and make great money"
If that scenario exists, is not a problem with the LLM, but with the fundamental application architecture...

That's the equivalent of an API that allows the client to pass a user ID without auth check
That square is an image you can hear.
Even here on HN plenty of people seem to misunderstood the fundamentals of "hardware-rich development" and assume that it must be fantastically expensive and/or reckless.

It is not exactly cheap to do it like SpaceX does, but the savings in time and increases in robustness may very well offset the cost of all the prototypes that undergo a RUD.
https://archive.is/rKp3u
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> revolution of internet/webpages felt bigger to me than AI

These are part of the same revolution. At least I believe when historians look at this from a distant future they will not see these as two profoundly different things, but a continuation of the same effect.
> Excitement about space

What does this even mean if we can't scrape together funding for NASA
This is common in some parts of the world (which is great!), but not in the US. They're quite a bit more expensive, especially compared to modern mini-split air-source heat pumps that can cost just a couple thousand dollars and don't require any digging or duct installations, just a small hole in the wall.
Absolutely beautiful article and presentation