skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might seem that way but a few observations. The number of people in total hacking away is much much larger now. So the absolute numbers are probably similar or more, while in relative terms you’re probably right. But my observation with a young hacker in the house is there’s a lot of appreciation for how the machine really works amongst many kids. The high level glossy stuff doesn’t appeal as much as ripping the cover off and poking memory locations. I think this shows up in the amazing prevalence of electronics hacking these days, low power computing, etc. This is the best time to be a hacker, the tools at all levels are amazing. But real nerds like you and I are just as rare as ever, and can’t resist ripping the lids off.
An intuition that bore fruit, thanks.
From the article:

> Evidently, Sanskrit or Hindi are not banned in China

Err... isnt this a bit bigoted.

I mean I get that there is beef between India and China. Annecdotely Ive lived in China as an Indian and never really faced the issue of being banned from using my mothertongue with my family.

Also: No sanskrit is not banned in china, a lot of old sanskrit documents that survived the cultural revolution are actually preserved. There are even some chinese who worship saraswati... a lot of hindu deities are incorporated into Chinese folk religion.
Yes, I'm just pointing out this blog's one
Almost everything that is advertised is something you don’t need. Whether it’s media, or food or something else, never push the consumer to the point that they realize they don’t need you.
Pigs eat, hogs get slaughtered.
I worked for Okta for a bit and this was a huge pain. It was mostly a wrapper around MUI, which meant it always lacked behind MUI and every time you need a slightly different functionality they didn’t support yet you had to go through the design team and wait.
I think that the right lost the battle over gay rights as general attitudes had become accepting of them over the past 3-5 decades, but they don't want to lose the war so they are digging in over rights for transgender people.
Look at the big picture.

Just 3 names: Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink
But that’s the point. You don’t have to trust me. The guy has an extensive and public track record.
This kind of discussion is in part due to pressures from HR, again something more common in big companies. To standardize hiring practices HR people do something called banding or leveling where they do try to define job levels and responsibilities across the industry. Primarily so they know what to pay people. Also so people can plan career tracks.

Yeah it’s all Kool Aid but a lot of people are drinking it. Also there is a demonstrable difference between someone who just codes and someone who leads projects. Generally the senior path can be seen as a technical leader path, and that is transferable between companies.

But the word senior itself has lost meaning. Senior at my company is squarely in the middle. Principals are the true seniors.
> But this is because larger models tend to be better, not because throwing more compute at an existing model helps it produce better results.

There's a caveat here - allowing the model to produce more tokens (i.e. giving it more compute time to "think") can produce better results. E.g. asking a model to reason before producing an answer, leads to better answers. And the extra tokens = more compute.
Started as people sending scripts back and forth, like The Postal Service

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramosjohnny/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marpaia/
My own experience doesn't reflect that. I've been using Linux for work for years and tried to switch from Windows to Linux for games.

NVIDIA drivers and game support on Linux is not an experience I'd recommend to anyone without experience. On laptop it's awesome, unless you have both an iGPU and dedicated GPU, then switching properly is a pain. WiFi drivers are a hit or miss: some cards are great, some others are not well supported. Knowing which is which before buying requires reading extensive documentation. Even Dell on their XPS 9310 fucked up Linux support so bad they dediced to quietly remove the option to buy Ubuntu laptop and communication about supporting Linux.

My personal laptop recovers all screen when waking up from sleep, my work laptop doesn't and I need to unplug and plug them again.

One thing that works awesomely well for me is Printer supports (scanners are another pair of hands though). Anywhere I tried, discovery works great out of the box, even for USB printers it works without having to download a driver from a strange website.

When using snap (default on Ubuntu) Firefox crashes often if it updates in background. Libre office is far from the Office experience, which I tend to forget as I use Google Workspace apps instead.

Having tried working on Windows, Linux and MacOS, I wouldn't move to another environment. The pros greatly outweigh the cons for my own use-case. But I will still keep a Windows for gaming and cannot recommend it to relatives.
Yup getting tired of people trying hard not to look like the everyone else
"Can't", no. It all hangs on the U.S. at the moment, which could absolutely make enough shells for Ukraine if the funding authorization comes through. What's holding that up is politics, not limits in productive capacity.
Python was created in 1991; I imagine the "yield" keyword appeared either right then or not much later!

Also, the refinement at the end of the article: "We arrange an extra function parameter, which is a pointer to a context structure; we declare all our local state, and our coroutine state variable, as elements of that structure." sounds like implementing a closure to me. You make the callee a lambda which would use an outside var/context/state to determine what to do or with what value. Am I understanding this correctly?
Watch the original series, then the movie Fire Walk With Me. If you need more Fire, watch The Missing Pieces, and if you want more Twin Peaks generally, watch The Return
Of course, but here the government is denying access, not a company.
At least the 20% inflation rate is underestimated
Yea, anyone that references the 90's in terms of internet behavior might as well say "Back before all these autos horse and buggy was just fine". It was positively tiny back then and people were not chronically online (well unless they were techies like me). Law enforcement and politicians for the most part had no idea what the internet was.

That world is long dead, everyone is constantly connected with a phone, and online behavior drives actions in the real world.
me and my brother-in-law Eric built this table viewer: https://fleetdm.com/tables

(it's got an extra layer of metadata with examples. Supports markdown in the yaml for most fields. Contributions welcome!!)
Creusot, a deductive verifier for Rust code
A huge part of the job of running a country is politicking though. That’s how policies are created and agreed upon in states (by design).
I dont think anyone thinks the article was really written by a robot.

The question is about the nature of the satirical critique. Are they just having fun? Do they think AI is a genuine threat? Are they using AI to critique mass culture?
oh yeah i remember my first interface factory factory singletons with variable dependency injection aritys built with a flywheel pattern. pretty sure i got fired for that one.
That’s still a shortsighted view, regardless of human activity or presence other species will continuously go extinct including mass extinctions. That’s the entire history of life, evolution and extinction. The only way to intentionally prevent extinctions is with human intervention but humanity has to be around and technologically advanced and rich enough to do such things. It’s one of those put your own oxygen mask on first situations.
For this PCB, the smallest targets are about 0.2mm in diameter. In terms of precision robotics, this is very manageable. A robotic soldering iron, or even a laser soldering system, with a wire feeder and cutter could be used to make something like a rudimentary die-bonder, that simply solders the wires to the correct pads.

My background in process engineering made me lean towards a figuring out very manual process that could be automated, instead of figuring out a highly automated process.
i thought that show's key lesson was that "everything is probably lupus" but you may be right.
I went that route too. Back in 2006. I discovered to my horror that the Apple Company that I thought was 'More Ethical Than Microsoft' wasn't.

I've been using "real" Linux (Linux Mint MATE) as my 'Daily Driver' desktop for decades.
And hand waving all the suicides is rather obtuse
All good points and I've experienced similar.
What about "parental rights" to determine whether their child can use social media? I thought conservatives hated having big government take away decisions from parents?
Yea, doing thing like Chain of Thought, and/or running a second query to examine the first set of tokens it generated commonly improve answers.
Sqlite virtual tables are nice. I made one for my db that decompresses strings from my other table on the fly (supports dictionaries for short data)
Instead of making up your own strict, carefully selected, and historically inaccurate definition (no historic fascists ever cared about ideology as anything other than a pretext for their authoritarianism.) I'd recommend reading up on this, just making things up as you go along isn't a great way to approach this particular topic. There's plenty you could read, though I'd recommend starting with Eco's Ur-Fascism as a bridge to start learning about the topic. There's more current work that's worth reading, but since you aren't familiar with any of it I'd recommend starting with the light material, it's more approachable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism
> Most consumers have now long since spent the savings they built up during the pandemic.

Is this supposed to be comedy? Most people did not become more well off during the early years of the pandemic.

I wish we could exercise the same choice (branded vs generic) in the ISP utility we chose to pay for. For me it's either 56k or Comcast cable. I'm on the same comcast plan as I signed up for in 2012 (80/5 for $78/mo total with modem rental then) and it's not only gone up in price by over 1/3 but the service has decreased in quality too. When I signed up I had unlimited data transfer. Now I'm repeatedly paying $10/50GB "overage fees" on my 1.2 TB/mo allowed data transfer. And my speed has not increased at all, still 80/5. Only now I pay $106/mo (w/modem rental).

You could argue internet is not essential to live like food. It really isn't. But it sure is hard to live without.
OP's link redirects me straight to google.com, possible request overload

i found the same title at Associated Press: https://apnews.com/article/inflation-consumers-price-gouging...
I like this approach of building a template in Figma and CSS, and having customizations map across them. I like that you've stuck with fairly established components where the behavior is very established. It means you're less likely to alienate people who want different conventions.

> I’d love to hear your thoughts from your experience working with designers & component libraries.

I tried a different approach. I built a tool to export Figma designs to HTML and inline CSS.

It uses the REST API rather than the plugin API, so you don't need as many permissions to use it.

I put in some work to collapse `div`s together, so the HTML isn't div soup.

It scales from exporting a single button to a whole screen, but isn't smart enough to identify reusable components.

I had hoped it would give developers an initial output to aim for when porting designs to React. Ultimately though, it didn't get much traction with my colleagues and I've stopped working on it.

But if you're interested, you can check it out here: https://github.com/ccouzens/figma-rust/blob/main/src/to_html...
Unfortunately, electrical grids are very rules and procedures based.

I could totally imagine that most installations aren't allowed to top up a few old solar farms with new panels without also bringing the rest of the farm up to modern standards re: fire and electrical safety.

Also, I could totally imagine that grid connections are based on the manufacturers rated power output, and not the lowered output because the panels are old.
he used gemini and not gpt4

and yeah, gemini/bard is shit across the board
Feel your pain! This was the idea behind query performance "bubbles" in Fleet. (Uses the osquery performance metadata to indicate whether performance impact of a query on a host is "minimal", "considerable", or "excessive")

Next step is "clairvoyance", where we predict perf based on the SQL when you're in the query editor
Once again:

Peak Windows : Windows 7

Second Best Windows : Windows XP

It's been all downhill since Win 7.
Then why does chain of thought work better than asking for short answers?
I think they went MoE purely because straight up scaling from 175B to 1.8T is just too expensive. But it’s still 10x scaling, right?
>How can anyone observe all of this and claim that Emacs is dying?

Because LISP is also dying. Compare JavaScript vs Emacs Lisp on Google Trends. It doesn't make sense to have an editor exclusively have it's own language instead of reusing a commonly existing one.
There is ample data showing a decrease in accuracy arising from LLM censorship, it's very much documented.

I guess at least a facsimile of logic is embedded.
You're providing those explanations without context. These are all explanations provided by a government committee composed of the very same politicians responsible for creating the government programs that caused the financial crisis:

In its January 2011 report, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC, a committee of U.S. congressmen)

The political elite is thoroughly captured by the public sector institutions responsible for the financial crisis:

https://www.cnbc.com/id/25713791

They spent a combined $170 million to cultivate allies during that period, a bit less than the American Medical Association and a bit more than General Electric (GE is the parent company of CNBC).

At the same time, their executives have consistently led the mortgage-banking sector in campaign giving to members of Congress, contributing a combined $16.2 million since 1997.

People who have lobbied on their behalf have played or are playing roles in the presidential campaigns of both Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama.

Defenders, including President Bush and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, say the nation's two major mortgage companies -- which own or guarantee roughly half of the nation's $12 trillion in outstanding mortgage debt -- are more vital than ever to the smooth functioning of the nation's jittery financial markets.
the difference between quitters and polymaths is outcomes

the weirdo learning weird stuff becomes eccentric and interesting the moment they make it

the only advice there is, is most will judge you by results

success earned or unearned can change the loser into a late bloomer
Did they know that they could refinance as rates drop?
They might, but that doesn't change the fact that Western-style societies basically exist in the East now. Cars, sky scrapers, western medicine, suits. The 1800s and 1900s basically converted us all to a Western colonies.
> the only way to address the issue is to get more resources sourced locally.

I don't know about "only", but I agree that that's the best move: Fewer labyrinthine dependencies, more providing directly for yourself and your neighbors.

But isn't the difficulty of that proposition a direct function of population density? If "locally" means 1000 people on 100 acres, that's a lot different than if "locally" means 10000 people on 10 acres.

---

To put it differently, premises:

1. The planet can sustain 100M of us

2. The planet cannot sustain 100B of us

3. There is uncertainty about whether the planet can sustain 8B of us

Conclusion:

The safer direction for our population to go is down.
Sure Windows is for the most part, libWord, libExcel and libPowerPoint.

Linux (and BSDs) are important to people who want to do things that are hard to do in a tightly integrated office suite.
The Snazzy D Compiler
> software is an enabler not the solution itself.

I disagree when it comes to AGI. AGI is the solution itself. If we can put truly human-level intelligence into a machine, and we can make it cheap enough to run at scale, it can do all the intellectual work we can do, almost by definition. If it couldn't do it, then it wouldn't be human-level AGI.
I'd just solder paste and reflow, like a large surface mount device. Challenging to get consistent no doubt, and the alignment would have to be very accurate (or have a few separate boards), but I think doable.

Seems like you could largely automate a workflow for identifying pads in the scan and generating the mirror layout, with simple routing to some kind of standardized interface for the probe lines.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20130822124159/http://www.someth...

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https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/03/23/san-jose-man-convicte...
Soldering required here is _INSANE_. There are industrial flying probe machines that can perform same task in fully automated manner with no soldering, but typical Chinese RE involves sanding the board down one layer at a time https://www.chinapcbcopy.com/pcb-reverse-engineering/

There are Chinese outfits offering this service at really low prices, we are talking hundreds of dollars per pcb.

https://www.pcb-hero.com/blogs/lilycolumn/pcb-reverse-engine...

https://www.chinapcbcopy.com/pcb-clone-service/

https://www.pcbtok.com/pcb-reverse-engineering/
True! It's important to first understand the fundamentals of what makes an LLM "good" and what makes it fast, but yes, there are lots of techniques you can apply right before and during the inference step that can trade off between speed and capabilities.

Different prompting techniques like what you're describing are one way, and RAG [0] and ART [1] are also in a similar category.

[0] https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/10/18/retrieval-augmented-ge...

[1] https://www.promptingguide.ai/techniques/art
See also the C port here: https://github.com/eafer/rdrview/

It works well with text-mode browsers like w3m.
Funny that this pops on the front page just as i posted this on show hn https://github.com/Cloudef/zig-budoux

This site also nicely demonstrates how poorly web browsers break japanese text
Excalidraw looks like an absolutely amazing tool even on mobile after dome doodling.

Thank you so much, I’ve been looking for a good tool to replace Visio with but Draw.io and lucidchart were not to my liking.
Having paved roads helps: https://github.com/fleetdm/fleet
> This just seems like a completely insane take to me.

Not any more than the original. But yeah, I agree it’s insane to reduce the whole crime problem to just those two variables.
Illegally adopted in US during Chile's dictatorship, they're now reuniting
Who is John Galt.
A huge part of being a manager in a large company is basically playing politics, but the point of the article (and common knowledge at this point) is that great managers excel in other skills rather than just "politicking."

My bias might be showing, but what is politicking other than being in the same room with "influential" people, exchanging favours and licking boots when necessary? One would agree that a great manager does more than just appeasing their boss and trying to climb the ladder of power.
Users of 1Password with Dropbox sync can get TOTP in a terminal window with GitHub.com/jeffallen/1pw

It is a crude hack, but it works for me.
There has never been a time in history of this planet with more people possessing those capabilities.
I could imagine something like that working in theory, but the amount of examples you would need to train such a model makes it completely impractical. We tend to need billions of examples to get a modern deep learning model working well, and it will be a very long time before reach that many examples of good LLMs.
You clearly don't understand statistics. If a study is done such that this can be an issue, the study is at best useless
Favoring one corporation over alternatives? Do these schools have contracts with Google, that are publicly available?
As far as I know not really, apple limits background tasks too heavily.
LLMs output a probability distribution for the next word. Searching the space of what the best next word to use is takes more time than just picking a good one and assuming that it was a good enough choice.
Altair is great.

I'm using Plotly more lately, for 2 reasons - chart have very good interactivity by default and I'm also a Dash user - so it comes in naturally.

But I believe Altair is excellent for exploration - simple charts are very simple to create, and it's not complicated to create a complex exploration dashboard - with all charts linked between them - so you can select a subset of data on one chart, and it automatically updates the others. Highly recommend at least exploring it !
Well, as you say, desktop environments look the same. But they don't feel the same. When we talk about UI/UX we talk about look and feel. I've installed Ubuntu & MX Linux to reply to your question, here are random issues I get with the default setup: why do I get no sound when I play a youtube video (it works on one distro, broken on the other one) ? why do I have no option to change the refresh rate of my monitor to more than 60Hz ? Therefore where is the 120hz smooth scrolling ? Why is my keyboard layout set to english by default while I am located in Europe ? How am I supposed to configure my WIFI password if my keyboard layout is incorrect by default ? Why does my CPU fan runs at full speed while I am just writing this text currently with no other user task in background ? If I use a laptop with a second keyboard (bluetooth), why aren't my keystrokes taken into account when the system asks me to confirm the reboot by pressing "enter" (I need to reach the laptop keyboard since the bluetooth one is not taken into account) ? Why does my browser need to reload its cache & configuration from my drive each time I boot my computer; why isn't it loaded in RAM by default ? Why do I still have the first mouse wheel scrolling event ignored in the Chrome/Chromium web browsers in most distros I try, while this bug has been driving users nuts for years while the solution is already known ? I use a dual monitor setup, why does the system displays some glitches at first boot ? Why doesn't it doesn't remember my primary screen when I log off the session, and shows the login prompt on the other screen ? Why does the system hangs when I run a game like counter strike 2 and I try to switch back to the desktop ? Why does the system get super slow while it tries to recompile shaders, making it impossible to open a web browser ? and I'm not even mentioning the issues installing/uninstalling proprietary video drivers which is still a huge mess. For my usage, the Linux Desktop feel experience is still pure hell currently... although I really wish it were good.
This is neat - I found a random website [0] where someone binary patched C&C Tiberian Sun to have IPv6 support, just because. It feels so much like the old web I miss.

For some reason all this makes me reminisce about Fravia's Searchlores [1] which always felt a bit like if Umberto Eco was interested in computers. And the site felt a bit like the library labyrinth from The Name of The Rose where you'd turn some random corner and find something incredible, only to lose it forever later on :D

[0] http://ts.sesse.net/
[1] https://www.biostatisticien.eu/www.searchlores.org/indexo.ht...