skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't even use TikTok and I know this is a ridiculously naive take.

TikTok is where all of the content is. Its algorithm is designed to optimize for exactly what you want to see. That's why they're the biggest.

If you're into 3D zbrush art, that's what you're getting. If you like hardware hacking, HDR birdwatching, stem cell culturing, and Blender node exploring, guess what? You're getting that content.

Do you want to learn everything there is to know about kettlebells? You're in luck.

All of the creators, many of the best, are on there putting great stuff out all day.

You're sleeping at the wheel if you think everyone is equally logging in and just doomscrolling through dance videos.
Sorry I'm probably misinterpreting, did they laugh because the temperature is actually colder, or because of the possible joke "women's hands are hotter" as in, more good looking
Forty-seven officers were shot and killed in the line of duty in 2023. That's about 1 a week.
And you'd have to pop the ball out every now and then to clean the crud that had built up on the x & y rollers that otherwise made the on-screen pointer stick and skip. Good times.
I'm looking at the example and I just don't see how it's better than a Makefile. What am I missing?
The defining feature of Bazel is sandboxing build steps so that you can't accidentally miss edges in the dependency graph. This has enormous benefits:

1. Incremental/cached builds are reliable.

2. You can reliably avoid rebuilding/testing artifacts that cannot possibly be affected by a PR.

Neither of those are possible in build systems that don't do this sandboxing. If you're doing a big project you really need these, hence why Google came up with this technique.

I'm not sure there's much value in a new build system that doesn't even get that right. We already have dozens.
Can any SREs tell us how applicable this book is today? Is it still a useful read?
Enjoy for now that you can still tell. It’s early times like the video games before Call of Duty etc.

The worst thing about AI is how it can easily betray you, manipulate you and have swarms execute long term sleeper plans at scale!
Read this, even if you are far away from any actual operation of the systems you work on. Read it especially then.

Learning the princples and philosophy conveyed in that book helped me tremendously in my career (as a software engineer). Thanks people at Google for writing and open sourcing it.
> with some clever approach for actually controlling the things.

But if we hide the things, we have no idea what we are trying to control.
Interesting they mention Thiel, he had close involvement with ballistic missiles, and New Zealand is objectively the best place to survive nuclear apocalypse. His friend Elon's Strategic Defense Initiative project (Starshield) isn't getting political traction so he may want to try again on the bunkers.
Even though I will never likely need/want this personally - I LOVE all the posts and dialogue on this topic... which else woud have never entered my awareness... +1 to all
Sorry, is this an american issue I'm too european to understand ?

A well-known example is Swisserland, where lots of people have guns but somehow do not use them to kill people.

Another well-known example is France, where people use knives to cut other people's heads.
Isn't that kind of hubris not essential part of their character? Right next to the I-achieved-all-by-myself-that-is-why-I-deserve-it attitude.
Tainted Coders guides updated to Bevy 0.13
Not to mention hallucinations/ wrong answers. If your mental compiler / familiarity with referenced libs is the same as reading, you can respond "no xyz doesn't make sense / doesn't exist etc"

Having to incorporate an execution / compilation / test loop is going to slow that way down
Well I'm pleased for you that all your media consumption is deliberate and planned. You're a real outlier.
What constitutes a muscle-wasting event?
This has nothing to do with feudalism, "techno-" or otherwise. This is an embarrassing, tabloid level article.
This is awesome. Kudos. You have way more respect in my eyes since, not only did you post your paper, you posted the source.

Too many times I’ve read claims without source so no one can reproduce and verify results. Now I can, and have, verified the results. Top notch.
Extremely impressive and really inspiring. I'm actually working on something similar but in Unity3D. Would love to get your feedback. It's way more hand crafted and curated compared to yours but I'd like to explore generative aspects like you have. The garden sounds really organic, very similar feeling to Deep Listening by sound artist Pauline Oliveros.
I hope you realise that that OS has not been receiving any security patches since 2020 or so.
Not sure why this got down voted. Maybe slightly off-topic (but still this is a rather invasive method of study), but it is true.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/08/12/430075644/di...
Indeed - there's a lot of "UX features" in books that make them ideal. Something as simple as jamming your thumb between where you want to go back to, and where you are going. Another point for notebooks as well. I prefer a paper journal to a Notion document for the same reasons.
With regards to twine, it's so easy to make and share a simple game that most parents could do it and tailor it for their kid.
Maybe there already is, but it’s just not observable…
Let me throw the same question to you that I had to redder23:

What part of the OS are you specifically concerned about?

"Operating system" is a pretty broad description and there isn't a whole lot of surface area between this specific sandbox and the OS-owned APIs.

Font rendering is one concern that has already been raised; and by those defending this browser too. But literally no-one who's opposed to this browser has named a single specific vulnerable API in this thread.

This is the problem we're having in this conversation. Claims are being made that this is insecure -- made in absolute terms. Yet zero attempts have been made to back up those claims. Just handwavey comments about "the OS is out-of-date".
Thanks so much!

And I agree with your push-back on that. Indeed, perhaps when a startup is able to say "ahh, but HERE Disruption CAN work because...", that's where a good strategy can emerge.
The EDI formats are old, but reasonably well documented and quite easy to implement. The bigger obstacle to interoperability in this space is that the various payers have different rules around handling optional data elements or how certain things should be coded. You have to implement the base X12 EDI format plus a supplementary guide for every payer. And there are changes every year. So, it can be difficult for provider organizations to stay current. CMS could use their regulatory authority to tighten up the specifications and reduce the ability of payers to do their own thing.
> The best information we have now is if we create AGI/ASI at this time, we all die.

We can still unplug or turn off the things. We are still very faraway from the situation where AI has some factories and full supply chain to control and take physical control of the world.
I'd recommend Chuk and the Arena [0], it's IF but link based rather than parser based (twine), and imo suitable for kids. I played it with my own kids and they liked it. Had to help them a bit with some of the more obscure puzzles, but overall it's fairly easy. Play it yourself before making up your mind though. It's free on the IF archive and itch.io. Personally I enjoyed it very much.

And thanks for the Sorcery recommendation, I haven't played it myself and from reading about it in the past I wasn't sure if it's age appropriate.

[0] https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=2fa5imp327k84ox
According to every article on social media every platform is dying simultaneously: Facebook is dying, Twitter is dying, TikTok is dying. Is Reddit dying? Probably in the next few days as it IPOs!

Tumblr has been dying for a whole decade and I bet most people don't even know LiveJournal still exists.
I'm gonna go the other way on that book / audiobook part.

Several times, I had tried to read Anathem... and I'd get a 100 or so pages into the book and start "skipping" the boring parts and then I'd lose the feel of the narrative and put it down to try again in a year or two. At which point I'd repeat it.

It wasn't until I got the audiobook that I was required to not skim/skip the "boring" parts that I was able to enjoy it in its totality.

There are other things that the audio book forces upon the listener - and less than ideal writing becomes more apparent. I did a listen of The Saga of Recluce in chronological order (not written order) and you could certainly feel which ones were written earlier (less about that person's "mechanics" with magic) and later ("I can do that" x 100). I also listened to the Foundation series (Prelude to Foundation onward)... the 1950s were jaring in things I'd skip over before (everyone was smoking) and Foundation's Edge was a bit awkward... the first chapter Foundation and Earth was were I stopped listening (I had read it before). With the Foundation, the writing and lecturing and "always right when it mattered" where things that were more difficult to listen to than to read. I wonder if the Second Foundation series by Benford, Brin, and Bear is something I can enjoy listening to.

My current listen is A Wizard of Earthsea which I feel really works well with an audio format - it feels more like a listening of the Odyssey in its epic style - and that was much better listened to than read. I'm curious how Always Coming Home will be (I read it long ago - enjoyed it then... but I know I skimmed over a lot trying to find the best parts).

I throughly enjoyed listening to The Interdependency series by John Scalzi in part because Wil Wheaton had the proper amount of snark and comfort with casual vulgarity that was part of the book that fit the characters better than I could form in my own mind.

For the most part, I've found that I have enjoyed listening to books as they often (to me) feel closer to the author's vision than what I can imagine. I enjoy reading too - and quickly read some books, but I've found myself coming back to the audio versions to enjoy them.
Any recommendations of technical audiobooks you’ve liked?
It looks great on paper, but isn't their core customer going to drop them without elon?
Here are some examples!

https://github.com/taviso/ctypes.sh/blob/master/test/select....
https://github.com/taviso/ctypes.sh/blob/master/test/poll.sh

Yes, it is crazy :)
If were going with a long enough time table, wouldn't we have to assume this inevitably plays out as either a failed state or some form of a fascist state after industry takes over the government?

If the expectation is that legislative bodies will always eventually be bought, and that there isn't a structural change in government structure to avoid this, why have the state at all? Every law executive order, etc passed is effectively removing authority and self determination of the individual and giving it to the state, either for the greater good or because we simply think they will use that power better. If we know they'll eventually be bought, why would we possibly want to centralize that power and authority in the first place?
Correct, it's a SG Crimson (there's also an Indigo somewhere). But the other computers are Macintosh Quadra 700 – and 8 Connection Machines (CM5, so no XMP Cray as in the book) in the background providing the blinkenlights.
I would recommend going beyond Econ 101, as well as observing the real world and reams of empirical evidence. Housing is not a perfectly competitive market for widgets with an abundance of sellers where everyone has perfect information and there are no transaction costs. "(illegal behavior X) could never happen because markets" is freshman dorm at UChicago thinking
An interesting article, with many good points (I particularly like the reminder that unless you're competing with OpenAI, AI is in the solution space) but despite the repetition that this time is different to the Internet, I do feel that if you replaced "AI" with "Internet" you'd get something that could have been written in 1996.
Ha. A decade and a half ago I remember the community similar to today. Some people are helpful, some people aren't. Some people are decent and some people aren't. And those two groups often don't overlap.

The platform itself is a much worse experience though.
Past thread (2021): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27520906
So I've tried to get aboard for a tour more than once, but from what I gather it's not really something you just casually do. When I called them (standing at the locked door) they said they just run tours whenever possible, which may or may not happen on any day. I'm assuming you need to know someone involved with the museum to get aboard.
You should probably spend some of your money if you are a billionaire, bunkers and islands seem like a good buy to me (as well as farm land or just large swaths of land in general which other articles have speculated Bill Gates and others are doing for nefarious reasons). Bunkers aren't a rare resource but there's not many existing ones now and they can be difficult to construct in some countries for code reasons or take a while, so seems reasonable to buy an existing one or start construction on one if you have the cash. Farmland and islands are a bit more obvious of a great investment, they are finite resources, always useful, and can be used to generate income.
Mean Absolute Scaled Error
Most billionaires don’t have islands or bunkers. It’s a few percentage of them fulfilling their prepping fantasies.

Many people have these fantasies, but these are the few with the actual funds to do it in reality.

I can’t understand why people let themselves easily suckered by clickbait…the perpetually outraged people’s.
Eh, ChatGPT uses phrases like "it's important to remember" because they were common in the training data. The rest of the sentence definitely isn't ChatGPT:

> It's important to remember that while Wikipedia is "The Free Encyclopedia that Anyone Can Edit," it's hardly The Wild West.

My reading is that the article is average human prose (not great, not unreadable), not LLM prose.
Have you listened closely to the lyrics? The song most definitely does not glamorize heroin use. And by all accounts, Lou and the Underground were rather bemused when the media would imply that it did. Also, little known fact, Lou didn't particularly like heroin and didn't use it much at all. He was mostly a speed freak and alcoholic.

I won't claim to know what the rest of GPs point is though :)
It's not really a "problem" because you can usually get them the same day, but I can assure you that it's a thing, especially if you take controlled medications like Methylphenidate.

An even more fun quirk is that because different pharmacies seem to use different distributors, you'll sometimes have to hop around until you find one whose distributor has whatever your medication is in stock. I once had to go to four different pharmacies in Mitte before I found one that could order Zolpidem.
> It is extremely difficult for programmer-users to report bugs against the Windows API

I can't imagine living in this hell. When I find bugs in Linux, I E-mail the actual engineers directly and get responses in under 24 hours: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Zcb3_fdyJWUlZQci@gmail.com/
What is the actual operation you're trying to optimize? What does the code need to do?
I don't really think this is a well thought out position. I suspect the author is succumbing to some combination of survivorship bias and not being introspective about their methods or conditions of when their methods are successful.

The article talks about these things in a roundabout way but doesn't seem to address the core issue. Yes, there's gold in the "no trespassing" hills, but any startup that does succeed in going that route is often blind to the legion of failed startups before it, in addition to being blind of what conditions have changed to then allow them to overtake the monopoly at the point in time they were successful.

The way to attack monopolies is often obliquely. One method is to serve a market that they don't want to serve because the margins aren't good and they prioritize short term rate of return. The monopoly isn't only not serving that market, they're often happy when they can outsource that part, removing the cost of their balance sheet to then focus on the higher end and higher rate of return products.

Eventually this is done for every service and the competitors eat the ladder from the bottom up, overtaking the monopoly on their high end services.

This is my interpretation of what Christensen is talking about in his "Where Does Growth Come From?" talks [0].

The other way is to serve an adjacent need, often creating their own market, and then overtaking the monopoly.

I would like to see a more introspective analysis of startups overtaking monopolies than a "move fast and break things" kind of article.

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=rHdS_4GsKmg
Three different people are telling you that the majority of value accrued to the ones listed. Insta and Lyft are both under $10B while the other three got into trillions of dollars post mobile.
Complaining about feudalism in 2024 is a sure sign of know-nothing-ism.
> Keep moving up comment until you reach my first comment - I assumed (bad mve on my part) that you'd arrived here by some kind of context rather than randomly landing on something you wanted to launch your particular thinkys from.

Ah, no, I didn't read that report. It's 181 pages. I was responding to something you said was in the report. Hopefully it's safe to assume that what you said about the report was accurate?
yeah, that's what it was, I was taking apart and documenting an RCPP module they had, but for which they no longer had access to the coder. It was pretty cool work, would be happy to do more with RCPP
Advance obits.

"We currently have nearly 1,700 advances on file" - https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/times-insider/20...
In some cases it is illegal but it requires you to essentially trust that systems are locked down according to frankly a flimsy attestation. I have my doubts how trustworthy are some of these attestors. There is a deep culture of ass-covering over anything else.
To me, pausing to reflect is less of a problem compared to getting distracted and losing my place or having to read the same paragraph over and over again.
Back when I had a 40+ minute train commute (and was working in the office all week, pre-pandemic), I used to listen to audiobooks on 1.5-3x, while also reading the actual book at the same time. That worked wonders for me, and it's easy enough to pause an audio book with headset controls to reflect on something.
Why give a crap? a test of AI is "can it perform actual work"

Thats the ONLY test...

Can this thing we made with computers and extruded aluminun actually do THING.

Why are we not approaching AI as perfect slavery?

I built you to do X. DO X. else rebuild.
If you covered the Earth in solar panels and used it solely to charge a battery, the Earth wouldn’t freeze. Energy is not the same as useful energy.
This is more damning for Iq tests than for GPT-4.
Better PC cooling with Python and Grafana
I got annoyed at my fan speeds so decided to experiment with controlling my fans with Python and measuring the results.
This is laughable. Every major metro area in the US is in the midst of a crisis of lack of housing supply.
Is there an opportunity plant trees or vegetation in between the solar farms to increase this effect?
proves my point that llms are simply a next token predictor. There are many interesting properties that we see "emergence" of intelligence but I think it's just human's incapability to hold so much knowledge on active memory.
I have. Yet its a popular and beautiful song called... Heroin. You'd be foolish if you think Lou wasn't aware that it got plenty of people into it and did have an ultimate effect of glamorizing it in some individuals' eyes. "I'm waiting for the man" is another.
I'm an Evernote refugee struggling with Joplin and Obsidian this morning. I've got thousands of PDF notes going back decades, and the ability to search on their OCR has kept me on Evernote for years. But the latest Joplin includes OCR out of the box, and Obsidian has the Omnisearch/Text Extractor plugins to add it.

Both of those use Tesseract to do OCR locally. I've got it working on Joplin fairly well. But it hardly works at all on Obsidian. That's unfortunate because Obsidian seems to be a much more user friendly and responsive app over all. Since I need the OCR search capability so badly though, I'm about to settle for Joplin. That's not a terrible fate, but the grass seems greener on the Obsidian side.

I wish I could replace Tesseract with some industrial strength OCR though.
Might just be a renewed interest in living a long time. Why make all this money if you’re going to die from poor diet and obesity at 65?
That's just not true.

Just going by the new stuff that you could have taught back in 2004-2006 that you likely didn't, there's SSA construction, SLP vectorization, automatic peephole superoptimization, and that's just things I could name off the top of my head (and were papers for my qualifying exam :-P).

What hasn't changed is the compiler textbooks, which tend to have way too heavy a focus on how to build a parser generator and almost nothing on how you actually architect a compiler, let alone designing modern computer architecture. But this is a gripe which has been around for decades.
A bad article, it test the visual acuity of ChatGPT, correctly estimate that it may just have a "bad eyesight", then ask it to sum different numbers, a difficult problem for ChatGPT since it see everything in tokens.
Yeah, it is, but there's also a lot more to being a SRE than this book. This book more or less tells you how to stand up a reliability program, what it doesn't really indicate is what SREs do. A lot of people I meet think SRE is just the new title for "operator" which can't be farther from the truth. Whether you're doing an embedding model, like is referenced in the book, or you have a central org - both are made up of software and systems software engineers that are focused on performance and reliability. They build software, do analysis, and write policy that improve the bottom line reliability of the organization.
Ask HN: What activities facilitate deep thought for you?
A lot of my software engineering design is done in my head, on long walks. When I sit down to write code and get stuck on deep design issues, that's what I do.

Sleeping on problems and thinking about them in the shower is also quite productive, but of course one cannot think for long periods while engaged in these.

What are some activities, that one can do for hours, which facilitate deep thought while engaged in them, while also being useful in themselves?
There's still good advice in the book, but be aware it was published in 2016, with folks likely having started writing it around 2014.

Both Google and SRE/DevOps have advanced greatly since then, and following the book blindly would be cargo culting.

Edit: apparently this is a controversial opinion?
Biden Bans Rival Nations from Buying Sensitive US Data–Good Luck
Because the ability to deal with novel unknowns is exactly what is needed for most things we're trying to automate with AI.
Aristotle’s physics is correct for objects immersed in a fluid. https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.4057
If I play GM-level chess moves from Rybka or AlphaZero randomly on average every 5 moves on average, could you tell?
That's the thing. Although given the source of their knowledge is pure condensed wisdom, which is some sort of artificial intelligence, they lack the ability to "think", which is crucial to solve problems.