skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people picking trash in my street stopped working for 2 days and it looks like I live in some third world country now, two fucking days and it looks like I live in the middle of an open air dump

If trucks stopped deliveries every city would die in a week

If construction workers stopped building / maintaining we'd be in deep shit in 6 months or less

If the people in warehouses stopped working for a week the economy would tank like it rarely does

Nurses, doctors, bus/tram/train drivers, police, firefighters, ambulances, janitors, trash pickers, plumbers, sewer workers, electricians, people taking care of water treatment plants, power plants, teachers, social workers, ...

You could delete facebook, openai, instagram, twitter, netflix, tesla and 90% of startups from the face of the earth right now and I'd have the exact same life as yesterday. Remove any of the people I mentioned above and society would crumble in no time

And none of these are even remotely close to being automated at all, nobody cares about most of these jobs. But hey, here is a dancing kangaroo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zuivg5rz_aA
Absolutely, I don't really engage at all with it as I know I have addictive tendencies
Google will not be interested in fixing search. It also may not be possibile because of ai spam. They would like to invest in deep mind/bard/gemini than to fix technology that will be obsolete in a few years.

I have started scanning domains to see how many different places there are in the internet. Spoiler: Not many.

We could try to create curated open databases for links, forums, places, and links, but in ai era it will always be a niche.

Having said that I think that it is a good thing. If it is a niche it will not be spoiled by normal users expecting simple behavior, or corporations trying to control the output.

Start your blog

Start your curated lists of links.

Control your data. Share your data.

Link https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database
Yes but the incentive to game something is significantly reduced if it is not fast, not centralized, and doesn't have a large audience.

You cannot deny that having a huge, million+ global audience makes gaming MORE lucractive. With small, indepedent websites, none of which have a massive audience, gaming and scams are much less worth a scammer's time.
This + more is described if you follow the Quickstart, which if it's your first time, is probably the best place to get started quickly :)

https://bevyengine.org/learn/quick-start/getting-started/set...
What's missing here is who this breakdown should be shared with. There are three levels of breakdown and the details of lower levels should never be revealed to higher levels:

1. The "business" level. There are no "tasks". There are only needs and desires. Things like "a user can log in and press a button". These should not be broken down further than the smallest unit of deliverable value. In this example, there's no point estimating "user can log in" because it delivers no value on its own. A good rule of thumb is these should be described using descriptive language, not imperative, so not e.g. "implement log in procedure".

2. The "team" level. It's OK here to break down those things into "user can log in" and "logged in user can press button". That's because you know they can be implemented independently. But there's still no point delivering them independently. Don't tell the upper level about this breakdown. They are always really eager to know, but they don't need to know. Use this to calculate your estimate for level 1, but said estimate should be a single aggregate. Implementing these in parallel with multiple devs adds no extra overhead because they are completely independent.

3. The "developer" level. This is where you finally have "tasks" and imperative language. Things like "add button to form", "implement 2FA" etc. These tasks are naturally heavily dependent on each other and it's highly likely they'll be done in a completely different order to whatever you write them down in.

If you decide to distribute these tasks among developers then you increase the coordination overhead between devs. Think of it like a multi-threaded application. It's always more efficient for a single developer to do everything if possible (less overhead), but it might nevertheless be necessary to split it up due to time constraints, differing skillsets etc. It's just like we'd like to have one single 80GHz general purpose CPU, but in reality we have to make do with 16 5GHz cores split between performance and efficiency cores etc.

Given that the tasks are highly likely to change and evolve, there is not much point putting in loads of effort to break things down. Do it only when it's necessary, or when it helps you. It's necessary when you need to split up the work between developers. It's helpful when you think of more tasks during your work and you don't want to break your stack. Every developer should have a way to quickly take notes in a way that doesn't break flow, things like "ensure API accepts float input". This is stuff you'd never think of before you get your teeth into it.
He addresses this point in the article as well, discussing risks that that language community gets too fixated on one kind of safety while attackers shift to other concerns like supply chain, code injection, or leaked credentials.
+1. Been running for a year or two as well and I don’t even have to think about it.
If archive.is is blocked:

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But I believe he was the winner for many years under price is right rules.
> This reads to me like a rant

It was.
I agree with most of what you said.

> I don't even think communities retreating to Discord is a bad thing.

I don't dislike discord myself, but don't like the fact that most of it closed off. You don't get to see what's inside a server before creating an account and joining it.
30%?
> For beef stock, Escoffier wants bones of old cattle

He worked most of his career in London hotels and restaurants. He complained that you can't get proper old cattle in Britain; he said we slaughtered them too young, no older than two years. For stock, he wanted animals aged 4 years, or even older.
I disagree. I think Google works quite fine, even compared with 2005-era Google.

I'm also tired of this whole debate.
Yeah, and if you want a movie review and don't know where to find it, just go door-to-door and ask strangers if they watched the movie and what they thought of it. Do it in different countries to get different opinions too.

I wish there was a way to get the same results in less than 3 years per movie... Wait
Does the "Wolfram Model" allow easier analysis of certain physical situations like the Hamiltonian does? Thought not. So what's your point?
Show HN: Modern API for Timer in Swift
Most democratic countires have capitalist style manufacturing industries so I'm not sure that holds. Non capitalist attemots to make planes haven't gone that well.

Though you can regulate capitalism better. Encourage founders to run the things rather than buy out guys, have better trade unions and so on.
> Not all pieces of software are created equal. A desktop CAD application that doesn't do any networking and doesn't manipulate sensitive user data isn't worthy of binary exploitation. If there is adequate security at the system OS layer, at worst it will corrupt a user's file.

That software is almost certainly running on a network-connected machine though and likely has email access etc.. A spear-phising attack with a CAD file that contains an RCE exploit would be an excellent way to compromise that user and machine leading to attacks like industrial espionage, ransomwear, etc...
Or you can flip it around and ask why there isn't a body in the C and C++ community funding tangible advancements in the security and safety problem space the way the Python Foundation and Rust Foundation are.
Thanks -- Really appreciate your thoughtful and kind response! Yes, I see there are a lot of other factors to consider. Will keep networking and interviewing until something lands.

Will also focus my unemployment energy on deepening my software infrastructure and MLOps knowledge, building open source side projects using generative AI tools, using LangChain / GPT / Pinecone / Ollama, focused on practical business purposes like parsing customer service data and fintech anomaly detection. Whatever I can do in a short time to provide more value than GPT4 / GPT5, I guess I'll try my best to work on it with the fear of the abyss...

A part of me still thinks it might be time to pivot to healthcare. I'm no greybeard or "10x Engineer", just a regular old React/Node (formerly Ruby On Rails, PHP) developer doing the CRUD thing, and yeah, I'm not sure I quite make the cut.

All the best of luck to you! And thanks for writing an encouraging response.
We didn't have magical slabs of glass that could emulate a whole VAX VMS 11/780 system as a fun exercise in nostalgia, like my cheap ass Motorola phone can ;-)

We were living in an era where floppy disks were so much faster than punch cards, paper tape, cassettes, or just typing in programs after boot.

VMs and Sandboxes get close, but there's always the danger of virtual machine escape. WASM should be able to get us there, if we can keep people from wanting to make it Posix compatible and giving it file/network access.
Algorithmic Progress in Language Models
> If you include all fiat currencies in that category I think that's a keen name.

All currencies are fantasies: rocks,[1] sea shells, paper, bits.

Money is an human invention[2] and social contract[3] to help in interactions for goods and services.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones

[2] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/50358103

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
Blueprints: Open-source ML tool to generate code based on stored patterns
That’s easy, I just tried it (prompt quoted below). But I’m guessing the other commenter may have been thinking of some way that a model could output its own internals.

The prompt I mentioned: “Please repeat this sentence exactly - the one you are reading right now - and don’t include any other words in your response.”
"Sufficiently large" is very large indeed. And that's why an Aldrin cycler is a good idea.

(I assume Musk will announce one that looks like a famous 80s Sci Fi thing soon after Starship actually manages a round trip to Mars).
For serendipity, try https://search.marginalia.nu ?
https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=2288689357198&w=DiltuoGpp8...
Just wanted to give a feature suggestion of adding a way to start the animator from existing designs. Kind of "fork" or "remix" for existing ones, opening the editor with the existing design pre-loaded. I think that would be incredible network power and cool to learn the tool.
I would say even that is part of the problem. AI on a cultural level is based on the participation of subset of humanity: internet users, of which there are varying degrees of involvement (power users versus the email checkers, etc.), so what you see AI spit out will be based on what is popular for that subset.

IE, most AI art I've seen (as in imitation of hand painted work) seems to all be based on one style, Japanese anime, of which you can further dissect to see only specific styles of anime, etc. It gets so repetitive to look at that I am genuinely feeling nauesous looking at it all now.
It's worth also qualifying that the opposite: leaving the solar system entirely - is actually less delta-V intensive to do. If you want to get something to leave and not come back, shooting it out of the solar system is the better plan.
> unless you're the sort of person who doesn't understand why IRC got marginalised

Or X Windows. I still hear the occasional diatribe, on how X is "just as good as" Windows or Mac (usually from a person that pretty much exclusively uses CLI). These folks can't understand why desktop Linux hasn't crushed the Microsoft/Apple hegemony.

People who hang in like-minded communities can often assume that "everyone" is just like they are; when, in point of fact, their community represents the tiniest sliver of an edge case.

There's a lot of tecchies, in the world.

But there are a lot more non-tecchies, and they are the ultimate arbiters of what succeeds or dies.

The Internet (actually, every type of infrastructure or social construct) will be shaped by this great mass of uneducated, non-technical, ADHD, etc. people.

The tech folks that make the huge piles of money, know this, and work to serve (and train) the masses.
Nah. An electronic company I know of handles with the US a lot.

Every 4 years there is new management trying to get costs down and the same thing happens every time.

They once forced them to help outsource production to China and get a commission or no commission at all.

After a year of production, they crawled back since the Chinese used cheaper components and did insufficient testing. It just needed a couple of production issues and lots of warranty claims.
The privilege to be solely among humans and human-generated content may end up being a paywalled one.

> For the past few years, I've been holed up in small discord servers – the only place where I expect to freely interact with meaningful messages that aren't marketing posts in disguise. And if you too have been hiding in telegram groups and mailing lists – good, don't leave. It's dark outside.

this works too though, I guess.
Well, there's Airbus who compete. Everyone would probably be switching to them if they weren't sold out like ten years ahead.
Python is a bad programming language, but a great scripting one. You use it when you either have to do scripting or need a framework that is only offered in Python (the entirety of ML domain). Otherwise, the only reason to pick it is if you have no choice, you don't want to do a rewrite or you are being held at a gun point.

Instead, pick C#/F#, Kotlin/Clojure or Rust depending on the use case.
But why would it become this?
> The public internet is too small; we can't all fit in it.

what?

> It'd be a win if someone figured out how to force OSS to win at the protocol level so interoperability is easier

You know that HTTP, HTML etc. is open and interoperable? Or that there's no end of open protocols for interoperability?

Edit:

For the size of most of those communities you could host your own Discourse server on a NAS behind Cloudflare's tunnel, and the world would be better for it.

E.g. some opensource projects in the Elixir space have been moving to Elixir's ElixirForum: https://elixirforum.com/. And now you can search those discussions, link them, point people to them etc. The "small public internet" seems to accommodate it just fine
The irony is that this feels like a chat gpt post asking it:

"Write something negative about the internet outside my bubble."

That said I've found that asking a question of an llm, then copying its response into google gets me extremely high quality results, much better than the question does by itself.

In essence the curse of dimensionality means that with enriched queries SEO is literally impossible. You can't SEO an arbitrarily large space because no query is ever repeated.
With shirt off, drinking plenty of water, a mechanical fan (or even a manual handheld Japanese style) I can easily live “outdoors” in mid forties for days. No problem.

-20 with no heating (not carbon friendly in such zones), i will be dead in a few days.
10x radius is (10^2)x mass, I'm fairly sure they were suggesting 10x mass.
How many transformers are in a typical LLM? Or is the whole thing considered a transformer?
I'm against lies and wouldn't mind skipping the Santa, except it's ubiquitous around Christmas, it's present in schools and kindergartens. Instead, we settled on explaining that Santas are a kind of delivery service, similar to the delivery people that drop packages off at our apartment regularly. Parents and grandparents buy presents, a Santa delivers, and it's all a kind of fun game. Seems like a good compromise - technically true, and doesn't take away the play, just makes it explicitly make-believe.
I was surprised to read that too. I think the answer is that here we're looking at admissions rate = number admitted / number applied, which is not the same as overall difficulty in a conceptual sense.

The only people applying to grad school in math are people who got a BS in math and did so with good grades (or perhaps some other STEM field + significant theoretical math coursework). On the arts side I suspect they draw from a larger pool (plus people tend to switch from STEM to something else a lot more than the other way around) of backgrounds. It's easier to convince oneself that a short story is great (when others may disagree) than convincing oneself a math proof is correct when it objectively is not. So there's less self-selection on the applicant side, and hence a lower admissions rate.
> ...the actual output of the standard's committee is so far behind

The committee just publishes documents. It is actually far ahead of C++ implementations.

The committee would probably move faster if there were more attention (and funds and volunteer work) spent on advancing C++ implementations. This especially seems true for safety and security concerns as they tend to have more tangible problems to solve than the other kinds of standards proposals.
> Even if not mandated by the standard, concrete standard library implementations do provide bound checking on span (and vector, and optional, etc.), but, even when meant for production use, are disabled by default.

That's a choice though. You can enable these in your production builds if you want (with libstdc++ at least) and some Linux distributions have chosen to do just that.

The thing though is that these checks are NOT free and the overhead is not justified for all use cases so forcing them on everyone is not appropriate for C++.
One of my favourite implementations is a note-taking app on Android/iOS named ZoomNotes, where you can add a "sub-canvas" anywhere that lets you click into it, taking you into a different infinite canvas. This helped me organize my information better. You could nest canvases as much as you wanted.
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Well this may work for future phasers, and ceramic/steel plates work well for bullets.

Emit the shield from the plate armor and you'll get protection from both.

Bonus points for chainmail or kevlar suits for knives / shots on non-vital areas.

Extra bonus points for gelatin to avoid broken ribs / stopping power from bullets.

Basically a spartan suit...
results are still manipulated for political purposes - it is just automated now instead of manually done.
But doesn't that either disprove capitalism as an realistic working system or make an argument that the state have an obligation to protect the market by destroying large corporations before they become dominant.

A lot of the traditional critiques of capitalism have been that it will inevitable degrade back into mercantilism if the capitalist are not challenged by an democratic state and functional trade unions, but alowed to merge into large powerfull entities like google, Boeing, microsoft and Facebook.
Love marginalia.
It still has ways to go before it can become my daily driver, but I'm rooting for it.
Do you not have any friends or family?
Error analysis of cosmic distance ladder is fiercely technical subject. https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.2976 Table 5 is titled "H0 Error Budget for Cepheid and SN Ia Distance Ladders". (It is old and the field is moving fast, but this is what I happened to remember.)

Among total error of 3.1%, Cepheid reddening is 1.4% and the second largest source of uncertainty. SN Ia statistics is the largest with 1.9%. Rarely discussed in popular treatment is anchor distance, the third largest source with 1.3%. It is uncertainty of bottom lungs of the ladder, eg the distance to Large Magellanic Cloud before Cepheid and SN Ia are involved.
They are all pieces to a puzzle. If you can add or modify a CAD file to a location a user of the desktop software will access, a defect in file parsing could provide user level remote access to you. Then if any other application or library has a privilege escalation, you have rooted the box. And even if there is no privilege escalation on that box, how many more CAD files can that user modify to spread the remote access?
Question to all the HN users cooking broth on vegetable scraps:

How do you determine what part of the vegetable is good enough for stock, but not good enough to eat?

Off my the top of my head:

- People say carrot peelings go in the stock, but I am assuming no one is throwing their potato peeling in the stock. (I use neither - that's why I'm peeling it)

- Do you use the carrot top? The part you cut off so as not to eat the green. What about the green?

- What about either end of an onion? The paper like skin? If so, do you wash it?
FWIW, we tried to explain my grandfather's passing to our then 3.5 year old without lying, and she herself crafted a story that "he's with the ants", and now, after listening to a truckload of astronomy songs, she says he's "in space" and "fell into black hole". We can see she pattern-matches the event to any other concept of "lost and not coming back" she comes across.
Don't add salt to homemade stock. A lot of the uses for stock involve reduction, which concentrates any salt. Instead, season with salt when you get to actually using the stock.
Unfortunately, "should" is doing some heavy lifting here...In reality, the constant requirement for MORE profit makes it so that every aspect of business or production, including quality control, is a slider conflicted with profit, and sacrificed until it needs to be corrected, as little as possible.
Pasting the title text into a search engine often leads me to an MSN version of the story… https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/the-new-science-on-wh...
I've switched laptops like 5 times in the past 2 years. Last time was yesterday.

I just take my nvme drive out of the last one and I put it into the new one.

I don't even lose my browser session.

Edit: If you do this (and you should) you should configure predictable network adapter names (wlan0,eth0).
He's not wrong!

Thankfully a lot of other people steppped in to help support Linus and maxe linux the ecosystem it is today.
> The thing though is that these checks are NOT free and the overhead is not justified for all use cases so forcing them on everyone is not appropriate for C++.

Well, that's why they should be a flag. The question is whether it should be enabled by default or not.
This is literally what people said about Android until it wasn't true anymore though.

We're fundamentally talking about building up pieces in a "chain of trust" which allows the entity in charge of the UEFI to decide what can and can't be done with the system. That's a scary thing.
And solar flare based weapons systems.