skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know that he "renounced" patterns -- throughout the Nature of Order tetralogy, he refers to many of these patterns when discussing a multitude of examples that appear in these books.

The central tenet of Nature of Order (as far as I understand it) is that spaces can support life, that there's a certain liveliness to structure, "life" as a quality. The presence or absence of patterns is used throughout to argue the extent to which a certain space or structure has this quality.

It's all quite esoteric and wonderful at the same time. Most challenging books I've ever attempted to read.
Concerning when an article like this makes assertions but doesn't mention key social concerns associated with the culture such as the periodic burning down of the houses. [1]

Given the "social strata" ideas presented in the article, I have bias concern alarms going off.

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

(edited: grammar)
Great article, but I thought that linear types already implied "named destructors", hence the "Higher RAII" moniker is redundant. If not, how do languages with linear types handle a linearly typed object lifetime?
How the Soviets revolutionized wristwatches (2016)
Unity!
OpenTofu hard forked, it's going to be interesting to see what happens if IBM rolls back the licensing changes.
Signal-desktop: ringing despite contact being muted #6847
Signal letting muted users ring through is a serious problem. Users mute contacts to avoid interruptions, but this behavior defeats that purpose, leading to frustration. It clashes with standard notification practices and Do Not Disturb settings, reducing user control and potentially allowing harassment. For journalists, it’s especially risky—muted calls can reveal sources or sensitive contacts if a name appears on screen, endangering their safety and the confidentiality of their work.
I guess Apple has to keep its shareholders happy. I wish we had cleaner proxies into shareholder opinion. If you polled apples shareholders, what percentage do You think would answe yes to the question "are you ok with Apple spending a months worth of profit on tim cooks latest idea?", weighted by number of shares.
Mental decline with age is a thing, and in my personal experience, it starts right at the boundary of the forties.

All said, if I had as little as 200k in my bank account, I would start investing less time on getting more money and more time and money on getting more health. From my very personal point of view, a person who has millions on their name and who is still working for more money has a bit of a death wish.
Do you believe the average human has general intelligence, and do you believe the average human can intellectually achieve these things in ways existing technology cannot?
One of the key phrases I said was "(if you have to make one at all)" -- wavefunction collapse is inherently messy, since the notion of measurement is not well-defined or understood. I would argue that "don't care" is likely a more common interpretation among practicing physicists (of which I am emphatically not!), as this is very much in a realm where general intuition largely does not apply.

Copenhagen is basically an admission that we have no good intuition for why QM behaves the way it does, and wavefunction collapse is merely a way of justifying existing observations within the framework of QM.

IMO all the discussion about how wavefunction collapse doesn't scale to larger ensembles of particles, or the boundary between QM and Newtonian mechanics being ill-defined is noise -- the bridge between the two is statistical mechanics, where classical mechanics only arises from sufficiently large macrostates such that you can aggregate out any quantum mechanical properties. And QM is generally understood to be a toy model in the same way that Newtonian mechanics is a toy model -- it's useful in the realm where we use it, but when you push beyond the limits of that realm, its deficiencies become apparent.

That's why I don't think the proposed experiments to test many-worlds are particularly meaningful (since AFAIK they all seem to involve performing interference on enormous ensembles on the scale of entire humans) -- it's well beyond the limits of where QM is useful (also, I personally don't think we'll ever be able to operate quantum-mechanically at that scale).
There are Java and C# (somewhat typesafe imho) and this (Kotlin, reasonably typesafe imho):

https://github.com/VirtuslabRnD/pulumi-kotlin

For Pulumi. When I see the pulumi-kotlin example code I much prefer it over my Terraform scripts. (We picked TF before Pulumi was an option, and waaaaay before it had reasonably typesafe lang support)
It’s seems exceedly clear to me that the primary interface for LLMs will voice.
Apple has included NPU hardware in its SoCs since the A11 in 2017. It has been used for a variety of local AI in your pocket since then. This "Neural Engine" has only gotten more powerful with each iteration of their SoC in the intervening years.
I had that exact same conversation with a Japanese American who was raised in the Bay Area but moved to Tokyo in his 30s. “You get the gaijin pass,” he told me, “I don’t.”
I agree. An AI assistant with the following properties would make me upgrade my phone: 1) fully local / ultra low latency; 2) privacy guarantees; 3) access / training / fine-tuning over all the data on my phone.

But it would probably require at least a 10x increase in on-device compute/memory resources to achieve that, unless they can pull off an efficiency miracle (1.58bit models?).
People aren't dumb. They'll catch on pretty quick that this thing is BS'ing them.
It's also worth mentioning the specific agreement between KDE and Qt (https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation/ and https://www.qt.io/faq/3.2.-why-do-you-have-an-agreement-with...), which shifts the incentives as well.
Well for one, Ilya was poached from Google to work for OpenAI to eventually help build SOTA models.

Fast forward to today and we a discussing the implications of him leaving OpenAI on this very thread.

Evidence to support the notion that you can’t just throw mountains of cash and engineers at a problem to do something truly trailblazing.
Are you saying that this is the place for the comment like "Racism (xenophobia, actually) is very present"? Or don't you think it is xenophobic?
Chunked sequences: O(1) push and pop, O(log n) split and concat, low constant fa
When you take a shot at the king, you get reported to the police and go to jail.
So if members of the C-suite seeing jail time is what is best for the company going forward — surely they will line up and fall on the sword.
What on earth? The experimental research demonstrates that it doesn't "fuck up constantly", you're just making things up. The various performance metrics people around the world to measure and compare model performance is not irrelevant because you, some random internet commenter, claim so without any evidence.

This isn't pedantry, it's science.
There is no understanding, it can't do this.

GPT4o still can't do the intersection of two different ideas that are not in the training set. It can't even produce random variations on the intersection of two different ideas.

Further though, we shouldn't expect the model to do this. It is not fair to the model and its actual usefulness and how amazing what the models can do with zero understanding. To believe the model understands is to fool yourself.
Most indiehackers have a development background, so building products is a breeze. The real challenge lies in marketing!

I know many of my developer friends who have amazing products but lack users. With the right approach, this could change.

It's something I struggle with, but what works for me in some aspects is outsourcing my marketing to talented people. There is intense competition in the marketing services industry, which works in favor of us developers. We get to enjoy top-notch services at incredibly low prices.

Just by conducting a quick research, you could easily find someone to handle your non-technical SEO or even run your Google ads. (the possibilities are endless)

There is just one small issue with this approach!

Marketing is a crucial part of your success as an indiehacker. You'll never get the chance to learn it if you don't do it yourself.

Why not combine outsourcing with hands-on learning?

That's why I created Marketing Matrix – a collection of marketing service guides and tools to assist you on your marketing journey.
Apple had the best chance of it due to making their own web browser, OS, media player, mail app, photo gallery app, etc and having close relationships with big apps like Final Cut Pro, Adobe. What chance does Dell have?
The url suggests the headline was altered
I just cannot fathom building on something like Dart with such a tiny market share. The fact that it’s essentially owned by Google (with Flutter being the main reason people, have to, use it) makes it even less attractive. Google only cares about Google so if you step out of line with the “one approved way” you’re going to have a bad time.

Google’s commitment, or lack there of, has burned us too many times to give them the benefit of the doubt here. All it takes is someone internally vying for a promotion to come out with “Gart” or “Dutter” with 80% feature parity with Dart/Flutter and billed as “the future”. See: countless examples (Pay/Wallet, 50 chat apps, Health/Fit).

I don’t trust Google at all. I won’t build on GCP and I won’t use their languages/frameworks.
> Depends on what space you are talking about.

The companies constantly building and training new models to keep up with the competition.
German here.
There are plenty of ambitious people who work more than 10h/day and nobody cares. Law companies who should know best, are especially known for their dumb working hours. That rule is rather in place to protect workers that are not in a powerful negotiation position. Which is fine I guess.
About healthcare: wouldn't that make it actually easier to hire employees because they know they'll be covered if they join a startup (risky!) instead of having to worry about that as well?
I have an XPS 13 (the current Intel version, not the ARM version obviously) and they definitely have not. In fact, I've had the touchbar replaced 3 times and the whole computer replaced once because when the touchbar gets too hot, it starts "phantom pressing" the keys on it.

The replacement machine still has the issue, but it has a newer generation CPU which generally runs a bit less hot, so it's not as big an issue as it was on the previous machine.
Qualcomm posted an article to their blog recently about their efforts to upstream support for their processor to the Linux kernel: https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/blog/2024/05/upstreaming-...

Only time will tell how good the support is, but it's at least a start.
> In single-ownership languages like C++, Rust, etc. we've been conflating the destructor to handle two things: fulfilling the object's final purpose, and handling exceptions/panics.

Well, from a transactional point of view, a good design for C++ classes is to have implicit destructors (i.e. a conventional C++ destructor) rollback any change, while explicit ones would commit. This works very well with exceptions.

What C++ lacks is the ability to statically prevent you from calling an explicit destructor twice, but should be doable, for example, in rust.
Nikita Bier is a 2x exited founder and a former product leader at Facebook. He's also one of the best copywriters on the planet. He has over 300K followers on X, where he's constantly going viral.

I use a custom GPT to analyze his copywriting techniques, and then rewrite my newsletter in his voice. I also talk about the future of AI for marketing and how content can be personalized in real-time.
I traded it in for some token amount of money when I replaced it with an M2 Max. I assume Apple recycled it because there’s no refurb market for those turds.
Between the antiquated hire process, to the devaluing of onboarding, to the number of under-trained and under-effective managers, to the head in the sand ("Culture? Who needs culture? There's work to do!) leader... Why is this a surprise?
Source? I believe it depends on what part of the magnetic field the CME hits. There are more people living closer to the north pole which might give that impression initially.

Here in Australia I leaned pretty quickly from other local Aurora chasers not to rely on Kp, which is relevant to North America only. Instead I use the global storm strength and the Hobart magnometer readings.
Acquitted of all charges under the argument Boeing lied to him...Engineers who lied to 737 Chief Technical Pilot...?
It's like a game of chairs, CEO's are not responsible because it was lower level employees who did not follow "procedures". Employees say...they were lied to...At the end is just convenient fog....

https://apnews.com/article/business-texas-fort-worth-federal...

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-boeing-737-max-chief-t...

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/why-b...

But NYT and others argued the story is different

"Eight months before the messages were exchanged, Mr. Forkner had asked the F.A.A. if it would be O.K. to remove mention of MCAS from the pilot’s manual. The F.A.A., which at the time believed the system would activate only in rare cases and wasn’t dangerous, approved Mr. Forkner’s request."

https://archive.is/Ksu08
This isn't right. The difference in weight of a tire in the same class is insignificant (~400g) compared to the bike (~7kg) and the rider.

Indeed based on your explanation the stiffness of the tread is going to be as much of a cause as anything.
That was great.

No chronic lead poisoning after all. Lead poisoning started only within ~100 days before his death, mostly caused by medical interventions (lead based antiseptic, lead based medicine) when he was treated for symptoms of an undiagnosed hepatitis and cirrhosis of the liver.
As much as I dislike Oracle's biz practices (I'd not touch their db product with a stick), they do a lot of FLOSS devt:

https://opensource.oracle.com/ (almost endless list)

But then they have take FLOSS projects and abandoned them, see OOo for instance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice#/media/File:...
Honestly mobile totally outstrips this.

One day at work about 10-15 years ago I looked at my daily schedule and found that on that day my team were responsible for delivering a 128kb build of Tetris and a 4GB build of Real Racing.
All the hardware I’ve had from Dell has fallen to pieces (with the exception of the first one: a 320LX from ’85[1]) but they’ve been helpful in trying to shore up the inevitable at least.

[1] https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/54920/Dell-320LX/
I thought I read you could buy "adult verification cards" by going to a newsstand and presenting ID that is potentially verified by the seller (if you appear underage) but not recorded. Like alcohol or tobacco purchases are in the US.
Where to buy one. The article says they bought it on Aliexpress but there are no sellers.
+1 for pulumi! https://thenewstack.io/pulumi-launches-new-infrastructure-li...
The "independent examinations" is doing a heavy lift there.

At most charitable, that means a person is reviewing all data points before approval.

At least charitable, that means a person is clicking approved after glancing at the values generated by the system.

The press release doesn't help clarify that one way or the other.

If you want to read thoughts by the guy who was in charge of building and operating the automated intelligence system, he wrote a book: https://www.amazon.com/Human-Machine-Team-Artificial-Intelli...
Open source licenses increase or curtail reach of the software
I believe Hashicorp's move wrt the license of TF was in order to close the IBM takeover deal.
I also work in healthtech, and nearly every vendor we’ve evaluated in the last 12 months has tacked on ChatGPT onto their feature set as an “AI” improvement. Some of the newer startup vendors are entirely prompt engineering with a fancy UI. We’ve passed on most of these but not all. And these companies have clients, real world case studies. It’s not just not very far away, it is actively here.
A rabbit R1 clone using flutter and Gemini AI [video]
Show HN: A PoC generative UI in Elixir Phoenix LiveView in <60 loc
The article compares GPT-4o to Sonnet from Anthropic. I'm wondering how Opus would perform at this test?
I absolutely hate any homework a firm wants to impose on me. I’m usually juggling multiple interviews and don’t have time for that (especially when they’ll just ghost you at the end).

But I get it. It’s so expensive for everyone involved if you hire the wrong person and need to correct it. Asking a candidate to put more work up front seems reasonable when the offer can easily be worth $250k or more for what is essentially a day of zoom calls.

What’s a better way? Hire as a contractor and convert to full time after 6mo of performance evals? That’s also problematic.
They do need both but it seems like they have enough engineering talent to keep improving. Time will tell now that Ilya is out but I expect they have enough cultural cache to attract excellent engineers even if they aren’t as famous as Ilya and Karpathy.

They have a strong focus on making the existing models fast and cheap without sacrificing capability which is music to the ears of those looking to build with them.
Not recently but I recall an intersection where I used to let my car roll back down the hill a bit in neutral if no one was behind me to quickly trigger the light. I didn't understand the mechanism at the time, just that I could reliably get the trigger doing this.
That Tim Cook would take this course was AFAIK entirely predicted (and it wasn't hard to predict) when Jobs died. No surprise here. I guess he was counting on the walled
garden too much. I'm really glad that EU exists.
Why is Cook no Ballmer? Both seem like competent but maligned CEOs who ruthlessly capitalized on their predecessors' innovations, resulting in tremendous cash flow and short term shareholder value while neglecting to chat a course for creating meaningful user value in new ways in the future.
This article has so many words yet has such little information, and is remarkably sparse in technical detail. What did they actually do? What did they build? How did they migrate? What is "SDS"?

Is every article written by ChatGPT now? My confusion was partially answered as soon as I saw the word "delve."
On some level, it's healthy to retain a sense of humility at the technological marvels around us. Everything about our daily lives is impressive.

Just a few years ago, I would have been absolutely blown away by these demo videos. Six months ago, I would have been very impressed. Today, Google is rolling a product that seems second best. They're playing catch-up in a game where they should be leading.

I will still be very impressed to see videos of that quality generated on consumer grade hardware. I'll also be extremely impressed if Google manages to roll out public access to this capability without major gaffes or embarrassments.

This is very cool tech, and the developers and engineers that produced it should be proud of what they've achieved. But Google's management needs to be asking itself how they've allowed themselves to be surpassed.
As someone who moved to Japan over 8 years ago, the observations make sense!

Also, if you're considering "living" in Japan (which is a totally different beast from visiting as a tourist), here's a hypothetical scenario. See how you feel the first time you read it.

You, alongwith a group of friends/group tour members are walking down the street towards the station to go to your next (sightseeing) destination in Tokyo. Assume none of your friends/group tour members are ill-meaning (as in, they don't behave like bad tourists, littering the streets, being loud because they want to etc.).

Now, assume that the group you are with is being louder than other locals around you, possibly because they are in good spirits after a good meal or sightseeing experience. What is your way of thinking:

a) Do you realize that your group is being louder than other locals around you?

b) If you realize so, do you still not feel anything and keep walking with the group?

c) Or do you feel uncomfortable that your group is being louder than others around you, and want to distance yourself away from your group?

If you're more inclined towards c), then your way of thinking is closer to the Japanese people.

Source: had the same experience when I visited Japan over 10 years ago for the first time, and I was so uncomfortable it felt like torture just walking with the same group.

Japan, for better or worse, is "unique" in many ways even today, including how people think and behave.
It's not for everyone, but if you think the article's observations and the scenario above are something you like and want to be a part of, you'll likely not have too much of a hard time adapting to life here.

Also, if time and energy permits, please, learn the language. It'll expand your world so much here.
I've spent a few hours last week crafting a piece of code for my coworker, and then when I asked him to test it in the real environment, it turned out that the API he wanted to connect to the code I gave him was just a hallucination by ChatGPT.
The market thinks Tesla is worth more than all other automakers combined, that GameStop is a reasonable investment, and laying off engineers is great!
One advantage of RSS is incremental updates, which means that by subscribing, I can only view the author's new updates without going through the entire stream of information again. I think it is an efficient method of obtaining information.
I recently got a Framework 13 laptop and 10 hours on a charge is easily doable, especially if you put it in the low power mode. That's on Linux, but I'd assume Windows is typically smarter about conserving battery life (though maybe that's changed nowadays).

I'm incredibly happy with this laptop in general.
Yea, lets start with tiny userbase of vocal nerds who cant even agree on how to do gui / package management

instead of the OS with majority of market share and giant userbase

90s are over, it is time to move on and stop EEEing everywhere
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Prior to like 2022, Google was growing at a ridiculous pace. Prior to 2020, almost all workers were in office. Sergey Brin has previously said that he'd like Google to have 1,000,000 employees someday. It takes a lot of time to acquire office space and then make it available for workers. So Google had a lot of office space growth in the pipe for future growth.

Google also makes absolute shitloads of money and, until recently, didn't have a strong focus on reducing costs. "Let's keep that around for the future" made a lot more sense in 2021.

Today, Google has much more flat growth, is pushing its growth to lower cost regions, has a much tighter focus on reducing costs, and has a significant portion of its workers never coming into the office. Suddenly, a ton of this office space is just an expense that can be cut.
Implementing Dark Mode in NextJS14 with Tailwind CSS
RSS and why I love it
It works well enough that I have Visual Studio running without issue. However, no one has been able to get SQL Server running.