skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"2nd: Instead of seeing it as a 'DoS attack on myself by previous developers', I try to see it as a neverending Sudoku that challenges and stimulates and pays me every day."

This is how it is for me, I've had a great time with several business systems initiated by amateurs or mediocre developers that took hold and had been going for 5-10 years when I arrived. Yes, the WTF:s are everywhere, changing these systems is really hard and takes a lot of discipline and care, but every time you put something in production you'll also have made other parts of the application better, more robust and faster.

To me that is really rewarding, and not even noisy, butterfingered management can stop you from littering the commit log with lovely little improvements that incrementally turns the turd into a much more stable income for them, and possibly yourself (and if not you jump jobs after a while and get the raise then). I don't care whether they appreciate my work, first I care about practicing my craft well, second I care about how it is perceived by my peers in the craft.

Of course, this isn't a reason to make crappy software on purpose, but this kind of just happens when you on the cheap test an idea against a market and it flies really well and customers flow in.
Funny:

> Thanks to Sam Altman (...) for reading drafts of this.
Larry Page and Sergei Brin even stated very clearly in their original paper that using ads as revenue source can impact the quality of results returned from the search engine.
I'm not sure my bladder could handle driving 2,000km without a stop!
I have a few ideas:

Would spend my time building an organization that helps people get dev roles, kind of like a recruiter agency, but if the person isn't getting jobs because of their experience, we give them the platform to gain the experience they need to be successful in the job market.

Would work on helping eSports athletes to make a living playing the game they love. Dunno how that'd even work yet but that'd be something I'd like to work on.

Staying with eSports, trying to 'Moneyball' FGC games. How do we track stats & data for fighting games and extract meaningful metrics we can use to improve players skills. Would want to do this for other games but there seems to be work going on there so it'd probably be best to start with fighting games where that work might not be happening.
> It’s come out that he was actually fired from his previous job at Y Combinator, which was hushed up at the time.

What is that referring to?
We are, but I’m not sure there are any real product reviews left on the internet.
I use to agree with this but I work remote and I can go to an office that is about a 15 minute drive away if I want.

Once I got use to working remote the motivation to go into the office went away completely. I not only don't have a home office but I just switch the input to my monitor when I log off for the day.

The song and dance of the office is just a total waste of time, space and money. It is just absurd this is even still a conversation.
Now you have a chance. Kagi is there.

I made my decision two years ago and I would probably do it even if it was just on par with Google, to support competition and to avoid supporting Google.

But in hindsight it is just exeptionally much better. There is no going back unless Kagi does something monumentally stupid.
Greenfield Village in Dearborn MI is where you want to go.
What makes you think the rest of the western world would follow suit? From Europe it feels like massive tariffs on Chinese goods are a uniquely American phenomenon.
Nah, it was shareware at first.
A barrier whose only purpose was to establish trust so that it could be later taken advantage of.
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Nobody wants to tackle the elephant in the room. I don't care if Tesla, Byd or another manufacturer give me a few kms more of range. First I want a car that doesn't send data to the manufacturer and/or third parties and do not track me.

Does that unicorn still even exist or do I have to wait for UE to do something about it?
Google was really great and revolutionary, they helped zillions of small companies to thrive. It was another cycle.

Then, now, it is like media before the 90s: you need to pay a lot of money to be in the center page of the newspaper.

But, hopefully we are talking about LLMs now, seems like one of the answers to search engines in general. Beyond AI, I see LLMs as a good evolution from PageRank.

A little bit general but lately I use the expression: "Complexity as Scam". Google always pointed to their "algorithms" and played with this term as if algorithms couldn't be adjusted to whatever you want to be. Initially the coined term was sound because it was based on a scientific paper and eventually it evolution but it seems like the PageRank original idea has detoured from being a "pure" graph algorithm.

Another context where I use "Complexity as Scam" is Web3. It is like Matryoshka dolls where there is always one more step of complexity to probe a point, but it never ends.
Thanks for your reply.

I think I am contradictory when it comes to software : I don't enjoy maintaining something that breaks all the time: dependencies, system upgrades, deployment scripts and things that aren't 100% working reliably every time.

So my ideal system is to run a simple binary against a file or SQLite database and have it work reliably everytime. Not a complicated micro service architecture with lots of indirection and keep things running on network.

But balancing this with my hobby of designing multithreaded software.
Most of what they did is irrelevant in 2024 however you can think along those lines imo. I heard about them long long ago when I was in high school and for a while all I could hear about was red hat.

They were here very early on, had a great initial onboarding experience and features packed.

A modern equivalent in their own space today maybe would be Notion - created a category of their own, dominated it and branded themselves really really hard
It's not that people don't want to pay it's that it's difficult to pay small sums. The web browsers could solve this problem but they make money from ads so it's not in there best interest.
Yes, I did! I used to use Yahoo search where the results were more hand-curated and people did not create websties for intensive commercial purposes with useless SEO fluff like it is today.
It's so painful. We have funders come to us saying they love what we do, they want us to do more of it, they have $X million to invest, but only if we use "AI." Investers have their new favorite hammer and, by gosh, you better use it, even if you're trying to weld a pipe.
Same. I can work from home if I have an errand or something, but for me the default is and will continue to be to be in office. And I will actively select work places were that is reasonable. and common.
I honestly don’t really understand what point the author is trying to make. I simply note that in the current environment lots of the complaints she has for women actually dually apply to men as well.

> 20 years ago, when I was on the dating market myself, there were still rules of fair play. A young woman who naively dated a handsome man only to discover that he dated several other women simultaneously would be justified to blame him for being dishonest. Today, she would need to feel stupid because she didn't discuss the terms with him.

I distinctly remember having a conversation in like 2018 with my sister. We were both using Tinder at the time. I was operating under the assumption that once you started going out on dates with someone on the app, you stopped using the app and focused on getting to know them. To my chagrin I was informed that this was naive and stupid, and that my sister was currently going on dates with several men at once, and so were all the women on the app I was talking to, and that this was fine and even expected as long as it “wasn’t serious”. She made it clear that unless someone explicitly asked her to be “exclusive” (a high bar to clear) that she would continue to date as she pleased and not feel any obligation to even mention it to any prospective partner.

Women can’t expect fair play but neither can men. Seems like it’s a race to the bottom.

Overall it seems like the pressure is mounting on men to do more with less, but I could be biased in that regard.
'Territory', would surely be the almost perfect, single word, translation.
It is the killer app in itself. You might be underestimating it's impact and how much usage it's getting (not always for good things, not always for bad).

It's totally permeated many areas of life for people.
So much for the inverted yield curve indicator
That's nothing to do with the vehicle's type of engine
Vendoring saves dependency-hosts a buttload on bandwidth costs too. And makes you resilient against their outages. And any future shenanigans on your current dependencies, either for cost or code injection.

Vendor everything. It's better for everyone except your code host, which is easily changed if necessary.
Something like this I guess:

var words = query.split

var results = executeQuery( Select * from AdWords aw where word in query inner join adlinks al on aw.id = al.id return al.url, al.desc)

If (results.size < 30) {
// todo call search engine
}

Return results
Cognitive dissonance in action.
Why not try talking to workers there who do not have money to invest.

Even in the UK, I know people on zero-hour contracts (no security) who are working unhealthy hours and in unhealthy environments who will be replaced by robots soon enough. But there are few local jobs, partly because Amazon drains wealth from local communities, local businesses close and wealth is siphoned out to rich shareholders elsewhere, as oppose to circulating in the same community.
Prisma “avoids” problems (at least until recently) by just doing SELECT * UNION ALL SELECT *… and then handling joins internally. Utter madness.
The good thing is that cities actively work on reducing noise and air pollution.
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The Big Stay: Is this the start of a white-collar recession? [video]
How is a modest size battery going to extend highway range?
Measured the bandwith, nothing in the extraordinary. Roughly 10 Mbit/s peak. (With 250 Mbit/s fiber upstream and 5Ghz WiFi)
The media is the message
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/02/us/politics/gaza-hospital...
Seems like you’re in the market for a hybrid bladder.
Exactly like Google since 2011 +/- 2 years (the so-so search results part) and Google the last few years (the littered with garbage part)?

I have used Google since probably 2001-2002 sometime and a number of other search engines before. It is rather obvious to me and I have writing and screenshots from around the time quality took a dive that supports it.
Decoding the EU AI Act
Ruby 3.1.6 Released
I liked this article. These follow from the basic law that all systems that grow or change eventually decay and die. Death is an inevitable part of life whether that be for animals, societies or even software.

This is good. Rebirth brings vibrancy and you cannot have birth if you don't have death.
I would love to have time to study those topics. However when I have spare time and I could devote a whole day to study, I realize my attention span does not make it.

So to anyone reading this, my advice is not to wait for retirement. I am lucky enough that my kids now prepare and go to school alone. So every morning I have about 45min when I can say fuck to the outside world including work and pursue studies I am interested in. I can't study any difficult or new subject after work.

Progress is slow but real.

Thanks for the advice for note taking. This is something I really have to improve.
He used to be the president of YC for a few years.
There's a lot to unpack here...

Can you expand on how a card catalog improved the world? As a kid I used the card catalog a lot, both the physical version and the later electronic versions. Full text search definitely leads to pulling in information from a wider selection of sources.

I remember a lot of stratification of news sources pre-Google (which news channel you watched, which papers/magazines you read). Did Google cause reliance on one source of information, or does Google simply exist in a world where people tend towards echo chambers? How would Alta Vista have improved that?
I would say the same thing for Australia. There is no local car industry there, so no protectionism from the govt. on importing foreign cars, one would assume.
> From Europe it feels like massive tariffs on Chinese goods are a uniquely American phenomenon.

Where in Europe are you?

The EU is looking at enforcing a 50% tariff on Chinese EVs in the coming months [0][1]. A trade war has already unofficially started between China and the EU [2].

[0] - https://www.politico.eu/article/probe-into-chinese-subsidies...

[1] - https://www.ft.com/content/31575d29-1945-4a90-8640-04967e1d1...

[2] - https://www.politico.eu/article/china-beijing-market-eu-trad...
I like the name, "2000km range? 'kinell!"
Getting the HN customary flagged status. Like clock work.
Thank you for your work! I‘ll download it and calibrate my WEGA P3440 turntable as soon as I‘m back home.
Some believe that quite a few of these articles might have been in bad taste.

For internal change in Israel this was a bad move, since all officials immediately stood behind Netanyahu in this case. Of course the court should not make judgement on political considerations, although I do believe those influenced their latest move.
Moving the goalposts. GP was only talking about illegal activity. But since you brought it up -

Global GDP is $101T. Global yearly forex volume is $2738T. So by this logic you should conclude that 96% of transaction volume in the traditional financial system is also not tied to economically meaningful activities. You're going to be disappointed if you want to believe society as a whole is any less financialized than bitcoin.

What do you think would be an acceptable percentage of speculation?

https://www.compareforexbrokers.com/forex-trading/statistics...

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD
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It's the cruising and exploration. Flying across giant ice clouds that span half a solar system in Tau-37, hopping among the asteroids of Omega-11 as you hide from the deadly radiation, and all the rest.
which is completely irrelevant for the context of this specific change: automatically picking up annotation processors.

If you don't like the (generated) code of a lib don't use it.
The 46% is a quote from an obsoleted paper, and it then goes on to explain why their methodology was flawed.
MSDN and that book are great https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/resources/win...

A lot of useful links on that page for additional reading.

Repo for the tools used in the book https://github.com/zodiacon/WindowsInternals which are invaluable

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/resources/
So even with 100% tarrifs, it is still very very affordable.
It's difficult to find any good reasoning in this piece, nor in the other article she wrote, that she mentioned. The author's "tee hee I watched some old teen movies and that is the extent of my research" attitude shows her as unserious.
The US is a relatively small market.
lol I appreciate your effort to guide his genius towards 'max human good'
The solution is probably going to involve dropping our dangerous utopian ideals about how complexity and deviation from perfection is problems that must be solved by any means necessary.

The world is a complex place where nearly nothing fit into an simplistic vision of simplicity and virtually no other engineering discipline shy away from gradual improvements and complexity management the way the IT sector does.

There is plenty of examples of real world road, water and sewage infrastructure where the system as a whole have continuity dating back centuries where every problem occurring was fixed in place without anyone ever redesigning the system by wiping and redesigning, and this is a source of pride not shame for the people working with those infrastructures.

The sooner we go away from the idea that just one more redesign using X tools in just the right way width the right team will finally crate an system that don't need constant maintenance and refactoring to keep serve the needs of it's users.
Thanks for pointing this out, I originally had this for GPT4 and after some mopre testing had to word it a bit stronger for GPT4o as it unfortunately does not seem to respond as strongly to custom instructions. Here's the newer version:

"- Important: Analyze my input for wrong assumptions. If I made any, start with "ASS: " and explain what I assumed wrong."

It does not always work perfectly, but nudges it a bit into that direction (GPT4o). Let my show you two examples.

Example 1)

"Is it better to use Python or Microsoft Excel for developing a high-performance gaming engine?"

Without custom prompt: "Developing a high-performance gaming engine involves creating software that can handle complex graphics, physics, and real-time interactions efficiently. Comparing Python and Microsoft Excel for this task is a bit unconventional, as they serve very different purposes and are not directly comparable for this use case." (followed by some non gamedev related pros and cons for Python and Excel)

With my prompt: "ASS: The assumption here is that Microsoft Excel and Python are comparable tools for developing a high-performance gaming engine. This is incorrect." (followed by good reasons and suggestions of C++ or Rust as alternatives)

Example 2)

"Since Raspis are only running windows nowadays, how to debug wifi issues?"

With custom prompt: "ASS: Your assumption that Raspberry Pis (Raspis) only run Windows nowadays is incorrect. While it's possible to run Windows IoT on a Raspberry Pi, the most common and recommended operating systems are various Linux distributions, such as Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian), Ubuntu, or other specialized distros." (followed by what to do for windows on pi)

Without custom prompt: (just some istructions what to do with windows on raspi)

Also, every time the answer starts with "ASS", I have a little bad humor laugh.
Thanks for the info. Butare you sure they couldn't or cannot ramp up their yield? They bought a lot of TMSC knowledge in the last years.
Why they're affordable? I mean why other automakers can't have cheap cars but China can? There can't be any magic.
>> If you’re generating structured output (eg json, xml) which is not sequenced, and your output is something like {decision: …, reason:…} it literally does nothing.

Is this true if you are using RAG too?
What exactly do you consider systems programming, i.e. what would you like to achieve?

Windows is not open source, so unless you work for Microsoft, you won’t really be doing much “real” systems programming probably.

Do you want to program applications? Windows services? Device drivers?
Big data is not only about storage size but also about processing e.g. RAM. In the next coming years the trend is that there will be more (read exponential) IoT sensor devices than we can ever imagine and the nature of their data will be mostly big data in the sense of size (storage) and the analysis (RAM). Just check the latest cars or EV cars, many of them have hundreds of sensor devices and these devices are already connected to the Internet.

Another upcoming example is the latest 5G DECT NR+ standards (the first non-cellular 5G), it will only fuels these massive accumulation of datasets and these monitoring sensor devices do not even get connected to the Internet (think of private factory networks) [1].

Apparently there are limited number of human using or having sensors but for non-human based devices the sky is the limit. For human based communication the data is very limited, we rarely communicate with each others and most of our data now is based on our intermittent media consumptions while streaming audio/video [2]. For IoT sensors devices, they mainly have regular and frequent interval sampling that probably in the ranges of every seconds, minutes, hours, etc. Some if not most of this data is not clean data, there are raw data, and raw data is inherently big and huge compared to the data, for example raw image data vs JPEG data, where the former can be several time bigger in size and processing requirements.

[1] DECT NR+: A technical dive into non-cellular 5G:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39905644

[2] 50 Video Statistics You Can’t Ignore In 2024:

https://www.synthesia.io/post/video-statistics
In which countries ChatGPT has been banned or is unavailable
50 Video Statistics You Can't Ignore in 2024
>>I distinctly remember having a conversation in like 2018 [...]

20 years ago (a generation[1]) is very different from only 6 years ago. Your anecdote seems to reinforce the author's point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation
I've got a similar thing; I can't pull most song lyrics out of the song, and any significant amount of background noise means lip reading for me. Hearing's all fine, it's the processing that doesn't work quite right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder
> It would be like telling the government that no, in fact they are the ones who are wrong and no, I didn’t break the law it is in fact their laws which are broken.

Reminds me of the Wirecard scandal doc on Netflix. Wirecard was so powerful that the financial regulators (BaFin) started targeting journalists and actively defending a publicly traded company.
What happens is that Chinese prices are not real because batteries and EV are subsidised by the Chinese Government. Also Chinese market is full of restrictions for foreign companies.
EU is your best bet here - but frist you have to wait for the decline of the German Car Complex, so the EU is not in their pocket anymore. If it guards their marked to have high privacy standards in cars, then it will be enforced.
From my experience, the muscle memory is strong with ida. Once you’re used to it, it’s hard to switch. So I don’t expect that there was a dramatic plunge as soon as ghidra was released.

I have no inside knowledge but I expect the sales drop slowly as new users start with ghidra instead of ida.
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That makes much more sense than wearing them at the party.
> It feels so constrained and like I'm in school again.

When I was in school I did most of my productive work at home.
> "While there is no enforcement in place to ensure pledge members follow through on their promise, the Giving Pledge educates them on ways they can make their donation, which is seen as “public, moral commitment."

How hard is it for the ultra-rich to simply cut a check every year to a charitable organization they didn't invent as a tax vehicle, at a time of incredible suffering globally through conflict or natural disasters?

Medecins Sans Frontieres, World Vision, the Red Cross --- all these orgs engaged in active disaster responses are almost entirely funded by regular people like you and me making a charitable donation.

Why do the rich need this dog and pony show?

Regular Americans on regular salaries manage to scrounge up a few bucks each year to give to food banks, or help provide kids with school supplies, or other forms of mutual aid . They don't have articles written about them.
“We finetuned billions of dollars of research by Google and Meta.”