skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting observations on compression. As a young programmer, I used to compress executables, and maybe some DLLs as well, with UPX without a second thought. Later I understood that executable compressors prevented the OS's memory-mapped file I/O and demand paging from working as designed, and moved to only compressing the installer and update packages (another of my misadventures as a young programmer was doing my own updater with its own package file format).

I guess the ideal solution would be if the download server offered a few compression options negotiable at download time, via Content-Transfer-Encoding or some other form of HTTP content negotiation, trading CPU time against bandwidth (the server would have to pre-compress or at least cache the compressed versions to scale), and then the download was stored as some kind of archive that could be mounted as a filesystem (this implies random access and therefore not "solid" compression). Then delta updates would be done against that filesystem image. That way, you wouldn't have the "installing" process of uncompressing and copying files. Of course, that would require platform support that we don't have on Windows and macOS. At least I can dream about desktop Linux.
it's like every big game (studio?) is either microsoft already, or just not yet

like every gameplay stands as an engine, or a genre, or a meta-genre? like GrandTheftAuto?

but i was i trying to tweet something about getting lost in stocks and tickers and symbols
The book is also so great because it highlights the creative aspect to programming - which they show could (also) be seen as an art form; where it's beyond the utilitarian aspects of coding; appreciating aesthetics / intellectual beauty. All for the sake of instilling in their students a more holistic understanding of the craft while doing so.

IMHO SICP feels "timeless" somewhat because of that.
> Demanding a cut if I buy a book through the Kindle app is absurd and has nothing to do with ensuring that Kindle doesn't break my smartphone.

"Ensuring that Kindle doesn't break my smartphone" requires time and effort. That's funded by the cut they take.
I suspect the refusal to answer questions about auth aren't a matter of hacking or offensive material.

I suspect instead the people training these models have identified areas of questioning where their model is 99% right, but because the 1% wrong is incredibly costly they dodge the entire question.

Would you want your LLM to give out any legal advice, or medical advice, or can-I-eat-this-mushroom advice, if you knew due to imperfections in your training process, it sometimes recommended people put glue in their pizza sauce?
Not surprised but still concerned that eventually the good times will be over.
vrchat right now feels like a place not yet touched by eternal summer (or the modern equivalents of... eternal bots, ads and ai?), full of real people, diversity of experiences, and talent.

It's also a wild place to see the most obscure hardware of vr in use such as face tracking and haptic suits. And some people even have adult peripheral integration.

For me it's my motivation to learn 3d art. Don't think I'd continue if I didn't have a place to share it.

I don't want the inevitable enshitification, but there's no way it will be a free ride forever. EAC was already a blow to the community. I just hope it retains some charm when it reaches some stable state of monetization.

And I hope it inspires more VR-as-a-social-tool programs, since I think games are far more of a novelty in VR than being able to meet people at events without leaving my house. It seems like a natural evolution of meeting people over chatrooms.
> this is just responsibility laundering

It's linguistics. Corporations were people in English before many folks of darker skin colour.

(OP argued the use is abusive. That is wrong. The term wasn't manipulated. Our world got kinder faster than our English.)

> individual natural persons are implementing every act of these artificial hyperagents

With responsibility comes power. (See: Tiberius.) If the CEO is entirely responsible for their corporation, then they are king. We've derived feudalism.
Any user being able to alter the data model is just a fundamental design flaw.

Other than that, I'd expect segment-based permissions (sales team/territory etc) as a minimum.
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It's interesting. I understand the sentiment. Equally, it highlights the dilemma of wanting things to be very open, with no restrictions, but actually with an understanding that some ways of use are not appropriate.

It's like with democracy and autocratic populists. Part of the deal with democracy is that anyone can run, even people who want to dismantle the system. But that in turn is bad for the democracy too.
This sounds good in theory. Then you try to use these tools and they don’t really make you more productive. More like asking someone for help, them giving a half baked response, giving up and walking away.

I had a conversation recently about this very thing. They were complaining that Salesforce is very hard to learn, even for simple tasks.

I asked why not use AI assistants? Because in practice they just aren’t capable of connecting the dots between documentation and configuration to complete the task at hand at the required level of customization. And that gap that exists between how things are stated to work and what’s actually required is where a lot of jobs are done and AI isn’t close to fixing. Which is why I still remain convinced that what’s being called AI is nothing more than a marketing tool to sell enterprise software and that jobs are going to be destroyed by it.
thank you Mitch!
It's a popular narrative that Taiwan can deter an invasion by having their fabs rigged to blow up and thereby depriving China of that resource. But China would want to take Taiwan and terminate the ROC government even if the island were an underdeveloped backwater with nothing of value because it represents a bastion of resistance to the CCP, a hold out from their civil war. Party prestige, not resources.

Furthermore, America has been invested in the defense of Taiwan for far longer than the chips have been involved. America needs to remain committed to Taiwan if it wants other countries, particularly Japan and South Korea, to take America's support seriously. Reputation, not resources.
Damn. No official Linux version :-(
I guess its French origins might be related to that then.
The don't emphasize citizenship because it is enough to live in the EU for the law to apply, i.e. immigrants etc. are included.

If you look into the actual GDPR, you will find the phrase "data subjects who are in the Union", which are "natural persons", for whom the data protection laws apply.
Fastest Voice AI
But then they can restrict anything, on the basis that the software they're restricting does more than their software.
Migration Guidelines from MySQL to PostgreSQL
Why wouldn't they? It's called great sound design. Games of the 90s and early 2000s put a lot of effort in that. See Thief the dark project. Sound design can bring more immersiveness than graphics alone. It's something forgotten in many games of today that keep beating the ray traced graphics horse
Not sure if I follow here. Whenever I used PWAs, it was just another tab in my browser.

How do PWAs preclude using tabs?
That's why the money's going into making a better Salesforce.
That might be the reason why we find some much cocaine in banana shipments in Europe.
If they could inject their data model into the Windmill IDE so autocomplete worked, that would be...very good.

Edit: also - just to say this now, because I always say it, but having a way to embed this stuff into normal software development flows, with Git / code review / CI / test automation / Docker (maybe) / different environments would be very helpful.

I don't know if you do or not, but my main problem with anything like this is the makers are really keen to show me how easy it is to put stuff into production with 3 clicks, and that's the last thing I want. If I went back into business systems, I'd want a great tool that lets me support a large business with a tiny software team, so the business doesn't have to try and replace software people with business analysts because you need too big a software team to run it cost-effectively.
"Russian pilot's cam ejecting from shot down Su-25SM3": https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/ybdldt/insan...
I quite liked my $BIGCORP interview experience, during winter 2020 (read: COVID-19 was raging and everyone was still sheltering in place).

I was fresh out of a degree at Northwestern in electrical engineering, but I had no money and every reason in the world to get a job fast and get the heck out of my parents' spare bedroom. I was probably applying for 30 jobs a day as soon as the semester ended on 2024-12-20.

Four weeks later, $BIGCORP slots me in for a battery of 3 or 4 online tests, all based around things like mathematics, spatial reasoning, etc. They even threw an unknown programming language at me right there, gave me a brief rundown of its semantics, and said "Figure some stuff about quick and answer these questions. Now."

I have a sick side to me that loves these kinds of high-intensity performances, and two weeks after that, I flew out in the dead of a snowstorm before Day 1. Simple, efficient, and took absolutely no prep on my part beyond applying and being the kind of guy I am.

I had a terrific experience working there too. My colleagues were all sharp and diligent people. I didn't even mind the summary execution of the 100% work from home policy - alas, I had to move in August 2020 to be with my fiancee (now wife) in Finland.
I think a better analogy would be a poker room than a craps table. You don't get to influence the outcome at a craps table, but your performance at a startup will influence its probability of success. Also your choice of which craps table to play at doesn't change your odds, but you can certainly change your odds of success at a startup by choosing which one to join. Obviously there are no sure things, but after a while you can at least weed out most of the dumb startup ideas and/or the incompetent founders.
The first article you linked to is absolutely, mind-boggingly insane.

Just one of the absurd quotes from it:

Fears hit especially hard in the state’s western desert and plains, where fracking is booming. Almost 80% of this vast region’s documented water demand is met by a complex collection of aquifers — colossal, subterranean formations that filled up over millions of years.

“We’re just planning to deplete it. It’s not like we’re conserving it. We’re just making the crash landing slow and somewhat tolerable,” said Jeff Bennett, a hydrogeologist in the West Texas town of Alpine who worked for 15 years for the National Park Service nearby.

end.

Such a fate awaits the Ogallala Aquifer, the nation’s largest underground body of water, which swoops into West Texas from the north, and for which the Texas Water Development Board calls “managed depletion” its “management strategy.”

I mean.. What? But it gets better:

Some of the water is reused in fracking, but the large majority is pumped underground and discarded. Planners have considered treating it to irrigate crops instead, which California does with wastewater that is much less salty and doesn’t include fracking fluids.

They have so much heavily polluted, toxic water they don't what to do with that they want to pump it in our food supplies. They are not content enough of polluting the water supplies for the coming centuries, they also want to make sure that food-growing land is unfit for human use as well. Very, very impressive.
I wander what these projects do wrong. Can't they be split into different dynamically loaded libraries with just the headers exposed?
That duplex pricing sounds about the same as the Iridium pricing / speed when I last used it about 15 years ago.
Care to share what makes Android intents superior to what Apple announced on WWDC?
In my case it wasn't impactful enough to justify such a lifestyle change. It limited where and what I could eat, and I struggled a lot with keeping up my daily caloric intake (fast metabolism), which was OK while cutting but not sustainable afterwards. That is, unless I ate very unhealthy things, which made it net negative.
Perhaps also interesting, an approach for bicycle tires that optimizes the thread pattern to cancel out road noise:

https://www.renehersecycles.com/fleecer-ridge-introduces-noi...
https://nitter.privacydev.net/elonmusk/status/18010847800351...
That's a good point. In my head I was considering stuff like chess, where even though it took a long time to reach superhuman performance on computers, the issue was mainly compute. People basically knew how to do it algorithmically before then (pruning tree search).

I guess the underlying issue with my argument is that we really have no idea how large the search space is for finding AGI, so applying something like Bayes theorem (which is basically my argument) tells you more about my priors than reality.

That said, we know that human AGI was a result of an optimisation process (natural selection), and we have rudimentary generic optimisers these days (deep neural nets), so you could argue we've narrowed the search space a lot since the days of symbolic/tree search AI.
Who is "we"? I'm not American. Why should I treat American and Russian aggression differently?

And yes, the wars were not directly analogous but the stark reality of the matter is that the US and RUssia are two of the world bullies that are capable of invading anyone they like, and nobody can do anything about it. Again: why should I like one more than the other? Why should anyone, who is not their citizen?
That's like one of the key selling features of the game. Great experience that also scars you for life.
François Viète (1540-1603)
as an algebraist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Viète#Viète's_symboli...

as a cryptographer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Viète#Code-breaker_to...
If you, the founder, only own 20% of the company, the investors absolutely do control it (absent super-voting shares, anyway). You can propose shutting down the company, but the investors can fire you and bring in a CEO who will keep it going.
Thanks. From the title I assumed it was about knowing when a thing you made or are selling is mature enough to post on here.
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Is it baked in as the main mode yet? Or as an option to juliac?
>Also, owing to this being computer hardware sitting right next to food, the things are almost always grimey. Proper menus at least are ostensibly cleaned between customers. This isn't a problem specific to Japan, though.

This is Japan: if any place cleans things reliably, it's here. If you think most American restaurants clean menus between customers, I have a bridge to sell you. Many don't even bother cleaning the table, in my experience, and then get mad if you point out the table is dirty.

>it's just faster to call a waiter over.

American waiters absolutely hate this, but they still expect a huge "tip". But yeah, in Japan it's perfectly acceptable and normal.

>Yeah, they have that since at least the 90s or something. Nothing new.

It's not new in Japan, but the rest of the world still hasn't heard about them apparently (or just doesn't care about hygiene), so it might as well be new.

>They're great, but the world is starting to move ahead of them with everything moving to smartphone NFC and in a way that is carrier and brand and network agnostic.

I don't see that at all in the US. Transit systems there all have their own separate cards that haven't changed in 20 years.

> If it wasn't obvious from the toilets, Japan is great at hardware engineering. The problem is this doesn't translate to software engineering and high tech in general.

There's more to "high tech" than just software and microservices or whatever. Most software is pretty useless without hardware to run it on. Sure, if you're just focusing on stuff that's only online, you'll just use commodity HW and Japan has nothing much to offer here, but most of us have a little more to our lives than just sitting in front of a PC and surfing the internet.

>LINE is a perfect example of Japan's irrelevancy in software. Why? Because LINE is a South Korean product.

Sure, but that's irrelevant. What's important is what's actually used, which is what my whole post is about: what technology is actually used day-to-day by average people in Japan? Japan: LINE. US: SMS. (And it's just US/Canada that are dinosaurs here; all other countries use some kind of modern chat app.)

>Bad news for the maglev since that's being held up in political power struggles, though.

I haven't seen anything concrete here, just the one thing about Shizuoka prefecture (I think) complaining.

>They've become such a mundane commodity thanks in no small part to South Korean and Chinese mass manufacturing that Japan is hardly relevant there anymore.

They're relevant in Japan, where they're fairly common (and made by Japanese manufacturers mostly). Back in the US, they're almost completely unheard of.
It wouldn't even be that hard since we have our own layer on top of monaco to resolve types that could dynamically fetch it from Twenty.
What I see there is just the introduction, but not the full paper.

There is supposed to be a link to the full PDF somewhere, but the link doesn’t appear for me.
I would be extremely disappointed if a $349 epaper niche gadget with more or less no maintenance costs would resort to serving ads.

So yeah...that will probably happen.
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I remember i have found this site by doing some research on Google, regarding enterprise creation in DE

Really nice website !

Can you tell us how you got the idea, when you started, are you enterprise or solo ? How do you manage taxes ? Are you german ?

These were the questions i was asking myself when i discovered your site
Full paper:

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24733670/toward-nakba...
So you would have different, say, distinct division operators for each of u8, u16, u32, u64, u128 and their signed variant, for each floating point type, complex numbers (and all their underlying variants), quaternions, etc? You might quickly run out of operator soup.
Now do 2001!
Is filtering for malware forbidden by any law?

And btw, those apps that the app store is full of that trick you into a $80/month subscription aren't malware?
I think it was a playful rhetorical question.
Having used Turbo Pascal, Delphi, Modula-2, Active Oberon, Eiffel, D, OCaml, I really don't appreciate that Go puts compilation speed ahead of everything else.

Those languages show one can have both, expressive type systems, and fast compilation turnarounds, when the authors aren't into anti-PhD level languages kind of sentiment.
Exactly. See also: first headcrab fight with only a crowbar in Half-life.
I think it was a rhetorical question. I wasn't a big fan of the SS series, but those damn kamikaze still echo in my mind. I've even had nightmares about them...
> tech press tends to focus on the successes.

On the flip side, though, any regular HN reader has likely seen dozens of accounts written by startup founders whose companies have failed. And there's quite a bit of overlap between the set of HN readers and the set of past, current, and likely-future startup founders.
Sonos removes restriction on selling personal data in privacy policy [video]
I believe Amazon Q is running on Amazon's own Titan G1 model. I recently ran the "Premier" version (their highest end one) through my personal vibecheck test and was quite surprised by its RL. It was the only non-Chinese model I've tested to refuse to answer about Tiananmen Square and the only model I believe I've tested with this eval (over 50 at this point) that refused to answer about the LA riots. It also scored an impressive 0/6 on my reasoning/basic world understanding tests (underperforming most 3B models) but that's more capabilities than RL...

Amazon claims the Titan model is suitable for: "Supported use cases: RAG, agents, chat, chain of thought, open-ended text generation, brainstorming, summarization, code generation, table creation, data formatting, paraphrasing, rewriting, extraction, and Q&A." (it is not, lol)
Video of dude comparing gazelle (Voice input model) with millis (600-800 ms latency).

https://www.tiktok.com/@techfren/video/7360228879304232210
The Supreme Court in this case was also not basing their opinion on fact, since there actually was jurisprudence about gun control [1]

Also, it doesn't make sense to say laws should perfectly adhere with jurisprudence. Laws are enacted and changed precisely because lawmakers don't like the results the legal framework is giving them up until that point in time. To whit, the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights were enacted because the lawmakers at the time did not enjoy the British legal framework and their 'unwritten constitution' as they now like to call it.

[1] https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/fact-checking-the-sup...
if I'm not mistaken the Intent categories available now are only

Books
Browsers
Cameras
Document readers
File management
Journals
Mail
Photos
Presentations
Spreadsheets
Whiteboards
Word processors

One hour 39 + 39 seconds in the demo
It’s their willingness to make up shit to appear more interesting that is at the heart of this. Being interesting or rather, being perceived as interesting, is core to their personality and they think that’s normal, but it is not.

I don’t know about “everybody”. It depends on your circle I guess. I know very few of these people and none of my friends are like that. I don’t give a shit about being interesting and nobody I value does either.
The Linux developer community promised almost 20 years ago [1] that no release of the stable kernel will ever break something that worked in a stable kernel before. AFAICT, this promise holds. If you upstream your driver, the community will take care (cf. AMD), if you don't your users experience occasional pain (cf. NVidia).

[1] http://kroah.com/log/blog/2018/02/05/linux-kernel-release-mo...
Compare the “power” of someone who can launch an arsenal of nuclear weapons or release a new global pandemic virus or organize a trip to mars or moon. You think in the past kings etc were as “powerful” relative to average people?