skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would guess they are referring to the idea that large established companies (usually monopolies) have little motivation to compete of features/technology, especially when that would cannibalize their main offering. Generally, an engineer working on something at Microsoft or Apple is going to be much less motivated to create new tech than one at a (Chinese) small business. But it gets worse than this: they sometimes hire engineers just to keep them from the competition.

That said, China has its own unique category of underutilized staff: those who are hired to work for state-owned enterprises.
Full disclosure: that’s a wild guess. It may be helpful, or it might turn out to be a terrible idea for reasons I hadn’t considered. I’m definitely not claiming it is a better way.

That said, I’m curious now. I also refuse to allow myself to dig further into it. I’ve got enough spinning plates at the moment. :-)
They use lead pipes in the UK. Why I don't know, but I guess it's got some properties that make it ideal for keeping water where it's supposed to be.
> it created the appearance, for some, that the CIA was getting something out of the deal

They are. A secure messaging platform being widely used gives their human assets cover.
I love the idea, I love the format. As others have mentioned this isn't really a skill tree, it is more of a skill line.

It is extremely difficult to be an expert in ~50 different skills. Because of this, it is difficult to make ~50 high quality skill progressions.

Have you considered trying to crowd source skill achievements and priorities for these progressions?
Agreed. When it first came out in January, I did a write-up and emailed Frank for comment. It wasn't until both my critique and his paper appeared together on HN for the first time that he responded ... with a total non-answer. :rolling_eyes:

https://openpath.chadwhitacre.com/2024/questioning-the-value...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39340146

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39340277
I do love how just about every place that site is mentioned, even Google search results, it's in the format "X (formerly Twitter)".
Related: https://github.com/opentofu/registry/pull/824
Maybe. It's clear they need new leadership.
I feel attacked lol
I really think you overestimate how hard it is to use imagemagick. Unless you're doing really deep wizardry - or editing video on the command line, but I'm almost certain the LLM will have more trouble with that, too - it's not hard. I didn't take that command line in the above command from a script, by the way; I rewrote it from memory, in about thirty seconds, because it's not hard. There might be a syntax error, but that'd be, what, another ten seconds?

I'm not asserting that LLMs aren't useful. You demonstrate successfully that, to you, they are. I'm asserting that they're not orders of magnitude more useful than powerful, composeable interfaces to the software we already have - and they are orders of magnitude more environmentally and socially destructive.
Really has that retro-cool look down pat, a bit like CDE. My journey was Openbox -> i3 -> bspwm, but I always wanted to try it just for the aesthetics.
I was looking for that for a long time. The editing experience of static site generators is even bad for a technical person.

I switched to Kirby as a result of that, not static but simple php and file based.
Do you have any favorite non-leaky abstractions?
Weirdly enough I actually had to write a college paper on the tax policy of the late Byzantine Empire. During the tenth and eleventh centuries, Roman land became increasingly consolidated under a few influential families, who used their influence to pay less taxes. This weakened the state and left it vulnerable to the fourth crusade and eventually the fall to the Turks.

Back to here, I don't think tax policy from the 1800s is especially relevant because the United States has gone through extensive reform with respect to monetary and economic policy since that time. The fed didn't exist and we were still on the gold standard. It's weird to use an obscure law nobody has every heard of to argue against taxing a class of wealthy Americans that are paying historically low tax rates.
I think that the diminishment of organizations and institutions is a tragedy worth lamenting. You can take the ecosystems view that companies need to age, die, and be replaced, but it's still sad when a huge oak tree that did so much and meant so much for so many people becomes withered and dies.
"A dishwasher can make or break a restaurant"... so can putting items with non-trivial amounts of raw egg on them in the dishwasher.
I was very interested in seeing where Etoile might go as it looked fantastic to me. Right now the most interesting thing I have seen in this space is helloSystem.
I have no doubt about Durov's morals. 12 years ago he was throwing paper airplanes folded from bills to make fun of "little people".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTRem0YRjqY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJFZMyFzlR8

Telegram is used by drug dealers in my country too. All types of illegal content. Honestly Telegram is new darknet, but not even that dark. Streets are full of QR codes linking to Telegram channels,

OTOH Telegram is a really good technology. Very lightweight client. Whatsapp sucks compared to Telegram. Very hard to block protocol, Russian authorities basically failed to block Telegram. Very easy to write bots. Telegram bots are very powerful, way beyond simple chat replies. One can build UI with buttons and dropdowns inside Telegram.

Also, in not so free countries Telegram is the Internet basically.
You haven't been down Kirk road in the past few years, have you? There are so many McMansions across the street in land that used to be farms.
Only non-perverted porn!
it's not about any of that "reasoning"... what matters it the conclusions: the results.

and even more than that, what matters is the capability of the paper to sway the opinion of real power.

our experience dealing with power may vary, in mine, power does not respond to "reasoning" nor any of that stuff.

nonetheless, I agree with your sentiment. why does science demand replication? IMO, a key underlying consequence is that ideas must be transferred, given away before they can be science.

the ideology of "real" human-centric science is equivalent to open source mindset. so then, my question is what to call all that research that happens, privately, in secret and under a lot of NDAs.... it is not science; that is product development.
Recompiling everything is a non-starter in many cases.
>If we apply market logic to that this would just mean that employers have to offer better deals.

I'm not sure this follows. By this logic, do you think UBI would cause employers to increase wages?

I think (given sufficient UBI), you would see some industries increase wages but many businesses fold because they are only viable by suppressing wages (which are then subsidized by taxpayers). So, yes, on one hand the remaining employers would be paying more but the overall employer base would be smaller.

Another way to think about it is that as forms of welfare go up like disability, those workers tend to fall out of the labor market. They are using that as a tool for negotiating higher wages. (granted, there many complications in this point)
I've been doing and following OSS for over a decade now and this is the first time I feel like a piece on OSS excludes me. I started in the maker communities in Europe, and most OSS creators I know of are small hobbyists all over the place, not particularly "California rich devs with spare time". In fact I believe that demographic might be (relatively!) under-represented, they have startups to work on after all!
Or maybe he cares about his former employer and he's willing to share useful feedback.
Why did you post this comment?
aichat has shell integration scripts that allow you to write English into the command line and press Alt+E to have it replaced with a command: https://github.com/sigoden/aichat/tree/main/scripts/shell-in...

So you'd just type "use ffmpeg to convert 'my input.avi' to NTSC output and make the audio track quieter" => Alt+E => replaced with `ffmpeg -i "my input.avi" -target ntsc-dvd -af "volume=0.5" "output.mpg`
The situation between System76 and Gnome had become untenable. The modifications they wanted to make to the shell were too many and the Gnome devs don't want to support any of it.

I read somewhere that 50% of the development time on Pop_Os was spent simply un-breaking the Gnome shell extension between releases of GNOME.

Now they can put that time into creating what they actually want.
Federal minimum wage was last increased in 2009 and it's the longest it's been since it was increased. It's criminally low even if you inflation adjust it back in time to '09 money. It's been a long long time since minimum wage was at all livable.
Make it three. I'm on the third battery for my darter pro: twice so far, the battery has swelled up and made the keyboard buckle. System76 support consists in selling me replacement batteries at a serious markup.

I've decided not to install the third battery, so I have more of a desktop now.
nobody because the times and places either of them lived in no longer exist. surely the places and the geographical locations and buildings are still there, but the people are all different, so it's not the same place
In less than a year, you will be able to go from east coast to west during your sleep. That was said in 2016 IIRC. 8 years later we’re still waiting for it, and it’s not anywhere close.

You are an enabler of this fraud. Great for you that you love it.
The one created for google+ is usually listed first. After signing into my google account on a new device, the google+ one is also the one that I'm usually automatically signed into.
Awesome work! How are you installing npm packages & compiling in the browser IDE without any local filesystem?
"access to clean, probably distilled, water supply"

A good antibacterial filter + boiling that filtered water just to be sure goes a long way. That equipment is nontrivial, but for someone in a developed economy, usually affordable. Probably cheaper than being sick often, because even European welfare states often won't give you anything for first days of sickness.
AI and Human roles in levels of software automation
I've had an issue with my phone for the past few months that could be solved by erasing it and restoring from backup, but I use Signal a bunch and I'm not currently feeling risky or motivated enough to migrate my whole Signal state to a spare phone and do it.

Lack of backups is not a retention/deletion policy. Signal chats can, in fact, have a deletion policy set. Instead it directly ties retention to "how long can I last without losing or erasing my phone", which is not a useful proxy.

Anyone sufficiently motivated to keep messages forever can (a) set up the desktop client and back up its data store or (b) set up signal-cli and save everything that comes out of it.

No backups doesn't defeat this, it just makes life harder for everyone who relies on scrollback. Imagine if email worked this way.
I find the phrase “isn’t even news” to be quite triggering.
I would love to see these kind of "I'm leaving [AMZN|AAPL|GOOG|META|MSFT|NFLX|NVDA...]" posts all include a net worth.

A post that says I'm leaving with $700K would hit different than I'm leaving with $30M.
What is the state of nanoscale 3D printing going into 2025?
I stumbled upon this article from 2022 while surfing the web and wondered what the state of nanoscale 3D printing is going into 2025. Now, it isn't a really meaty article, but it made me think, how would life change if we had a big breakthrough in nanoscale printing technology? At the molecular scale, and not just of plastics and metals, but other materials as well, say, carbon.
Totally true that it's not possible to catch all edge cases, but I don't think it's a strong enough reason to rule out user theming/customization altogether, plus as mentioned parameterization should be done anyway for good accessibility.
Something that I've noticed that somehow ends up lost when people learn "the model" is the encapsulation aspects.

I don't know if it's missing in people's course work or what, but I've had to use http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/diagrams/ipencap.png many a times to explain how stuff like VPNs work, correct statements like "firewalls don't have a routing table, firewalling is layer 4", explain things like MTU and payload size, or why certain traffic doesn't go beyond a broadcast segment normally.

Personally I think this is one of the better visualizations.
If you care very much about not ever ending up in a bad state (which it seems that you do). Then just functional programming with immutable state is not going to cut it. In this realm you should look into methods of formal verification to prove that your code does what you want it to do.

That being said, functional verification is a huge time sink and is really only economical if it's very important for the code to always be correct. That is, people die if your software has a bug. A few examples would be pacemakers, aircraft autopilots or your car brakes.

If your not working one of these domains then maybe immutable and pure functional code can save you a few bugs? I have not read any peer reviewed study that shows this is the case. But if you have any such paper i would be happy to read it.
> It's less DIY'er and more crafts & hobbies on steroids.

This is how I view it as well. DIY is something entirely different from making. But the term has been misused for so long that it has, at least in the larger population, lost a whole lot of meaning.
I agree, but only because I routinely speak with people who make double that and still struggle to pay monthly bills. Short answer: financial outcomes aren't about the number (above a basic threshold), and they’re almost entirely a function of behaviors & (some) luck.

Paying more is still a valid form of defense against petty corruption, though.
It's about as secure as any other non-E2EE chat or other kind of service, except it also has E2EE mode, which is limited to 1:1 chats for fair reasons. Plenty of other services advertise themselves as "secure," which doesn't mean a lot. So I don't see anything misleading there.

Aside from that, I don't trust Telegram or its CEO at all, partially because of what you said about open-sourcing (or not) and partially because of his ties to Russia and Azerbaijan.
I don't understand the market. By most metrics they don't even have the best LLM, Anthropic do, so why are investors valuing them so highly? Is it because of the strength of their brand?
The interesting thing is that Vietnamese food is really tasty (I love it at least), but Viet Nam is something like 2 per cent fat. And they don't suffer from shortages of food.

Vietnamese people in Czechia are also usually thin, even though they make more than average money, being either business owners or skilled professionals. The contrast with Czechs is visible.
Using a native toolkit built for Rust has massive productivity benefits when writing programs in Rust. Last I checked the GTK bindings for Rust were rough at best, I don't even know if they exist for QT.
guess my e-mail provider is going to jail.
> pictures of women whose nipples were obviously showing

Oh man, my wife would get so mad at me when she saw me scrolling through Facebook and I'd tell her I didn't pick this feed. I did finally get it to stop.
An order of magnitude difference should explain an order of magnitude difference, not a complete lack of a single example.
The robotic version: Nala Spotless: [1]

It's a service - $3000/month includes hardware and support.

[1] https://nalarobotics.com/spotless.html
>I think some of the confounding variables here were, 1. this was a very specific use case and not many examples existed, and 2. all opengl code looks similar, to a point.

Yeah, that's why I wouldn't trust AI right now with much except the most basic renderin boilerplate. I'd be so brazen to wager that 90% of the most vauable rendering recipes are prorietary code within some real time rendering studio. Of the remaining, half of that is in some text book and may or may not even be available to scrape online.

LLM's still needs a training set, and I'm not convinced the information even exists to be scraped on the public internet for this kind of stuff (if years of googling has taught me anything).
Makes sense, thanks for the reply
It never had any sense, and it never had any future. We told Miguel he would be playing the chase game with Microsoft and he will always be behind and never being sure if MS won't use the patent card if Mono actually becomes dangerous (and they can get quite nasty when pissed off - see the accusations against ReactOS).

But he was in love with COM/DCOM, registry, and many other things that MS shipped. Some of these things made Gnome much slower than it could be.
I have a Twitter account, am logged out of it, but when I visit Twitter links, I can only see the post linked, but not any replies, unless I log in. Sometimes I can't even see the linked post without logging in.

Unsurprisingly, people have different experiences with sites like these that really want you to log in, but will sometimes allow you to view some content without logging in, as a way to entice you.
Do you mean https://storiai.com ?
Thank god, this is not and never was the easiest explanation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41382342
What's wrong with their hardware? I bought a desktop from them and it's rock solid, literally frozen on me once and that was probably a gnome bug and nothing to do with the hardware.

I think if they can supply there hardware with a smooth and modern desktop they will have an amazing product.
Literary Theory for Robots by Dennis Yi Tenen
Sure, thanks for asking. Mainly hobby things

Disney's FastPass, a complicated history -Defunctland: I've shown this one to many many people, K. Perjurer is great great great at storytelling, and the data/analytics behind the FastPass process may get you interested in Theme Parks.

The Ultimate Guide To Nuclear Weapons - HypotheticalHistory: He's a credited milblogger who can make a 5 hour video on the logistics of paperclip shipping.

All Miata Videos - Saveageeese: I own one and the docuseries is a wealth of knowledge, interviews with designers, etc.

PETSCOP: The darkest Game you can not play - Nexpo, just take a peek :p "wendigoon" is similar in that it's well reseeearched, well edited, long form content.

There is a youtuber named Bald and Bankrupt. He is a travel vlogger and I greatly enjoy his personality/exposure to the greater world. I've "folowed" him on some trips, IE India.

I more so do this because it's hard to remember/reflect on "profound youtube videos". I don't realllly ever go back and rewatch except maybe the Defunctland one, and it's easier to just go to the web.
Ask HN: What is the state of nanoscale 3D printing going into 2025?
I stumbled upon this article from 2022 while surfing the web and wondered what the state of nanoscale 3D printing is going into 2025. Now, it isn't a really meaty article, but it made me think, how would life change if we had a big breakthrough in nanoscale printing technology? At the molecular scale, and not just of plastics and metals, but other materials as well, say, carbon.
If it wasn't clear, my point was that it allows employers to arbitrarily lower their wage rate where the business is viable.

Example:

-Employee needs $15/hour to 'afford life'.

-Business is only profit-positive if it pays $12/hour or less

-Assuming the employee will only accept a job if it allows them to 'afford life', as long as the government subsidizes the equivalent of $3/hour, business is able to turn a profit. Anything less than that, the employee does not accept the position and the business is not viable.

This was laughably on display a few years back when McDonald's received blowback by publishing their training that teach their employees how to apply for government assistance while they were posting outsized profits.
Why I Built Litestream (2021)
If you mean https://storiai.com/ as Patrick, I will try it! Thanks!
But knowing you can repeatedly get away with incompetence is malice. Hanlon's razor is used as an excuse for moral culpability, as if who is merely incompetent isn't evil; but, once you point out how that level of incompetence is hurting others, if they choose to not merely prevent such incompetence going forward, but recognize when they make mistakes and take steps to make it right--yes: after the fact; not merely fixing a bug, for example, and not merely apologizing for their incompetence, but making some kind of reparation to those harmed--that must be understood as malicious behavior.
> mutool clean -d in.pdf out. pdf

My tool can do exactly the same (viewing internal structure, exporting objects, and see the uncompressed raw content for stream) with a graphical interface and without all this kind of flags (which one of the reasons I started to design this project with egui), but thanks for posting yours too.
Good thing they have judges in France no?

But let's face it many on HN deny the norm and couldn't care less if Telegram is used for criminal content. It's undeniable that the app has a certain reputation.
I've done it on some personal projects recently, what makes it non-viable?
> Anyone sufficiently motivated to keep messages forever can [...]

Sure, but defaults matter.
The Verge's Decoder podcast interviewed her in October 2022. What a great person she is.

https://www.theverge.com/23409716/signal-encryption-messagin...
As a scientist that ends up working closely with actual professional software engineers... lots of the stuff they do looks like this do me, and I can't for the life of me make sense of why you'd do it.

I have seen a single line of code passed through 4 "interface functions" before it is called that call each other sequentially, and are of course in separate files in separate folders.

It makes reading the code to figure out what it does exhausting, and a few levels in you start to wonder if you're even looking at the right area, and if it will ever get to the part where it actually computes something.
For sufficiently narrow interpretations of "working", perhaps.

Otherwise, I think you might be a little optimistic here.
OpenTofu removes Russian cloud providers integration from the repo
>but clearly there is some overlap with the gift ethos as well.

No, there is not. Even more, "value to others to the best of their ability" directly contradicts this "freedom value"
Wait - they're 'profitable, excluding all of their employee costs'? Does that just mean they're charging more than the cost of their electricity to generate the tokens?
We've started using meta.ai and the 200B llama model on a couple servers we run at my company. I really have to go with Zuckerberg's approach on this one. I'm not sure OpenAI and Anthropic really have anything that can't be cloned much more cheaply.
Missed opportunity to name it Strawbery
Lex is a poser
I'm reminded of this quote:

> “If you were a product person at IBM or Xerox, so you make a better copier or a better computer — so what?

When you have a monopoly market share, the company is not any more successful. So the people that can make the company more successful are sales and marketing people. And they end up running the companies. And the product people get driven out of the decision-making forums. And the companies forget what it means to make great products. Sort of the product sensibility and the product genius that brought them to that monopolistic position gets rotted out by people running these companies who have no conception of a good product versus a bad product.

https://www.bhooshan.com/2017/12/07/quotes-steve-jobs-lost-i...

Looking at what has happened to Google search, it's clear that either they no longer know what a good product is, or they only care about optimising for ad revenue and not customer experience.