skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you are anything besides maybe a strictly frontend web-dev, you should learn Linux (and likely already have)

These skills translate to embedded systems, the inner workings of BSD based systems (playstation, nintendo, Mac) and obviously anything Linux based (linux and android), which is pretty much everything.

There is probably a handful of jobs where you could avoid it, but for the majority, it is a useful skill.
I'm not sure about all of them but Google's TPU is custom to them and not shared architecture.
As it happens, I have another tab open at this very moment, watching the Steve Wallis Step 2 channel's latest video, "Amtrak Across America with Steve".

It's..... it's quite an interesting perspective. All the little incidental stuff, the copious announcements from the staff, certainly add color to the story.
How do you define "learning linux" though? Just learning vim and general unix tools?
It's easier said than done (keep apps OS-agnostic).

I had to explain how AWS lambdas really run in a Linux VM when a software engineer was perplexed how /tmp files were sometimes persisted and sometimes weren't (and had to teach them about TMPDIR, tempfile module in Python etc).

Cold-starts were also easier to explain to anyone familiar with Linux, though that's more general.

Similarly, Docker permission issues during deployments strike entirely differently if you are used to developing on a Mac (where all file ownership gets translated to UID 0).
Bresenham is easy to implement branchlessly using conditional moves or arithmetic. It also produces a regular pattern of branches that is favorable for modern branch predictors that can do pattern prediction.
> I've joked for awhile that I might be literally the only person on earth who has had paying work in Coldfusion, Foxpro, ActionScript, Erlang, Haskell, and F#

What, no Clipper?
If by "AI winter" you mean a period where AI will continue to be used for semantic search, moderation, translation, captioning, TTS, STT, context-aware grammar checking, LLM, and audio/image classification, then yes, it would be an "AI winter" where AI is used everywhere.
Next up:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
This tells me a number but doesn't explain what, nor does it provide any ranking.
IMO ghost's lack of plugins really holds it back.

If you want anything that isn't built in you have to either link to some third party SaaS or run another entire server program for it.
Here in California (and generally in the US, as well as other places where the cost of enforcing laws seems to be growing too costly/unpalatable), we seem increasingly interested in documenting and retroactively following up the aftermath of crimes. Rather than preventing them when / before they're happening. I'm surprised the police even care to watch video afterwards.

(aside from the serious crime stuff like in the article)
Interesting concern given all of our pictures were already sold by META to every data broker on the planet..
Meta enforces purpose limitation via Privacy Aware Infrastructure at scale
Not even mentioning the #1 reason: freedom
If Claude had an integrated image editor it'd be easy to drop GPT for me. Love the speed of responses especially, and I'm excited about artifacts after some early playing around.
All of them and none of them. Because really we're talking about serving pages from content fragments in a SQL database, with a style separation and dynamic content constructs.

It's not a radical idea; you can write your own thing that does only what you need it to, and that is an entirely appropriate way forward.

You will end up solving a bunch of problems quite like WordPress does.

All CMSes are at some level like WordPress, and yet there is nothing like WordPress. Because it's not about the application, it's about the tradition and ecosystem around the application.
Engineers should focus on Ownership, not just code
Nvidia is on a two-year schedule and the 5090 should launch later this year.
What in the US seems like something fun you could do one summer, in the rest of the world trains are used heavily daily by commuters and others.
Creepy stuff. Maybe we ought not to constantly record everything happening around us all the time.
In Switzerland it would be the law preventing that.

Running ML on public footage of people who did not consent is a huge no-no.

Dashcams are already a problem and technically illegal although tolerated. The footage can't generally be used on court.
This kind of biometric security is getting a bit ridiculous. It would be different if it was done in a secure way and by that I mean secure in the sense that the person who provides the biometric data you had the ability to secure it wherever it went. This could absolutely be done but the reason it's not is companies totally want to gather this data from people and then sell it to other companies for machine learning and other purposes. Same with our government that wants to gather this kind of data.

It would be quite straightforward to make your biometric identity a public private key kind of setup. Companies have access to your public key and you yourself carry your private key as some sort of physical identification that is unlocked with a two-factor method. This way any physical biometric thing is done on a device you own that could be mandated to be open technology completely auditable to be secure and all you do is use your physical doodad to interface with their thing to authenticate that yes you are the private key holder for this given public key.

It would be much more secure than identification cards that we have now such as driver's licenses or passports. It would also be far more secure than the biometric style authentication they want to do now with them essentially owning a copy of your biometric data. But there is no profitability in true security and privacy for the citizens.
> better understand how your software is hosted in the cloud on Linux servers

Since the days of Apache/PHP I don't think people (need to) host their dev work on proper servers at their local computers. So this argument is kind of invalid unless you want to set-up your dev machine as some kind of dummy server.
What Makes a Server a Server?
Maintenance is much more practical when you use the versions upstream tests in their CI and not whatever mishmash of ancient/silently incompatible deps that each distro separately decides to combine together.
But that's the catch, using ML to scan a plate doesn't confirm who was driving.
I am a fan of the way Matt thinks, and I absolutely adore what he did for Simplenote.

I don't get the Beeper acquisition at all. But maybe it has some core technology value.
https://www.getnexar.com/
One great advantage of replacing comments with language constructs is that if the compiler checks the "docs", people don't forget to update it and can actually trust what's written down
I assume used V100/P100s are on eBay. Go buy them and report back.
Keep boot licking I guess
Sure, you ought to know how Linux works if you deploy software to Linux. But you ought to use the OS that makes you a happy, productive developer.
What does that have to do with this article?

The police are getting warrants for the video.
Fun note, you can structure options and “RSUs” with allocations of products, RSU in quotes because the S stands for stock and you wont be giving shares

One benefit of non-securities underlying assets is that you can play with their pricing a lot more. like, you can have your friends vesting on some shoes you control the issuance of - or GPUs in this case - at a 99% discount and there’s no reporting or regulation to a government over this. Big problem to do that with shares.
I used this a while back to do some conversion of XML into JSON data, it actually supports rendering JSON as well. Surprisingly flexible and ergonomic language, it's kind of a weird beast.
It's not like AI hasn't been delivering during these past 3 years, and it's just getting started.

There's no one stealing market share from Nvidia at the moment. Groq and Tenstorrent are extremely promising, but both are still private companies. Once Groq goes public, Nvidia will tank a bit for a while while all the "experts" announce the end of Nvidia. I wouldn't be surprised if then Nvidia would then also sell specialized AI accelerators, if they find that segment attractive enough due to losses in general GPU demand created by those companies.
I've tried MacOS on recent Macs and, boy, it sucks. Inconsistent shortcuts, buggy keyboard switchers (randomly it shows an unlock screen without my quertz layout and I mess up my password), and window management issues all around.

Audio devices randomly hit buffer overflows or something in Google Meet, it randomly mutes and unmutes devices, etc.

Linux ain't perfect either (and really, it was much better ~10 years ago), but it's still so much better than either Windows or MacOS.

Or maybe, just maybe, I am used to it having used it since 90s, and they all have their kludges?
> If the AI bubble bursts, people will use the available GPUs for something else.

Yes, of course, but that just means that this bubble would be basically identical to previous capital intensive bubbles. For example, there was a railroad bubble in the 1800s, and a massive telecom bubble in the late 90s. These bubbles popped, resulting in massive corporate bankruptcies and failed companies. But the infrastructure they built (miles and miles of railroad and dark fiber, which has since been lit up) laid the foundation for huge economic development shortly thereafter.
I'm crypto bearish and AI-neutral but it seems less to me like NVIDIA chasing bubbles and more like new and interesting applications for the type of compute that NVIDIA offers keep emerging.
Claude has support for "tools" in its APIs, so it should be possible in an alternative frontend to have Claude use a Python sandbox.
I can't read reddit anymore because I always get "Your request has been blocked due to a network policy. Try logging in or creating an account here to get back to browsing."

Any way to bypass this?
> the disadvantage is when you try to add new features or build a new site you haven’t learned anything

I don't have an example to prove you wrong here, but here's my 2 cents:

1. You could probably decompose the app in different parts, and then put everything together. Even thought my experience with React is nill, I do (Think I do) have the expertise and know-how to glue everything together (It is yet to be proven that Claude cannot do this).
2. I obviously don't think it can replace a Sr. Dev (yet) but for somebody with my expertise, this is a very good starting point. It saves you 2.5 hours... Every. Single. Time.
3. This is ground zero (sort of). In the words of the famous Tank from The Matrix... This is loco.
There's zero evidence of this. He's cashing out $1B per year but round-tripping that money back into Nvidia would just cause problems for him.
Behind the Scenes of Video/Audio Research at the Library for the Performing Arts
My understanding is that this is possible with whole life insurance policies without having to be ultra rich. After a certain period, there is no longer any premium penalty, so while the insurance premium principle doesn’t grow, it doesn’t cost anything to own. At some point the owner can take loans against that the value of the policy that are ultimately paid back when the policy pays out. There’s some details that a financial advisor can fill in, but it’s doable for the average HN reader who doesn’t mind offsetting income for far in the future returns.
You want me to enumerate the potential experiences a tax lawyer may have, outside of having hundreds of clients with a net worth of 300M dollars, over a 20+ year career, that would allow them to do the math outlined in the post?

I don't think that's necessary.
> this whole experience reads like a lesson in what not to do.

What lessons have you drawn from it?
Then I'll go ahead and list it there. Thank you for sharing the project!
[Meta] is it common to open a subreddit just for a single post like this one?
> The ideas espoused in The Design of Everyday Things[0] pops into mind right now.

the unfortunate reality of touch screens is that there are no affordances for things that can't be seen. design of everyday things goes over stuff like never put a pull handle on a push door kinda things. i think having to go to an app for some things is somewhat reasonable given the ui size constraints and only having so much touchable area... most of the functionality is there and self evident without an app.
No, this is not a commuter train.

And by “the rest of world” you mean Europe and parts of Asia?

I suppose Latin America doesn’t exist? Maybe they’re evolved enough to be considered real people? What about Africa? Also still not human?
Your new digital town square brought to you in part by the House of Saud, where there's free speech for everyone but some accounts are more equal than others and cisgender is a slur.
#2: hackability
Seems like if it’s technically possible, it will happen, and we can’t stop technological progress. In fact, you and I are probably profiting from that progress. Hard to ask a guy to do something that goes against his paycheck. Even if we vote politically “correct,” whomever that may be, what are you and I voting for with our wallets?
The positive aspects described in the story are all fine and nice.

You just have to know that the author almost certainly left out the heavy downsides of the journey, which would have been the totally unpredictable, frustrating, hours-long (maybe even good-part-of-a-day) delays along the route where Amtrak is stuck waiting for freight trains on rails that it does not own.

Unfortunately a few hours of scenery isn't worth the overall frustration at the state of US rail in my opinion.
Similarly in Google Calendar Android app: https://youtu.be/7z-82Hi5dtc
>i encourage a lot of people to learn linux but not for programming specifically

Outside of native phone and desktop applications, 90%+ of the time your code is going to run on some form of linux. Maybe you can argue a developer who only does windows desktop applications would not benefit from linux knowledge, however I'd argue they would benefit most of all lol.
> micro-transactions are not possible given the huge banking fees

Look up papers on UPI - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Payments_Interface - it is heavily used for micro-transactions in India.
That's disappointing to hear, I do own all three and plan to hopefully finish them before the years end.
A vastly overrated reason unless you are regularly in conflict with corporate entities/the government.
Claude can generate different files in a single response, for example I asked the model to generate me the files (all of them) to run a website locally to do a specific task I needed, and Claude generated the app.py, html, JavaScript and whatever rest it needed and it worked first try.
That it's stand alone. I know you can have a window with just that page and stuff, but then you have a system wide shortcut to ask things (that combined with MacWhisper is magic) plus the conversational capabilities.
Modern Scheme standards (R6RS and R7RS) have native record types.
I'm also on (several) the fence on the solution. but the description of the problem is spot on
This is a good point. People that drive recklessly and risk personal injury, death, and imprisonment simply do so because they lack a proper disincentive. They would think twice when they envision themselves having to cut a a larger check to State Farm while lying in spinal traction.
Yeah “easier nvme” requires buying a $40 hat and a special case with special fan because otherwise they interfere.
Which is crazy considering n100 boxes already have an nvme and a fan for ~$100
I mean... yea, you are literally using Gentoo bro, what would you expect?
I totally agree, but I feel like some comments are making the mistake of stating "this bubble will pop, which means it was all smoke and mirrors to begin with".

The dot com bubble popped, but it's not like the Internet technologies that were launched then (and companies like Amazon and Google) weren't hugely impactful on all of society since then.

I think the AI bubble will pop, and while I think there is a lot of nonsense hype about AI I still think AI's societal impact will only grow.
The incidental and systemic benefits of the recordings are exciting to people and celebrated with stories. The hazards of this constant "pollution" of data — how it is slowly changing our society, our economy, our humanity — is harder to quantify or build opposition to.

It's a bit like climate change. Slow, invisible poison.
You can access via tor (they have an onion address as well) — or run individual links through an archive service
1. The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
It has had a large impact on how I view the world and I read it every few years.

2. K&R The C Programming Language
I've read/owned well over 100 programming books but K&R is the most beautifully written programming book ever imo. I have read it multiple times and will continue doing so.
Very uninformed take.

There are still people out in the world that call themselves Nazis. Its not directly comparing "todays" people to those that started world war II.

Its calling out white nationalist by the name some of them have chosen for themselves.
I gather the reason for the step-up basis is to avoid taxing an asset that's already subject to estate tax, but that seems like an awkward solution. Especially since there have been attempts to reduce or eliminate the estate tax not to mention various dodges that exist. I think it would make more sense to eliminate the step-up basis (which is proposed by Kamala Harris) and just limit the scope of the estate tax to exclude capital assets. Tax is paid on gains as per normal with no exceptions.
thanks for making it more succinct. exactly.
German police do check passports on trains within Germany. I was questioned on a train going from Munich to Prague, and as I had overstayed in Schengen, things got a bit tense. Ultimately they decided it wasn't worth it; they got off one stop before the Czech border and let me continue.
I think a better way question is how much damage they might inadvertently do without being evil
The only "junk" I'm seeing here is your comment. If you don't find bcachefs interesting, please move along and keep your bitter thoughts to yourself. Last thing we need is more assholes harassing Kent into throwing in the towel on the best GPL-compatible alternative to ZFS we're likely to have in decades.
That wouldn't be enough unless the csv somehow kept serialized column type in the header and the deserializer knew how to interpret it.
I think they have restriction on second-level domains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.al "restrictions apply only on second level domains (ex: .com.al) which are allowed only for Albanian citizens and businesses registered in Albania" so you'd have to find somebody in the country to act on your behalf.

.cat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.cat) is another example. They check if you live in the area (France, Spain) or are somewhat related to Catalan language or region.
Why? I don't see any signs of that happening. The only real major success stories for Linux in the consumer space Android and Chrome OS are effectively (of course not technically) proprietary(ish).
The step-up in cost basis on death is the original sin that underpins the entire debate over unrealized gains.

It's disheartening to see so much thought and deliberation going into an obviously toxic idea (taxing unrealized gains) when the obvious solution (removing the cost basis step-up when assets change hands) is being ignored.

Inherited wealth is the least earned, so it should be politically palatable to change this. But presumably because such a change would acutely affect the people who make laws in the country specifically, it is never seriously considered.
this video is great too highlight cable probably knew more about the bommer generation than google does for genX, but in an even scarier way that managed to silence even the basic knowledge to start a discussion
Did you try other browsers? For some reason for my home IP address, only Firefox (desktop) is blocked. Chrome and Edge and even mobile Firefox work fine.
> Why should you develop on Linux in a world where the environment for developing on Windows is constantly improving?

Is it? Is it though? I've used both extensively, and I have a Mac M1... and by far Linux is the best for development, Mac is second, and windows is dragging farrrrr behind both.
It’s absolutely not WhatsApp. It’s their recommendation engines. They’ve publicly stated they’re buying enough GPUs to have the spare capacity to train another “reels” sized product for when the opportunity emerges.

(They absolutely use it as a holder for Meta)
Makes good sense. Keep up the good work!
there was a whole lot of stuff that very judgemental people just never got to see, blinded by rage of wrongthink that they would gladly sweep all the others away to get some victory over something that will still just be somewhere else.

I enjoyed the communities around farming, homesteading, homeschooling of kids, classic litterature etc... but oh no, someone said some naughty words? lets shut it down.
W3C CSVW supports per-column schema.

Serialize a dict containing a value with uncertainties and/or Pint (or astropy.units) and complex values to JSON, then read it from JSON back to the same types. Handle datetimes, complex values, and categoricals

"CSVW: CSV on the Web"
https://github.com/jazzband/tablib/issues/305

7 Columnar metadata header rows for a CSV: column label, property URI, datatype, quantity/unit, accuracy, precision, significant figures
https://wrdrd.github.io/docs/consulting/linkedreproducibilit...

CSV on the Web: A Primer > 6. Advanced Use > 6.1 How do you support units of measure?
https://www.w3.org/TR/tabular-data-primer/#units-of-measure

You can specify units in a CSVW file with QUDT, an RDFS schema and vocabulary for Quantities, Units, Dimensions, and Types

Schema.org has StructuredValue and rdfs:subPropertyOf like QuantitativeValue and QuantitativeValueDistribution: https://schema.org/StructuredValue

There are linked data schema for units, and there are various in-code in-RAM typed primitive and compound type serialization libraries for various programming languages; but they're not integrated, so we're unable to share data with units between apps and fall back to CSVW.

There are zero-copy solutions for sharing variables between cells of e.g. a polyglot notebook with input cells written in more than one programing language without reshaping or serializing.
WatchYourLAN: Lightweight Network IP Scanner
Some of these ideas are as old as time but the comic seriousness is great.

Reminds me of older analog delay circuits where the signal was sent as a sound wave in glass IIRC ... with multiple taps for different delays.

EDIT: Here's a cool example that maybe warrants its own submission: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/glass-ultrasonic-dela...
Richard Murphy (Accountancy professor / campaigner) is running a good series on YouTube atm, basically what could be done instead of wealth tax.

The general schtick is make tax equal (ie even without buy borrow die, capital gains is taxed lower then income tax). Equalising the two increases the tax take, and frankly seems like “encouraging getting into work”

Anyhow, if we as a society want a fairer society we know how, we just need to overcome the special interests problem

In this case (and cannot see this refuted in the article) I think treat collateralising an asset should be a realisation event. Both parties have come to a free agreement as to the value of the asset - tax the realised gains.
The railroad built during the bubble in the 1800s, like 90% of it is decommissioned. It served no sustainable economic benefit, as most of it was last mile railroad that quickly got consolidated into trunks.

If the US had maintained and kept the rail it built, it wouldn’t have the poor infrastructure it has right now.