skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you are right to point this out. We are dogfooding Polykey in our own company's operations, specifically integrating it into all of our team member's NixOS development platforms with the control plane beta PKE (Polykey Enterprise).

Using Polykey in the CI/CD situation as you point out in your links is actually one of the major complex usecases we designed Polykey for, however it's actually quite a complex problem domain. We expect to do a sort of "painkiller" phase 1 first where PK is used as the network for sharing secrets, and then a subsequent "vitamin" phase 2 where secrets are no longer shared at all, because authority is delegated through trust federation.

Right now PK is a decentralized secret sharing system (every agent is a P2P node), so there's no well-known trust anchor to form a trust federation via OIDC. However once we have PKE ready, then we plan to enable OIDC customer portals within PKE following ideas from https://openid.net/specs/openid-federation-1_0.html (e.g. yourcompany.enterprise.polykey.com). This requires a more sophisticated policy-logic system integrated into each Polykey node's sigchain, atm we have work in progress for public/private network segregation.

In our internal documentation, I have a diagram of how PK would integrate into a CI architecture, just haven’t shared it publicly yet. I’ll try to get it out soon. Let me know if you’re interested in more details!
Risk/threat I would accept. Leaking data - to telcos by constantly being connected to some cell tower and explicitly to the manufacturer whatever they decide to transmit - is the part I don't like.

I don't even carry a phone for that reason.
DHS, CISA and NHTSA already exist to provide cyber regulatory mechanisms at the intersection of automotive and telematics or other software/connected scope. If an entity ships shit, apply punitive punishment to the offender (NHTSA forces software updates as recalls today, but can do much more). Software and connectedness is not going away [1] [2], so secure software development, actual QA, and real change management must be strongly encouraged through incentives. "The beatings will continue until the security posture improves."

[1] https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/hackers-are-increasin...

[2] https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/09/25/threat-ac...
It's a really good low-tech humanist site. But is it really no JavaScript?
this goes beyond fines
I guess it's their fault for not being clairvoyant before AI arrived, and for sharing their portfolio with others online to advertise their skills for commissions to pay for food and rent.
beautifully put, thank you! it's the golden rule - those with the gold make up the rules.
I think the data will show that it is going to take exponential costs in either train-time or inference-time for linear or even sub-linear improvements. We're scraping the bottom of the ice-cream container. I expect a lot of benchmark shenanigans to conceal this like what we saw with o1. Most use-cases won't tolerate using orders of magnitude more time and tokens for marginal improvements. These companies are still valuable but the multiples will need to be reassessed.
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I stand for reversal of 5 day RTO
US military used to issue glasses like that, which were known as Birth Control Glasses...
This is correct, the usual procedure is: steal kia or hyundai with your friends using the no-interlock exploit --> find other cars to carjack (at gunpoint), or individuals to rob --> ditch stolen cars when no longer needed. Exploit no-pursuit policies as needed.
I know a lot folks don't like Zitron's polemical and sarcastic tone, but I think this piece is worth reading regardless. Despite his tendency to oversimplify, this is one of the best analyses I've read on the SaaS market.

Plus he gets in one incredible groan-worthy pun:

> As a result, it's just cheaper to use Microsoft's faux-Tableau no matter how hard it Tablows
I was referring to project budget, not pay.
if you ask it to explain how it arrived at this reasoning, they'll ban you.
This reminds of all the anti-Tesla "Tesla is dead/bankrupt" in 2017/18 takes from mostly clueless people (Gary Marcus is a certified idiot) who don't know anything about scaling a business, TAM of Knowledge Industry ($30T and growing).

Always, happy to take the other side of the bet of popular HN comments. (see META, TSLA)
It basically means "report editors".

And no, MS ones aren't miles ahead of the competition. But are bundled with Office, so the competition is mostly going out of business by now.
Sure that’s an alternative too.
If there are all these companies using all this unnecessary software that "sucks" then wouldn't there be a huge competitive advantage to being the CEO who said, "hey, we can get rid of all our expensive SaaS, free up a bunch of cash for productive investments, and make a bunch more money"?

I agree that a lot of the AI stuff will fizzle out and be wasteful in retrospect, but that doesn't mean that companies are foolishly paying for SaaS they don't need or that the whole ecosystem is a bubble. I think most companies are run a lot better than the author believes, and if they're not then there's a huge opportunity for a more efficient competitor to come in and steal the market.
Yeah folks work differently. I'm just mostly responding to this idea that (roughly paraphrasing) "hey we don't need this tool, you should just be squash merging instead."

FWIW, at my previous role, where I worked on an internal proprietary codebase, we all followed this same philosophy of curating commits. It was primarily to facilitate code review though, and not source history. Stacking PRs on GitHub is really truly annoying in my experience. (Although there is some tooling out there that purports to improve the experience.)
Of course I would, the second example represents some portion of a companies revenue. If that companies revenue is only $50 then that is their only customer and to continue existing they would need to keep that customer or they would have zero revenue. In that scenario many company's would change their entire operations to accommodate their single customer. That is control.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make with the first example. Are you suggesting the government would be 5x more cost efficient at producing tomatoes?! That's almost as outlandish to me as suggesting someone would spend the same amount of time driving to get tomatoes as someone else could spend growing them.
Thank you. Deeply. I was looking for something (cross platform) like this for a long time.
My bet is on Remix (which will eventually just be React Router). I think it's just the right amount of abstraction over native web functionality with a nice, simple API that doesn't deviate too much from web standards. I also think the full stack approach just makes sense for developing on the web.
I would say the opposite: In a high-level language for "everyday programming", as opposed to systems programming or high-performance programming, arbitrary precision signed integers are the right choice. They let you do math on things like a large file size in bytes, or a nanosecond-precision timestamp, without having to think about integer widths. You only need to think about "is this an integer or is this floating-point", which takes less mental effort than using a language like C with its large selection of integer types.
It looks great, but that's a DSL I must learn and re-use nowhere else.
I mean ... common sense?

Barring extreme illness or family circumstance, can you suggest any other reason (than firing) why a young person would voluntarily leave a plum job at the hottest, most high-profile, tech company in the world?
The Product with Problem
Not a full replacement in all scenarios. But for my personal website with a basic blog, Astro is by far the simpler and more maintainable option. I bet that is true for most people here who maintain their own personal website.
I think the Myanmar experience has a lot to do with why Facebook tries to disappear politics talk on Threads. I mean, negative talk about your neighbors is how political violence starts.

People on the Fediverse get high and mighty about the Myanmar incident but in a Fediverse world the Myanmar government would have run the big instance in their language and would have defederated anyone who tried to stop them, alternately outsiders could have defederated but then they wouldn't have any influence.

Fediverse folks could have refused to run a server to support genocide but there is no way they could stop their software from supporting genocide. A centralized system like Facebook does have more control and more responsibility but when they took that responsibility later on Myanmar kicked them out

https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-censorship-virtual-privat...
> actually make the problem a lot worse

You need to get rid of the actual problem: Capitalism

The context of all these good/bad arguments is that they're good/bad solutions under Capitalism.
Too bad, that still doesn't give you authority over other people, before they do something harmful to you. You can policy sports corruption and crime, regulate bankruptcy more,etc.. but you don't have the right to police people as a whole "just in case". I did not suggest allowing gambling to be used as an excuse to cause harm. You prevent crime by punishing it. You reduce bankruptcy by adding costs to it. (no comment on sports, since I don't think it is a net positive in society to begin with).
He's got to be nearly 30 at this point. I don't think he qualifies as a "kid". Just a rich guy who buys peoples affection so he can exploit them for profit.
An option is `git bisect --first-parent` to start from your integration points. (Then drill down into that branch if you need to.)
In technical, no buzzword terms, it means writing the whole website, backend and frontend, as one application and one codebase, in one programming language, like you would write a Desktop software. In this particular case, the language is Java, but I know of similar frameworks for Python at least: The likes of Panel, Dash, Streamlit, FastHTML, Flet, etc.
Tariffs are a tax on Americans. The stuff still gets imported -- at a higher cost to cover the tariff.
If my parents and everyone around me for thousands of years ate young children and they all told me it was legal and tasty and good for you, I probably would. But since it's not it'd seem you're making a false equivalency from the top of your horse.
Sure, but they dont scale. Each of those cars costs 100-120K
From Concept to Code: LLM and RAG with Couchbase
This looks lovely! I've been recently working on sth similar: building a custom pipeline from my Obsidian notes into a website (untested.sonnet.io).

I ended up using 11ty because I wanted to stick as close to the web platform as possible, but a part of me wishes I had tried Astro as well. Mainly because I feel that it strikes the right balance when it comes to flexibility and boilerplate. 11ty is lovely, but there was soooo much stuff I had to write from scratch. I feel like it paid off, but it took me much longer than I had hoped.

One surprising side effect: I noticed that the site worked faster online than served from localhost. 5 minutes of digging after I remembered that it's served via HTTP2 w. multiplexing. I'm not even interested in adding a bundler/minify step, just plain CSS/HTML and asset optimisation w. 11ty-image is enough.
Yeah I figured! I like the design, it’s pretty cool.
> US law prohibits Russia from using Starlink. The problem is, how to stop Russia from doing so? A simple location-based ban won't work, because the front line is constantly shifting. Whitelisting only Ukraine's own dishes to work within Ukrainian territory might work, but 1) what about dishes that get captured by Russia? 2) As noted, what about all the privately paid-for dishes?

It might be more beneficial to silently spy on Russian terminals once they are found, rather than block them. In fact I wonder how much of that has been going on.
"The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."

You're welcome to whichever side you want to take, but you're not right by the simple virtue of being contrary.
> A human has to be in the seat making the real decisions and simply referring to open AI.

The OpenAI APIs allow developers to create full programs that do not involve humans to run.
"Antipous" has been used as a singular form of the word in some 19th-century works [0].

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/antipous#English
There's a scene in Idiocracy where a the main character goes to a hospital and there are slot machines in the background (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70UdQJDzj4k). The last time I saw it I immediately thought of Illinois. Every time I travel to chicagoland I'm shocked to seem them everywhere. Their presence somehow makes otherwise normal places look very sad.
Cordyceps?
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley for a racist idiot, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling for an alt health idiot, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Josephson for a psionics idiot

https://bigthink.com/the-past/nobel-disease-great-scientists...
keystatic supports editing mdx files. keystatic is basically a frontend to update files on github, so if e.g. you want to write a blog post from your phone it can let you do that kind of thing.
You're right - OpenAI may or may not be the ultimate victor.

But RIGHT NOW they are in a very strong position in the world's hottest industry. Any of us would love to work there! It therefore seems reasonable that no one would voluntarily quit. (Unless they're on their deathbed, I suppose.)
Your incredulity tells me you haven't been following the issue at all.

You assume people always want to put out a legitimate paper. Read Retraction Watch for examples of researchers who don't.

https://retractionwatch.com/papers-and-peer-reviews-with-evi... has a list of papers where a generative AI was almost certainly used, but it use wasn't reported, and some of the papers were clearly not legit.

For example, https://pubpeer.com/publications/CAABBF887348FB2D1C0329E0A27... . The first sentence of the introduction starts "Certainly, here is a possible introduction for your topic", and commenters also discovered that the authors reported the same data for multiple papers.
Astro is amazing! I use it for all my blogs, my personal website, and some of my landing pages (info in about).

It’s very easy to build a static website with zero js, or pick the desired framework you want to work with.

Pair it with TypeScript and you get almost 100% type safe templating and resulting websites.
Guess he's going to be waiting a long time.
Under GPLv2, WP Engine has no obligation of pay the ransom Matt is demanding no matter the revenue they make.
Interesting library, is it like AWS lambda for realtime AI? How does the serverless offering work?
There's been no evidence of AGI at all that I've seen.
Wow a real SWE showing up and explaining how you can actually approach a real problem using a browser. Instead of just going "well its not compiled so clearly it will just randomly explode".

I am always amazed how HN doesn't realize many mission & life critical systems are powered by JS - especially as a front end through a browser.
Never?

The term "snake oil salesman" has been around since the 1800s and that's effectively what most of these growth hackers are. I'm sure there are plenty of terms for the same practice of fraudulent marketing that predate that by centuries or even millennia. If you can hype people up enough about what you're selling and get them imagining how much better their live's will be using your product a certain number will buy into anything (in DNPs case, people imagine how much time and money they'll save on not using a lawyer).

I wouldn't expect that to ever change.
It's loan words all the way down. We just don't have enough info about prehistory to complete the chain all the way back to local variants of caveman speak.
Announcing that they’re leaving now might be good timing for some reason, but there’s no particular reason to think these are snap decisions. They may have been considering it for quite a while without announcing their plans.
> People involved in gambling are not stupid.

I agree.

> Addicted to gambling in the same way someone is addicted to Tobacco

Addicted people are still responsible for their actions. case in point: drunken driving. I agree with punishing gamblers that cause harm. but gambling itself should not be regulated. Tobacco, alcohol, hard drugs,etc.. they should all be allowed. But to balance that, punishment for crime needs to be severe when you're an addict.
I would say the strawberry/o1 hype was even worse than the GPT-5 hype

There were months worth of articles on how strawberry is considered almost dangerous internally its so smart. I know we only got -mini and -preview but...this doesn't feel like AGI
> but that star is a white dwarf, which means any life that might have been on the exoplanet was probably obliterated before or during the star's red giant death throes.
I've posted this point a couple times on HN and I guess I will keep posting until people stop expressing surprise that trivially stealable cars are a precursor to carjackings. I'm not dunking, there's no good reason for people to intuit that! But it's a really important thing to understand.
Maybe if he punched the fish...
> While the research of this guy is certainly impressing, the shtick never failed to repulse me.

"Schtick" implies performance, but I don't think it is an act or performance, I think he's genuinely that high energy and enthusiastic. (Which can certainly be annoying as a personality trait.)
This is another site owned by Future PLC, which just shut down Anandtech.com. Truly a sad time for tech journalism.
Locking my car through the app is a genuinely useful feature. Ever parked, left your car, and thought to yourself "damn, did I lock my car?". Just lock it through the app.

I've had to fetch something from my car while my gf had the car keys with her, I could just open it with my phone. It's useful.
No, but it says on the article they hired people that did and didn't listen to them.

It's like a movie production, you hire companies that do things for you. Most folks are technically contractors that work for their own businesses.
I don't know if OpenAI has a moat or if they will succeed long term against competitors, and certainly the valuation is high, but pointing to the lack of GPT-5 already is laughable. The speed of improvements - including GPT 4o1 preview and the new voice mode - and the business deals (Apple/Siri, whatever he will use the massive capital he raises for) are astounding. The idea that they have been resting on their laurels and have nothing else to show is just demonstrably untrue to date. Maybe the exec departures are a canary in the coal mine for the future, but I'm willing to at least give them a couple years until the last time they shipped what is magical to me (most recently, yesterday).
Yeah, generally when you see historical figures talked about like that it's people who were standout bad and criticized even in their own times, like Christopher Columbus.
I found myself stepping back from social media and deleted a lot of my accounts in 2016 -- the election and the Cambridge Analytica thing was a big reason. LinkedIn could have been the worst because I had spent so much time promoting myself and prospecting, I met a lot of good folks but I also met so many bullshitters who helped make me into a bullshitter.

The influx of normies circa 2000 did not seem so bad to me but Facebook and Twitter were another thing.
We aren't deleting comments about this. The complaint is made up.
Lovely analysis, some new music for me, and love to see work from former colleagues get recognition - hi Michele!
For safety, you're really not supposed to remote start a vehicle if you can't observe it / are in contact with someone who is observing it. Lots of potential hazards, but it can be convenient.
Gold or money is a just proxy for power.

Power is the final crux here.
FYI charity raffles are actually lotteries that would be illegal if not for the charitable use of the funds and exceptions in the rules on lotteries. A lottery generally has three things:

1. A prize

2. Consideration - you must pay to enter

3. A game of pure chance - this differentiates a lottery from a tournament or a silent auction, for example

A raffle fits these definitions, but nonprofits are often allowed to run them specifically because they get an exception to the rules. That is also why many "buy my shit to win a prize" promotions have a way to enter without buying something (getting around the consideration rule) and some of these have a short math test that you need to do to claim your prize (making it a game of not pure chance).
The "next week means 'no'" really stands out.
So far Meta has been great about supporting Meta Quest and Oculus products.
I'm not against requiring training on math and statistics for gamblers.

For your last statement, I agree, "active predators" should be restricted or punished because their intent is to cause harm at the cost of others for profit. but if they're just selling the "drug", why should that be restricted? You can force them to inform their customers of the harm,but that's about it.
It looks dire but it seems too early for the nearly-always-wrong naysayer crowd to be right & take their victory lap.

Maybe not. But I always thought that, especially with their lobbying efforts and desire to project a sense of seriousness (even if unfounded) around those efforts, that it was very unlikely they would release a next-gen model before the US election.

I agree that the marketing/messaging, esp on social media, is borderline deranged, swinging between “we are basically The Foundation” and “pweese try my pwoduct i hope u love it (heart hands emoji)”
This is my dream also. I much much prefer lit-html syntax to Astro’s.

I even found standard declarative shadow dom style components to be a pain in the ass in Astro which left a bad taste in my mouth since that’s literally just stock standard HTML.
But how does this benefit musk? For this reason, you will not see this. Musk's moral compass has no needle.
That would be true if this was a market where funding mostly came from making products and generating revenue

It isn't. The majority of tech companies are speculative and funded by venture capital, and what's worse, many of the largest companies, which actually do generate revenue, are monopolies

What this means is that efficiently competing is only a viable strategy if you can convince a small pool of potential investors - many of whom think "competition is for losers" - that it's a good play, while also avoiding being bought out and crushed by one of a few trillion-dollar companies

The dynamics you're describing are those of an open market, and with wealth disparity at an all-time high (so your customers have less influence on average) and financial scams fairly rampant due to decades of lax enforcement, most companies right now are not effectively operating in an open market

Buying SaaS is trendy conventional wisdom. It has benefits and downsides, but in my experience the biggest benefit is that VCs think it's smart to do and also often benefit from a company buying the products of other companies. Whether it helps with things like making products faster or better overall is close to immaterial in this environment
The trademark policy sounds like it falls somewhere between the Mozilla Foundation/Corporation model and the Red Hat/Fedora Project model. This is how open source in practice works.