skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it's quite sad. It's perplexing how the hype is being maintained at the moment. JP Morgan and Goldman both released reports more or less claiming AI is a deadend until we make some technological or supply chain breakthroughs. This is before we mention that OpenAI (and probably other AI projects/companies) seems to be operating at a significant loss with no foreseeable reprieve.

Yet here we are, pouring money, resources, expertise, and people hours into an endless pit of hopes and possibilities of a possibility.
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/54380

I didn't know about that. I agree it qualifies as a "weird issue".
As a previous owner of a fig tree, figs are also kind of the worst case. Crazy hard keeping those suckers harvestable, compared to citrus et al.
Hello! Author of Awala here. Not sure about that. We're trying to solve very different problems.

Scuttlebut and SSB-powered apps like Manyverse focus on social media and decentralisation, which is more about "broadcasting" and gossip protocols, where the offline comms is a happy side-effect of their decentralisation goals.

Awala is a platform to make software communicate offline securely. Centralised services like Twitter[1], and decentralised ones like Letro[2], or even hybrids, are all possible.[3]

I'm not on a quest to decentralise the Internet. I'm on a quest to connect people to their loved ones despite repressive regimes and wars.

[1] https://github.com/AwalaApp/poc#relaynets-proof-of-concept (Awala used to be called Relaynet)

[2] https://letro.app/en/

[3] https://awala.network/tech-overview#service-decentralisation
What are humans for, then?
I get your point, but you have to understand that for every second you’ve spent writing that comment, globally hundreds of millions of HTTP responses have been processed that contain UUIDs of some kind.

Yes, there’s a more optimal format than hex-encoding UUID values. However it simply does not matter for any use case this targets.

16 bytes vs 38 bytes is completely meaningless in the context of a local process sending a request to a local daemon. It’s meaningless when making a HTTP request as well, unfortunately.

I’d have loved Arrow to be the format chosen, but that’s not lowering the barrier to entry much.
Might be hard to spot if you’re American in the US, but LLMs feel very American even outside of region and language. Concretely, I have to constantly ask for recipes to be changed to metric. Less concretely, the undertones and mannerisms of politeness, positivity and “excitedness” comes across as very American to me, probably even within the rest of the Anglosphere. How would I describe it? Maybe similar to how you’d feel about a mix of Ned Flanders, Ted Lasso and some Valley girl stereotype – im sure it’s a bit off putting also for many Americans.

I guess it’s training data but also heavily RLHF. I doubt that the trainers are aware of their own cultural biases and values, and they may not care. And why should they? In either case, from a thousand yard perspective, it’s probably an effective vector for spreading “American values”, if you will.
AI and Knowledge Graph on NotebookLM
Hosting a (DevOpsDays) Tech Conference
True, but this is even more true now with Windows 11 with Recall, CoPilot and Secure boot.

So I think this should be re-posted every few years for people new to this site :)

My fear is some Linux Distros may also start going down this path. But at least wit Linux, people will find out quickly and move to another distro.
Previous discussions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37526477 (2023-09-15, 326 points)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35104406 (2023-03-11, 73 points)
Your skills as a developer are never dependent on the tools, APIs or platforms you use. You can always abstract over that. But yes, effectively using your skills will always be somewhat dependent on some company's goodwill. If a product, platform or feature you use goes away, you need to switch. That doesn't only happen for development IDEs. It's a process of learning that happens (or should happen) continuously in any line of work, and especially in software development.

As a developer you should already be used to having to switch stuff to something else. Going from DX12 to Vulcan, from x86 to RISC-V, from Linux to FreeBSD, from XCode to EMACS, from Perl to Python, from Angular to Flask, whatever.
I feel this. I've set something up for myself to fetch the data just to be able to better search and group things without having to wait for their sluggish API and the overweight SPA.

Good luck!
> I pointed out that that wouldn't be relevant, and you're agreeing with that here. What kind of "correction" is this?

It’s the kind where multiple people are trying to help you understand something. Trademarks are intended to avoid confusion in the marketplace, so my point was that later shifting ownership to a different organization doesn’t change the question. They’d still be asking whether consumers think of the term as specific or generic because consumers rarely care about the distinction between a company and an organization controlled by that company.
Do you mind sharing some details? This doesn't match my experiences at all really - while I think running into messes with NPM is sometimes a little overstated, the number of times I've needed to do something drastic like `rm -rf node_modules` is not insignificant and I've never had to do anything at all like that with Bundler.

The only problem I can really think of is working through issues when two gems require different irreconcilable versions of a library, and that's more of a fundamental ruby issue / design choice than a problem with bundler itself.
Any timelines we impose are artificial. Setting deadlines hasn't really helped accomplish as much as simply changing the economics has in recent years. The reason solar power is popular is simply that it saves people money on their electricity bills. That wasn't always true. But now that it is, we see huge growth at both grid level and domestic level of its deployment.

You are right we are still expanding the use of fossil fuels. But we do seem to be on a path where the peak usage is happening in the reasonably near future. The faster than expected adoption of renewables is bringing that moment forward.

I regularly read what Bloomberg NEF publishes on this topic. They published an interesting article recently: https://about.bnef.com/blog/designing-and-delivering-net-zer...

They are calling for short term policy changes to accelerate things. Most of those policies are simply about incentivizing people doing the right things.
Working on https://shepherd.com/ and trying to help readers find books they will LOVE (not just like).

In a few days, launching user accounts + our first user feature using our new Book DNA review system that is trying to help narrow in on the type of books you love and why. The goal is to serve better recommendations going forward and get more people excited about reading.

It is fun :)
idk I’d get rather sad if I lived in a van, especially when living in a home is a possibility
Godot foundation posted an update: https://x.com/godotfoundation/status/1840721449364988300

Community responses (that may or may not represent active users of or contributors to Godot):

https://x.com/godotfoundation/status/1840721449364988300/quo...

https://x.com/godotengine/status/1840723164000575845/quotes
"Microsoft .NET C# (fsharp is completely open and does not have these issues)"

There you go. Everyone should use F#
It's not just "old node", it's also "old webpack" and "old vuejs" and "old everything". Yes, "it works" and strictly you don't really need to update it, but you're going to add a lot of friction down the line by never updating and at some point the situation will become untenable.
I would much rather inherit an FP data pipeline than anything else. You do realize data pipelines (and distributed computing) are an ideal use case for FP?
I mean, fair enough you feel that but they don't seem that way to me.

Theo is too quick on the gun with breaking tech news and habitually does not come with the appropriate context or knowledge to sustain any insight. Though if I were in his shoes trying to cover every breaking development in tech (read: HN front page trending) I would be caught with my pants down 80% of the time.

Prime is really about the entertainment value from what I've seen, though to his credit is aware of his limits and knowledge. I have found his reaction videos tedious with the excessive commentary.

PirateSoftware, to his credit is quite an insightful person in my estimations and all of his advice is contextualised in his own experiences which is usually quite valuable but sometimes not given the highly individual nature of it. Some of his purported life hacks are flat out terrible, but for what he gets wrong, he does get a lot right, especially around indie game dev.
If I recall correctly, Sal Khan from Khan Academy fame has suggested homework and school work should be flipped—video lessons at home and student and teacher interaction on the math problems at school. This has some of that flavor.
That is incredibly naive.

Math arises from first principles, human behavior does not.
Your statement is that that ad space is 'viscerally inhuman grotesquery'. Like... Where have you lived for the last 100 years?

I do agree Google should punish clear paid advertising in ranking though; that is a clear problem. Maybe because of this article, but the sample queries from the article now show the underscored links on page 5, so it seems 'fixed' now at least.
Sickening in the same way you get sick from eating too much sugar.
Nobody deserves VS code for free. Actually nobody deserves anything for free. Alternative would be pay for bloated commercial IDEs.

VS code is decent, all rounder, free, open enough to be forked.

And people forget that it's marvel of engineering. Go look through code. That doesn't get produced for free.

Microsoft or any company owes nothing for free to anyone whatsoever. This entitlement syndrome needs to be in check.
Nice concept! I only find it unintuitive to navigate, with button panel of always truncated buttons looking strange, quasi-permanent (requires action or stays there forever) and plenty error messages that I am using it wrong ('select something first!'), overly eager tooltips everywhere, with amusement centric but impractical zoomed animation on click that is not obvious how to reverse. It must be somewhere, the whole thing looks rich in functions, but I lost interest in the tiring entertainment centric approach before finding it.
See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q08mOo6NFok
he’s most likely divorced so probably his wife and possibly their stepdad
It was Brin, not me, who makes the connection, and says that Godel refutes Hegel. The scholar I mentioned, JN Findlay, has a rigorous understanding of both authors, but I couldn't quickly find an article where he makes the argument. Nothing to do with "postmodernist excesses" or whatever.

Also read my comment, see this article here[0] about how Godel adopted phenomenology, which is the philosophical backbone of much of "postmodernism," so it would be entirely fair to make a connection between Godel and, say, Derrida, for instance, since they both claim to be in the same philosophical tradition. But that's just what the scholarly evidence suggests.

In any case, Godel's proof has little to do with "math" in the sense of calculation but rather is a refutation of Russel & Whiteheads attempts at a logical foundation of mathematics, which is a philosophical endeavour. The mathematical aspect is secondary and merely follows from the philosophical argument which it entails. It is the simply the case that, Russel & Whitehead were themselves engaging with "Hegel" in Principia Mathematica, who of course had his own system of logic (cf. the Science of Logic), but they failed insofar as Godel's critique is accepted, and insofar as you accept Godel's critique you could make the inference (though by no means on an entirely solid basis) that Godel's work constitutes, in a certain sense, a re-interpretation of Hegel, though not directly.

[0]https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goedel/goedel-phenomenolo...
A good middle ground is modularize everything into stateless funcs where possible so it can be reassembled in different configurations without much stress.

An excellent interface will eventually be deformed beyond recognition chasing the architectural dragon; a well-crafted library will outlive the project.
> The idea that people in e.g. Asia don't tend to consider outside viewpoints as much as Americans is so absurd I'm not even sure what to say.

That is indeed an absurd idea. Fortunately, that's not what he wrote. He wrote that considering all points of view to have merit is a liberal Western value.

>> 'There's always another way of looking at things' is a basic assumption of a great many Americans... as a truly pervasive set of assumptions, it's pretty much a liberal Western, even American, tradition..."

At least, it was more true in 1986. Now the pendulum seems to be swinging away.
It's not a download, it's a blessing.
It's not corrupting, it's purifying.
It's syntax highlighting for your strained eyes and block commenting for your sore fingers.
It's peace.
Take care.
PETA is building robot elephants for Hindu temples
> So much could be solved if you could just say "this version of this package" in a dependency

This can be done in the JS/TS world. It also occasionally breaks horribly in the JS/TS world. You might have multiple incompatible versions of a package in the tree when one dependency depends on one particular version, and the rest of your universe depends on another. It gets even worse when `Symbol`s come to play, since they'll be unique between those two versions.
Yes. Of course. Most states have some form of inspections and minimum standards for safety, and a liability insurance requirement, and driver licence for that matter, just for this reason, to put limits around bad judgement and distinguish bad luck from bad practice.

This is not the same as knowingly driving a car that is more likely to break down. This is not meeting part of your responsibilities because emergency services will take care of it.

It's abandoning a vehicle the same as with a normal car where you didn't abandon it through no fault of your own, but because you intentionally dumped it somewhere.

Waymo didn't intentionally break a car in exactly the same way a drunk driver didn't intentionally crash a car.
>"The free software Microsoft is giving away isn't open enough"

This is not a quote from the article and isn't what the article is saying. It's effectively suggestig that devs are being duped and MS goals are closing essential parts down.
This hits home. Management has started measuring things at my workplace. They won't admit it, but I said from the start it was because they are easy to measure, not because they are useful.
yep. it should work for all countries. gnukhata just needs country specific work to be done to make it compatible. otherwise its country agnostic
I tried it converting bureaucratic documents from Spain, even a paper sheet to just ask for holidays, and it created the funniest podcast I've ever heard. I'm glad I'm not the only one doing this stupid thing.
Recording conversations are illegal but if you could prevent that from happening, there is enough wiggle room that it has the potential to be legal.
It's interesting to imagine a world where the USA government would use these as weapons, mandating different content for allies vs enemies (like China uses tiktok).

Lots of people in Pakistan? Could be dangerous, let's feed them garbage and keep them in ignorance. Back home? Hide astrology entirely.
Being simplistic is a leitmotiv of the project, at least someone in the post-GNOME cabal stopped reinventing the wheel.
Allowing multiple versions of a library to run simultaneously is a design decision - there are definitely shortfalls to allowing this (increased code size, a relative nightmare to audit, increased tendency towards downstream dependencies opening vulnerability potential). Culturally with bundler it tends not to be an issue since the inability to run multiple versions of packages tends to reduce the number of secondary dependencies to only pretty core libraries, and encourages permissive version requirements for gems.
On paper, you can test out the balance and math of all the "action" more deliberately. So taking a "fast twitch" game and pretending it is turn based for testing. Of course, you can math out the win/lose percentages and hit rates and adjust your numbers. But one of the good adages in game design is to first make the math right, and then make it fun. Players will perceive different success rates than the math bears out. (See MtG and shuffling and land draws) You may have to adjust off the perfect math to create the experience you want your players to have. It doesn't matter if your game is "fair" if no players feel and believe that and stop playing as a consequence.
Distinct movement cluster evident on Carola bridge in Dresden prior to collapse
The post mentions several times how it's both costly for adopter to add infrastructure to support robots but also how other forces can make that infra already there e.g. how it costs money to install wifi in a warehouse but handheld scanners led to wifi being in them anyway (which was great for the robots too).

This reminded me of a quote about the future of automated driving (paraphrasing):

"We currently consider the following to be distinct and very different modes of transportation:

- car

- elevator

- train

At some point, those will all converge into a vehicle that can travel on roads (like a car), with other vehicles (like a train) and bring you up to a building floor (live an elevator)."

This seemed somewhat true to me until I considered two things:

1. The smart phone did something similar with a phone, television, computer etc

2. There is a scene in the movie Minority Report that does exactly what the author of the original quote described. [0]

The combination of another convergence device AND a fictional visual of what that convergent device would like really hammered home what the future might look like.

0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrxyr1CjiSM
I'm glad to see several fig trees in Crete on the map. Just the other day I was thinking it would be cool to have an app mapping them.

Fig trees located in fields are considered public by tradition in Crete. I.e. it's fair game to stop by and grab some fruit, even if you cross into private property. This tradition originates from older days, where farmers/shepherds were travelling the island on foot or riding donkeys, often sleeping away from home. Fig trees were established as the unofficial roadside snack bars because of the delicious fruit, but more importantly because they thrive on the rough terrain without need for human care.
That is a really good one it got a chuckle out of me.
The necessity to engage people for the advertising business model to work does do this. People are naturally engaged by outraged, the algorithms “figure this out,” and systematically produce outrage. No ads, no existential need to arbitrarily increase engagement.
BIMI needs an LetsEncrypt equivalent of VMC to take-off. It's prohibitively expensive for small businesses.
> Because this lifestyle has nothing to do with freedom, but with fear.

What do you presume the author is afraid of/running away from?

Genuinely curious, I have a hard time imagining the mindset you see these people in.
Brin isn’t making any point about knowledge- in fact acquiring unfiltered knowledge of the other is a risky move in the dogma of otherness, as you may find something you don’t like. Knowing something about the other that you don’t like is of course devastating to your social status. His central example of the dolphins clearly demonstrates this distinction- the dolphin scientists are not popular with the crowd.
There's many English names that aren't gendered ex. Morgan, Casey, Charlie, Jayme (plus Taylor and Bobby as mentioned previously)
I agree with this whole thread. I do use VS Code as my debugger frontend for C++ on Linux, but it's a real bummer compared to what's available on Windows. Hence this series!
For such historical topics, my LLM-based software podgenai does a pretty good job imho. It is easier for it since it's all internal knowledge that it already knows about.
I paid for jetbrains stuff for many years because it was worth it. And compared to eclipses features et it was leagues above.

That's worth money.

Like I always say about open source. I'm skeptical about adapting frameworks without big money behind them... Because relying on the whims of random internet amazing engineer is a risk.

MS will make money on vscode. Just like Google makes money on Chrome. Just not directly.
Working on WaddleML, and open source variant of weights and balances that uses DuckDb.

https://github.com/briangu/waddleml
I knew someone that had a date tree in the far front corner of their yard. when it produced fruit a car would park there and like 4-5 people were picking all the fruit off the tree. they ended up cutting it down.

Just be prepared for someone to pick everything to sell or for their restaurant
I don’t think is true. “Higher skill” is nebulous, but lots of automation quick reduces higher paid positions, such as software that allows people to be more productive or technology that obviates many other devices (smartphones).

But the pace of automation is slower for high touch work, such as nursing home work, cleaning, cooking, and other jobs that typically pay the least.

Of course, there is a need for very specialized work that could pay more, such R&D in cutting edge computing, medicines, chemistry, etc, but the chances of achieving that level of expertise does not seem realistic for the majority of the population.
Can you add youtube music as a "listen to" link?
Given that it is proving near impossible to get everyone to "do the right thing", technology is the only realistic way out of this.
> and pays rent for the kids?

The way I read it it's implied that they split up [0], so the (former) wife would need to pay rent either way.

[0] He also mentions getting custody as a target in an earlier post.
""I hope other companies follow Gitpod's lead and support the high achievers that our digital society is built upon by enabling them to become independent artists that build truly open ecosystems""

This a great idea.

It forgets that most artist starve.

The meme of the "Starving Artist" working as a barista, is not in our cultural zeitgeist for nothing.
They really hate that Elon is actually sending a ~~submarine~~ capsule to get people stranded in a ~~cave~~ metal tube.
Working on an API product based on good old visual classifiers to detect Malaria in real world blood samples.
I know there are lots of publications claiming they have solved this problem, but there is no real world solution that actually works like a product you can plug your microscope to.
Have a big client ready to pay.
New research on anesthesia and microtubules gives new clues about consciousness
> install whatever version exists at the path

Do you mean it uses whatever version exists in the path? I think that's a fair concern.
original paper:
https://www.eneuro.org/content/11/8/ENEURO.0291-24.2024

Popular write-up:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a62373322/quantum-t...
I've had to stop using Syncthing as my primary means of file syncing due to either Android 14's scoped storage or the way this OEM implemented it. At least it still works on my backup Android 10 device.
> Nothing to do with "postmodernist excesses" or whatever.

To clarify, I wasn't implying you or Brin were commiting "postmodernist excesses". The part of the review I quoted was explicitly saying that the book aims to correct misunderstandings that "by no means represent postmodernist excesses, but rather come to mind naturally to many people with very different backgrounds".
Very good! Loved it
Both thresholds have a system to be adjusted.