skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there is at least one effort at a solution:

http://literateprogramming.com/

and I've found that John Ousterhout's recent book, _A Philosophy of Software Design_ is one of the most notable programming books of the past decade and speaks to many of these difficulties so well that I added it my effort at a list of (mostly) Literate Programming books:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/21394355-william-adams...

The other issue here is the still unanswered question:

>What does an algorithm look like?

and by extension, the further question of:

How does one manage a visual representation of a program when it gets beyond the size of one screen/window, or a page in a book, or for the largest ones, a poster?

With a bit of help of tex.stackexchange.com I was able to put together a Literate Programming system which allows me to use (La)TeX w/o the comment character which docstrip mandates:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/literati...

(it's a little clunky, since that file has to be customized for the files in a given project)

but it allowed me to switch from having three files open in three different OpenPythonSCAD windows to a single .text file which makes a .pdf: https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/blob/main/gcodepre... which has a ToC, and multiple indices all nicely hyperlinked, and which makes a search/review of the code into a vertical scroll.

That said, I sympathize w/ the author quite a bit, and often work up snippets of code using either Blockly or BlockSCAD3D: https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/ or https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview/mai...
Next-Token Prediction Is All Your Need:Emu3 Beats SDXL, LLaVA-1.6, and OpenSora
Emu3 is a new suite of state-of-the-art multimodal models trained solely with next-token prediction. By tokenizing images, text, and videos into a discrete space, we train a single transformer from scratch on a mixture of multimodal sequences. Emu3 outperforms several well-established task-specific models in both generation and perception tasks, surpassing flagship models such as SDXL and LLaVA-1.6, while eliminating the need for diffusion or compositional architectures. Emu3 is also capable of generating high-fidelity video via predicting the next token in a video sequence. We simplify complex multimodal model designs by converging on a singular focus: tokens, unlocking great potential for scaling both during training and inference. Our results demonstrate that next-token prediction is a promising path towards building general multimodal intelligence beyond language.We open-source key techniques and models to support further research in this direction.

Projcet page：https://emu.baai.ac.cn/about
Investment return over the last 30 years:

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Sticking your money in tech may have ups and downs but has not done badly. Also AI will be huge in a way blockchain and the metaverse were not. Also re blockchain if you'd bought bitcoin rather than some bs startup you'd have done well. Though OpenAI may be in the bs startup category... dunno.
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No, not as far as I have seen.

It seems they only describe that Telegram has been used extensively by criminals for the same reasons everyone else use it:

Great ux, reasonable privacy (for what we needed).

Note: all that is in a flux now. Personally I trust Telegram less now as it seems the same exceptions the French has made for themselves can also be used by russia or any other terrorist regime.
Greedy people might be frowned upon, but are they the winners?
It's a matter of time. White collar professionals have to worry about being cost-competitive with GPUs; blue collar laborers have to worry about being cost-competitive with servomotors. Those are both hard to keep up with in the long run.
It's a beautiful coffee table book, I love opening a page randomly and (re)discovering a game.

If you're more into JRPGs, Bitmap Books has got you covered as well [1]:

[1]: https://www.bitmapbooks.com/products/a-guide-to-japanese-rol...
Yeah, this whole genre of products is an example of the Happy Path fallacy.

There are studies showing that comments on articles erode the trust readers have in these articles. Given the quality of the average comment, it's likely that comment systems on most sites make people both dumber and angrier.

So I think the idea of forcing comments (or user-contributed links) on sites that don't want comments is fundamentally problematic.

Personally, I don't want random people on the Internet putting links on my articles. If you want to discuss what I write, or provider additional context, or disagree, then do it on your own site, or in a public place like Hacker News, not on my site.
What makes you think an internet-connected streaming device couldn't and isn't just doing the same thing?

I otherwise completely agree with everything else you've said.
Apple TV can be separate, as can their music stuff. Other than that I'm not sure.
Thanks! All good, I think some people are interpreting this as 1) me thinking this is some sort of groundbreaking novel idea and 2) that I am trying to scale this in a venture scale sort of way haha. Neither are true. The walled garden idea came up elsewhere too, really like it and considered it. Just have to think through details and add the user management side.
Russia didn’t overrun Ukraine quickly because they voluntarily withdrew for peace talks.
It looks like An IndieWeb Webring project.
You can check it out here: https://xn--sr8hvo.ws/
"This proof-of-concept webring is a way for folks adding IndieWeb building blocks to their personal websites to find (and be found by) other folks with IndieWeb building blocks on their sites!"
Do you think AI companies will be able to afford running massive compute farms solely so coders can get suggestions?

I do not claim to know what the future holds, but I do feel the clock is ticking on the AI hype. OpenAI blew people's minds with GPTs, and people extrapolated that mind-blowing experience into a future with omniscient AI agents, but those are nowhere to be seen. If investors have AGI in mind, and it doesn't happen soon enough, I can see another winter.

Remember, the other AI winters were due to a disconnect between expectations and reality of the current tech. They also started with unbelievable optimism that ended when it became clear the expectations were not reality. The tech wasn't bad back then either, it just wasn't The General Solution people were hoping for.
> I just went back to an old project (didn't remember much about it) and used Cursor to make a small bug fix and it helped me get it done in no time.

That sounds quite useful. Does Cursor feed your entire project code (traversing all folders and files) into the context?
A quite reliable leaker, maybe the most prominent of all. Probably works for a GPU manufacturer like Asus, MSI, Gigabyte etc.
I'm sorry if you got that impression.Im saying the exact opposite.

I'm saying we should let the schools get to the point of teacher shortages, and then teacher salaries will increase until the they can afford to live in the area.

The current solution is stupid. We keep paying them unsustainable salary and work them in garbage conditions, but 1/10 wins the free housing lottery and gets below market housing.
This reminds me also of the huge difference between gambling and gambling. Some games are at least somewhat beatable (sports betting, poker) even though the house is most consistent winner.

Then there is junk like every slot machine ever, 98 % of online casinos, etc.

Lotteries would belong to that category if they weren't such a useful way to sell something few people can afford, or to finance projects with an opt-in taxation.
> The entire concept of inflation comes from the fact that various Med. cultures figured out you could issue coinage with a high percentage of gold and then slowly drop the percentage over time to increase the purchasing power of the government. It got insanely bad at some points, with "gold" coinage being less than 50% gold. Inflation wasn't just constant, it was an everyday fact of life.

I'm not an expert on this - how does this idea differ from that of 'seigniorage' where the sovereign can profit from the creation of money?

Your example only addresses the buying power of the sovereign; it's not obvious that it should affect the prices of goods between private parties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seigniorage
Sacrafice nothing for clarity.
To be fair they didn't make that argument, but thanks for the support none the less! Agreed, ad-hoc servers are a staple and a worked out problem. 99% of the time you have to go out of your way as a developer to make things not work in this way.
http://archive.today/8H0H3
This assumes that the bottleneck to profitability is the limit of software engineers they can afford to hire.

If they’re happy with current rate of progress (and in many companies that is the case), then a productivity increase of 100% means they need half the current number of engineers.
Yup, Firefox :)
I don't understand. As a Russian, you might as well ignore the license without any consequences and fork whatever you want. And yet this crowd seems to be mad mostly about licensing.
When he asks what sounds like an obscure question and the interviewee's face lights up, that is a beautiful moment.
So why isn't every language model out there "open"?
A 1% time saving for a $100k/yr position is still worth $83/month. And accounting for overhead, someone who costs the company $100k only gets a $60k salary.

If you pay Silicon Valley salaries this seems like a no-brainer. There are bigger time wasters elsewhere, but this is an easy win with minimal resistance or required culture change
It's weird how a smaller provision of a much larger work (Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986) are always trotted out as an argument against regulation. Like if you can't use the majority of the regulation in an argument against it, perhaps it's good regulation.

Although to the actually very narrow point raised, would you rather not know what substances were bad for you? Perhaps a lot of this is pointless as you will commonly see people saw materials without masks but at the same point would you buy carrots labeled with "This product is known to the state of CA to cause cancer?".

And to the rest of the regulation that isn't address by OP. It is very good that companies cannot just dump their cancerous waste materials into rivers.
That could be a very good thing, depending on which part of the planet you live.

For example, I'm in Scotland, and apart from one or two days, we've basically had a "year without a summer", with cooler than normal temps. ;)
>No thank you, I can protect myself.

In many ways you actually cannot, in any reasonable way:

- You cannot escape surveillance unless you completely (and I do mean completely) withdraw from modern society

- You cannot protect yourself from subconscious manipulation by advertising and marketing firms that pay billions of dollars to find and exploit subconscious weaknesses that we all possess

- You cannot protect yourself from sweeping changes made (e.g. to legislation) made in response to the interests of lobbyists or bad actors, and in consequence from changes in the behaviour of others, in response
The globalists, when it's time to go to war again. The same people who said you are a racist and fascist if you wave the flag have already done about face and now say it's the duty of young men and women to die for their country.

"Everybody for themselves, we're individuals" when there's peace and "We're all in this together, you've got to die for your country" when their wealth is threatened.
I wonder if the length of all space stuff average out to their acceptable value now ! (fail at launch, rapid unscheduled disassembly and the others going further until exceeding minimum acceptable value)
Client side webrings.

What is the plan for fighting bitrot and bad-faith actors?
Am I the only one that read this as "HP Inkjets AI into its printers" ?
It's not hard to find a religious analogy to anything, so that also shouldn't be seen as a particularly powerful argument.

(Expressed at length here): https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/03/25/is-everything-a-religi...
I agree in principle.
But that still leaves it called Far East, it's just Far East Asia.
One of the issues today is the volume of content produced, and that journalism and professional writing is dying. LLMs produce large amounts of "good enough" quality to make a profit.

In the 90s we could reasonably trust that that the major news sites and corporate websites was true, while random forums required a bit more critical reading. Today even formerly trusted sites may be using LLMs to generate content along with automatic translations.

I wouldn't necessarily put the blame on LLMs, this just make it easier. The trolls and spammers was always there, now they just have a more powerful tool. The commercial sites now have a tool they don't understand, which they apply liberally, because it reduces cost, or their staff use it, to get out of work, keep up with deadlines or to cover up incompetence. So, not the fault of the LLMs, but their use is worsening existing trends.
Where did I say that it's AGI? I was addressing the parent's comment:

> "Reminds me of autonomous vehicles a couple of years back".

I don't think any reasonable interpretation of "autonomous vehicle" includes the ability to change a tyre. My point is that sometimes hype becomes reality. It might just take a little longer than expected.
Crafting QR codes: how they work and how to make 'em pretty
I find tools where I am manually shepherding the context into an LLM to work much better than Copilot at current. If I think thru the problem enough to articulate it and give the model a clear explanation, and choose the surrounding pieces of context (the same stuff I would open up and look at as a dev) I can be pretty sure the code generated (even larger outputs) will work and do what I wanted, and be stylistically good. I am still adding a lot in this scenario, but it's heavier on the analysis and requirements side, and less on the code creation side.

If what I give it is too open ended, doesn't have enough info, etc, I'll still get a low quality output. Though I find I can steer it by asking it to ask clarifying questions. Asking it to build unit tests can help a lot too in bolstering, a few iterations getting the unit tests created and passing can really push the quality up.
I love this idea and agree you need a form of curation. Is there a mechanism for "ranking" links? Or reporting? I think a simple UI that lets you up or downvote (after clicking) could be pretty effective at reducing spam.
you are trying to say that there is a difference between pure random luck and 'skill' based gambling. However the both act in the brain the same way and both lead to bad ends to the vast majority.
This article is for everyone that pictures James Bond when they hear the word spy
I had never heard of Pharrell before this interview but he seemed instantly likeable.

Nardwuar confuses people and I think a bit of their true selves comes through (whether that’s passion, narcissism, etc).
That's an interesting example. I would argue that 3D TV as a "solution" didn't work, but 3D as a "problem" is still going strong, and with new approaches coming out all the time (most recently Meta's announcement of the Orion AR glasses), we'll gradually see extensive adoption of 3D experiences, which I expect will eventually loop back to some version of 3D films.

EDIT: To clarify my analogy, GenAI is definitely a "problem" rather than a particular solution, and as such I expect it to have longevity.
"An uptick in construction work will not be an inflation balloon. "

There's a massive shortage in construction workers [1], so yes there will be? The few construction workers we do have can demand higher wages (yay!) but then will they be outbidding other mid-income folks for housing with those increased wages? Sounds like an inflation spiral to me.

My statement wasn't against social housing, I love social housing. We just haven't cracked the code in scaling housing (and subsequent maintenance) yet. And the problem is about 80% political will, billionaire cash is useless here.

[1]: https://www.abc.org/News-Media/News-Releases/abc-2024-constr...
How to Create SVG Icons with AutoDraw by Google Creative Lab
It's probably true, but just not for SWEs.
Many roles will go the way of secretarys; the cost of making an administrative tool will decrease to the point where there is less need for a specialised role to handle it.
The question is going to be about the pace of disruption, is there something special about these new tools?
> “Humans learn from examples, not from “core concepts”

Nitpicking maybe but I disagree with tfa on this point; not all humans work this way. Those of us who might actually prefer the general -> specific direction are already largely ignored in k12 and may only begin to thrive in higher education. Since we’re already kind of underserved, there’s no need to also deny that we exist!
No one can write machine code from memory other by writing machine for years and just memorizing them. Just like you can't start writing Python without prior knowledge.

> Analogously, I imagine future software dev to consist mostly of writing specs in natural language.

https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensi...?
Actress Dame Maggie Smith dies at 89
Sorry ... it's my first time posting.Cloudflare, LogRocket, Intercom, Launch Darkly and more have banded together to give aspiring founders the resources they need to build and scale startups. It's 10 dev tools all in one place. All are offering discounted pricing.
> No one was going for any team in particular.

Honestly, I would expect the opposite. I wouldn't care who wins between the Cowboys and the Giants, but if I put a $10 bet down on the Giants, all of the sudden and find myself rooting for them. You should tell your buds to bet on a team and forget all the prop bets. ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Smith

Related:

https://apnews.com/article/actress-maggie-smith-dies-03a7b41...

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/sep/27/maggie-smith-os...

https://variety.com/2024/legit/news/maggie-smith-dead-harry-...
You don't have to use -p with docker's default settings.

$ docker run --rm --name listen busybox sh -c 'echo hi | nc -l -p 8000'

# in another terminal
$ docker inspect listen -f '{{ .NetworkSettings.IPAddress }}'
172.17.0.3
$ nc 172.17.0.3 8000 < /dev/null
hi

Works just fine for accessing it on your local machine. The -p flag is meant to "publish" a port so it's available remotely, from outside of your machine (i.e. to serve nginx to the public internet on a webserver with '-p 80:80' or whatever).
Please add a mobile safari extension. I wouldn’t see myself using this in any other context.
The writing and the visualizations are great. The ‘continue’ button is way too frequent.
I don't even mind paying up front anymore. I'm in a position where I can afford it now, though for most of my adult life I've relied on sites like this to make ends meet.

However the only thing I want from publishers is DRM-free e-books (same for music). If you offer a way for me to actually own the digital property I'm buying, I'm going to buy it. If you make it hard or impossible to transfer between my devices, or share with my wife and kids (i.e. how physical media works), you're not getting my money and I'll find another way to get the book.
Gemini models are trained and run on Google's in house TPU's, which frankly are incredible compared to H100's. In fact Claude was trained on TPUs.

Google however does not sell these, you can only lease time on them via GCP.
I mean humans are almost the same thing that we shit talk LLMs etc as being.

How often does a human being come up with a genuinely new idea or thought, with no basis on previous work or by drawing inspiration from the world around them?

Almost everything we do is a riff on what has already been done. Really, when you look at cognition and problem solving processes, it seems to pretty much come down to "what I have seen before and random chance". Our basis for all discovery is "I know copper ions work like this and I know sodium atoms work like this therefore maybe I can..." which in my opinion will be completely reproducible by machines.

Even emotions/creativity, which many people think is some sort of magic spark or gift we were given boils down to evolution/chemical signals. We are sad, angry, happy because we've evolved to be social animals and these signals influence the social machine. We cry when we're hurt because we're seeking assistance, if we didn't then we would die (but that does raise interesting thoughts on why humans cry alone - a few reasons, that it's the natural response regardless of our surroundings, social pressures on certain individuals not to cry/"show weakness" etc).

Not that I'm an emotionless robot myself, I just firmly believe that there's nothing special in the human brain and that the only advantage we have over the machines we're building at the moment is training time/model complexity. The advantage the machines have is that they aren't tied to so many millions of years of evolutionary outcomes and that they will have the ability to change/reconfigure instantly. ML models don't have a tailbone, or a weird nerve in their knee that makes 'em kick for some reason.
> No thank you, I can protect myself.

There's surely some ways you're unprepared to protect yourself. Since you're unaware, you wouldn't be able to thank them. Ignorance is bliss.
You might want to try the UK national archives:

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/

or get in touch with the enthusiast community, people like

https://www.nathanmediaservices.co.uk/ceefax/

You should ensure whoever you give them to can give you a binding commitment to use for legitimate archival purposes, and not just acquire them and sit on them for copyright reasons.
Its already priced in, things are still moving as expected. They could go up higher in the future, but not from this information.
Not trying to value life in general at all, just the nature of the jobs. You might reply "distinction without a difference," and well, the fact that you'd think so would be one of my points about the labor ;).

Personally, preindustrial life sounds pretty rough, but its all just apples and oranges! The future will continue to happen, to critique the present and how we got here is not to exhort the past (unless, you know, you are a particularly conservative person I guess).
Ok maybe I just never saw the hype, just another engineering and data challenge that was going to be solved one way or another.