skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. 10 years ago there were people who thought that but they were far from the majority.
The pull of oligarchs is more real in Russia than anywhere else in the world.
I remember we paid Circle CI ungodly amounts to host a dozen trash can Mac Pros to run our iOS CI. Early Swift versions caused huge spikes in build times.
“Most recently, the FCC’s review of SpaceX's proposed flight plan has focused on the effects of the rocket's sonic boom as it comes back to Earth.”

Interesting, what new effect could there possibly be? Humanity has run tens of thousands of tests over the last <century.
Only v1 does not have persistent maps, as it is not supported by the firmware. Valetudo only supports whatever the firmware supports already.
More often than not, the contact forms that I encounter impose one or more hassles on the visitor:

Please enable JavaScript. Please allow scripts from these off-site domains to execute on your computer. Please enter a return address hosted by an approved email provider. Please read through all the categories in this drop-down list and select the one that best fits your message. Please fill in these required fields and re-submit the form. Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com. Please waste your time repeatedly solving annoying puzzles, until our CAPTCHA provider can sufficiently fingerprint you and your browser. Please re-type the text you already entered, because we reset some or all of the form fields due to one of the above complaints.

No thanks. If I'm at a contact page, it is most likely because I have something of value to the site owner, such as potential business or knowledge of something broken on their site. If they expect me to jump through hoops, I won't bother.

In principle, contact forms could be nice enough, just as many web sites could be clear, simple, quick-loading, static pages. In practice, they're generally a burden.

Given that they don't offer much to the visitor even in the best case,
I would rather just see an email address.
Ahh ok, I see your point. I'll open an issue on the repo to track this, makes sense to me! Either way, helps to really drive the point home that "it's just a normal media element in a slot."
The things are much easier: two parts, one has blinking LED, another is photosensor. This is called "data diode" and there is a lot of them.

Here is a random vendor with nice pictures: https://owlcyberdefense.com/learn-about-data-diodes/
Does unicode have space set aside for those new symbols to slot into? I know it's very rare, but it could get messy.
How much of that would be spent directly on wages for people working for eh US military and how much sent to external firms?

On the other hand how much is sent to external firms where most of their expenditure is in the US and thus comes back rather swiftly in taxes, and how much is siphoned off to overseas stores of wealth.
First, she's working for Automattic/wp dot org, not the WP Foundation.

Also, an executive director never has control over the board - they serve the board.

But a major difference between the WP Foundation and Rails Foundation is that the Rails one appears to be a legitimate foundation, with real budget and activities, real governance and transparency provided by actual, living, involved, knowledgeable humans who have agency.

The Wordpress Foundation is a shell for trademark and tax fraud... It has no governance, transparency, or even seemingly any activities. And the TWO non-Matt directors are completely MIA, with one of them seemingly having no Wordpress affiliation while also working in Matt's much-maligned private equity industry (who also fund his own company!)

Also, the Rails Trademark is under exclusive, seemingly transparent license to the Rails Foundation.

Whereas the WP Trademark was ceremoniously "given" to the WP Foundation (controlled, in effect, exclusively by Matt) in 2010, and then secretly given right back to Matt the same day.
He did it through offering a _money management_ service to large institutions and wealthy individuals.

That money management service includes, amongst other things, picking stocks. But that's the tactical "what". The value-added element is that he preserved and grew that wealth instead. It turns out that is hard to do, and is indeed a positive sum service to customers. They get to relax _and_ make money. Great outcome.
I think you’re slightly misunderstanding his concept of computational irreducibility. It’s more like the halting problem than anything: basically he’s saying that dynamic systems can’t be reduced to an equation that is easier to calculate and so you just have to simulate the entire system, run it, and watch what happens. This means we can’t ever predict the future within these systems.
Taking money away from mismanaged companies, and giving it to well-managed ones, is a net positive of stock trading. Another net positive of stock trading is making buyers and sellers available all day, for anything on the market. Yet another benefit of stock trading is to make it more difficult to manipulate the market - there's a reason why pump and dump scams only occur with assets that see very little attention (i.e. are low-volume).
Right but the crime is the death, not the intent.
The current state of web development engineering is largely the result of how startup economics have functioned over the past decade.

A startup's market value is often closely tied to its number of employees. From an investor's perspective, a company with 1,000 employees is typically valued much higher than a small team of 37 programmers — regardless of the revenue generated per employee, or even if the company isn’t generating revenue at all. This is largely because interest rates remained very low for a long time, making it reasonable to borrow investment funds for promising companies with large staffs.

However, those employees need to be kept busy with something that appears useful, at least in theory. I believe this is one of the primary reasons we see such complex solutions for relatively simple tasks, which sometimes might not require a large team of advanced web developers or sophisticated technologies at all.
I would say there is some chance that the world is not impressed since so many people have thought computers they already had for a while were more advanced than this when they bought them :\

A lot of times otherwise they wouldn't have bought them !
> But I am wondering if anyone has an counter argument.

Confiscating all the US billionaires' wealth wouldn't even lower the US's debt by 20%.

France's public spending is 60% of the GDP, the situation in France is totally catastrophic (6% deficit atm) and... We should listen to Piketty because he's only ever worked public jobs and... He's french? And came up with an ultra-simplistic formula using bogus data?

I mean... If Piketty says it, obviously government spending representing 60% of the GDP ain't enough. Let's make it 100% and called it a planned economy. Because we saw a lot of fully functioning communist societies on earth?

Ponder this.
Ok but the act of writing it down would always take longer than the actual unfolding of the universe itself. Just like the halting problem, we can’t skip ahead at any point and we have no idea what will come next.
Your in-laws are smart enough to understand that they can't use their robo-vac without having "the wiffies" turned on.
Whether it's useful or not, the moderators have said that machine generated submissions and comments are not welcome on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33945628
Yeah I don't disagree with you. I just think the example was not counter. Definitely agree that people are disillusioned by surrounding themselves with "yes men". Even if they think they don't. But that's a joke as old as time. Maybe even funnier that so many can't see that they're that person.

And I do agree with you that face time matters. But a lot of things do. I'll come to the office, but it only makes sense if I have a door. If I'm in an open room then you don't need to schedule a meeting for me to be in one. Hell, I might even be an unwilling participant to the meeting of two people having a conversation behind my back or in front of me.

There's a lot of cost saving measures and productivity enhancers that cost a lot of money and productivity.
Case conversion is not the only string manipulation that's locale sensitive.
HBO Documentary Suggests Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Peter Todd
On the other hand perhaps the keys to that 70B have been lost, in which case bitcoin has deflated even more than expected.
Elon Musk Is Now Seizing Other People's Twitter Accounts to Promote Donald Trump
Shanahan married Google co-founder Sergey Brin in 2018; they separated in 2021 and divorced in 2023. She reportedly has a net worth over $1 billion, primarily as a result of her marriage to Brin.
Artist Appeals Copyright Denial for Prize-Winning AI-Generated Work
> What does being rich even mean?

To me it means living in a country where the government's debt ain't more than 30% of the country's GDP. So I moved to such a country.
Do physicists think time actually exists? I wonder if someone has reasoned that time is an accounting method that humans have developed to make sense of their experienced change of systems.

Wolfram uses the words progression and computation a lot in his essay, but there’s an implicit bias there of assuming a process is deterministic, or has some state it’s driving towards. But none of these “progressions” mean anything, I think. It seems they are simply reactions subject to thermodynamics.

If no one observed these system changes, then the trends, patterns, and periodicity of these systems would just be a consequence of physics. It seems what we call “time” is more the accumulation of an effect rather than a separate aspect of physics.

For example, I wonder what happens in physics simulations if time is replaced by a measure of effect amplitude. I don’t know, tbh, I am not a physicist so maybe this is all naïve and nonsense.
I had to do this at a couple of logistics companies. I even got certified to drive a fork lift while doing “cross training” at a warehouse. The warehouse worker who sat in my programmer cubicle for two weeks did not learn how to program.

I see a lot of value in programmers learning how their code gets used by eating their dog food alongside actual users. When I started my career in the late ‘70s programming didn’t usually exist as a separate business activity. It got embedded in business units — accounting, logistics, marketing, etc. I think that worked out better for everyone a lot of the time.
the point is that linear scan is not horrible when held in cache lines that are several times faster than main memory

that and branch prediction (or absence of it) leads to performance characteristics that seem entirely counter intuitive for people of my age who grew up counting cycles on a 68000
A deep dive into Isograph, from a user's perspective [video]
I do agree with that, but at the exact same time, it is important to be critical of these actions and to understand our role and part in this. For me, thinking about this logically leads me to the conclusion that, while individual action can be good-willed, it is not enough to fix a systemic problem. Systemic problems need to be fixed with systemic actions, and that first step requires people to recognize and understand the problem.
I program daily

At night I don't want to slog away implementing Foo and extending Bar

Unity is already a lot of programming to do any simple game mechanic, and you still have animation, modeling, art, lighting, shaders, sound...

I can't wait for AI to get to a point where I can tell it to "get look and feel from X game, mechanics from Y MOBA, multiplayer server" and get code good enough for an MVP

Games are for playing, code is an unfortunate side effect
It's not like they could give it to the person who proved the existence of dark matter...
> Last election, Mark Zuckerberg didn’t endorse either candidate, didn’t spend billions in support of either candidate, and didn’t turn Facebook or Instagram into campaign sites. What he did do was fund politically neutral voting infrastructure efforts to make sure the 2020 election was free and fair. And for that, he was falsely accused of election interference and tipping the scales to Biden. Donald Trump has accused Zuckerberg of criminal behavior and threatened him with jail time for that effort. And, just recently, under pressure from Rep. Jim Jordan over that funding, Zuckerberg apologized for it and promised never to help fund election infrastructure again.

...

> But with Musk… nothing. I’m not saying that there should be Congressional hearings here. There shouldn’t be. Musk has the legal right to do this, and Congress should have no say in the matter. But you also know that’s true about Zuck and his election infrastructure spending (which wasn’t even to benefit either candidate) and the GOP turned it into a whole big thing.
I think one really nice thing about Python is duck typing. Your interfaces are rarely asking for a dict as much as they’re asking for a dict-like. It’s pretty great how often you can worry about this kind of problem at the appropriate time (now, later, never) without much pain.

There’s useful ideas in this post but I’d be careful not to throw the baby out with the bath water. Dicts are right there. There’s dict literals and dict comprehensions. Reach for more specific dict-likes when it really matters.
Discussion (256 points, 1 day ago, 122 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41766035
Most of the new comments on any given post are people that didn't read the linked content and complain about stuff addressed in the second paragraph.

Almost everyone does that since I’m here and that is at least for 10 years. We even have a thread about it from time to time. HN is absolutely fine and didn’t change that much cause it disincentivizes attention seeking, at least cheap one. They may slip in from time to time but mostly get a cold shower from users and mods. Also this forum is much more tricky than it seems, from a technical standpoint.
Debatable. Here's a counter-point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSEQfqNYNAc

But ok, it's less bad in Python since objects are dicts anyway and you don't need getters.
With a telescope integrated into Starship, you could potentially land the whole telescope from orbit and do repairs and upgrades on the ground. Whether the main mirror can withstand launch and reentry is a question though

EDIT: found a counterargument: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/elon-musks-starsh...
Discussion (19 points, 2 days ago, 20 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41764816
They aren’t entitled to their assets. They only have worth because of civilisation. How well do you think bill gates would survive in a mad max utopia that Randians fantasize about?
I just want to say thank you. Not only because of HTMX, but for being a model and showing what proper "Engineering" should be. Knowing trade - offs and accepting the fact no solution is perfect.

Although that may be because you have a background of Industrial Engineering.
Do you really think a single individual could make $7B of profits from stock trading? They'd need to be trading $30-100B. Point72 manages $35B and has almost 3,000 people on staff.
I cannot read German, Google Translated it, and could have misunderstood but could not find how those waste sites may trigger such major accident, nor about untreatable waste and one of them stores nuclear waste ("from the Greifswald nuclear power plant")!

Chemical industry also produces very dangerous waste (Seveso...), I agree. This cannot serve as an excuse for nuclear, especially as, nowadays, we know how to industrially obtain electricity from renewable sources (no major accident similar to a nuclear's one, nor such dangerous waste).
> The royal science academy fucked up so much with this choice.

Well, you’re talking about it.
Language Models Are Multilingual Chain-of-Thought Reasoners (2022)
Dennis Muilenburg has no MBA, he has 2 aerospace degrees. Calhoun has an accounting degree but not an MBA.
I helped a friend at the gym fix their hotkeys in Windows when some out of date writing software started screwing with it. Outside of that, I've learned that well-tested (user tested) UI of any kind is some of the most impactful work a software dev/designer could be doing on a regular basis, regardless of what backend devs or w/e will tell you. Making a scrollable area more clearly look like a scrollable area, or making a password entry process less arduous, is incredibly important work, if not only because it saves some other people from being confused and wasting energy on a problem they shouldn't have; this is particularly true of any public service interface stuff.
Since bash scripts usually glue other tools together I think almost any shell script project will incorporate lots of “Linux commands,” i.e common standardized programs that use stdin/stdout.
The Torment of Sisyphus
The Environmental Costs of Our Fish Sticks
This wasn’t a donation. This was a fee for providing a society that allows him to accumulate so much.
Exactly the same as the Portuguese word ordem.
Interesting. This is one of those areas where edge inference needs might be different than data center: to get an 11b quality model in 7b at the cost of 30% more inference time is probably a full yes for anyone doing local inference. And let’s remember that memory bandwidth is a huge factor as well; 30% smaller equals 30% boost in memory based time costs. Anyway I’m interested in trying this out.

I wonder if the specific setup might be extra effective for coding tuned models as well - you get one coding transformer and one ‘bad habits/chat/other non coding stuff’ negative transformer.
Does the IRS know?
>I see that as a good thing, given that we're on the receiving end of when companies can drop any employee on a dime with no explanation.

Companies aren't a monolith, and dock worker unions screwing over port companies isn't magically going to make all other workers better off. If anything the supply chain disruptions resulting from a strike and costs (as a result of lack of automation) is going to make their lives worse through higher inflation.

>If it's that critical, give the older workers their pension early and let them enjoy their life.

If your business is that critical, just pay the mafia protection money so they can enjoy their life!
Discussions

(49 points, 5 days ago, 48 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41732985

(52 points, 4 days ago, 62 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41749352
> The weak-point is the shared USB device that copies from one machine to another which seems to defeat the whole purpose of being air-gapped...

Yup. I was going to post that TFA and the people at these embassies apparently have a very different definition of what people consider an air-gapped system.

Pushing the non-sense a bit further you could imagine they'd recreate ethernet, but air-gapped, using some hardware only allowing one packet in at a time, but both ways:

"Look ma, at this point in time it's not talking to that other machine, so it's air-gapped. Now it got one packet, but it's only a packet in, so it's air-gapped! Now it's sending only a packet out, so it's air-gapped!".

Yeah. But no.
The oldest computer that I run regularly is an Amiga 3000. It's now 33 years old, yet the system has everything it needs to run lots of excellent and modern software: 16 megs of memory, a SCSI bus that can take drives of any size, decent resolution graphics that can be used on many modern monitors and TVs, a processor with an MMU, and a good keyboard and mouse.

Add an ethernet card and perhaps a Zorro III RAM card, and it's usable even on the modern Internet: modern TLS works, and for sites that are too complex for AmigaDOS browsers, there are public proxies that can help.

While I wouldn't suggest anyone tries to get serious work done on the modern Internet using an original, unaccelerated Amiga 3000, it makes an excellent example of how things really haven't changed aside from speed and size since we moved to 32 bit CPUs with MMUs.

Something like this could easily be used for non-Internet heavy tasks for fifty years. We just need to be aware of the things that typically fail, such as bearings and capacitors.
Just installed on Gentoo and it is working great so far
Earlier:

Elon Musk takes America handle from X user to promote Donald Trump

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41762965
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36871528

Hah. Yes. It looks like they only show up in models with 6.7B parameters or more.

The problem can start at 125M. Small enough to test on a whim.

So train a model that exhibits these behaviours, then try it out.
So much for exploring space beyond the solar system, then. If it takes more than a hundred years to get anywhere, all your automated control systems are dead.
401k is a massive Ponzi scheme where people working today hope that people in the future will value their work.

Imagine a world where you had 15 billionaires and 5 people working. How much are are. Those billions worth when they are fighting each other to have one of the 5 useful people wipe their ass in their care home?
So why does a PhD university professor make less than a wall st trader frat bro
Gotta squeek in as many sales as they can before the Factorio expansion.
The San Francisco iceberg meetup
> various bad things happening to it when, for example, you logged out (which often would deliver a SIGHUP to it)

And thus, `nohup`.

Quite a few of my self hosted things are spawned using `nohup ./foobar &` and happily run for months at a time.

--

Edit: TIL `daemonize`, I have a new go to!

https://software.clapper.org/daemonize/
I applied for ~30 positions at Halliburton over 1.5 years while I was working within the plant for a private contractor.

Then about 2.5 years after the first and I had left... I got them all back at once with a a flood of boiler emails saying "this particular position has been filled at this time, apply again." Someone's queue had grown embarrassingly large and they scrubbed it with a single command.

It got me thinking of some cyber-enhanced future war where dead soldiers go into a queue and after the war is over someone releases the flood of "We regret to inform you" emails all at once. Using the same command probably.
True, but it does suck to have backed the wrong horse. You framework/library/platform can rot if nobody else is using it. You can't get away with just ignoring it.

It helps to pick "boring tech", and hope that what has worked will continue to work. But it's still unpleasant to hear about the X killer every week, when X is your bread and butter.
Video encode and decode aren't really GPU functions. They're totally separate IP blocks from the 3D graphics/vector compute part of the GPU. On Intel's previous laptop processor generation (Meteor Lake), the video encode and decode blocks were on an entirely different piece of silicon from the GPU.
Fair. https://cdn.peru21.e3.pe/actualidad/sicarios-asesinan-seis-b...
Cognitive Load is what matters
Great, another feature nobody was asking for- more ads.
In Brazil the vocabulary changed a lot from the 80s onward too.

I was used to reading everything in English, so Brazilian computer books and magazines would always read strange to me. Then in the 90s everything just moved to American vocabulary.

The strangest word I recall in this context is the use of "alça" for handle.
I would argue that that's not physics, but the application of physical techniques to other disciplines.
"Ralfi was sitting at his usual table. Owing me a lot of money. I had hundreds of megabytes stashed in my head on an idiot savant basis, information I had no conscious access to. Ralfi had left it there. He hadn't, however, came back for it." -- Johnny Mnemonic, William Gibson, 1981
There are estimates for the social cost of carbon. It isn't super exact.