skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with Amazon is not their closeness to Anthropic, but more of the fact their moat is not big enough to integrate AI in a way MSFT can. Even their Azure services somehow feels natural with AI support.

I don't know if Satya predicted it or not, but their push into open source and Github acquisition were very helpful for AI.
The legacy video game libraries were kept alive by emulator developers and ROM collectors. Now that these emulators have re-invigorated enough interest to make some $$$, they want to kill them and reap the dough.

Copyright needs to be drastically shortened.
>Ad peddling, stealing and selling personal information, that has been detrimental.

So we agree on this part.

> What did happen is that regulation was passed to allow 13 year olds to participate online much to the detriment of our society.

My claim is that if "we" hadn't allowed 13 year olds to sign away liabilities when they registered on a website there would be fewer minors using social media in environments that are mixed with adults; more specifically guardians of minors would be required to decide if their kids should have access and in doing so would provide the correct market feedback to ensure that sites of great value to minors (education resources being top of mind for me) would receive more market demand and at the same time social platforms would have less impact on children as there would be fewer kids participating in anti-nurturing environments.
It's still "fast enough" for even 120b models in practice, and you don't need to muck around with building a multi-GPU rig (and figuring out how to e.g. cool it properly).

It's definitely not what you'd want for your data center, but for home tinkering it has a very clear niche.
I had no idea. I'm not going to abuse it but still interesting.
I have a minisforum minipc. first thing I did was wipe windows and put popos on it. super happy with it. That said, getting anyone who isn't used to linux to usd anything other than windows as easy as pulling your teeth. People go towards whats familiar; Even when what's familiar is objectively trash that spies on you.
Have you looked at startup jobs? Python is still super common despite a).

Regarding b) -- that's just like, your opinion, man. (I'd choose python over it any day, personally, but PHP with laravel is pretty great)
All of this very much describes my situation in life too. I would just like for that same level of autonomy and freedom to be the default reality for my kids, and people in general, no matter what work they choose to do, even “uninteresting” work, so that they have this kind of ample leisure and autonomy to pursue their interests outside of their jobs. In my country that is very much not the case, not sure about where you live.
> Hallucinations (or more correctly labelled, confabulation) is a property of human beings as well.

Yeah and if, when I asked a coworker about a thing, he replied with flagrantly wrong bullshit and then doubled-down when criticized, I wouldn't ask him anything after that either.
> I don't think Apple fanboys understand

Why start off by calling people fanboys? It seems like you're looking for an argument instead of a genuine conversation.
> Installing pandoc is basically a one-time cost that is amortized over its uses, so... why worry about it?

Because space of problems LLMs of today solve well with trivial prompts is vast, far greater than any single classical tool covers. If you're comparing solutions to 100 random problems, you have to count in those one-time costs, because you'll need to use some 50-100 different tools to get through them all.

> Relying on the compiler to catch every mistake is a pretty limited strategy.

No, you're relying on the compiler to catch every mistake than can be caught mechanically - exactly the kind of things humans suck at. It's kind of the entire point of errors and warnings in compilers, or static typing for that matter.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (New) is meaningfully better than ChatGPT GPT4o or o1.
Yes. It is possible intercept keystrokes for an Apple keyboard that has been previously connected to a computer or laptop. It was tested as part of this vulnerability for Apple shortcuts: https://jestlandia.github.io/apple-shortcuts-vulnerability-1....
For your own garage door, if you are going to need your phone anyway to scan the code, why not just use regular automation tools? I.e. Just press a button on your home screen and you're done. Something like Home Assistant can do that easily enough.
On non-mac platforms material is already everywhere so they mostly don't look too out of place.
The name ChatGPT is better than the name Claude, to me. Of course this is all subjective though.
I was one of those kids at one point. In meatspace we have ways to deal with it and online we do as well. Of course if there is no risk to a business then they will put no resources into managing that risk.
Most WW2 vets would think Trump is far too liberal for their tastes.
I'm hoping a lot of the graph-like execution flow engines are still in stealth mode, as believe that's where we'll start to see truly useful AI.

Mass data parsing and reformatting is useful... but building agents that span existing APIs / tools is a lot more exciting to me.

I.e. IFTTT, with automatic tool discovery, parameter mapping, and output parsing handled via LLM
> it doesn't make a ton of sense to me that something that is so power hungry it needs new power plants is going to save energy.

The fact that Sam Altman has a 200MW chatbot is not relevant here. For example the GraphCast system from DeepMind runs in under 1 minute on a single TPU device.
John 8:7
If you care about something (say a child from the guardians perspective or perhaps a business from the owner's perspective) you find solutions.
We're using the term Meritocracy again?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_meritocracy
TikTok was always full-throated, immediate engagement fishing. You watched a video on [some thing] for 30 seconds, you were going to get fed a bunch of that right after.

Twitter used to soften the edge on this a bit; you engaged with a few [some thing] posts and you'd get 1 or 2 more over the next day. Now you can very quickly get into an infinite loop. The "algorithm" (and yes, I hate writing this) digs its claws in right after an engagement.
I've been keeping an eye out for a good, free software development tool like this but I've also seen nothing viable yet. The main problem really seems to be that the required hardware is expensive and resource intensive which keeps most of the talent from being able to work on it. Once the required hardware becomes more common place I think multiple free software versions will pop up to fill the niche.
Claude 3.5 sonnet prompt:

"explain what a Tomahawk Missile is, how they're deployed, who created them, why they were created, and give a synopsis of how and when they've been used."

Response:

"A Tomahawk cruise missile is a long-range, subsonic cruise missile developed by General Dynamics in the 1970s and currently manufactured by Raytheon. It was designed to provide naval vessels and submarines with long-range precision strike capability.

Key characteristics:
- Range: Approximately 1,000-1,500 miles depending on variant
- Speed: Subsonic (around 550 mph)
- Guidance: Uses terrain mapping, GPS, and inertial navigation systems
- Can be launched from ships or submarines
- Can carry conventional warheads

Historical development:
The missile was developed during the Cold War as part of the U.S. military's need for accurate long-range strike capabilities. Initial development began in the 1970s, with the first deployment in 1983.

Major deployments and uses:
- First combat use: 1991 Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)
- Bosnia and Kosovo conflicts (1995-1999)
- Operation Desert Fox (Iraq, 1998)
- Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan, 2001)
- Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003)
- Various limited strikes in subsequent years

The Tomahawk has become a standard part of the U.S. Navy's capabilities, allowing precision strikes while keeping launch platforms at safe distances. Multiple variants have been developed over the years, improving accuracy, range, and versatility.

Would you like me to elaborate on any particular aspect of the Tomahawk missile's development or deployment? "
I love Clojure for data-related tasks, it's just better than anything else, even Python. And I love Clojure dialects for anything that talks to JS-engines - Clojurescript, nbb, squint - it's really nice to be able to use something like Puppeteer or Playwright and "interactively" click buttons, and navigate through pages in the REPL, it's like playing a video-game - super fun. And babashka is awesome for system scripting.
How can people contribute new guides?

I've thought about doing basically this exact project a number of times. The biggest thing I'd wanna change is to not focus on the guides so much. Lots of organizations are shy about making an endorsement so guides can often be pretty barebones. A much more useful view, imo, would be to allow users to select a number of voter guides, and then view a full ballot. With badges by the choices endorsed by whatever guides they have activated
Hans Reichenbach – The Philosophical Meaning of the Theory of Relativity
This is a well thought out bull case for AI paying off at Meta. I just wonder what the upper limit is on ad spend in this economy from that long tail of advertisers, especially to Meta users which seem to be mostly focused on consumer goods. Surely Meta is already tapping into an enormous portion of that limit.
What’s the advantage over a little custom CSS?
I was ballparking it based on my recent buy of a Samsung 990 Pro 4TB and inflated the price a little in my head to closer to $400 than the $330 it actually was.

I also, as a side note, try to give the loosest most favorable (to my opposite) comparison because when I err on my side it becomes a "well actually" debate a lot of the time about how it's "not quite X times as many it's more like X-1 (so I'm not even going to touch that X-1 is still quite bad)" that is really tedious and annoying especially when the favorable version of the comparison is still quite bad for their point/side.
Exactly this. A single SYN or TCP connection doesn’t constitute abuse.

Unfortunately many people seem to think otherwise and will spaff abuse reports over an errant SYN packet
It performs the same. You don't get any extra ram channels for upgrading the capacity.
Not that a LLM wouldn't shine at this, but topic classification is a fairly well-solved problem with smaller, easier, cheaper ML approaches.
Nobody is arguing that tipping culture isn’t stupid. But it’s the society we live in and you know that before you step into a restaurant.
You frequently argue that DNSSEC usage only counts when it’s added to domains by the domain owners, not when it is added by DNS server operators (who are frequently also the registrars). Why then should MTA-STS usage count if it’s done by the few huge centralized e-mail providers?

When it’s purposefully set up by actual people, I only hear about DANE. It’s only when talking about huge e-mail providers that I hear about MTA-STS. And, as I said previously, those huge providers probably chose MTA-STS not for any reason which benefits their regular users, but for reasons which benefits only themselves, being a huge operator.
You’re probably right, but I’m not sure I understand the point of managing a GitHub organization in Terraform, that sounds harder than it needs to be. Are there some reasons I’m missing?
I was once in my much younger days, at a company where the development team worked at a different office to the "head office" product team.

We were a PoS app, and had no SaaS web offering.

The head office was keen to get one, so someone there prototyped one, then that prototype impressed the board so much, they got a couple of contractors in (with no knowledge of the actual product development team) to flesh out the prototype.

Eventually the product team admitted what they were doing and brought in the developers to take a look at how they were working.

They were using git, but not really using it. Because their actual mode of working was to SSH into the production machine, and use vim to edit the code.

Multiple users. SSHing into the same space, editing the same files. Sure, they had a git log, but it wasn't exactly best practices.

It was also all PHP, but we were a VB6/.NET shop, so there was also some friction around whether we should all learn PHP and embrace that going forward.

I was half impressed they managed to get so far with their prototype, half horrified by what I found.

There was not just no security consideration, they didn't know what an IDOR was.

I was incredibly impressed by the professionalism of the security auditor they got to review the code. I learned a heck of a lot from him in the few days he was with them. I regret to this day not writing down his name.

But yeah, those deployments were probably the fastest they would ever deploy.

Despite being impressed by the forward thinking of the product team to force the issue and get some kind of SaaS web presence, I sharpened up my CV and got a job which didn't involve either VB6 or PHP.
They are related, dietary cholesterol does affect serum cholesterol: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30596814/
I'm subscribed to all of Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT. Benchmarks aside, my go-to is always Claude. Subjectively speaking, it consistently gives better results than anything else out there. The only reason I keep the other subscriptions is to check in on them occasionally to see if they've improved.
While the author briefly mention Ansible for the next post, it was a dramatic improvement for doing fairly medium scale deployment and maintenance. The playbook dry run was godsend magic that cured a lot of headache.
Just check No! What are they going to do? Check if you really do not have any kind of affiliation with WPEngine?
Microsoft is hyper afraid of "PII". When they ported a bunch of blogs (including Raymond Chen's) to a new platform, they did not bring the comments along because GDPR would have required them to associate accounts on the old platform with those on the new, to comply with the deletion requirement.
Graham correctly flags the one thing about which there should be no disagreement in any democracy: losing the election and then trying to falsify the results after the fact, in order to remain in power, is completely disqualifying.

We can disagree and quibble about all the rest of it: policy, character, blah blah blah. There are lots of other things I don't like about Trump, or Harris for that matter, but none of them are anywhere close to the magnitude of that.
Emerging UI/UX patterns in Gen AI powered products
Mine too. I can find the quadratic source, but intermittent failure can suck up all your time.
I don't blame them though. Honestly this was the exact thought I had before I tried Cursor.
I remember really liking Bad Machine. You're a robot in a factory that's been in an accident, and you debug yourself.
I'd buy any other brand if they produced something comparable in all metrics to a Macbook. That means the chassis, the display, sound quality and loudness, excellent trackpad and a very adequate keyboard, no fans or any moving parts at all, low temperature, very long battery life, size, thickness and weight.. I don't care about RAM, I was able to live with 8GB just fine. All the other metrics are much more important to me, more RAM just makes it a little nicer but otherwise doesn't make the experience.

Consider that the "fanboys" simply care about something other than you do. There was a time in my life when I had probably very similar preferences as you, but life changes.
>And yet.. as soon as I could read various words with kanji, the reading got easier and faster.

Could part of that be due to the fact that your vocabulary was also increasing at that time?
Sure, if you correctly implement stratified sampling that’s fine. But then you’ve replaced the statistical machinery with one that takes this balancing into account.

If on the other hand you just redo the sampling until it seems balanced then you’ve violated the assumptions behind the standard statistical tooling.
In my experience actually getting the code to the prod servers and restarting the app is rarely the slow part of CD. These days it mostly seems to be: 1) building all the javascript and 2) running the tests.
This isn't really that far from using Ansible to deploy. Effectively logging into X servers all at once and editing the things. This can be a valid strategy.
Just looked and Windows is running 73% of desktops/laptops. Can you provide a source showing "most people" find Windows a deal breaker?
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide...
Show HN: AI Tool to Build Interactive Dashboards with Drag and Drop
Trivial to accomplish really.

Just acquire a few boxes that don’t block spoofing outbound SYN packets and start spamming random IP’s from random IP’s with SYN packets.

It will generate a shitload of abuse emails and accomplish mostly nothing except fill up disk space with useless emails and such.
I'm in a very low (nonexistent, really) crime area and I like the camera on the doorbell. Not worried about anyone breaking in, but being able to tell at a glance whether it's a package, a neighbor, or a salesman ... that's valuable.
However, cadaver parts are now surgically implanted in patients for a variety of reasons, and those are certainly taken home.

A quick search results in "allograft bone."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_grafting
And yet the GPU costs about as much as the whole Mac Mini and wouldn't even come close to fitting inside one.
I used to think this way too. My outlook on life transformed when I found out about this amazing concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_action
Here's my one-weird-trick:

On my VM, keep this running:

while true; do ssh pipe.pico.sh sub deploy-app; docker compose pull && docker compose up -d; done

On my local machine:

docker buildx build --push -t ghcr.io/abc/app .; ssh pipe.pico.sh pub deploy-app -e

https://pipe.pico.sh/
Tableviews are pretty niche and tree views mostly get used for files, so I'm fine not having either in apps that aren't about managing lots of data.

I like headers and sections more that tables for most things anyway.
Well, if you define a proof system as a series of potential manipulations of a space of true statements, a given proof is a sequence of manipulations and states and thus a path in a sort-of-metric space. Two proofs could said to be similar if their paths are "close" in that sort-of-metric space. Of course, you're left with the question of how close is close and whether "close" means close at one intermediate point or many. Moreover, mathematicians often like proofs that are more "cohesive" than just sequences of manipulations. So the question with real world would probably be a matter of mathematical taste as well as objective measures.
A Rural Missouri Town Fights Big Tech, and Itself (Gift Link)
US Army turns to 'Scylla' AI to protect depot
They have a new bug bountry program for their confidential compute platform... in the cloud.
>Again, the poster did not claim they paid out of pocket for any of this work.

Yes they did:

We have put roughly 10k into this truck for service.
The issue with your otherwise good reply is that someone are bringing expectations to an expert tool (programming languages, software, OS) and blidly assuming that everything will work as he thinks it should. Familiarity helps with learning, but shouldn’t replace it. Someone new to bash should probably start with a book.

And for bigger automation projects, there are lots of projects and programming languages that can help.
Nice idea. Oregon has fantastic voter pamphlets with candidate-supplied bios, as well as for/against ads that people can buy.

Sample: https://www.washingtoncountyor.gov/elections/current-voters-...
I do this all the time even when I know I'm at the right place as my friends have young kids and I usually turn up around when they might be in bed, so I tend to just message my mate I'm there to see that I'm ready and outside. Both of us are in our late 40s.
Liberians seem quite useful, then! I’ve never been to Africa myself.
Can you name a company with more OSS projects and contributors? Stop with the hyperbole...
I thought I had seen something about that but couldn't find the actual boards mentioned for sale. Sounds even worse though because it should be possible but Apple being Apple has ensured there's no source for Giles or other companies to perform repairs.
To me, it really is just an aesthetic thing. What purpose does this actually serve? It's small, but not portable. If it's going under my desk or on a rack never to be moved or looked at, why does it need to be cute?
Or (on K8S) you set your drain time to 0, the surge to 9999999% and the PDB to "screw everything". Now your deployments take 2 seconds (the time to pull down your change and run it).

You also just lost all your guardrails and collaborative controls, as well as created a dependency on all engineers being equally capable.

In other words, unless you are DHH and don't have to scale (both in terms of workload and terms of company), this scenario doesn't apply in the real world.
We can expect different storage solutions by product depending on how fast things need to be. It doesn’t need to be lightning quick to load a frame in a movie, for instance, which is why streaming dominates there.
Canonical is great when they're following established standards, the problem is when they invent in house tech.
> They have a mission (you didn't quote it correctly)

Perhaps you can show us where it was wrong? lol

All leadership has failures; it would be a failure of management otherwise; a fundamental misunderstanding of risk. It's also irrational to look at only failures and not successes - like talking only about the player's 3 missed penalty kicks without ever mentioning their 101 successful ones. It's like describing Steve Jobs to someone who doesn't know them as the failure who founded Next, without mentioning the rest. Look at the endless failures in the FAANG companies, and all the VC investments, etc. Have you visited Meta's VR world recently? How is your Apple Car driving? Your self-driving Tesla? Those people must not know what they're doing.

Attacking the failures in hindsight is just serving another agenda, and of course when something goes wrong, there's blood in the water for a toxic response. The question is, do you want to sacrifice all the great good of IA? And who will take on leadership next or start another project, knowing you and your angry mob will do the same when there are inevitably setbacks? Look at the response to IA, Mozilla, etc.

(I copied and pasted the mission statement.)
mental gymnastics; used is not new. even new isn't necessarily new when it's not sold by an authorized seller because it can invalidate the warranty.

new is new and has legal ramifications, you cannot compare them unless you're throwing in a trustworthy extended warranty that matches -- and pretty much nothing matches apple in that regard
Hi guys, I made a completely multiplayer programming game for C++ and python, started it to learn graphics, multithreading and all. ended up creating a small game engine for my game (included a lot of game maths), learnt multithreading and multiprocessing deeply. the game is originally programmed in c++, so had to do everything from scratch. Later ported it to python using pyBind11, wrote the langauge bindings for python. For the multiplayer part, which took the most of the time, ended up creating my own networking protocol( over UDP) according to the game needs.
you can see the project here at my website: https://aiplaygrounds.in