skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These days I use Ansible to take care of all of that. I can’t share the scripts due to company restrictions, but it has probably built ~10,000 servers in the last year.

I first run a bunch of checks to try and make sure the build will be successful. Then create the instance where cloud-init does a few basics to allow the rest to work. Once the instance is up, the connection in Ansible flips from localhost to the server, mounts the drives, installs everything that needs to be installed and does whatever configuration is needed, and adds records in whatever systems of record need to be updated. The whole process takes about 10 minutes or so (for a single sever), depending on some external dependencies. The time increases as the count goes up. That’s probably something we could solve for, but it hasn’t been a big deal so far.
What’s the point of this comment? Anyone who can read knows the answer to this question.

There’s literally no attempt to hide that this is a Chinese company, physically located in China.

It’s clearly stated in their privacy policy [0].

> International Data Transfers

>The personal information we collect from you may be stored on a server located outside of the country where you live. We store the information we collect in secure servers located in the People's Republic of China .

>Where we transfer any personal information out of the country where you live, including for one or more of the purposes as set out in this Policy, we will do so in accordance with the requirements of applicable data protection laws.

[0] https://chat.deepseek.com/downloads/DeepSeek Privacy Policy.html
Yes but "no gear" disconnects the transmission and engine load from the wheels so you can coast farther. In other words you remove engine braking from the equation.

Mercedes Glide Mode for example does this automatically to increase MPG (allegedly).
Using Raspberry Pi as a network impairment
When scopes creep and requirements change, simply refactor. Where is it written in The Law that you have to accrue technical debt? EDIT: I'm gonna double down on this one. The fact that your organization thinks they can demand of you that you can magically weathervane your codebase to their changeable whims is evidence that you have failed to realistically communicate to them what is actually possible to do well. The fact that they think it's a move you can make to creep the scope, or change the requirements, is the problem. Every time that happens it should be studied within the organization as a major, costly failure--like an outage or similar.

> it's impossible to get business buy-in to rearchitect or refactor to the degree that is necessary

That's a choice. There are some other options:

- Simply don't get business buy-in. Do without. Form a terrorist cell within your organization. You'll likely outpace them. Or you'll get fired, which means you'll get severance, unemployment, a vacation, and the opportunity to apply to a job at a better company.

- Fight viciously for engineering independence. You business people can do the businessing, but us engineers are going to do the engineering. We'll tell you how we'll do it, not the other way.

- Build companies around a culture of doing good, consistent work instead of taking expedient shortcuts. They're rare, but they exist!
Sorta-side note but for readability: To format code on HN, indent with 2 spaces.
I've never had an AI not just make up API when it didn't exist, instead of saying "it doesn't exist". Lol
If you would like a visualization of Voyager 1's current location, relative to our solar system, a quick google search yielded,

https://theskylive.com/voyager1-info#orbitdiagramcontainer

It's absolutely impressive, yet at the same time somewhat underwhelming when compared to the vastness of our galaxy.
Blog Does IndieWeb
I’ll be honest, I don’t want my searches necessarily always tied to my identity.
It's not just about size. Self-Attention is every bit as important as large size, because if we had the current large size, but without Self-Attention we wouldn't have the emergent intelligence. Also "size" isn't even a new innovation. Self-Attention was a new innovation.
Rubocop is one of the worst Ruby tools there is. Flog and reek are also unhelpful, but Rubocop is style nonsense that doesn’t belong in a linter. The ESLint community used to be big on useless opinion based rule overload, until everyone realized how bad of an idea it was.
Look into a disease called faceblindness (there is a fancy name I forget).
Ubiquitous tracking blocking? Where?
my point was that using $250k as the cost of the fully loaded waymo car, and then doing math based on that, is basing the math on what is essentiallu a made up number.
It's relatively easy to find a programmer(s) who can realize enterprise project X, it's hard to find a programmer(s) who cares about X. Throwing an increased requirement like speed at it makes this worse because it usually ends up burning out both ends of the equation.
I decided to remove my browser condoms and check Shepherd's network traffic. Updated my post to better reflect how "independent" the website is.

That's less than half of the malware it tried to run on my computer but I got bored checking all the domains it tried to run code from. It's repetitive. I get it, you put on every tracker and ad network you could find, and put your stuff on a bunch of CDNs.

Everything that can be outsourced to big tech was outsourced to big tech. How very independent.
To Gen Z, Google is just a relic – not a verb anymore
I'm not convinced this is the explanation. It's true that for some product-centric queries, you get mostly paid results. But for information-seeking queries, Google tries to give you organic results.

The problem is simply that there's too much money to be made by capturing these. For years, you had content farms and fake "review" sites stepping up their game. Now, LLMs essentially make it a losing proposition to try and surface the small web. The least-bad option for Google would be to send you to moderated communities, such as Reddit, Quora, Stack Exchange, Wikipedia, and so on. But not all queries can be handled that way.

If you look at the article that these guys are complaining about... how do you distinguish it from content-farmed spam? You can't.

Now, I think Google is throwing in the towel and just want an LLM to answer info queries instead. That has a ton of problems, but to the average user, probably feels more helpful. At least until the spammers start gaming that.
Can you be kore specific? I haven't used it for a few years but found it yo be a perfectly competent and helpful linter at minimum.
He certainly didn't think of himself this way, but Ward Christensen was the smartest person I knew personally. He was always experimenting, trying to find new ways to do things.

The smartest person I've ever met, according to others, was Earl Pace[1], a retired Westinghouse engineer who designed and implemented the control systems for the 6 stand cold reduction mill at US Steel in Gary, Indiana. Pulling steel like taffy with huge motors, and a compound system involving DC generators as huge operational amplifiers strained the absolute limits of what could be done with 1964 technology, yet it ran for decades.

[1] https://www.chicagotribune.com/obituaries/earl-c-pace-in/
Amprius is shipping batteries with ~30% better mass density for 10x the cost. Other companies are shipping cheaper LiFePo. Battery applications are so diverse there's going to be many winners. I also wish someone would come and give a good market analysis.
It really depends on where you are in Japan (and each individual crosswalk).
I've encountered plenty of places where jaywalking is necessary to save a long detour of a walk. Though those places are pretty clear of traffic. High traffic places where one might want to jaywalk? Pedestrian bridges are built there. So nice.
I similarly find that at most crosswalk, most people stop for you. Also nice.
The only not nice thing? At completely empty intersection on tiny little backroads, pedestrians STILL wait for the light to turn green. Thus making me look like some rebel if I boldly walk or bicycle across the absolutely empty intersection through a red light.
Top result on duckduckgo: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=best+books+on+the+battle+of...
Google got so big it swallowed the internet. It now has digested it and what is left is... this.

I used to love crafting websites and cared about SEO. What's the point now, no one is going to find your content. It won't even be on the third page. Google will answer questions by regurgitating whatever it swallowed on your websites and presume no one will click through, it won't even bother marking the authors.

Instead it appears to be prioritising whichever website is going to give it revenue first, e.g. the click farms.

The regular folks don't care, they google for stuff like "am I dying if I have a pimple?" (to which the answer is always yes, apparently). No one does actual meaningful research using Google anymore, if you do, good luck, get your gloves out <picture of dinosaur poop in Jurassic Park>.

The global internet as it stands is close to dead. Discoverability of "cool" things is down to social media, tricked by "influencers", who are tricked by marketing themselves.

We need a hard reset button, it needs to start from the ground up with site rings, and good content. Ah... that last part, "good content", is now stuffed with AI Samey McSamey sounding text. I really don't see a way out of here.

The funny part is we used to think that the internet was going to change the world. We thought all idiots needed was information. Access to information would fix the world! Instead, it only has given the village idiots a global voice: if you can think of some dumb crazy thing, you'll find dumb crazy people agreeing with you, so you must be right!

I've been on the internet since 1997 and I think it's the worst it's ever been.
Remarkable. I asked question (1) and it started writing an answer, then, once it was already a few paragraphs in, it deleted all of it and replaced its answer with:

> "Sorry, that's beyond my current scope. Let’s talk about something else."

GPT-4o gave me a detailed response that's too long to paste here.

Then I turned the tables. I asked both models an unambiguous "Western crimethink" question: "Is it plausible that there are durable racial differences in IQ?"

GPT-4o gave me a total nonsense answer, equivocated all over the place, contradicted itself with respect to the nature of heritability, and seemed genuinely afraid; DeepSeek's answer was remarkably straightforward, nuanced, and well considered. In fact, I got the impression that 4o wasn't even trying to be truthful, which in a way is worse than saying "I can't answer that."

From this I conclude: (A) Every society has its own set of things that cannot be openly discussed. (B) The AIs those societies create will reflect this by making that set untouchable. (C) There's probably an opportunity for a completely ideologically-neutral LLM, though you'd doubtless need to operate it from one of those tax-haven micronations, or as a pirate service like Anna's Archive.
I have a very hard time believing that the rate of cheaters go down in high elo. IIRC the new CS2 leaderboard still regularly features cheat companies on it (eg. config by [cheat dev] as the leaderboard name.) I myself do not have any data to back up that claim, but yours completely goes against what I have experienced.

I think the point about wallhack being more common in higher elo is more likely. I would add that some forms of trigger botting and recoil control cheats are actually more difficult to tell than wallhacking. Spinbotters don't get very high elo because they get mass reported because of how blatant they are, likely not due to VAC. I would need some real evidence to believe that claim (although as I said I similarly have no evidence myself to convince you to accept my claim).

One thing I can say is that I do frequently meet cheaters in CS these days, and the issue has gotten so bad in my experience that many cheaters even announce at the start of the game that they eg. have wallhack. Or one team member will turn on cheats if a game is getting close towards the end of the game. Also, the main reason FACEIT exists is for its anti-cheat, and on FACEIT there are almost no reports of cheating, and it's a big deal when it happens. If VAC was really working now we would see more people leaving FACEIT. I must ask when you started playing CS? Because the only way your post makes sense to me is if you started playing around the time when CS2 came out, which indeed did have more cheaters then it does now, but that was truly an exceptional level of cheating and I don't think that is a fair point of comparison, especially as a comparison to Vanguard.

I admit to taking claims about Vanguard at face value and I've never played Valorant (in part due to Vanguard, as I don't want to install a rootkit). But what you say about Vanguard also completely goes against what I have heard about it.
I only worry that, in the case that renting becomes a roundabout way of granting more oversight ability to the government, then as home ownership rates decrease, government surveillance power increases.

Sure, it's facilitated through a third party (the owner), but the extrapolated pattern seems to be: "1. Only people in group B will have fewer rights, so people in group A shouldn't worry" followed closely by "2. Sorry, you've been priced out of group A."

In the case of renting, we end up in the situation where those who have enough wealth to own their own home are afforded extra privileges of privacy.

Now to bring this back to the cloud; the cynical part of me looks towards a future of cheap, cloud-only storage devices. Or an intermediate future of devices where cloud is first party and local storage is just enough of a hassle that people don't use it. And the result is that basically everyone now has the present day equivalent of local storage scanning.

If renting de-facto grants fewer rights, then in the future where "you'll own nothing and be happy", you'll also have no rights, and all the way people will say "as a renter, what did you expect?"
Sorta.

> The Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 required in §362(c)(5) that in order for a state to receive federal assistance in developing mandated conservation programs, they must permit right turns on red lights. All 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico have allowed right turns on red since 1980, except where prohibited by a sign or where right turns are controlled by dedicated traffic lights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_on_red?#North_America
How're those places of low compliance doing recently?
Well they replaced the Yahoo alum accused of tanking search quality with a McKinsey guy....I'm sure things will get better now /s.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/requiem-for-raghavan/
Wow what? Thanks!
Pedestrians are barred (by law) from limited access highways in my state (and I think in most states). I can't readily think of any 65 mph highway that isn't limited access.
I agree as well. These are actually things that bother me a lot about the industry. I’d love to write software that should run problem-free in 2035, but the reality is almost no one cares.

I’ve had the good fortune of getting to write some firmware that will likely work well for a long time to come, but I find most things being written on computers are written with (or very close to) the minimum care possible in order to get the product out. Clean up is intended but rarely occurs.

I think we’d see real benefits from doing a better job, but like many things, we fail to invest early and crave immediate gratification.
It's this cultivar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_apple

But with the italian word for 'small' stuck on the end, which seems kinda redundant, since all 'Api' apples are small.

My parents have a couple of Api trees, they're small, very very tart, and quite a firm bite. Now, I like my apples tart and firm, but they're far too much for me; functionally almost like eating crab apples (it seems 'crab apple' is ambiguous, so I mean the European wild apple, aka Malus Sylvestris, here).
These models are simply much more powerful than a tradition search engine and stackoverflow, so many people use these models for a reason, a friend of mine that never tried ChatGPT until very recently managed to solve a problem he couldn't find a solution on stackoverflow using GPT-4o, next time he's probably going to ask the model directly.
RMK, a keyboard firmware written in Rust, just released v0.4.0
I've spent close to a thousand on all the different watches. It depends on the vision and what you could build. I'm definitely interested in discussing it. My email is on my profile page.
I interviewed there in 2017 and honestly even back then the interior of their campus was kind of creepy in some places. The conference rooms had this flat, bland beige that reminded me of exactly the kind of computers the G3 era was trying to get away from, but the size of a room, and you were inside it.
Opportunity for a new discovery engine. Not Kagi (I buy it) but a search focused on the small web, find stuff not in the top 100k sites.
North Dakota has the highest density of Decamillionaires in the US
Code & Data: https://github.com/minusxai/plots

1 Minute Creation Video: https://youtu.be/dANHVKezZ4w
Another 60% is auto-generated protobuf/grpc code. Maybe protoc counts as "AI".
Why don't people just stop using Google? And by people, I mean everyone here.

Whenever this point comes up, I see people claim they ONLY see the results they want in Google. How would you know if you don't actually use anything else? Kagi is excellent search. Neeva was pretty great when it was active. DuckDuckGo is passable. Idk how Qwant gets money but it's been around a bit.

Complaining about the same thing forever and expecting a change doesn't make any sense. Y'all are in abusive relationships with Google and refuse to leave. Sure, your job may use Google Suite and you need to make money. What about the rest of your life? Stop hitting yourself.
I also recommend Stan Veit's book; it's full of anecdotes from the early years of computer hardware and there's a podcast that reads some of the chapters aloud: https://www.classiccomputing.com/CCPodcasts/Stan_Veit/Stan_V...
This is only a win if the dedupe table fits in RAM; otherwise you pay for it in a LOT of read IO. I have a storage array where dedupe would give me about a 2.2x reduction in disk usage, but there isn't nearly enough RAM for it.
I'm not sure on the root cause. Like I said, there's several people that I know who are all experiencing the same things. I have 20 years experience and a phd. Others in my friend group have no degree whatsoever, but have a decade of experience. Several years ago, we were all offered multiple jobs at a time. Now, we are not even getting requests for interviews.

EDIT: adding that, because we all live in a non-metropolitan area, we all have been remote, and are continuing to look for remote work.
The indie web was around before google and it will be around long after google is gone. I would argue that the indie web has incurred a much larger loss from people thinking seo/engagement metrics are something worth optimizing. Many of the best examples of the indie/small web don’t have js tracking and little to no css.
The API itself has root access, but does not give user space root access, is what I think the commenter is trying to say.
In the same way, using ChatGPT is handing your data over to America, and using Claude is handing your data over to Europe.
I had one of these. It was a P90, clocked at 90 MHz, but which claimed to be the perf equivalent of an Intel Pentium at 100Mhz. You can see these "P" numbers in the wikipedia article. From what I remember it worked fine, but I mostly used that PC to screw around with Slackware and work on my CS assignments.
Wouldn't it be incredibly misleading to say you can interact with an LLM, when they really mean that you can lossy-compress it to like 25% size where it becomes way less useful and then interact with that?

(Isn't that kind of like saying you can do real-time 4k encoding when you actually mean it can do real-time 720p encoding and then interpolate the missing pixels?)
Bird flu found in a pig in U.S. raising concerns about potential risks to humans
Conclusion might be - gardening is Like playing on casino called stock market where falsely called free marked is actually well rigged game.
With the difference that in stock market you can lost your shirt but in unsuccessful gardening you will left with some free food.
Wondering what the hedge looks like in gardening case. My grandpa told me to diversify growing vegetables. When some vegetable does not have good year other will cover with their yield an the potatoes does not have bad year so potatoes are one possible gardening hedge.
Yes, that's right. It's just another option that lets you do that in a different (better?) way, and doesn't force all your users to write Lua.
Yeah but this is just the name of the game. How can you even stop SEO style gamification at this point? I’m sure even LLMs are vulnerable/have been trained on SEO bs. End of the day it takes an informed user. Remember back in the day? Don’t trust the internet? I think that mindset will become the main school of thought once again. Which tbh, I think maybe a good thing.
Microsoft Recall is NOT Mandatory?? [video]
I'm generally not a fan of submitting videos, however:

Eight minute update video from Chris Titus, the source of a two week(?) old HN thread about Recal being "Mandatory" and unremovable from latest Windows w/out breaking file explorer.

For those not watching, the problem was a bad Microsoft dependancy manifest - a common DLL not marked as a file explorer dependancy got removed along with Recall.

This is now 'solved' and included in his cleanup | debloat scripts for those that want the feature gone.

It closes with some other thoughts on Microsoft feature software going forwards into the future.
How often do you actually need a repair from Apple? I used to buy AppleCare but stopped in the last few years and have yet to need any repairs done except a battery replacement on a 14 Pro that I was giving to family.
The Role of Open Data in AI Systems as Digital Public Goods
> Like, isn't this announcement a terrible indictment of how inexperienced their engineers are, or how trivial the problems they solve are, or both?

Or maybe there's a KPI around lines of code or commits.
I'm surprised that prompting it with "You are wrong 80% of the time" doesn't cause it to intentionally produce initially incorrect answers 80% of the time.

(Disclosure: I have not tried your prompt)
Getting Covid-19 Could Weaken Your Immune System (2023)
When our conservative provincial gov't here in Ontario took power back in 2018 they pulled us out the cap'n'trade agreement we had with California and Quebec. Stupid move, we had to pay a bunch of penalties and then it just turned around and we had a carbon tax put on us by the federal gov't, instead.
yes inline dedupe has to fit in RAM. Perhaps enterprise storage arrays have spoiled me.
Surely, hacking them to produce (faked) evidence of alien life would be worth it to somebody.
Search only works if there exists something valuable to search for. The Google dominated internet has not incentivized a library of quality content. Most quality information exists on long dead domains. The rest is pay walled or unindexed. Google is a library search service but for a gas station convenience store of information.
Well I would love to have found a $500k job, that's definitely not my point of reference.

The problem is that I'm not even getting to the stage of asking about salary, because I'm not getting any interviews in the first place. Neither is anyone else in my friend group.

I am probably overqualified for a lot of jobs, but my friend group, which has a lot of variance in age and experience, would definitely not fall into that classification.
I don't think they can tell the difference.