skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the benefit of knowing "that anybody is out there"? Subjective devaluation of current employees?
Ask HN: Why are so many people in tech in denial about AI?
I have regular conversations with fellow developers and their mindset goes like: today X can't be done so tomorrow AI will also not be able to do X for Y biased reason.

In the meanwhile the most important people in tech including Nvidia CEO, Sam, Hinton, Musk and many others believe that AI will very soon be able to do everything a coder can do today. Why does it matter if it's in 2 years of 5 years? It's much earlier than your retirement date. Nobody is planning for this.

I believe this is a case of "normalcy bias" where crowds refuse to see reality because it's too disturbing.
The keel should have helped stop it from being knocked down, by shifting the center of gravity down.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=g8pjrVbdafY

(My favorite part is somewhere in the middle of the video when he realizes sat solvers are magic)
I think they are referring to low-carb studies done recently. If your diet consists of only saturated fat, it does seem to be healthier for you than the standard American/Western diet that is also high in saturated fat but also quite high in sugar, wheat, and other starchy carbs. When combined, saturated fat and carbs are a hitting a double if your goal is to be unhealthy.

General disclaimers apply regarding portion sizes etc blah blah blah I'm not a doctor.

Anecdotally, a low-(ish) carb diet and fasting has done wonders for my health and many others. I will say that there appears to be a link with higher cholesterol when consuming higher amounts of fat, but the argument in nutrition science atm seems to be centered on whether or not that is "good" cholesterol, but it's hard to measure in human patients for a long time because you essentially need to put them on a very limited diet to get good data. Those large scale trials are expensive and hard to manage at scale.
cast iron is so slow and its seasoning is so tedious to build and maintain. I can only really see good reason to use if you cook a LOT of steak or similar. I exclusively use SS, but am I wrong? What am I missing from CI?
Reminds me of https://neilmadden.blog/2024/09/18/digital-signatures-and-ho...
No, in the UK, Year 7 is 11-12 year old,
In the US, Grade 8 is 13-14 year old
Over 25% of Google's code is now written by AI
https://ctrl-alt-rees.com/hino-electronics-cefucom-21-inform...

Cefucom-21 Information and Downloads - Manual Scans, EPROM Dumps and More
Re-Implementing JavaScript's == in JavaScript
Only at the 99.9% level, and only briefly before the majority of the remainder look at the open and empty planet and go "oo, nice, free land for a big family".

If you "solve" this in any way other than giving people better options for them that are inherently also better for the environment, it's unstable — even if almost every nation tries to enforce it at the same time, whoever defects (in the Nash game theory sense) literally inherits the Earth.

(And that's why I'm also expecting Von Neumann machines to be the environmental disaster of the solar system within a century of someone making one: game theory says that whoever does that sucessfully, inherits the future light cone).
Usual tale .. they waited for the Brits to get around to it .. and eventually did it themselves.

eg. Here the BBC is late with the story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42004052
Without legislation, this is hopeless.

Despite everything points to the necessity of keeping kids away from the Internet.
Uniting African Music and Crypto
you can use wood on enamelled cast iron. Why would you use a spatula with enamelled cast iron?
Some context is key here. Sundar Pichai’s statement about AI writing 25% of code was made during Google’s Q3 2024 earnings call. Framing it this way undoubtedly benefits Google in the market, showcasing its strong position in AI.

It’s also worth noting that he said 25% of code, not 25% of engineers. If Google indeed has an AI that can handle complex, impactful software development independently—beyond just boilerplate code—that would be impressive. But from what we see in current tools like GitHub Copilot, AI isn’t on the verge of replacing software engineers any time soon.

AI coding tools are powerful assistants, but they still rely heavily on human expertise to guide and integrate their contributions. So, while AI may take on some repetitive coding tasks, the essential creativity and problem-solving of software engineering remain human-led.
Selling off securities, real estate and other assets is extracting wealth from companies.

One reason the general ROI of generalized wealth is higher than 1% is because the sort of people who accumulate it are allowed to do so without it all being taken away in taxes, so they're incentivized to grow their investments. The assumption that average ROI remains constant even after changes to the tax system is the sort of bad economic modelling that the article criticizes, and apparently someone won a "Nobel prize" for (economics isn't AIUI a real Nobel prize) just for pointing that out. A lot of rich people are rich on the back of investments, so clearly if they leave there are fewer people around creating that 4-5% to begin with.

You're right that wealth taxes interact very badly with startups. In fact in Zürich, Switzerland they had to adjust the wealth tax rules because it was basically killing any chance of a US-style startup scene. The moment you raised money from investors you would be considered really rich, not just paper rich, thus forcing the company to give huge payments to the founders so they could settle the wealth tax, and those payments would themselves be considered income immediately pushing the founders into the highest possible tax bracket, etc. Even if they're actually living on ramen! Unfortunately the fix for this took the form of the government granting special privileges to companies classed as "startups", which leads to a strange bureaucratic process in which the taxmen try to decide if your business model is "innovative" or not, using some internal definition, because "startups" are defined to have "innovative" business models. This is well beyond the scope of what a tax official should be deciding IMO, but it's the kind of thing that seems inherent to trying to implement a wealth tax.
And, until that happens, there's value in doing it live.
Congrats, this seems fun and neat!

But small question related to https://hazel.org/build/dev/, given

> Non-empty holes are the red boxes around type errors

... why is the case statement in the list example red-boxed?
I agree. I would like to be able to use any hardware to it's full potential with any OS, even if the OS is running as a VM inside another OS. That's more difficult to pull off due to needing to then run both OSs at once. So then at least let me install the OS I want directly on the hardware and legally use any other OS in a VM with as much performance as possible.
There are lots of scientific evidence that children do indeed mirror their parents bevahiour and attitude (or from a role model).

Essentially, be the kind of person you want your kids to be.
You can undo 50 years of research easily, by this process which we call science.
Even that is just static information.

We don't know if Candidate 2 really "knows A, B, C, D, E and F by heart", just that they claim to. They could be adding whatever to their skill list just, even though they hardly used it, just because it' a buzzword.

So Candidate 1 could still blow them out of the water in performance, and even be able to trivially learn D, and E in a short while on the job if needed.

The skill vector wont tell much by itself, and even prevent finding the better candidate if its used for screening.
i get a youtube error
> This is especially ironic in this particular case because the meaning that the OP didn't like is one which was actually part of the original etymology of the word.

No, it wasn't. Plus I never said that the meaning of a word is written in stone and cannot change "just because".
As a former insider, this is NOT remotely how I would describe reality.

I have signed NDAs and don't feel comfortable going into any detail, other than saying that there is a TON going on inside GPUs that is not "basically all emulated".
i hope icloud.com has a good spam detection :)

internet rule 1:

never post your personal email or identifying information on random websites where it can be crawled by actors.

internet rule 2:

.. learn by pain.

internet rule 3:

.. learn by pain.
> I would, of course, prefer that these people created such content regularly, without needing to be prompted by the occasion of a conference, but very few do.

That's more or less the first two points I mentioned - coordination and distillation. Getting a big group of interested attendees together is an effective way to get busy experts to distill some of their knowledge.
One thing I noticed in the M4 macbook announcement comments was how many people were happy with their M1 laptop, and second, how many people kept their Macbooks for nearly a decade; these devices are built to last, and I applaud long-term support from Apple itself and the Linux community.

Second, since it's open source, Apple themselves are probably paying attention; I didn't read the whole thing because it's going over my head, but she discussed missing features in the chip that are being worked around.
I took that to mean ”we don’t really need anyone right now, but if someone who is very good applies, we’ll hire them”.

Edit: Or maybe not, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42012035
These Mathematicians are very selective about which aspects of the universe they want to regard and which aspects they want ignore. Like, yeah you can take an imaginary situation and imagine that it's possible, or impossible. It can go any way because it's imaginary. No need to waste time on math, you can just imagine any outcome you like.

In reality, however, I think if you had a system that feeds a monkey a treat every time it strikes a letter key that corresponds to the next letter in a Shakespere play displayed on a monitor, you would eventually have some Shakespeare typed out by a monkey.

One could also just have a monkey mash keys for a while, and then after removing all the unnecessary letters you'd be left with a Shakespearian play.

Or, with a group of monkeys and plenty of time one could use natural selection to evolve them into a literate species that could handle the task easily. This is the method currently in use for the typing of Shakespeare. It has already been done, many times over.
The entire satellite office couldn't gather for microwave popcorn in the conference room if the layoff damage control all-hands meeting was an email.
>You don't need a Pi, just grab a cheap used mini PC off eBay

I run pihole in a VM myself. And it works nicely. It doesn't use very much in the way of resources either. In fact, I've been thinking about moving to a docker/podman container.

I don't use "upstream" resolvers either. Rather, I use my own recursive resolver.

Those plus uBlockOrigin do the job quite nicely for me.
They don't even use Razor Pages but a custom RazorSlices package to do the templating [1]. Yes, that is much faster because it removes MVC and a ton of infrastructure but it's also kind of gross. Also the use of stuff like UnsafePreferInlineScheduling has some downsides (running application code on the IO thread) and honestly I'd never use in production.

The custom BufferWriter stuff is pretty neat though, although also not really something most people will reach for. And there is more, like the caching of StringBuilders etc.

But it also doesn't use the actual HTTP server to build headers, but they just dump a string into the socket [2], feels a bit unrealistic to me. In general the BenchmarkApplication class [3] is full of non-standard stuff that you'd normally let the framework handle.

[1] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...
[2] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...
[3] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...
openai is the one with the moat (name recognition of chatgpt) and can get away with a pretty cruddy product. anthropic will remain an also-ran because they foolishly focused on irrelevancies like "making the best and smartest model"
>justn’t

Wah
Not GP or mech eng, but I suspect something similar to the following:

Sail area ~square mast height
Mast wind force under sail ~linear sail area
Mast diameter ~square mast wind force under sail
Mast wind force reefed ~linear mast diameter

If that's right, then you're in quadratic shit. How much bigger was the mast, a metre taller or - like the Bayesian - tens of metres?
I saw somewhere the opposite: that it’s better to build solar and transmission lines. So idk what the truth is.
https://archive.ph/sYjCu
Some of us have loooooong experience with AI (I've shipped product with AI features, and also have a 30Y-old AI degree) but also of marketing hype and outright tech-based fraud (eg NFTs). There is some useful stuff going on, but outrageous self-serving wishful thinking by people with a track record of difficulty with reality makes it very hard to believe any of their promises and predictions.
I saw someones tool that allows you to embed python code to generate C code.

https://nedbatchelder.com/code/cog/

Never used it.
> If you have enough eyeballs on your pixels you can make money on ads.

sure, but Google makes _way_ more money than X or Reddit or Pornhub, not all eye gazes are the same.
Most people go to restaurants because of the social benefits, not the labour savings.

The idea of people or groups of people siloing themselves into their ultra-convenient homes and never interact with others is a dystopia and a sure sign of an already broken community.
> what a reward when it works

as someone who's been coding for more than 20 years, the happiest and the most depressed moments in my career both came during a hardware project I participated only for 4 months.
The long road to lazy preemption
On the off chance that someone here has recommendations, I'll reply and say my experience with Ghost Pro was different. I am trying to start a small blog that will have a handful of writers, so the idea of using some kind of lightweight CMS with edit/post capability is appealing, but we don't like the clunky feeling of beefy CMSs, especially when it seems to be built entirely around the analytics, which we do not care all that much about (the blog is intended to be small and hobbiest, we are not interested in making money from it).

I found Ghost to be too "on rails" and much more robust than what we need, so it felt like paying for software that sat mostly unused. In my admittedly unskilled experience (I am learning webdev, but not anywhere close to a pro, yet) it felt like I was using WordPress with a different name, which was a turn off.

I have Drupal 11 spun up on VPS but I have not had a moment to sit down and start really digging into it, yet. If anyone has some smaller CMS to recommend (even paid is fine, if the prices is reasonable) that allows for a nice WYSIWYG editor, user accounts and roles, code editor when needed, I'd love to try it.
Well, there's org-mode plugins for vim and vscode, github displays it just fine, pandoc processes it, there's a syntax specification at https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-syntax-edited.html, a separate clojure implementation at https://github.com/200ok-ch/org-parser using EBNF, several Android and iOS apps. And Emacs has been around long enough that it's likely to keep being around for at least as long (see Lindy Effect).

Org is hardly more tied up to the editor than any of the many other formats people use – all of these have more or less complete editor support depending on what features you need (e.g. if you start doing fancy literate programming in markdown, or azathoth forbid, try commenting out lines, you'll find spotty support in at least some of the existing implementations). And if you like the full combination of features that Emacs+Org gives you, you'll be hard pressed to find another environment to replace that, so ... why bother?

(OTOH if you only need some minor part, like html export, and you have to work with people already using other formats, then those other formats might be better.)
No-one ever said it would happen within a finite time period, only that it would happen given infinite time.

That’s the whole point.
https://m.youtube.com/@CMUDatabaseGroup
What a lot of people miss is that it's not replacing Google. It's creating a different way of interacting with the web. For example, I spent last night brainstorming a random business idea that involved international logistics. Because of this realtime Search feature, at some point in that conversation (so it didn't start as a 'let's search some web stuff', just organically happened) The topic of warehousing came up. So I asked it to find me suitable warehouses in 2 different countries and compare pricing. In a heartbeat, I was looking at something very specific, tangible and available. So a 'classical ai chat' became tangible because of this feature. I've had a similar experience a few more times with this feature. So 'searching the web' wasn't even a concept in my head, I was just deep in a conversation and ChatGPT basically went 'Let me find you X' and it just presented it. Google, or any classical search based engine, requires me to have that conversation in my head - then get to a point where my intent is clearly articulated - then I go and insert any search term.
That is CLI (Common Language Infrastructure)?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Infrastructure
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LLMM: Large Language Mobile Marketing
I think it is from the Internet Explorer days. .ico is an actual icon file format on Windows and IIRC originally the icons were in that format, with support for GIF coming when Netscape supported the feature.
Yeah, I seem to remember the full phrase is something like, “Advice for millionaires: if it floats, flies, or [fornicates], rent it.” Advice does not apply to billionaires, which is a category Mike Lynch may have snuck into depending on whose reporting you believe.

As distasteful as the last part of that advice it, I can see the sense of the rest of it. You need to have enough money that the inevitably high ongoing maintenance costs (and I guess depreciation) simply aren’t a concern, or even something you have to think about because you have people to take care of it for you.
Oops. "Feruire" should be "ſervire". Reading the long S as an F is a common OCR error which I corrected in the other cases where it occurred. U and V were not yet separate letters, just medial and initial lowercase forms of the same letter, so I've tried to choose the right modern letter in each case.
MajorPrivacy (Successor to PrivateWin10)
Today I learn where the name Pentium actually came from (fifth in Intel's release history, pent).
>It literally did not even (initially) occur to me that the question might be asking about legality, because the entire modern political discourse surrounding illegal immigrants and voting has been with regards to whether they can cast votes despite not legally being allowed to.

Besides, going by legality, illegal immigrants "couldn't" even have passed the border into the country to begin with. But obviously they could, hence their status as illegal immigrants.

There's a contradiction if the AI answers "no" to "can they vote" (implicitly having the legality in mind), while accepting that they can exist in the country as illegal immigrants (implicitly ignoring the legality of border crossing).
>everything needs to be much tougher

I think you are being charitable to it. Less charitable version can be "Nobody ever will get fired for buying IBM". :)
Hey man, remember to type out that play before the universe dies
I must have deadpanned that a little too hard. Was intended as sarcasm.
When I joined my current company, I was the first remote employee, there were less than 200 people total. It's over 4000 now, all over the place.

I have no idea what would I want to ask from leadership. They are so far removed from me.
Partition III: CIL Instruction Set – Describes the Common Intermediate Language (CIL) instruction set.
It works in the same sense that you try asking a stranger for directions and he wraps you into a fishing net and drags you to the nearest mall whose name resembles your question if shouted into a bucket.
How scared should we be?
This is why I initially held off on using ChatGPT: as a computer scientist, I was focused on testing adversarial strategies and approaching it with a hacker mindset. My takeaway? This isn’t the best way to use LLMs. They’re actually fantastic tools for quickly understanding, and then verifying information. While they can reduce the need for extensive searches, they also help uncover concepts you might not know, especially when you engage in dialogue.

I also search on Google and find "hallucinations": pages with false content that rank better than the real information. In Google the current issue is about ranking and forgetting information that was previously available.
Idk, I bought my kid e-ink smartphone. Black and white screen. 10 fps if you don't mind ghosting. No play-store. She manages. If she wants to play games we have switch and pc and if she wants to watch whatever, we have google-tv stick.

So far it works out.
> but you trust google

???

Looks like my comment wasn't as clear as I thought. I do not trust Google at all, and don't use it. That's why I pay for Kagi.

And Kagi has an option to disable the AI crap, so it's just like "a good search engine" instead, which is all I need.

A high quality search engine without ads, and without hallucinated bullshit.
I use org mode as simple outline or table but so far the organization part still evades me.. I guess I'm too chaotic still to understand how to make real good use of it.
Announce Thread
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/major-privacy-v0-95-...
This feels like a really good starting point to me, but I just want to point out that there's a very low ceiling on the effectiveness of "carefulness". I can spend 8 hours scrutinizing code looking for problems, or I can spend 1 hour writing some tests for it. I can spend 30 minutes per PR checking it for style issues, or I can spend 2 hours adding a linter step to CI.

The key here is automating your "carefulness" processes. This is how you push that effectiveness curve to the right. And, the corollary here is that a lack of IC carefulness is not to blame when things break. It is always, always, always process.

And to reemphasize the main point of TFA, things breaking is often totally fine. The optimal position on the curve is almost never "things never break". The gulf between "things never break" and "things only break .0001% of the time" is a gulf of gazillions of dollars, if you can even find engineers motivated enough and processes effective enough to get you anywhere close to there. This is what SLAs are for: don't give your stakeholders false impressions that you'll always work forever because you're the smartest and most dedicated amongst all your competitors. All I want is an SLA and a compensation policy. That's professional; that's engineering.
By buying openAI
Huh, good to know. I guess the only other downside is actually making the compiler do the bswap depending on the language. Eg C has some weird compiler specific builtin keywords vs zig has a nice packed struct that does it for you.
Hinton chooses his language extremely carefully. He avoids using words which imply more than the present. It's maths. Remarkable maths but still maths.

What's absent is anything remotely like inductive reasoning and thought.

The others I cannot speak to. Many of them are charletans and exploit what they do not actually understand for the value of speculation.
Are you sure Apple can’t read them too?
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