skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m aware of the concept of loss aversion, but I think it as an explanatory factor for macro economics is a red herring: one of a long list of diversions in the grand company of all trickle-down economics.

People say that the without arbitrary incentives for arbitrary wealth that hard work and innovation won’t happen. Demonstrably false! The Internet that the current cartel is looting was a public private partnership! The best software these days is done substantially by passionate hobbyists!

People point to Silicon Valley and say “this wouldn’t be possible in Europe”. Then they point to the market capitalizations of the vampire megacorps that the world would be far better without as the success story.

People make other arguments slightly craftier: punitive taxes on the mega wealthy wouldn’t raise enough revenue to matter. True, but that’s not the point of a punitive wealth tax: the point of a punitive billionaire tax is to deprive billionaires of godlike power to restructure society in their own interest.

Anyone outside a few narrow bubbles can see that this is going very badly.

I’ll agree with you this far: it’s going to be a tall hill to climb to get people with homes worth 20 times what they paid and 401ks to vote for a sane future. But this is a comparatively recent phenomenon: older people used to be obsessively concerned with the prospects of younger people for trivial biological reasons.

These days? That “blood boy” transfusion thing Thiel is always on about? It’s a terrifying metaphor for the bigger picture. The procedure was pioneered so a father could keep his daughter alive at great risk to himself.

For some reason we now tolerate if not celebrate the vampire ideal of running that backwards.
I don't know who these "people" are you are referring to, and these days the barrier to entry is quite low. I've helped people join a Mastodon instance and set up their profile and follow a few people in a matter of minutes. Whether they have any interest in continuing after that point is entirely up to them and their particular interests.

We haven't even begun to see the total possible size of ActivityPub-based social networking. The social web is in its infancy. Let's revisit this conversation in 10-20 years.
Loved AppleJack (free), back when it worked:

https://applejack.sourceforge.io

Nowadays, Onyx (also free) tends to do the trick:

https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html

Does this script close any gaps left by Onyx's MAINTENANCE routines?
Have you updated your priors? Uber is profitable today.
LLMs Are Fast
00:00:00 - Podcast Introduction

00:05:55 - Media Influence on Elections

00:14:22 - Celebrity Endorsements

00:20:00 - AI Sentience in 2025

00:34:53 - Cultural Change and AI

00:40:02 - Colonialism Sensitivity

00:48:20 - Cicero's Warnings

00:58:00 - Political Predictions

01:04:01 - Trump's Economic Approach

01:11:41 - Changing Perspectives

01:19:15 - AI and Deep Fakes

01:26:44 - Democratic Party Civil War

01:32:45 - Government Efficiency Proposals

01:39:24 - Impact of Debanking on Lives

01:46:01 - Totalitarianism Explained

01:52:30 - Addiction and Medication Effects

01:59:30 - Cultural Shift in Nutrition

02:04:41 - Government's Food Role

02:11:20 - Government Oversight Issues

02:16:21 - Remote Work Challenges

02:21:05 - Government Debt Explained

02:26:05 - Shift in Political Alliances

02:31:50 - Consolidation in Banking

02:36:46 - Censorship in AI Systems

02:43:00 - US Military Drone Use

02:50:40 - Philanthropy and Politics

02:57:35 - Cultural Shifts in Tech

03:03:21- Political Realignment Discussion

03:08:04 - Ending Thoughts & Future Outlook
Should it be more or less protected than race? Tesla as a company seems to think protected class doesn't matter.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1043336212/tesla-racial-discr...
It would be really great if operating systems (and applications) didn't have to be constantly cleaned up in the first place. Way too much software uses the user's filesystem as their personal dumping ground for crap. Crap that they leave around when not running and crap that they leave behind when they're uninstalled. My ~/Library directory is currently 47G(!!) and it's mostly a bunch of shit that I have no idea whether I need or not. As the user, I should be the one who decides what to put on my filesystem, not some application developer. We've completely lost control of our own filesystems.
Tiny startups can’t afford to loose customers because they can’t scale though, right? Who is going to invest in a company that isn’t building for scale?

Tiny startups are rarely trying to build projects for small customer bases (eg little scaling required.) They’re trying to be the next unicorn. So they should probably make sure they can easily scale away from tossing everything on the same server
Really? I just read the product page and it generally looks useful. It puts the context where the work is being done and reduces the need to go back and forth between GitHub and jira. The only immediate negative I see is that it encourages becoming a ticket factory.
> These manufactures should just switch to OpenWRT and skin it.

Take a look at Teltonika, that's basically what they do, but with nice over-provisioned hardware. Comes with the "industrial" price tag, but theirs is the most rock solid network gear I've ever used, and you actually receive frequent router and modem firmware updates.

I have one of their RUTX50 (5G LTE modem/router) at home and get about ~550 Mbit's through it, best internet I've ever had. I've never been forced to reboot it. I tried some consumer 5G modems before that and they were a total waste of money. I've also used their non LTE gear elsewhere and it's the same pleasant experience, and naturally highly configurable due to OpenWRT without having to hack around.
Uber is profitable with strong FCF.

https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...
Thank you for taking the time to read my article!

For your 2nd point, to clarify I actually generate 300 new tokens on top of that initial prompt, not just using the short prompt, so with precomputation of the prompt + token generation it should come out to about 306 tokens.

For your 1st and 3rd point you are definitely correct, looking back, I should've focused probably on using the torch profiler to track what point my CPU overhead started to decrease in order to assess compute-bound regions in my workflow better, rather than napkin math on A100 specs.
The "...You probably don't either" part is where the argument loses all of its weight. How do they know what I or anyone else needs?
I think you are on to something there. I've heard executives talk about their current AI flow and it all sounds like summarization.

There's an increasing amount of prose written that will only ever be read by LLMs.
How does this compare with FastHTML?
I don't know whether or not a more complex piece of math would change the outcome, so I would err on the side of not making assumptions until I had done more benchmarks and investigated the inner workings more. You probably know more about C than I do and might be able to make that assumption more confidently, but I think most people know less than either of us, and will read too much into a single statistic without context.

Nobody who cares about performance enough to look at a benchmark like this would do large loops in pure python.
Splunk Bots – A Defend the Flag Full Mock Exercise
The site doesn't let me in because of GDPR.
The fact that it's unusual is not relevant. Or it's relevant in that - pretty much by definition - these situations are unusual. It's not okay to violate people's rights merely because "unusual". It's not okay to demand a good story just because "unusual". Instead we get the all too common a reasoning "well, I don't play cards", or "well I have nothing to hide". None of this is relevant. The opposite is true: if you believe in freedom of speech for another example, then it's only for socially uncommon speech that it will matter. In particular, speech that few people would support. If cash is legal, it's only in unusual situation that it has to be particularly protected by the law.
How about... Paying them? Look, maintaining test case management infra, integrating with your SDLC, and dealing with your management and development group constantly trying to gaslight, ignore, ostracize, or downright abuse the testing team, ain't free. It's work. It's often ugly. It can shave years off our lives, stressing over how to get y'all outputting the best product possible, and maintaining the thickened skin required to keep at it in spite of the vitriol that tends to naturally ferment when you force people to confront the fact they make mistakes, even with no overt or implicit hostility expressed in doing so. Especially once you get complacent and think you're hot shit, then your software has first encounters with someone not involved in developing it, or who hasn't partaken of your particular kool-aid, and tells you your baby sucks. Then you want US to triage it and make it palatable for your group.

If you want actionable, good, predictably delivered feedback, and insurance in the form of comprehensive test automation; pay for it. Or yolo and accept the risk. Or... do it yourself after doing the hard work of mentally distancing yourself from the system as you built it so you can be objective. Have fun with that by the way. Nailing down that gem of a skill is not an easy task. Also, do it while on the line for doing your intended user's job. Remember, you have to be better at doing what they currently trying to do, plus some, to adopt.

Not what you wanted to hear, right? But as they say in the Wild Zero of Cyberspace: Not your army.
Even for on-prem scenario, I'd rather maintain a K8S control plane and let developer teams manage their own apps deployment in their own little namespace, than provisioning a bunch of new VMs each time a team need some services deployed.
> hopefully you know decaf is really just half caff

In the US, to be labelled as decaf more than 99% of caffeine must be removed. The EU wording, iirc, is a bit weird but amounts to essentially the same requirement.

So decaf really is decaf. The only people who might notice some effect are those who never drink any caffeinated drinks at all, and even then I'd say they wouldn't notice much.
> was that even a Russian disinformation campaign?

According to a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee Report and the prosecutor on the case[0], it originated with a document from the SVR.

> So what?

People (like Dotcom, who chose to pretend he had evidence), organizations (like Fox, etc who pushed this daily for months with zero evidence) and governments (like Russia’s who try to divide the U.S. by using freedom of speech as a weapon) who seek to muddy the waters of our collective information pool are scourges and should be treated as such.

[0] https://thehill.com/homenews/media/452157-russias-foreign-in...
Good luck, I’m behind seven cover stories
This is great. I can let you pay for that flight once the agent finds a match.
> Should it be more or less protected than race?

Equal.

> Tesla as a company seems to think protected class doesn't matter.

I don’t see evidence for this. Sure any examples of discrimination like those in the article are bad. Is it deserving of $137 million in punitive damages that are arbitrarily decided? I don’t think so. But regardless of that case, I am fairly certain most people in Tesla and Musk himself feel race should be a protected class.
Are there banned words? Seems like there's no way to generate an Alien like chess set.
> pro-free-cultural moral views

Mike Montero would like a word

"Who in this room is now, or has at some time, been in creative services?

"Who here has, at some time, had trouble getting paid by a client for work they were doing?

"Raise your hand if any of these are familiar to you:

"'We ended up not using the work.'

"'It's really not what we wanted after all.'

"Alright. Who's familiar with Goodfellas?

"Alright. 'We got somebody internal to do it instead.'

"'Fuck you. Pay me.'"

"'Fuck you. Pay me.'"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U
Nice job. I repurposed an old laptop with an RTX 2070 in it for a similar purpose. I have a Samsung Frame in my bedroom so the laptop spins up for about 15-20 minutes every day and generates new imagery using a combination of a small 7b LLM model to generate a stable diffusion prompt to generate the imagery. It's then fed through moderation filters, various upscaling, img2img and finally piped out to the Samsung Frame via a python websocket api.

Works pretty well although I've woken up to some pretty bizarre looking stuff every once in a while.

This is a mirror of what gets generated for it.

https://screensaver.specr.net

FYI, I got around the cable issue by aligning the TV directly above my piano which helps to hide it.

EDIT:
Just a heads up, if the image s3 URL is identical (meaning you're upserting), you could make a HEAD request to determine if the image has changed versus the current one being shown. Alternatively, you could look into setting up an S3 trigger which triggers off new files being uploaded to it as well.

Personally, I'd recommend having two S3 folders, archived and new, then randomly assigning a GUID to the uploaded image. That way you support queueing if several people upload a few images, each one will get scheduled for display. S3 List the "new" files, display one of them, once time is up, raspberry PI moves it to the "archived" folder.
Why are GCR and pgbouncer incompatible? Could you run a pgbouncer instance in GCR?
I’d prefer to receive no thank you than to receive an AI written one. One says you don’t care, the other says you don’t care but also want to deceive me.
> Nobody who cares about performance enough to look at a benchmark like this would do large loops in pure python.

Because they already know it would be very slow, and putting specific numbers on that is helpful for them and for non-veterans too. Even with some wiggle room for "microbenchmarks are weird".
Yes, That Viral LinkedIn Post You Read Was Probably AI-Generated
Would love to see some benchmarks for all these libraries that compare them to Jinja2.
Firm disagree.

Sylvain Kerkour described the problems Rust faces by having a limited standard library:

"The time has come for Rust to graduate from a shadow employment program in Big Tech companies to a programming language empowering the masses of engineers (and not just "programmers") wanting to build efficient and robust sfotware.

What crypto library should we use? ring, RustCrypto, rust-crypto (don't use it!), boring, aws-lc-s or openssl?

Which HTTP framework? actix-web, axum, dropshot or hyper?

What about a time library? time, chrono or jiff (how I'm even supposed to find this one)?

You get it, if you are not constantly following the latest news, your code is already technical debt before it's even written. Fragmentation is exhausting.

I just looked at the dependencies of a medium-sized project I'm working on, and we have 5+ (!) different crpyto libraries: 2 different versions of ring, aws-lc-rs, boring, and various libraries from RustCrypto. All of this because our various dependencies have picked a different one for their own cryptographic usage. This is insane, first because it introduces a lot of supply chain attack entry points, but also because there is no way that we will audit all of them"

Source: https://kerkour.com/rust-stdx

My moderate-sized Rust web service project requires 587 third-party crates which seems ridiculous.

Fortunately, cargo makes it easy to manage the dependencies, but unfortunately I don't know how well supported or maintained the dependencies are. How well will they be maintained in five years from now? Will I need to find newer libraries and rewrite portions of my project to provide the same features that I have now? I don't know.
China Is Bombarding Tech Talent with Job Offers. the West Is Freaking Out
The wazzap was mocking a trend of dudes greeting each other with "whassup" by elongating it ridiculously. Some of the appeal came from the execution and some from hitting just the right point in the zeitgeist.
> They purposefully didn’t evacuate villages

WHAT villages? Could you name one? Polygon was literally build in the desert, no villages inside or outside.
i use this one
https://github.com/Tencent/lemon-cleaner
I don't think this applies to the first three months when contact should be more limited due to an undeveloped immune system.
I was looking for something like this a few weeks ago. I typically use Django and hate the template engines limitations. I needed to make some reusable components and the best option available was switching to jinja to get their macro support, bleh.

This reminds me of the best part of Flutter UI composition, but in a language I always return to.

Have you done any benchmarking? I don't even know what the comparison would be.
> I've helped people join a Mastodon instance and set up their profile and follow a few people in a matter of minutes.

That you had to do this is the issue that I'm talking about.
Lots of people in this thread alluding to similar experiences "speaking truth to power" or "failing to read a room" or "not playing politics" and suffering the fallout from it. But as someone at the start of their career I'm kind of interested in the specifics--what kinds of ethical concerns? What forms of retaliation? Everyone's being pointedly vague and I guess that's necessary to an extent to preserve internet anonymity (or maintain a reputation, if your professional work is tied to your HN account) but it is frustrating as someone trying to figure out how to "read the room."
Cool you left Kubernetes for a more locked in abstraction around Kubernetes like automation?
Good idea in general, but kinda missing the mark here.

All of the problems seem from the bad server-side implementation. The company could have fixed all of them with just server-side upgrade, worst case with a mobile app upgrade. The lock itself or its firmware does not need to be modified.

Also, those locks are still being sold, so the after-purchase support does not matter - the locks come broken at the time of purchase.

(yes, the BLE protocol is vulnerable to sniffers and built-in password persists even after full reset. But I think those are pretty insignificant problems given the glaring other problems, and might not be deal-breakers in a lot of cases)
It is not sensational, and you would do well to heed it for the first three months.
Plot Against Birthright Citizenship
Reading the names of people who targeted him it seems like a case of cronyism in academia
This is like watching Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class but upgraded for our Attention Economy Age.

In the past the Signal was - look at me, look at all these luxury items I have accumulated, look at my leisure activities, you want to be like me - do what I say.

Today the Signal is - I am so smart, Farmer Joe and his herd of illiterates has validated I am a genius, look at my networth, look at my ideas, you want to be like me - pay ATTENTION to me - do what I say.
yeah I can see that - unless you're really into first party titles (Zelda, Metroid, Mario) - it's not really worth getting a Switch over something like a Steam deck.
Also running OPNSense (in a VM) on an N5105 from an AliExpress mini box, with four Ethernet ports. Thing gets hot though, passively cooled, but I put a fan on top of it.

Also runs another VM with some lightweight docker containers. Reliable little thing.

Would also go N100 if needed replacement.
Is it more democratic to let the majority be oppressed by a tiny property holding parasitic class or is it more democratic to repress them and express the interests of the majority?

Bear in mind when you answer that scientific surveys show American "democracy" is an oligarchy with popular opinion being almost entirely disconnected from policy.
I just tried the demo on my very capable laptop (ASUS Zephyrus G15 2021, Linux, Sway; Firefox, also tried Chromium).

Performance is execrable. Text rendering is awful. Input is simply broken (e.g. my Compose key just doesn’t work). Double clicking highlighted the entire canvas thing, as well as the word under the cursor. Right clicking did nothing. Scrolling isn’t captured. The first menu thing I happened to try in the full-UI https://zetaoffice.net/demos/simple-examples/rainbow_writer.... example (Format → Theme, maybe I just picked unfortunately) crashed the whole app (which means that it just stops working mysteriously, leaving the UI in the last state it was in).

And you can’t even get started until it’s downloaded 50MB. (Though I’m actually mildly impressed it’s only that size.)

Seriously, this is completely unusable. It’s “cool tech demo”, but I would hate to actually have to use it.

And I’m pretty sure, based on my rather accurate understanding of how all these things work (comprehensive on the web side, good on the native side, not so much specific about LibreOffice itself), that a lot of this is going to be completely unfixable—though a couple of the things I identified are fairly straightforward to fix, which is if anything a further indictment.

It’s going to be extremely hard to get even decent results without targeting real DOM instead of going pure-canvas, and you can’t get excellent results without doing so.
Flipper Zero. I got it when it was new and never really used it.
The Next Century of Land Use and Food
So say they don't "own" the account and it doesn't get transferred.

After the trademark is transferred, can't they still get the account shut down for impersonation?
The use of knowledge in AI (benefits navigator)
> they're in essence, the last company to ever exist, and are building the last product we'll ever need

Physical reality is the ultimate rate-limiter. You can train on all of humanity's past experiences, but you can't parallelize new discoveries the same way.

Think about why we still run physical experiments in science. Even with our most advanced simulation capabilities, we need to actually build the fusion reactor, test the drug molecule, or observe the distant galaxy. Each of these requires stepping into genuinely unknown territory where your training data ends.

The bottleneck isn't computational - it's experimental. No matter how powerful your AGI becomes, it still has to interact with reality sequentially. You can't parallelize reality itself. NASA can run millions of simulations of Mars missions, but ultimately needs to actually land rovers on Mars to make real discoveries.

This is why the "last company" thesis breaks down. Knowledge of the past can be centralized, but exploration of the future is inherently distributed and social. Even if you built the most powerful AGI system imaginable, it would still benefit from having millions of sensors, experiments, and interaction points running in parallel across the world.

It's the difference between having a really good map vs. actually exploring new territory. The map can be centralized and copied infinitely. But new exploration is bounded by physics and time.
Galaxy tab s6 lite. It's a decent tablet, nice screen, fast enough. It's the first tablet I've ever owned, and I just can't figure out what to use for it. I planned to use it for taking notes, but writing on it is very uncomfortable because I can't rest my hand anywhere while writing without activating the screen. But even if I could write comfortably, I think I still prefer paper.

And I just can't figure out what else a tablet is useful for: it seems to be an uncomfortable compromise between a real computer and a phone but doesn't do either very well. The OS isn't good enough to handle complex apps, and it's just a bit to big to hold comfortably like a phone.