skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, as a bike geek - who wrenches on them, changes old bikes to different configurations etc - I can visualize every part because I've dealt with all of them. I can tell you, for example, that ancient Shimano downtube shifters are held in place by an M4.5 bolt. M4.5? Try to find something to fit that at your local hardware store (when changing said bike to handlebar-mounted shifters). Or which way the opposite sides of a BSA bottom bracket are threaded (from memory! Which side has the backwards threads?) Or the whole stack of bits and pieces that make up a headset (both threaded and threadless).

Whereas a pro rider can probably tell you all about the biomechanics of how to optimally interact with the bike, the right foods to eat and how much to sleep and when. But the actual wrenching around with them? That's the pro mechanic's job.
Related: Saturn's rings are far younger than once thought (79 points, 2 years ago, 35 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35929816
Yeah pretty bad example from parent but the point stands I think... I mostly just assume that for everything ChatGPT hypes/teases Google probably has something equivalent internally that they just aren't showing off to the public.
It depends on if your tools make it easy. For example in Go the default http client and server basically just enable HTTP/2 by default.

My understanding is that bradfitz championed that.
Lethain 2024 in Review
I tried to use Dillo on some news websites (like bbc.co.uk or rte.ie) and they didn't render very well, which is not so much a criticism of Dillo but of the fact that even websites who main job is to display simple textual content and maybe some images have managed to complicate their UIs enough that lightweight browsers struggle to display them.

A common problem seems to be pages that display different content snippets in containers side-by-side, rather than in a more traditional list format (which Dillo seems to handle better). Another one is hidden menus (behind a hamburger button) which many lightweight browsers display by default, in list format, so that at the top of every page there is a long list down the left hand side (or in the centre) that you have to scroll past to see the actual content. I have this problem with elinks as well.

HN looks great though!
AKA "regulatory capture".
> does the output of someone who has used this tool for one thousand hours display a meaningful difference in quality to someone who just picked it up?

Yes. A thousand hours confers you with a much greater understanding of what it's capable of, its constraints, and how to best take advantage of these.

By comparison, consider photography: it is ostensibly only a few controls and a button, but getting quality results requires the user to understand the language of the medium.

> What the pro generative AI crowd doesn't seem to understand is that good art is not about _execution_ it's about _making deliberate choices_. While a master painter or guitarist may indeed pull off incredible technical feats, their execution is not the art in and of itself, it is widening the amount of choices they can make.

This is often not true, as evidenced by the pre-existing fields of generative art and evolutionary art. It's also a pretty reductive definition of art: viewers can often find art in something with no intentional artistry behind it.

> I've never met anyone who has spent significant time creating art react to generative AI as anything more than a toy.

It's a big world out there, and you haven't met everyone ;) Just this last week, I went to two art exhibitions in Paris that involved generative AI as part of the artwork; here's one of the pieces: https://www.muhka.be/en/exhibitions/agnieszka-polska-flowers...
Counterpoint, I have yet to eat a pizza that would not have tasted better with pineapple.

Pineapple is just that fruit, the goat. It improves literally everything it's put with and can be eaten with spices or with dessert.

In fact the only reason I don't eat more pineapple is because it stings my tongue of I eat too much - nature's way of forcing us humans to savor delicacies.

As far as I'm concerned, if the Bible were true and if there really was a fruit that tempted Adam and Eve, it must have been a pineapple.
> Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, aka sjvn, has been writing about technology and the business of technology since CP/M-80 was the cutting edge PC operating system; 300bps was a fast Internet connection; WordStar was the state of the art word processor; and we liked it! Steven is an advisor to Cathey Communications, a PR company which represents CIQ, a FOSS company that work on behalf of Rocky Linux

> Opinion: Perplexity offers several advantages over Google as a search engine, making it a compelling alternative for many. // Back in the 1970s, when this columnist was a happy teenage graduate student, I started my first business: Researchers at Large. I was one of the first people to make a living by being able to get answers from early search tools such as OCLC, NASA/Recon, and Dialog. Later, I used the early internet search services like Gopher, Archie, and WAIS. Then, I became one of the first users of search engines including AltaVista, WebCrawler, and Lycos. When Google came along in 1998 to topple all the other services, I'd used search services for decades. // What all this means is I know how to search about as well as anyone on the planet. This is why I must tell you that Google is losing its spot as the top search engine

> Is this

Maybe it's just an educated opinion - like the capital red letters literally say, an "I may be wrong but".
You just have to make individual value judgements every day on thousands of pieces of content for SEVENTEEN highly specific priority areas.

Then keep detailed records on each value judgement such that it can hold up to legal scrutiny from an activist court official.

> Any competent forum operator is already doing all of this

What is your evidence that the record keeping described by the parent is routine among competent forum operators?
Last ones standing in coal country
1. Thanks for this very helpful information about how some seemingly quite simple legal manoeuvring can be used to dodge 99% of this law.

2. Doesn't the fact that simple legal manoeuvring can be used to dodge 99% of this law make the law (and laws like it) farcical on its face? Merely an elaborate set of extra hoops that only serves to punish the naive, while increasing everyone's compliance costs?
>I would really like it if Magit was a standalone program, rather than an Emacs package, so that I could just switch to a more reasonable editor.

Magit (for me) has so much value _because_ it is part of Emacs , where I edit all my code.
But that's literally what you just did in your example.
It is federated and it has benefits but the UX is garbage for average people and the actual protocol isn't one that'll scale.

You don't need an A+ protocol to get great if your product is good enough / dead simple to use but neither of those things apply to Mastodon, as much as I'd like them to.
Get what done? What does FDP want to do that Greens also want to do?
This is nice , and a valuable way to take agency. But it does suck when the cost to manufacturer something that lasts 2x longer would be much less than 2x the price, but such things don't exist because of market incentives.
> most of the actual systems we work on will simply start disappearing.

What systems do you think are going to start disappearing? I'm unclear how LLMs are contributing to systems becoming redundant.
Who gets to define ‘potentially dangerous’?

Isn’t that the core issue in the first place?
Almost a percent of PC sales with a certain CPU configuration doesn't seem that bad at all.
My plan is to retire in 1-2 years, take a break and then, if I feel like it, go all in on AI. Right now it's at that awkward spot where AI clearly shows potential but from my experience it's not really improving my productivity on complex tasks.
I wanna see this running in a feedback loop - show the model its output and get it to make corrections.

Remember that these are basically one-shot. Very different to how you or I would solve the problem (get a circle up on the screen, have a look at it, make some changes, add some wings, tweak the dimensions, etc.). We would go through hundreds or thousands of feedback cycles before we got something half-decent -- in this situation the model only gets one attempt.
If those devices ran off POE they would be divine. Trying to keep walls looking clean in our custom build and usb power is a drag.
All it took was a good old competition that has potential to steal user base from core Google search product. Nice to be back to competition era of web tech.
> with instructions read from punch card memory

If that isn't a stored program, I don't know what is.
I started with HA in a VM and some WiFi devices, added BLU later, never had the need for Zigbee. More than a year later and over 40 devices in 2 locations (with VPN between, using the same HA server), I am more than happy with the results.

Conclusion: people have different needs and go different paths.
I don't really care if companies are finding it hard to suddenly abide by the law. That was your burden from the start and you chose to avoid it.
right now? Keeping my eyes very peeled for what people in my network post about needing. Unfortunately I dont' have much of a plan right now, sorry.
Why is it inevitable that we should continually erode one's right to privacy?
Yeah, this test is to see if a pure LLM can output SVG that renders well. It's effectively a test of their "spatial reasoning" capabilities.
>As someone who's personally tried with great success to build agentic systems over the last 6 months.

Like what? You're the only person ive seen claim they've built agentic systems with great success. I dont regard improved chat-bot outputs as success, im talking about agentic systems that can roll their own auth from scratch, or gather data from the web independently and build even a mediocore prediction model with that data. Or code anything halfway decently in something other than Python.
AI Security Starts Here: Revisiting the Fundamentals
> I'm going to get a trimmer, so I want a thoughtfully designed and well made version of that. This has been my mission around my home since the start of the COVID pandemic. Upgrade all the little things around my home that annoy me or that would make my day a little bit better if they were upgraded.

The problem I have is that many things don't have a well made or thoughtfully designed version. They just have a more expensive version.

There's nothing more disappoint then spending good money on a "quality" product only to have it fall apart as fast or faster than a cheap version.
Pretty common really. Huge web properties like this have just massive room for cost optimizations, and AFAICT, is largely bottlenecked by management capacity. On the other hand, it's also pretty common to emphasize pet metrics like tails, which are pretty much by definition a minority of the cost. We give them the benefit of the doubt because a) google and b) peer review publication, but thats not usually a heurestic available to decision makers.
Does life get worse for the majority of people or do the fruits of new technology rarely address any individual person’s progress toward senescence? (The latter feels like tech moves forward but life gets worse.)
Yeah, article is full of shit. It's just another evolution in The Game. You'll probably see subs get slightly smaller and more automated though, also probably able to control larger formations of unmanned systems.

We see this with stealth aircraft. You can hunt them from the comfort of your living room with <$1000 in equipment. They're not invisible, I have yet to see a picture of an empty parking space unironically labeled "stealth aircraft". They're optimized to prevent categorization (NCTR) and precision fire control (X band specifically) so actually prioritizing and engaging them is difficult, especially at range. So now we see them moving towards being drone motherships so they can stay at the ranges where their stealth is useful.

Keeping that in mind, subs are also now packing much longer range weapons now and even if you can vaguely locate them with a variety of methods, you still need to go over there and kill the damn thing. We aren't seeing anyone investing in ballistic missile launched torpedos yet because these methods aren't necessarily able to provide a firing solution for such a weapon, just that "there's something weird in this square mile, maybe go investigate"
The paper hints that these are indeed generated from pre-existing meshes. The language isn't super clear about it, but they are.

I've tried mesh anything v2 in the past, which is mentioned in the prior art, and it never succeeded in my experience. Maybe this is superior, but I would need to try it.

One must also acknowledge the inherent biases of point clouds retrieved from pre existing meshes.
I think a lot of CRUD apps will disappear. A lot of the infrastructure may also be done by AI instead of some dude writing tons of YAML code.
Climate chemistry model finds "non-negligible" impacts of hydrogen fuel leakage
This is the approach we took while building our Internal Developer Platform: watches (via client-go informers with client-side caching) to sync data into a Postgres database as JSONB. Changes are tracked using JSON patches and Kubernetes events. To avoid a watch on every resource kind, we handle this by performing incremental object fetches for the objects involved in watched events.

Getting this to perform well required several optimizations at both the Go and Postgres levels. On the Go side, we use prioritized work queues, event de-duplication, and even switched to Rust for efficient JSON diffs. For Postgres, we leverage materialized views and trigger-based optimistic locking
Streaming services where there is no end to new content that matches your viewing patterns.
Yes haha exactly. I'm sure I could figure out the code to slinkify any object which would be pretty fun

For a non-circle that still works for slinky purposes, I'm sure some sort of geometric prism would be cool. Maybe I'll take a crack at it over winter break!
ex-googler confirms :/
China could try to strangle Taiwan without firing a shot
Entropy would be an upgrade since it would be indifferent to human concerns and manageable by statistics.

In contrast, product information invites people crafting lies for an advantage.
I envy your memory.
Most people called that the second one of the companies stop caring about safety, others will stop as well. People hate being told what they’re not supposed to do. And not companies will go forward with abandoning their responsible use policies.
Unrelated, but you might be openminded enough to enjoy the bizarre but oddly harmonious combination of banana and dill pickle. I was getting my electrolytes balanced impatiently and discovered that they're inexplicably complementary.
Oh yeah. And if you're like my dad you call them "do loops" not "for loops"
GPT-4 from March 2023, not GPT-4o from May 2024.
The party that has got a plurality of the vote runs the government, in fact. Same as in the USA this time, eh?

But again, in case it is not clangingly obvious yet: we don't vote for parties to control government. We don't vote for party leaders. We vote for constituency MPs, and if there are enough of them who can agree to form a government, that is what they do. Political parties are not, particularly, even essential to the process. They just speed it up.

A big chunk of why we have a Labour government this time round is Tory constituencies deciding to tactically vote Lib Dem because a Labour candidate would be less likely to gain a majority, after all. One has to assume that the people who did that meant to do it.

> The electorate lurched from the Conservatives farther right, and the result of that was a centrist government.

I dispute this concept; it's a convenient hopeful fiction being sold by hucksters and grifters. You only have to look, for example, at polls saying a majority of Leave voters would now support closer ties with Europe to resolve problems caused by Brexit. What happened is simple: people chose to have a functional government, which neither the Tories of 2024 or Reform could possibly offer. Reform is probably a generation or more away from being able to do that, and who knows if the Tories can reassemble around something mainstream before then.
Thank you for giving me a greater appreciation for this. I love pepperoni and pineapple because the sweet and spicy is just perfection.
> But I think that’s generations away at best.

I'm not sure whether you mean human generations or LLM generations, but I think it's the latter. In that case, I agree with you, but also that doesn't seem to put you particularly far off from OP, who didn't provide specific timelines but also seems to be indicating that the elimination of most engineers is still a little ways away. Since we're seeing a new generation of LLMs every 1-2 years, would you agree that in ~10 years at the outside, AI will be able to do the things that would cause you to gladly retire?
I've edited the text to include both links and explain the difference between them. Thanks!
Now find me a place that caramelizes onions rather than sauteeing them into charred mush and calling it caramelized
I'm curious what you think kubernetes does, because AFAICT, cpu -- a metric available to hpa -- would be an _improvement_.
What exactly is the value of having a human behind content if it gets to the point that content generated by AI is indistinguishable from content generated by humans?
Learning how to use LLMs and seeing what works and what doesn't. When I've used them to code after awhile I can start to figure out where they hallucinate. I have made an LLM system that performs natural language network scanning called http://www.securday.com which I presented at DEF CON (hacker conference). Even if it has no change or affect on your employment it is fun to experiment with things regardless.
> Philips Hue

At the moment you can pair them with any ZigBee controller, which I found to be much simpler. This is one firmware update away from not working (which is why I mostly relied on Z-Wave) so YMMV.
The question to me always was, does it makes sense in the way of, it is intuitivly understandable, or does it only make sense, if it was drilled into you long enough?

(I suspect the latter)
Second this product. I wanted an Ethernet version so I made my own (it's integrated into esphome and the circuit is documented here https://github.com/Kaldek/rat-ratgdo). Apart from general usage, I use mine to tilt the garage door a small amount if it detects bad air quality in my shop (using an IKEA air quality sensor via home assistant).
It is so painful to see so many people make wrong use of S3.
Actually since a year or so, we use the ESP32-C3 and the SHT40. You can check our website for the new model [1].

[1] https://www.airgradient.com/documentation/
> Windows is essentially only relevant for running PC games today.

That, and running 73% of the world's desktops. [1]

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide...
Politicians should take a mandatory one-week training in:

- very basic macro economics

- very basic game theory

- very basic statistics

Come to think of it, kids should learn this in high school
I'm going the Onlyfans route, or perhaps record myself playing video games saying witty quips.
Fair enough, but this isn't about how cool it was that there were warring factions. There were reasons that the divide existed, and most of the reasons involved the behemoth Microsoft throwing its weight around and trying to bully the world of technology. People who ran Windows were seen as complicit, and in some ways, they actually were.

Especially at the time, saying that both sides were obviously bad people because they had a beef with each other is a little like saying the Dark Side and the Jedi should have just stopped being assholes to each other. It's not that simple.
> The performance though was never very good,

to be honest mostly this is Spacemacs' fault. I left Spacemacs around the time you adopted it and I was shocked at how much more performant Emacs was without all the crap in Spacemacs' layers system

I haven't declared init.el bankruptcy since then, either.

> would really like it if Magit was a standalone program

check out lazygit
That’s too big a claim to assert without support: there isn’t a monolithic “the media” and “propaganda” implies deceptiveness along with coordination, and it’s hard to reconcile any of that with the positive coverage from many outlets for years, not to mention that some of them have been experimenting with it themselves.
As a systems administrator now SRE, it's never really been about my code... if code at all.

Where I used to be able to get by with babysitting shell scripts that only lived on the server, we're now in a world with endless abstraction. I don't hazard to guess; just learn what I can to remain adaptable.

The fundamentals tend to generally apply
The law is designed to target large companies that aren't seen as doing enough to prevent harm on the internet. Setting up a CIC doesn't dodge the law, the legal entity (the CIC) remains accountable for conduct on the website. Setting up a CIC removes the risk from the individual website operator because they're no longer operating the website, instead the website is operated by a separate legal entity. The website could still be held accountable for violating the law but the consequence would be the CIC is fined, not the individual behind it. The same principle as any limited liability company.
You said veggie like it was its own flavor. Honestly it feels right to me. Is there a term for the veggie taste or is it a texture thing?
Yep, a Stylus stylesheet like this turns his site from unusable into pleasant:

```
main {
width: 800px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
```
And then you get sales channels designed specifically to sell short-term cheap thing to such folks, which reminds me of As Seen On TV.
I will not believe the AI takeover until there's evidence. I haven't seen any examples, apart from maybe TODO list apps. Needless to say, that's nowhere near the complexity that is required at most jobs. Even if my carreer was endangered, I would continue the path I've taken so far: have a basic understanding of as much as possible (push out the edges of knowledge circle or whatever it's called), and strive to have an expert knowledge about maybe 1 or 2, or 3 subjects which pay for your daily bread. Basically just be good at what you do, and that should be fine. As for beginners, I advise to dive deep into a subject, start with a solid foundation and be sure to have a hands-on approach, while maintaining a consistent effort.
I'm still diving into the fascinating world of algorithms and sharing my learning journey along the way. In my latest blog post, I tackle the magical duo: recursion and quick sort. Don't worry, I’ve kept it simple—no PhDs required! Think of recursion as a function that loves calling itself so much, it starts feeling like a family reunion. And quick sort? It’s like the Marie Kondo of sorting algorithms—"Does this element spark joy in the right place?"

Curious? Check it out here (https://linuxsoares.github.io/posts/recursion_and_quick_sort...): Recursion and Quick Sort. Let's learn and laugh a little while we're at it!
To be fair, Google didn’t found YouTube.
Author here, the original paper has a full keylogger that also catches mouse clicks.

I don't know if this is a good measure or not, but it's fun to build and use.

I'll try it for a few months and maybe post my thoughts.