skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is there some generalized law (yet) about unintended consequences?

These are not unintended consequences. All media legislation of late has been to eliminate all but the companies that are largest and closest to government. Clegg works at Facebook now, they'd all be happy to keep government offices on the premises to ensure compliance; they'd even pay for them.

Western governments are encouraging monopolies in media (through legal pressure) in order to suppress speech through the voluntary cooperation of the companies who don't want to be destroyed. Those companies are not only threatened with the stick, but are given the carrots of becoming government contractors. There's a revolving door between their c-suites and government agencies. Their kids go to the same schools and sleep with each other.
The actual OfCom code of practice is here: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/onli...

A cycling site with 275k MAU would be in the very lowest category where compliance is things like 'having a content moderation function to review and assess suspected illegal content'. So having a report button.
I work on a pretty straightforward CRUD app in a niche domain and so far they haven’t talked about replacing me with some LLM solution. But LLMs have certainly made it a lot faster to add new features. I’d say working in a niche domain is my job security. Not many scientists want to spend their time trying to figure out how to get an LLM to make a tool that makes their life easier - external competitors exist but can’t give the same intense dedication to the details required for smaller startups and their specific requirements.

A side note - maybe my project is just really trivial, maybe I’m dumber or worse at coding than I thought, or maybe a combination of the above, but LLMs have seemed to produce code that is fine for what we’re doing especially after a few iteration loops. I’m really curious what exactly all these SWEs are working on that is complex enough that LLMs produce unusable code
Cracks in the system are often places where artists find the new and interesting. The leg swapping of the ice skater is mesmerizing in its own way. It would be useful to be able to direct the models in those directions.
I would argue they already do mistreat their citizens...
I think it's related to our respective view of the State. As a French, I expect the State to do things for me and despite the State's too many failings, I have far more trust in the State than in corporations, so a States-led project in a strategic domain is a good thing. I don't wish the government (in its American meaning) to do less, I wish it to do better. It seems most people in the US view the State as a necessary evil and the worst entity to entrust their taxes with. Of course, things are more complicated and nuanced, but that's my bird's eye view.
Nice! Will consider one when my Awair poops out.
a hundreds year ago Argentine had a population of less than 8million people and the 8º biggest territory of highly fertile land. That's not even 20% of the current population. Argentina was never a developed country.
You seem to be implying that percentage is unimportant. I'm curious why? It seems reasonable to me that as our power needs increase, all sources will increase - as long as we continue to grow renewable use relative to the others, isn't that good? Obviously there's a discussion to be had about how quickly renewables are growing, but this just doesn't seem like a very generous framing of the situation.
Lol okay, but mine was the first comment and second upvote, so it was pretty empty back then here, and it was still at the top of the "new" page.
I agree 100%.

I never said that other places have more freedom though. I just find it fascinating that American really believe in their "rights" and frequently mock other countries, societies, etc...
In the U.S. we have the concept of "piercing the corporate veil" whereby if you can prove that a LLC (effectively a corporate entity created to shield owner's liability) is a flimsy legal device whose only intent is to skirt laws like this one, you are able to go after the LLC owner personally anyway.

Does the UK have a similar concept?
I wanted to try this for auditory processing disorder, but I passed the hearing test with flying colors, so it won't let me try. Is this some regulatory thing?
This is why Nvidia needs competition. I love the performance of their hardware and the quality of their drivers, but I don't love being their customer. They have a long, long history of price discrimination using techniques like this. Back in the day it was "workstation" graphics for CAD programs that they would nerf for consumer cards by downgrading various features of OpenGL.

Different markets, same techniques. It's in the company DNA. That and their aversion to open source drivers and various other bad decisions around open source support that make maintaining a working Linux GPU setup way harder than it should be even to this day.
So what you're saying is that some of us should be gearing up to pull in ludicrous amounts of consultant money in 2026, when the chickens come home to roost, and the managers foolish enough to farm out software development to LLMs need to hire actual humans at rate to exorcize their demon-haunted computers?

Yeah that will be a lucrative niche if you have the stomach for it...
You don't need to be so extreme.

You can let people die in their own home with palliative care without providing every drug and surgery imaginable.
The key is that the probes

a) are fast: they certainly incur the same network cost of a regular request. But more than that, all they do is read two counters, so they're super quick for backends to serve.

b) cheap: they don't do nearly as much work as a "real" request, so the cost of enabling this system is not prohibitive. They simply return two numbers. The probes don't compete with "real" requests for resources.

c) give the load balancer useful information: among all the metrics they could have returned from the backend, the ones they chose led to good prediction outcomes.

One could imagine playing with the metrics used, even using ML to select the best ones, and to adapt them dynamically based on workload and time period.
> There would be no reason to run the app, other than owning one of the coupled air fryers.

Maybe so. But the converse is not true. For me personally, owning the air fryer does not give me any reason to give a rip about running the app. (Others may have different tastes.)

If I like the air fryer, why do I care that an app I won't run would spy on me?
So you are assuming politicians graduate high school? Not in my country.
Recent and related:

ChatGPT Down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42394391 - Dec 2024 (30 comments)
Can you use the M8 on carriers other than T-Mobile? I’m seeing several places that say T-mobile only.
Mistral Large proposition: https://chat.mistral.ai/chat/4da427b1-e033-454d-b134-c5d1f6e...
Maybe not demand that it be unlockable, but rather if Nvidia were to provide a paid upgrade path to unlock these features that would help. They would need some way to prevent the open source drivers from accessing the features, though.
Why does it feel undemocratic? I have always felt that party politics are undemocratic since my voting system (Sweden) translate to voting persons into seats in parliament. Political parties and coalitions are just systems added on top of that system that get translated into people in seats. Votes in parliament are counted per person, not per party or block, and people can vote against party line.
As a comparison for a "dumb" system, our house has a Nibe F110 that handles all air extraction and energy recovery (only for water heating) and a single Mitsubishi mini-split AC. And the bedrooms have some small electric panel heaters. I just cannot be bothered to fiddle with the smart house stuff, this solution works just fine for us.
So much this. I get if the system incentivizes health insurers to act this way, and I get that it's unreasonable to expect unilateral disarmament of anyone.

But FFS, surely they have to realize this situation is unsustainable? Shouldn't we, at a minimum, expect them to be sharing their insight into why they (feel they) are forced to act this way, and what reforms would fix it?

If all they ever do is cynically game a system that they know can't last, and which they know is creating people with an extreme grudge against them ... yeah I'm fine with calling that some combination of irrational/evil.
https://archive.ph/qqTqK
> LLM’s never provide code that pass my sniff test

If that statement isn't coming from ego, then where is it coming from? It's provably true that LLM's can generate working code. They've been trained on billions of examples.

Developers seem to focus on the set of cases that LLM's produce code that doesn't work, and use that as evidence that these tools are "useless".
> Optimizing tail latency isn't about saving fleet cost.

Indirectly, it is. As the quote I replied to suggests, in order to combat tail latency services often run with surplus capacity. This is just a fundamental tradeoff between the two variables mentioned.

So, by improving the LB algo, they (and anyone, really) can reduce the surplus needed to meet any specific SLO.
SVGA worked pretty well so long as you stuck to basic VESA modes, which was relied upon by many games of the era (e.g. Warcraft 2, the first two Heroes of Might & Magic games).
It seemed odd to me that the article gave the authors' email addresses but no link to the actual article!
They have taken 80m in investments but probably dont have that much customers at dune analytics, so they dont wanna pay yearly just to hold that money in norway because they probably pay more tax than the sales they generate.
Long-time enterprise SaaS PM here, and sorry, this does not make any sense. The SMB segment is likely to be the least exposed to AI, and software, and the concept of DIY software through AI.

As you visualize whole swaths of human workers getting automated away, also visualize the nitty gritty of day-to-day work with AI. If it gets something wrong, it will say "I apologize" until you, dear user, are blue in the face. If an actual person tried to do the same, the blueness would instead be on their, not your, face. Therein lies the value of a human worker. The big question, I think, is going to be: is that value commensurate to what we're making on our paycheck right now?
> These fears were unfounded.

Sure, but it's good to prove that one out before pressing the button.
No idea.

Most of my code is written by AI, but it seems most of my job is arranging that code.

Saves me 50-80% of my key strokes, but sprinkles subtle errors here and there and doesn't seem understand the whole architecture.
Lots of pro riders do not take care of their bikes themselves. They're used to having bike mechanics adjust everything for every race, and a lot of them don't consider it part of the job to take care of their training bikes. Some of them don't even do the cleaning.
A decade-old risk led to ' partnership' between AWS, Intel community
Good call, I had forgotten you could run it kinda in the background on Mac - thanks
> The more I speak with fellow engineers, the more I hear that some of them are either using AI to help them code, or feed entire projects to AI and let the AI code

LLMs do help but to a limited extend. Never heard of anyone in the second category.

> how do you future-proof your career in light of, the inevitable, LLM take over?

Generally speaking, coding has never been a future proof career. Ageism, changes in technology, economic cycles, offshoring... When I went into that field in early 2000s, it was kind of expected that most people if they wanted to be somewhat successful had to move eventually to leadership/management position.

Things changed a bit with successful tech companies competing for talents and offering great salaries and career paths for engineers, especially in the US but it could very well be temporary and shouldn't be taken for granted.

LLMs is one factor among many that can impact our careers, probably not the most important. I think there's a lot of hype and we're not being replaced by machines anytime soon. I don't see a world where an entrepreneur is going to command an LLM to write a service or a novel app for them, or simply maintain an existing complex piece of software.
Just pretend it's a movie about a shape shifter alien and it's just trying it's best at ice skating, art is subjective like that doesn't it? I bet Salvador Dali would have found those morphing body parts highly amusing.
> The erosion of Hong Kong’s democracy in recent years means they’re not likely to trust China’s assurances that Taiwan could maintain some degree of political autonomy under a “one country, two systems” model.

As a former HK resident, it's a sad story. In short the PRC promised to respect HK's existing mostly-democracy until 2047, but they've already declared that only legislative candidates pre-approved by the mainland (i.e. Communist party) may run in local elections, and are imposing decade-long jail sentences on people who try to organize protest votes.

I suppose the way it exposes the PRC's brutal dishonesty to others is a thin thin silver lining.
The Founders never intended the Postal Service to be managed like a business
It sounds like a big part of it is that despite the state handing huge sums of money to corporations, their is a belief in appropriate oversight.
With the DUAL M.2 Adapter, it is much easier to set up an eGPU connection using Oculink.

Or you can also test RAID 0 speed.
I’ve been wondering if a similar phenomenon will be observed with our mental muscles. Will future generations know how to write a coherent e-mail or essay? Will they know how to approach solving a complex problem without AI assistance? Will doodling in class be supplanted by Midjourney prompting? Why bother thinking too hard when the machine can do it for you?

When we are all immersed in the substrate of AI, will there be a gym equivalent for the intellectual?
Does Space Need Environmentalists?
http://archive.today/H9vYr
I think it's been true for some time that Oracle Database has largely been in maintenance mode, with relatively little new engineering or refactoring being done and more resources devoted to sales, marketing, and of course license compliance enforcement. "More lawyers on staff than engineers", as the anecdote goes.
Slightly off topic but I just bought an inexpensive water leak monitor set and it uses LoRa — I’ve had range problems with other bands “Extremely Long Range: Powered by LoRa technology, the long-range low-power system offers the industry’s longest receiving range (1/4 mile). Areas such as basements and sheds connect up to 100 sensors to deliver product information smoothly.”
e-fuses (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFuse) are typically etched into the silicon as an exactly-once operation, meant to irrevocably set a configuration. Some devices, for instance, have an e-fuse that makes it impossible to change cryptographic trust signatures after the e-fuse has been blown.
It would be cool if someone could build a chimney ERV: extract heat from the dirty air produced by fire, and inject it into fresh air pulled into the living space. So I guess basically it would function like a regular ERV, but with a fire in the exhaust path. (Probably not feasible with a wood fire, but maybe with gas?)
I’ve been pondering whether it makes sense to respond in earnest. I assume good faith on your side, so let me try.

> It's like asking for data to prove gravity exists.

This is at least how physics majors start. From first principles. You know, scientists.

Getting emotional due to your own assumptions about someone else usually effects the exact opposite of what you’re trying to achieve. Which, I assume, is mutual understanding.

> Asking for data implies it's yet to be proven

No, why?

> Do you have data disproving the current academic consensus?

How often has consensus failed, even very recently? If the data is strong, what harm is there in reiterating the data and the conclusions out of it so that everyone understands?

I’m not saying this from a high horse. Over the years I’ve had many emotional moments when challenged about what is true or right. In hindsight most of these moments came from my own inability to exactly lay out the logical chain of an argument that I’d made, where I’d followed the consensus.
I don't know the specifics, but we already collect the time people spend coding for productivity telemetry, so we already have that signal. I assume the team that maintains our chat system either hooks into an editor notification, or into the Kafka-like event queue that feeds into the data warehouse. It likely only works if you're using the officially blessed IDE, but very nearly everyone does
Recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41389326
Well, it's not a simple note-taking app, it has a Block Editor like Notion, tho it's written in QML and C++ so it's very performant. Compare that to most Electron apps these days, and it has a way smaller binary size, way more performant, and uses much less RAM. I do aspire to trim its binary size down further, I just didn't put my attention on it yet.

It's always about choosing the best compromise, I just think Qt is a very good one . It allows you to target many platforms with a declarative UI (QML) and a compiled language (C++ or other bindings). It's a superb form of abstraction layer compared to web apps.
> Someone else will make a joke about police officers investigating tweets. That practice - which was put to an end a couple of years ago

This claim is 100% false. We’ve seen multiple people jailed for tweets this year alone.

> I have much greater faith in my government to protect my freedom of speech

You don’t have free speech. The U.K. has no such general right. That’s why people are in jail for tweets.
The difference is whether chips with no defects get artificially binned.

In a competitive market, if you have a surplus of top-tier chips, you lower prices and make a little more $$ selling more power.

With a monopoly (customers are still yours next upgrade cycle), giving customers more power now sabotages your future revenue.
Google FI Still Doesn't Support RCS Either
MAGA's Trillion Dollar Heist for Crypto Billionaires [video]
You can certainly argue that, but that's not what Open Source or Free Software has ever been. It's about your freedoms as a user, you are always free to fork with a different model. I think the expectation of "open contributions" is quite damaging, to the point where peple/organizations are hesitant to release their software as open source at all.
The Postal Service Act (1792)
Sounds epic. I always admire people who have actually been overweight (I haven't) before learning to manage hunger sustainably. That probably is hard.
This is me. I cycle on and off testosterone (100mg/w for 12 weeks typically) and combine it with light exercise (20-30min of lifting 3x a week). Other than that my only exercise is walks with my dog (typically ~45min). The rest of the time (~12hrs/day+) I'm at my desk. When I'm on testosterone it I definitely see major results, just from that level of exercise.

My perspective on it is it is borrowing from the future. I feel better while on it, but it's just changing what the problem is. I've turned a sedentary lifestyle issue into a hormone issue. There are side effects (ie enlarged heart in the future). I'm using it as a crutch while I have a demanding job that keeps me working for longer hours.
This is a case of you deciding that open source means something which it does not, never has, and will not mean.

I consider this an empty exercise, but if it pleases you to use language that way, no one can stop you.
If only it didn't have to be svg, so glorious.

https://g.co/gemini/share/56e5dfa1a598
Interview with Dr. Ken Iverson (1982) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42319070 - Dec 2024 (21 comments)
there's a lot more involved in senior dev work beyond producing code that works.

if the stakeholders knew how to do what they needed to build and how, then they could use LLMs, but translating complex requirements into code is something that these tools are not even close to cracking.
This: OP seems to be throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

Im surprised they don’t already have some form of report/flag button.
It is not open source (per OSI definition), as it is under CC BY-NC-SA.
Amazon runs every Lambda function in it's own microVM.
I get it more for communication tools. I'm surprised to hear Copilot being pushed as it really is just a DX tool. My product is my code, maybe Copilot helps me but the boss should only care about the work getting done.
For one thing, not everybody is in US or other First World country.

But also, yes, I remember 3D accelerators - and how expensive and coveted they were. Few 3D games before 2000 shipped without software 3D rendering support for this reason; I remember Quake 3 (1999) being the first big title like that, and it was one of the big reasons why Unreal Tournament was more popular in my circles back then - you could play it in software mode at 320x240 on fairly meager hardware.
“On one hand, it's very bad because it reduces economic output from the exact same input resources (materials and labor and r&d).”

This is not true with the economies of scale in the semiconductor industry.
Yes. I remeber that one too. It started with reversed sugar used for weight loss. It was made by reversed ecoli, which escaped.

This is it: https://laprade.blog/your-dietbet-destroyed-the-world
> Mapping table-like data into a KV model leads to poor developer experience

This is definitely true in my experience. Unless you are literally storing a hashmap, KV databases are a pain to use directly. I think they're meant to be building blocks for other databases.
Yes you can, with some limitations

https://github.com/Tencent/HunyuanVideo/issues/109
You can't lol. How do you wanna restore a blown fuse on nanometer level INSIDE the GPU die. Its simply not possible.

By the way, AMD also uses fuse blowing if you e.g. overclock some of their CPUs to mark them as warranty voided. They give you a warning in the BIOS and if you resume a fuse inside the CPU gets blown that will permanently indicate that the CPU has been used for overclocking (and thus remove the warranty)
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