skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok. But also:

Earth biosphere is collapsing.

Your complaint re: bottle cap: I stopped seeing caps in gutters.

Your complaint re: recycling scam: a non-scam way of doing is how Netherlands does it and it imports(!) trash because it's profitable.

Plastic straws can be made out of compostable plastic.

And the fucking plutocracy could stop flying everywhere every day.
Use an open source TOTP manager and sync your codes using something like Standard Notes, not your regular password manager. This gives nice redundancy and two layers of security while staying synced.
Yes an llm could do it since it can predict the next token for pretty much anything. But what's the error margin you are ready to tolerate?
Great article, reminds me of the “big chill” or the heat death of the universe:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe
OpenTelemetry Developer Experience Survey
My wife is a teacher. She could have told you this for free - no study needed.
> There is a tendency in certain areas of biology to attribute extremely minor regional variation to new species.

The article describes pretty much the opposite of this, though - the species found have no regional variation, and even overlap majorly.

If the scientists involved in the paper cited by TFA have really found a large level of genetic diversity, I don’t see the point of arguing against their definition of species. It’s not a two way street, but sufficient genetic separation is enough to establish separate species, even ones indistinguishable to human eyes.
This could use with being a bit shorter and maybe carved into pieces because the main idea is very powerful and the author has seen a thing or two clearly!

That being said although I agree with many things the author said, I think this phase goes a bit different:

> "You will waste so much time! Let's have a grand plan and write the perfect solution right from the start, ehh?"

The reason why bosses/ non technical people want to talk so much before and write so much non-code is because they can. If they could write code they wouldn't mind , but the "talking" phase is the only one where they can contribute and so to feel useful they actually delay everything.

This comes from an observation that difficult problems / projects sometimes were fixed much faster than easier problems.

Why? Because an easy problem is understood by everyone, so everyone has an opinion, so now we have to hear all the uninformed opinions and debate all the obviously-not gonna-works. But hard problems, they have two great properties, most people won't even understand the problem, and even if they do, they won't know what to do. So then you get one or two guys to actually fix it undisturbed.

Not only it's slower to have to deal with uninformed opinions, the outcome is often worse also, because for politeness and to avoid awkwardness you end up with an "average" of the opinions, but if majority of those are uninformed you just got a worse solution by talking.
That's exactly what it did. Which makes it even funnier!!!!
Neither ingeniare nor ingenium are scope limited to mechanical engines.
I find the stats between the 250 and 270 to be particularly bizarre. The 250 depends on a user-supplied SD Card, while the 270 is plumped out with 512Gb of flash space. And yet, the RAM drops from 512Gb in the 250 to 128Gb in the 270. How does that make any sense??

I mean, sure - install an M.2 slot so users can use full-speed Gen3+ NVMe drives if need be. But don’t sacrifice on-board RAM for soldered-on drive space. That’s just stupid.
1password fixes this
I think the history of C++ implementations shows that it's not low hanging fruit, it's a huge effort to implement and the payoffs aren't game changing.
Honestly, your comments are much more “Reddit-like” to me than the post/actions you’re referring to.
> So, AI image detection notwithstanding, ...

There is no point in trying. You're just making it worse for human viewers
Star Trek TNG had a very singular kind of optimism though; it was presented as optimistic and that everything was wonderful, but if you examined it more closely it started to look kind of unappealing or even dystopian.

https://blog.plan99.net/i-want-to-see-a-libertarian-star-tre...
Java plugins were mainly useful to do naughty things (for instance in a previous life I used a Java plugin to load and call into a native DLL via JNI which spawned a Win32/D3D9 game client inside a browser by attaching as a child window of the Java plugin canvas). Fun stuff but not really a good idea from a security point of view ;)

And of course this cannot be replicated with a Java plugin running in a (browser) WASM engine.
It's been pretty hard, but if you reduce it to "Were you using a framework, or writing one that needs to push the absolute limits of performance?"...

...I guess the first?...

...But not really?

I'm not writing GPU kernels or operating system task schedulers, but I am going to some pretty significant lengths to be running ex. local LLM, embedding model, Whisper, model for voice activity detection, model for speaker counting, syncing state with 3 web sockets. Simultaneously. In this case, Android and iOS are no valhalla of vapid-stackoverflow-copy-pasta-with-no-hardware-constraints, as you might imagine.

And the novelty is, 6 years ago, I would have targeted iOS and prayed. Now I'm on every platform at top-tier speeds. All that boring tedious scribe-like stuff that 90% of us spend 80% of our time on, is gone.

I'm not sure there's very many people at all who get to solve novel hardware-constrained problems these days, I'm quite pleased to brush shoulders with someone who brushes shoulders with them :)

Thus, smacks more of no-true-scotsman than something I can chew on. Productivity gains are productivity gains, and these are no small productivity gain in a highly demanding situation.
The waveform produced by sounding a note on most physical instruments will often not exhibit a peak, or will not exhibit the strongest peak, on the note being sounded. Rather, most instruments will instead produce harmonic overtones and our brains fill in the gap of the pitch that’s intended to be sounded.

You can still absolutely deduce the fundamental with great accuracy via an FFT, but the approach is a bit more involved. The relevant research area here is called ‘fundamental frequency estimation’.

For an example of this, you can see this app I built that lets you give keyboard and mouse inputs via playing notes on a bass guitar, which are recognized over the microphone: https://github.com/codyd51/offkeyboard
Actually curious what the minimum bitrate/resolution they could store with to be still usable in court
I'm also from Germany (a long time) foreigner and this story touches my heart.

My whole life I've worked on places that work performance was everything in software engineering, many toxic places etc.

I hope at some point I can chill down and make peace with myself like you did. Congratulations!
I suspect they're asking for a citation establishing a correlation between high iOS market share and craftsmanship appreciation.
is it so impossible to include a model number in your query?
Even if you do have access, building a set of services in close proximity with each other - yet still working on separate containers or even containers on separate container hosts - still needs a single source of truth where time is concerned. This is especially important if you have time-based transactions with eventual consistency, yet the order of those hundreds to thousands of transactions per second need to be extremely reliable. Having all the parts work off a single known, trusted time server such that the timestamp of all transactions can be absolutely trusted is supremely critical in some applications.
Isn't it lovely how people dare to throw out democracy (demos=common people => rule by the people) in the inverted name of democracy!?
That's democrazy (crazy=insane) at best, negating the whole concept and trying to turn the common world into a prison.
> Fourth you must bet big.

No. You must bet right - and it depends on how right you are. Look up the Kelly criterion. Bet 1 - 2*probablity of losing of your current pot - will maximize expected return (but is a bit volatile for some tastes)
The only computations that an LLM does are backprops and forward passes. It can not run any arbitrary program description. Yes, it will hallucinate your program's output if you feed it some good enough starting prompt. But that's it.
I didn’t get a sense of anti-java-ism from the parent poster. While I enjoy Kotlin more than Java I see the benefits of both, and from most folks I’ve spoken to about the two they seem fairly level-headed about the situation.

I think that for all language discussion online that there is a very small percentage of people that get over-inundated by the emotional feeling of “investing their time” into a language and wanting to not feel like they made a mistake or that their time was a waste.

I wish f# got the same treatment Kotlin did tooling wise, because if I were to compare the “interoperability” of the two with the incumbent on their respective VMs, my experience has shown that developing with Kotlin incurs much less friction on a day-to-day basis.

I have no doubt that part of that friction is due to the radically differing foundations that f# vs c# were built on, which as a positive for f# gives it some very cool features that Kotlin won’t have, but it leads one to ponder the RoI of diverging from the primary language.

I do agree with you that googles choice to adopt Kotlin for android rather than invest further into modernizing the jvm capabilities to allow for Java to be able to keep up better was definitely a boost to Kotlin, I assume they made that choice in a calculated manner. I also wonder if Kotlin would be seeing as much server side use at places like Google, was, Airbnb, etc if not for that move on googles part.
One concern Ive heard is that Llama can be a great accelerator for senior engineers who know what they want. However for junior engineers it could hold back their learning as they just use whatever it gives without really understanding what or why something was done that way. It seems plausible to me. At least using stack overflow people get explanations of why you do x to get y, it's a bit copy paste, sure, but the pace brought learning. Now if you type a comment and get code, a junior engineer may not even read what's generated as 'theu don't need to, it usually works' .... Any ideas how we can ensure junior engineers do effectively learn and understand what is going on, while still getting the LLM benefit?
"The insurance companies don't have medical training either."

Remember that.
Get a few YubiKeys (or similar) and also link them. You only need one of the 2FA and can link multiple.
Great job on launching! It sure does feel good to ship something and get a positive reaction. I don't want to steal your thunder but I did something similar a year ago and posted it here with a fresh HN account without much fanfare.

https://midi-note-trainer.teemukoivisto.xyz/

I maybe put even too much effort in it, all those different keyboard layouts and all. But I am happy with the end result and noticed it did actually work. For me, the most important thing was (and still is) just learning music notation. Maybe one day I'll make a v2.
Is that something like Transducers in Clojure?
This is already amazing, but one possible idea of improvement: Use the metadata (time and coordinates) to look up possible landmarks in the area or possible events/gatherings/conferences/etc that took place near the location and during that time, then add those to the prompt.

I posted some images that showed a well-known local landmark during a christmas fair event, as well as view of a close city.

The model accurately described the architectural details of the landmark that could be inferred from the photo, mentioned that there seems to be some event going on and made some speculations about the city in the background - but purely from the photo it had of course no way of knowing which landmark, event and city it was looking at.

I see this is slightly underestimating the amount of information you can extract from the photo: If you have a GIS database, it's not hard to know this stuff (or at least get a list of likely candidates) - and the kind of actors that this project is warning against very likely have one.

Also I'd be interested to see if the model could combine the context and the details from the photo to make some interesting additional observations.
The design of the stands "met the safety standards at the time."

Isn't that always the way? Technology advanced in a rush and no one adequately modeled the risk. Spectators, trusting the purveyors of the entertainment, were slaughtered.
> It's great to have languages that have guard rails. And sure helps you learn shaving time off your project/life.

It also means that beginners can reasonably use the language for production projects. Including those who have never had the opportunity to study computer science.

To me, it reflects poorly on a language if pretty much the only reasonable way to learn it such that you can use it safely is via computer science course (or another similarly structured environment - perhaps a work place with senior mentors).

Of commonly used languages, that's pretty much true only of C and C++.
I’m curious - does anyone use GIMP in a “production” environment? I’ve never seen anyone install it for anything other than playing around.
Because unlike an edit, it's timestamped.
I hope that by the time I have a kid at school age, that phone bans will be a common thing in schools in the UK.
For context:

Donald Bitzer, a pioneer of cyberspace and plasma screens, dies at 90

He helped shape cyberculture as the father of PLATO, a computer-based educational network that sparked the development of plasma screens and digital messaging.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/12/13/donald-...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42406158
Sounds about right.

In the interstellar medium, matter is primarily in molecular form and reaches number densities of 10^12 molecules (mostly composed of) hydrogen, then helium, oxygen, nitrogen) per cubic meter (1 trillion molecules per cubic meter).[1]

So, what, about a picogram per cubic meter.

If your ship has a cross-sectional area of one square meter, and Alpha Centauri is 40,000,000,000,000 meters away [2] (and you thought it was a long way to the shop if you want a Chiko Roll), you’ll have to manage with 2.62^23 tonnes of mostly hydrogen in the way.

The interstellar medium is also about 1% dust, so about 2.6^21 tonnes of solid matter.

Someone check my mass maths.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_medium

2. Google Search AI Overview
I’ve been coding for a long time and just became very proficient in dart this year just by using LLM and asking it to explain anything I don’t know. I haven’t been on Stack Overflow in 2 years and it’s not because I’m taking shortcuts by letting the LLM write my code, it’s because it is the best teacher / paired programmer that will just sit with you with endless patience. Especially using @docs with cursor and @directory context.
I vividly remember conflicts with my parents over sitting in my room in front of a computer. Potential benefits are never obvious, and certainly not to everyone. "Small C games" seem innocuous in hindsight (specially through the hn lense), but could easily have been center of debate and concern of well meaning parents back then.
The reason AMS like functions are carried out by fixed wing aircraft and helicopter slung pods is the weight of the doped crystal packs required to sense gamma radiation from even relatively low ground clearance.

Radiation surveys are steady paced gridding runs, evenly spaced lines flown at a uniform height and speed.

Little drones bobbing about aren't doing a good job running a detection grid.
You gotta lower your expectations. :) I didn't see the comment till now, OP made it at 3:30 AM my time.

Here you go - https://pastebin.com/8zdMDEnG
Out of curiosity - which country is it?
Agreed. As someone in my mid-50's I find the attitude to many people towards age really bizarre. I've just got back from trail running in the mountains. I'm fitter and healthier now than I was in my mid-30s, and haven't noticed any kind of cognitive decline at all, in fact I think I'm much more mentally able now because I read a lot and so have picked up a lot of knowledge. The only noticeable change is now I have to wear glasses when reading.
The secret, I think, is to keep developing and improving yourself, both mentally and physically.
genuinely what's the point of this comment? are you allergic to cool stuff? honestly curious as to what you were trying to achieve by this comment.

nowhere in this post does the author say that it's ready with the current state of models, or he'd use a foundation model for this. why the hate?
There’s an obvious space here for startups to create filtered educational agents. You want the kids to use the LLM, but you want them to use a neutered LLM that won’t give a freebie solution.

Some simple system prompting on a local LLM can help you get there on your own believe it or not. A custom GPT on ChatGPT is another option. This will take an active involvement from you, because it’s a pretty much figure it out as you go for all of us.

Augmenting a parent so their child has a world class tutor is incredible stuff.
Oh it’s very bad. And I say this as someone very healthy (luckily). I grew up in a different country with a functioning healthcare system system, and the US one is horrible.
It is shorter than what I've had initially, really. And yes, these are a bunch of ideas I try to make clearer for myself, as well. Like, there is a feeling inside and
you've seen things and experienced different scenarios and now you try to put them into actual words that makes sense, as a whole. If you are successful at that, that's another story. Add to that that other people's experience are different and they come from different backgrounds, things get even messier. I think there was a piece from antirez a few days ago where he was being surprised, among others, on how much harder writing is, in general, than coding. I feel the challenge of that sometimes.

That being said, I appreciate your answer and insight.

Edit: why did you stop writing, if I may ask you? (I'm assuming now that not publishing for the whole world to see equals not writing at all, which might not be the case)
Do you think training in multiple languages could act as a regularization? Just as polyglots are smarter in real life?
The tale of two Shanghais
>> Did you know that over 40% or people who get cancer in America lose their life savings within two years?

I personally know someone who lost everything caring for their (very young) spouse who died of cancer. They had insurance.
Can you briefly describe your work flow? Are you exchanging information with Sonnet in your IDE?
The pions coming out of the reaction are moving at relativistic velocities and provide far more specific impulse.
in most cases, soon after IPO is a bad idea to sell, since insiders and first-salers

its a good entry point, id say - though IPO trading in general is a huge risk, rather pick stable/established ticker items
Oh. I'm starting to see a pattern here now.

It's the same thing like with GDPR - the market chooses to interpret the law in the most profitable way, which turns out to be one that's nominally compliant but defeats the purpose of the law and make things worse for the customers.

Why? Because a Big Law forced down by the Clueless Bureaucrats in the Great Soviet^WEuropean Union is something people are already primed to blame, making it a perfect scapegoat - the company can choose the absolute shittiest way to comply (onerous cookie banners and questionably legal consent forms, paper straws that disintegrate when you look at them), and rake in the profits, as customers won't question this choice (many won't even think there was a choice!) - they'll just assume it's the Eurocrats fucking up things for everyone because $reasons.

Now I wonder where else this is already happening, too.

I now realize that talking about malicious compliance with respect to GDPR was mishandling the Hanlon's Handgun. No, it's not stupidity, but it's also not malice (promoted by systemic incentives) in the sense of CEOs of the world hoping they can frustrate EU citizens into eventually voting the law away. It's simpler, more basic form of malice - it's companies knowing they can ignore what customers want or like and go straight for most profitable, no matter how frustrating or abusive, as the EU will take the blame by default, and it's so, so big, it'll take infinite amounts of it.
Google to suspend payments for Russian app developers
The only kind of intelligence we know of since childhood is meat-based intelligence. Brain made out of flesh.

So our intuition tells us that flesh is essential. "Chinese room" appeals to this intuition.

But it's a circular argument.

Anyway, I believe they are self-aware, to some extent. Not like a human. But I have no arsenal to convince people who believe intelligence has to be made out of meat.
the session is tied to a gpu cluster. It would actually be quite inefficient to switch gpu cluster to another one mid session, but its needed in a failure scenario
Everything plus massively long, descriptive filenames are the sweet spot that I'll never leave.

Want tags? Just stick the tag in the filename. Now it's a tag!
You're absolutely right, thankfully my father was in the tech field back then and could very easily discern if I was wasting my time or actually learning/doing something.
Even then I was scolded quite a number of times to go do my homework ^_^

Creating a framework of communicating and channeling children's energy into a path that aids learning in today's attention/dopamine hungry world is something I'm still struggling with.
> Not reimplementing APL instead

Come on, step it up! https://github.com/phantomics/april

EDIT: damn, didn't see it already got linked
1,065 Unique Dog Names from the Middle Ages
Probably by not letting them check in code they don't understand. This creates a lot of overhead, but it turns out you simply can't skip that time investment. Somewhere along the junior->senior developer (in terms of skill, not time) is a big time cost of just sitting down and learning.
You can pretend to skip it with LLMs, but you're just delaying having to understand it.

So the benefit of LLMs is negligible in the long term, for beginner/junior programmers, as they essentially collect knowledge debt. Don't let your juniors use LLMs, or if you do, make sure they can explain every little detail about the code they have written. You don't have to be annoying about it - ask socratically.
the healthcare (hellcare) system bieng broken is a symptom of a societal disease.
Hospitals were designed and built for short term
emergency and intensive care, they were run by and only by doctors and nurses who could handle anything, having survived the grueling initiation.
And that system worked It was self sustaining and effective.Then came the lawsuits and the ergonomic furniture and critiques of a surgeons "bed side manner" Therein began cancell culture.
Now we still need emergency medicine, but also
mental health crisis, and drug overdose, and nonmedical elective surgeries, and long term "medical" care for invalids, and palitive care facilities, each with specific physical building
design characteristics, and very different decision making and management requirements.
Oh and maternity and pediatrics need another way of doing things ,see the Cuban model for maternity
and pediatrics done right, they are head and shoulders above anyone else.
We should be ashamed of our selves for the nasty
mess we have built and just refuse to face.
Have you tested tool calling capabilities of these cheaper models?
And at high enough speeds, you don’t want to be carrying anything metal with you, eddy currents as you pass through magnetic fields will melt your wedding ring.
Did you mean to write "non-legible" ?