skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope. Putting electronics in landfills simply isn't that harmful.
We run a public domain jam every January - come join us and make games with the new public domain material! https://itch.io/jam/gaming-like-its-1929
Does everyone else remember when GDPR came out and everyone running a website was extradited to Europe and fined a billion pounds.
Like was saw with Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19623240/), there's now also a slightly higher budget movie taking advantage of Popeye entering the public domain: Popeye the Slayer Man (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30956852/). Great line from the trailer: "You know why the factory closed down 20 years ago? There was a spinach contamination."

Not be confused with Pops the Slayer Man (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33362807/), also coming out next year.
I am not. There is no official government distinction between contracting/freelancing/consultant, see here:

https://www.gov.uk/contract-types-and-employer-responsibilit...
Yeah I basically treat LLM as a better Google search. It is indeed a lot better than Google if I want to find some public information, but I need to be careful and double-check.

Other than that it completely depends on luck I guess. I'm pretty sure if companies feed in-house information to it that will make it much more useful, but those agents would be privately owned and maintained.
I'm just worried about OTA updates. Shelly and Sonoff are playing nice now. They might not always.

Plus, unless you fence off your wifi device from the router, it might be phoning home on you. At least a module without a WiFi stack can't do that
> are broadly useful in the sense that they generally improve productivity across the industry. They already right now save enormous amounts of developer time,

But is that actually a true statement. Are there actual studies to back that up?

AI is hyped to the moon right now. It is really difficult to separate the hype from reality. There are ancedotal reports of ai helping with coding, but there are also ancedotal reports that they get things almost right but not quite, which often leads to bugs which wouldn't otherwise happen. I think its unclear if that is a net win for productivity in software engineering. It would be interesting if there was a robust study about it.
Maximization of profit is what all companies do. For publicly traded companies, it is considered a duty to their shareholders and not doing so will result in executives getting booted out and even lawsuits.

With that out of the way, market segmentation is often good for budget customers, who, in the case of Nvidia GPUs, are gamers. They get GPUs that run their games just as well as the uncrippled model, for a much lower price. Without market segmentation, all the GPUs would go to Amazon, Microsoft, Google, etc... since they are the ones with the big budget, gamers will be left with GPUs they can't afford, and Nvidia with less profits as they will lose most of the market for gamers.

With market segmentation, Nvidia wins, gamers win, AI companies and miners lose. And I don't know about you, but I think that AI companies and miners deserve the premiums they pay.

It sounds stupid to pay for crippled hardware, but when buying a GPU, the silicon is only a small part of the price, the expensive part is all the R&D, and that cost is the same no matter how many chips they sell, and it makes sense to maximize these sales, and segmentation is how they do it without sacrificing their profits.

Of course, should AMD or Intel come back, they would do their own market segmentation too, in fact, they already do.
Models don’t get better just by time passing. The specific reasons for why they’ve been getting better don’t necessarily look like they’ll extend indefinitely into the future.
I think in principle LLMs are no different from other lowercase-a abstractions that have substantially boosted productivity while lowering cost, from compilers to languages to libraries to protocols to widespread capabilities like payments and cloud services and edge compute and more and more. There is so much more software that can be written, and may be rewritten, abstract machines that can be built and rebuilt, across domains of hardware and software, that become enabled by this new intelligence-as-a-service capability.

I think juniors are a significant audience for LLM code production because they provide tremendous leverage for making new things. For more experienced folk, there are lots of choices that resemble prior waves of adoption of new state of the art tools/techniques. And as it always goes, adoption of those in legacy environments is going to go more slowly, while disruption of legacy products and services that have a cost profile may occur more frequently as new economics for building and then operating something intelligent start to appear.
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we need to enshitify our supply chains with grifters
If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck....
I agree with the first statement and I want to point out that PHP had the exact same issues with its ecosystem. its getting better but not by much.
I hope the competition will inspire people to make breakthroughs in the open, so I won't take any rights to the IP, instead the winning solutions must use open source code and open weight models.
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I do seem to vaguely remember a time when there was a fair amount of noise proclaiming "visual programming is making dedicated programmers obsolete." I think the implication was that now everybody's boss could just make the software themselves or something.

LLM's as a product feel practically similar, because _even if_ they could write code that worked in large enough quantities to constitute any decently complex application, the person telling them what problem to solve has to understand the problem space since the LLM's can't reason.

Given that neither of those things are true, it's not much different from visual programming tools, practically speaking.
> Why doesn’t WP Engine just fork the project?

They don't want to pay for all that. They want to make money. That might save Mullenweg in the end, despite himself. He might be ordered to help them set up an alternative plugin directory, but the court probably can't or won't force him to continue doing business with them. Keeping up their mirror of the WP infra might cut into profits too badly. All of the huffing and puffing on their side doesn't change the fact that they're basically parasitic. They do nothing for Mullenweg, and he was doing everything for them.

There could be an outcome where he's about to be forced to pay damages for all of the harassment and help with some complex remedy that still requires them to fork, and instead they come to a settlement beforehand where they (quietly and confidentially) pay him something slightly less than 8% of their revenue and he pays their legal costs and publicly apologizes.
The furore below reminds me of the GDPR apocalypse predictions...none of which came true.
I've never played with Omegle, but can you develop a reputation that will affect who gets matched with you, or is it just random? I guess I'm wondering if when you say "carving out a niche" you meant "creating a reputation" or something else.
I invest in my soft skills. I’ve become pretty good at handling my business stakeholders now and while I do still code, I’m also keeping business in the loop and helping them to be involved.
Your main challenge will probably be measuring the distance between neighboring drones as accurately as possible. AIUI you could recover signal from unevenly spaced receptors IFF you know precisely where each receptor is.

After that it's just a standard computational problem which is (IMO) far less interesting.
I didn't realize they were selling garage door openers for free.
1. Governments sit together in a room and design rules. This isn't happening and isn't happening anytime soon.

2. Common sense, first come first serve with big organisation (SpaceX, Amazon, China) communicating directly.
Earlier discussion:

What will enter the public domain in 2025?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42290448
I’m not so sure. It’s a layman’s interpretation, but I think any “forum” would be multi-risk.

That means you need to do CSAM scanning if you accept images, CSAM URL scanning if you accept links, and there’s a lot more than that to parse here.
I always used the getters anyway. Given:

message M {
string foo = 1;
}
message N {
M bar = 2;
}

I find (new(M)).Bar.Foo panicking pretty annoying. So I just made it a habit to m.GetBar().GetFoo() anyway. If m.GetBar().SetFoo() works with the new API, that would be an improvement.

There are some options like nilaway if you want static analysis to prevent you from writing this sort of code, but it's difficult to retrofit into an existing codebase that plays a little too fast and loose with nil values. Having code authors and code reviewers do the work is simpler, though probably less accurate.

The generated code's API has never really bothered me. It is flexible enough to be clever. I especially liked using proto3 for data types and then storing them in a kv store with an API like:

type WithID interface { GetId() []byte }

func Put(tx *Tx, x WithID) error { ... }
func Get(tx *Tx, id []byte) (WithId, error) { ... }

The autogenerated API is flexible enough for this sort of shenanigan, though it's not something I would recommend except to have fun.
Glad you like it!

I actually have a TODO for what you're describing haha

https://github.com/TomerAberbach/lfi/blob/69cdca0b2ee2bd078f...
There are some carrier unlocked versions available. Or at least used to be. They seem pretty universal - I'm running a T-Mobile one on an AT&T MVNO right now, and it wasn't too big a hassle to set up. Unfortunately, I think these are nearing end of production, supplies seem to be limited lately.
It would just throttle like it already does.
> Code quality does not affect final product quality IMHO.

What we need, admittedly, is more research and study around this. I know of one study which supports my position, but I'm happy to admit that the data is sparse.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.04374

From the abstract:

"By analyzing activity in 30,737 files, we find that low quality code contains 15 times more defects than high quality code."
They pay about $1K per production. It's certainly not making them any money, as the ticket sales amount to about $500 total, and that money is coming from parents and family who would be paying the $5 ticket price no matter what is on stage. Nobody else is attending these plays. I think the main reason they're doing it is because it is what most the kids want to do, especially because it is a combine high school/middle school play so there are younger kids in it.

At least this year, they let the seniors pick the play and completely run the show. They're still paying about a grand for the rights, but they did make a more interesting choice, "The Crucible".
Balatro dev swings at PEGI for rating it 18 because of its 'evil playing cards'
Okdokie well not really going touch that bit, but just still want to point out that the way you have it written it sounds like the second claim is an argument for the first and it makes it a little confusing.
Thanks demarq. I agree the marketing needs some improvements. They recently did a rebrand and it's added a lot of confusion.
I wish I could say that was a realistic alternative for compute work (and on workstations and servers rather than consumer PCs). Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it - both in terms of the hardware offering (AFAICT), and ecosystem richness. Which is really a shame; not because AMD are saintly, but because NVIDIA have indeed indeed been slimey and non-forthcoming about so much, for so long.
?? Not sure what you mean. Carmack's advice is not specific to any particular point in your career. You can enact the principle he's talking about just as much with 30 YOE as you can with 2. It's actually easier advice to follow for older people than younger, since they have seen more of the world and probably have a better sense of where the "rough edges" are. Despite what you see on twitter and HN and YC batches, most successful companies are started by people in their 40s.
He says he has a hard time beating his feather in arm wrestling despite him working out. Anecdotally blue collar people have much strong wrist flexion (cupping) than us white collar people, but pronation and technique can help negate that. My experience shows that power cleans can help with arm wrestling but not many people do those.
You're correct - that's a fair point.
>Protect the children -> Criminalize activites that might in any way cause an increase in risk to children -> Best to just keep them indoors playing with electronic gadgets -> Increased rates of obesity/depression etc -> Children worse off.

Not sure how keeping kids off the internet keeps them indoors? Surely the opposite is true?
The current popeye artist is a fairly interesting public domain ally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._K._Milholland ... he did a mickey mouse thing at the beginning of the year. I assume he's fine with it but I can't find any statements by him.
> "Competition is for losers" - Thiel.

This quote is great but is not a call for building inefficient businesses. An inefficient business invites competition (which is for losers). An equally nice saying is "your margin is my opportunity".
Full text: https://archive.is/YbPek
> The average American, both male and female, has more muscle mass than in 1924.

This is true, but sort of a sleight of hand -- obese people that don't exercise have more muscle mass than non-obese people who don't exercise, just to carry around all of the fat. And obviously the average American, both male and female, is more overweight/obese than in 1924.

(I agree with basically everything else you say, though.)
Almost a month ago the trailer for Popeye the Slayer Man was released: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1hsxK0UMlQ

Surprisingly violent trailer, fyi.
I disagree, and this line of thinking is positively dangerous.

Just because Ferrari might be capable of making that car for $20k, I don't have a fundamental right to demand it from them any more than I have a fundamental right to demand that you make me a sandwich right now for $5.

> they can afford

Before using the word "they" in a prescriptive sentence, think about whether you could substitute "I" and you would still be happy with it.
exactly. many SWEs currently are fighting this fight of “oh it is not good enough bla bla…” on my team currently (50-ish people) you would not last longer than 3 months if you tried to do your work “manually” like we did before. several have tried, no longer around. I believe SWEs fighting LLMs are doing themselves a huge disservice in that they should be full-on embracing it and trying to figure out how to more effectively use them. just like any other tool, it is as good as the user of the tool :)
Is this the software suggested by my new robot vacuum?
We've been using them to find novel vulnerabilities in open source web apps. The past 4 posts here have details:

- Auth bypass/arbitrary file read in Scoold: https://xbow.com/blog/xbow-scoold-vuln/

- SSRF in 2FAuth: https://xbow.com/blog/xbow-2fauth-ssrf/

- Stored XSS in 2FAuth: https://xbow.com/blog/xbow-2fauth-xss/

- Path traversal in Labs.AI EDDI: https://xbow.com/blog/xbow-eddi-path/

Each of those has an associated agent trace so you can go read exactly what the agent did to find and exploit the vulnerability.
o1 had no issues solving this.

https://chatgpt.com/share/67609bca-dd08-8004-ba27-0f010afc12...
Or you can upload a cgi script to a web host like hetzner, then you have “serverless” too.
Is a tornado an object or a process?
https://archive.ph/QmPXa
low-end Chinese phones, including Xiaomi and Huawei, show ads on system apps like Settings and Contacts. soon, smart home appliances might also display or speak ads. there's nothing stopping these Chinese companies from doing so - both technologically and ethically.

Xiaomi definitely should not lead the way in smart home automation.
Their former competition wasn't any different. I still remember ATI/AMD pencil mods to unlock things they disabled.
Saturn's rings could be much older than scientists first thought
"Usually" is famous last words in investing - hopefully your rationale goes a little deeper. Doesn't need to be all that deep, just a little deeper than that crowd.
You probably know, if you think about it, that I wasn’t saying there were no expenditures involved. This is just specious.

You said “it cost Google a LOT more than their compensation to make it possible for them to even start working on this project, let alone carrying it forward to completion.” As if Google is groaning under the weight of sacrifices made specifically so these SREs can play in their engineering playground every day. I am saying this is backwards — that there has been no such sacrifice on Google’s part.
There's also the original 1957-1964 TV show, Herge's Adventures of Tintin. Here's a fragment of its original airing on Catalan public television (TV3) during the 80s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMH76zya8MQ. That's seemingly the only available piece of that particular translated version on the Internet, and its audio is damaged, at that. Makes me think of how much content has been completely lost through the years.
Start selling the shovels.

I.e., get into the LLM/AI business
It's still more than with a computer.

I don't think I had any teacher who only talked in front of us. Not only did that do more than that in class, and via marked papers, we also had teachers who helped out in school clubs, and attended bake sales, and set up the room for parent visits, and lead field trips, and organized sports days and fire drills. One teacher went the same church as my family, and I bumped into teachers a few times around town.

1 to 30 is higher than average for most of the US. https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ntps/tables/ntps1718_fltable06_t... and https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ntps/estable/table/ntps/ntps2021... tell me it's more like 1:25.
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Fantastic that progress is being made on this. Hopefully it's enough to stem the tide, though consumer behavior wrt calls has probably already fundamentally shifted. It'll take a long _long_ time before folks who have stopped picking up are comfortable answering a random call again.
I created a bot that automatically generates and posts video book reviews daily
If you're launching a fleet of drones, discretion is probably not a major concern.

A coded sonic pulse could have exceptionally long range. Sure your enemies would detect it, about half a second before they detect the drones.

A more practical concern is simply temperature and how long the drone's power supply can survive in the cold ocean.
Aside from possible technical explanations (e.g., the binning of products based on defects which permit sub-optimal performance as creato describes: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42435397>), there's market segmentation.

French polymath (economist, engineer, bureaucrat) Jules Dupuit famously described this concerning railway carriage accomodations and the parlous state of third-class carriages:

It is not because of the several thousand francs which they would have to spend to cover the third class wagons or to upholster the benches. ... [I]t would happily sacrifice this [expense] for the sake of its popularity.

Its goal is to stop the traveler who can pay for the second class trip from going third class. It hurts the poor not because it wants them to personally suffer, but to scare the rich.

<https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/why-does-air-travel-suck-...>

More on Dupuit:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Dupuit>

Market segmentation by performance is a long-standing practice in the information technology world. IBM would degrade performance of its mainframes by ensuring that a certain fraction of CPU operations were no-ops (NOPs), meaning that for those clock cycles the system was not processing data. A service engineer would remove those limits on a higher lease fee (IBM leased rather than sold machines, ensuring a constant revenue stream). It's common practice in other areas to ship products with features installed but disabled and activated for only some paying customers.

Another classic example: the difference between Microsoft Windows NT server and workstation was the restriction of two registry keys:

We have found that NTS and NTW have identical kernels; in fact, NT is a single operating system with two modes. Only two registry settings are needed to switch between these two modes in NT 4.0, and only one setting in NT 3.51. This is extremely significant, and calls into question the related legal limitations and costly upgrades that currently face NTW users.

<https://landley.net/history/mirror/ms/differences_nt.html>
That's the same figuring a lot of business folks had when considering off-shoring in the early 2000s - those companies ended up hiring twice as many senior programmers to sanity check and correct the code they got back. The same story can be heard from companies that fired their expensive seniors to hire twice as many juniors at a quarter the price.

I think that software development is just an extremely poor market segment for these kinds of tools - we've already got mountains of productivity tools that minimize how much time we need to spend doing the silly rote programming stuff - most of software development is problem solving.
Vertice AI Hiring SWE ($2M+ ARR analytics startup)
I'm the Head of Engineering at a startup called Vertice AI - not a YC company but we have a solid base of $2M+ ARR (we're an advanced analytics company focussed on credit unions) and we're looking to bring on a great frontend SWE FAST - next month or 2.

Fill out this form if anyone is interested:
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The Online Safety Act is about content moderation. If Ofcom taps you on the shoulder, they're asking for your moderation policies, and proof you're enforcing them. Platforms can no longer wash their hands of responsibility by saying that some random user uploaded the content and an opaque algorithm showed it to hundreds of thousands of people: the platform allowed the content to remain, and it was the platform's algorithm that showed the content to hundreds of thousands of people.

The Web isn't the information superhighway in cyberspace that it was in the '90s. The muggles are here, and they're treating social media like another part of the physical world, and we just have to live with the consequences of that. Mandatory content moderation is just one of those consequences.

You're not entitled to run any business, let alone a social media platform. Every right has attendant responsibilities. Fulfil your obligations to society.
And Youtube wouldn't last long on its own.

Regarding infra, they were not capable of reaching the scale they needed and were already struggling by the time they got acquired.

On the money side, they couldn't attract advertisers as well as Google.
splitting the control and data plane is a great way to improve resilience and prevent everything from being hard down. I wonder how it could be accomplished with service discovery / routing.

maybe instead of relying on kubernetes DNS for discovery it can be closer to something like envoy.the control plane updates configs that are stored locally (and are eventually consistent) so even if the control plane dies the data plane has access to location information of other peer clusters.