skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Umm, they made the same comments about Gen X workers.

And the boomers. My wife still quotes my stepmother on the remarks of a boss of mine ca. 1971.
It's not really a subset:

MIFARE Classic uses a proprietary and mandatory encryption/authentication algorithm and is therefore not ISO 14443-4 compliant. As a result, NFC-compliant readers don't need to support it, and in fact non-NXP ones (including many popular Android phones) usually don't.

On the other hand, as you say, MIFARE Classic supports capabilities beyond NFC/NDEF, but there are fully NFC-compliant tags that do so as well (e.g. MIFARE DESfire, which properly stacks encryption in an ISO 14443-4 compliant way).
1) have books like 'The Art of Programming' on my shelf, as AI seems to propagate solutions that are related to code golf more than robustness due to coverage in the corpus.

2) Force my self to look at existing code as abstract data types, etc... to help reduce the cost of LLMs failure mode (confident, often competent, and inevitable wrong)

3) curry whenever possible to support the use of coding assistants and to limit their blast radius.

4) Dig deep into complexity theory to understand what LLMs can't do, either for defensive or offensive reasons.

5) Realize that SWE is more about correctness and context than code.

6) Realize what many people are already discovering, that LLM output is more like clip art than creation.
Good news:

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...

2. This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data: (c) by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity;
I haven't tried direct playback, but the ports are USB 2.0 which should work for anything with a bitrate below 480Mbps.

LG TV - Supported Video Codecs For Connected USB Devices: https://www.lg.com/us/support/help-library/lg-tv-supported-v...
I watched that 10 times because the details are bonkers and I find amazing that she and the candle is visible in the mirror! Speaking of inaccuracy though are these pencils/textmarkers/pens on the desk? ;)
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Doesn't that 18 million minimum disproportionately effect smaller operations risk wise? Or is that the point?
> The right to freedom of speech enumerated in the US constitution

The problem is people switch between this definition of freedom of speech and the the more general version found in "on liberty" and other philosophical works. If youre talking about what the government is allowed to do sure use the first definition but this conversation started by talking about the second. By subtlety switching from "is this something that is good to do" to "is this something the government is allowed to do" youve derailed the conversation.

Philosophical freedom of speech is much more than what is enumerated in the constitution.
It's because buying things allows you to see the price of the thing, which means that will be the first and last thing you evaluate: quality is radically harder to quantify, so we resort to evaluating on the thing that comes in an easy quantity. Sellers are thus always incentivized to figure out how to make the price low, since basically all other factors can't be rigorously evaluated until after the sale...
It's not particularly egregious because it's not a national vote for a party, is it?

It's a series of (balanced) regional votes for elected representatives from equal-sized constituencies who are supposed to be responsive to that region.

Suddenly this is a massive problem for tories because it's red-faced angry right-wingers on the losing side. Whenever it contributed significantly to a tory win, it has not been a problem.

If you look at what actually happened you will see that, repeatedly, right-wing candidates lost out on a constituency-by-constituency level because the Conservatives were largely incumbents who had built up enough very personal bad reputation to be booted out, or inexperienced first-time candidates who are very rarely elected anyway and were parachuted at the last minute into seats where grandees were retiring, and the Reform candidates were a gaggle of weirdos, randoms, odd-bods, extremists and idiots who were lining up to stand for election for a party that had such a thin platform it ultimately resolves to "oooh we don'
t like them", where "them" varied a little region by region but usually meant foreigners.

(And, of course, they split part of the vote between them.)
Universal Iota Combinator
> this is not a venture that can afford compliance costs... and if we did, what remains is a disproportionately high personal liability for me, and one that could easily be weaponised by disgruntled people who are banned for their egregious behaviour

I'm a little confused about this part. Does the Online Safety Act create personal liabilities for site operators (EDIT: to clarify: would a corporation not be sufficient protection)? Or are they referring to harassment they'd receive from disgruntled users?

Also, this is the first I've heard of Microcosm. It looks like some nice forum software and one I maybe would've considered for future projects. Shame to see it go.
H.R.8610 – Counter-UAS Authority Security, Safety, and Reauthorization Act
Textual 1.0 released
If they are especially noisy wouldn't that make them incredibly easy to track identify and then disregard in addition to being so expensive that your country can't even afford to have healthcare?
"Did you find UpWork worth pursuing?"

Personally? No.

But I met a few people who were pretty serious about it, and made good money there.

"What type of blogging are you doing?"

I chose a platform (dev.to) and started writing about my weekly learnings in my dev job.

React, React-Native, WebPack, Node.js, etc.

Later, I moved to DevOps stuff with AWS, Pulumi, Serverless, etc.

I got between 1000 and 10000 views per article and was Dev.to Distinguished Author for two years.

If you put quality stuff out that people want, sooner or later you get some interest.

Not every company has AWS or Vercel reach/money and can hire the top 1% of content creators.

On my website, you can see some of my clients. Not FAANG-Tier, but not no-name agency either.

https://kay.is
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg
I've seen these claims for years at this point but I never see concrete examples. It's all just vibes.

Admittedly you're searching for very different things than what I search for. Lately, whenever I need things like electronic app notes and data sheets, Bing has been returning useful results on the front page that don't show up in Google at all. There is no shortage of unattributed, misleading and/or wrong snippets mixed in with the Google results, though.
I'm curious what you are arguing here? Yes, the number of laws applicable to people has gone up. The number of things that people can individually do has also gone up. Networking effects are real and don't have a word limit on them.
> From a financial point of view, engineers are considered assets not costs

At Google? Perhaps. At most companies? No. At most places, software engineering is a pure cost center. The software itself may be an asset, but the engineers who are churning it out are not. That's part of the reason that it's almost always better to buy than build -- externalizing shared costs.

Just for an extreme example, I worked at a place that made us break down our time on new code vs. maintenance of existing code, because a big chunk of our time was accounted for literally as a cost, and could not be depreciated.
It truly is a wonder therapy with no known side effects. I pair it with Ozempic! /s.
I'm curious what would need to change to fix this? Because enshittification has become so ubiquitous and terrible that it's in the dictionary now. Is it regulation? Antitrust? Obliterate every board and private equity firm? There must be an actionable set of steps out of this because we had to have stepped into it somehow
My anecdata shows people who have no/limited experience in software engineering are suddenly able to produce “software”. That is, code of limited engineering value. It technically works, but is a ultimately an unmaintainable, intractable Heath Robinson monstrosity.

Coding LLMs will likely improve, but what will happen first: a good-at-engineering LLM; or a negative feedback cycle of training data being polluted with a deluge of crap?

I’m not too worried at the moment.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/klarna-ceo-says-th...
Discussion (351 points, 4 days ago, 298 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42400556
Given the lack of a Part 2, I'm guessing some of the optimism in the article about how easy it would be was misplaced. I know very little about this stuff but presumably he would need to write some code for the SIM7600SA that would allow it to interface seamlessly with the UI board, which sounds far from trivial (unless maybe the UI board is very well documented)?
Hey, that links corresponds to the private models list that only works once you've created an account. If you'd like to see the public models page, please check it out here: https://console.ncompass.tech/public-models.

We've put a wrong hyperlink on the website, but we've fixed that now, thanks for letting us know.

Regarding us being able to reliably host models versus setting up a website largely comes down to our technical background. All of us are hardware engineers so our front-end capabilities are not our strong suit :). But our experience as hardware engineers makes us confident in hosting the models themselves. Both 8B and 70B models, if cached, do actually load in exactly 40s, but please feel free to try out the system and see for yourself!
You certainly strongly implied that NDAs don't apply with the phrase "their magically novel, super unique code is just too secret". You used the words "is just too secret" sarcastically, which led me to believe you think in fact the work is not too secret to exfiltrate to the LLMs on the Internet: that is, that NDAs don't apply.

> In reality a programmer could yield immense value from such tools having a) given it zero lines of their code, b) used zero lines of the code it generated.

We simply have different experiences of life! I think with the advent of Claude 3.5 Sonnet the LLMs have just about edged out ahead in terms of time saved vs time wasted, for me, but before Sonnet I'm fairly confident they were moderately net negative for me.

Can you give some concrete examples of where they've helped you this dramatically? With links to chat logs? I still don't understand how people are finding them so useful, and I keep asking people and they keep not providing chat logs so I can see what they're doing.
Core properties of well functioning markets is information symmetry and transparency. I don't think this describes a lot of consumer goods. Even consumers who want to do their research will find that there isn't enough information available.

Personally, I feel the responsibility of government in a capitalist system, is ensuring the free market is actually a free market. I'd love it if there was a government agency charged with improving the above mentioned problem of information asymmetry and lacking transparency. For example, when I buy a fridge I'm happy to spend more now, if it means I spend less over the lifetime of the item, but determining the cost per year for every fridge on the market is a huge task for an individual.
At Least 5 Dead at Wisconsin Christian School, Including Shooter
The Complexity Dynamics of Grokking
> For those who are concerned that they will have to engage a solicitor to write reams of policies for their small Mastodon instance, need I remind you how utterly half-arsed everything in this country is?

The problem is that it's very easy to selectively enforce this sort of thing. Most people will never have an issue, but whoever manages to sufficiently annoy someone who has the ability to trigger an enforcement action could be screwed. That leads many of the people who might find themselves in that situation to stop annoying the government or stop running websites entirely.

That's called a chilling effect.

People would probably not be as concerned if the law only applied to large platforms.
As long as it can report open/close status, you can create an automation for that. That’s what I did.
I like the taxonomy you've outlined. It would be great if the Home Assistant org were to formalize something like it into levels with logos manufacturers could use in ads and packaging. It would help clarify products for users and, most importantly, provide an incentive for manufacturers toward more local-first interop.

It might be good to invert the order above and name the levels with something like Platinum, Gold, Silver to clearly signal better and best. Manufacturer's marketing people love having external compliance logos, especially manufacturers of commodity hardware.
Risc-v is the future, even for Intel. Still, x64 can evolve.
depends on the human, right? I imagine an artist who specializes in SVG would do pretty well and might make it a professional logo?
It's just a trope, like "arguing" about Die Hard being a Christmas movie. Or maybe a little closer to home, "is a burrito a monad?" and other low-effort fodder.
Especially since their slashing red tape for energy policy projects didn't even help the energy policy projects in any way. They intended and announced an uptick e.g. in onshore wind projects which just didn't happen. One thing is that they didn't slash all the red tape, just symbolic amounts. The other thing is that there is no investment because all the rest of the economy is in the toilet and people and investors hold on to their money.
Pineapple on pizza is in the same category as steak-doneness and IPAs. It's not about the food itself, but the social signaling of supposedly good taste.
[TL;DR: Hindsight is 20/20, but if you did a good job with your requirements and you had good information about if a product meets each one, then it doesn't always matter that other products which didn't meet the requirements as completely eventually win out.]

I may be one of these types, but at least in many of my cases, I don't really know that it mattered in the end?

Maybe after a review I pick something that didn't win in the long term or even eventually exited the market because it wasn't popular enough. But, my requirements are almost never strictly that it's popular. What I end up with does typically do the job very well for the time I have it, and after few years the requirements may change or the need may go away completely. If one of my requirements is that a device is built with metal instead of plastic, maybe I never have to replace it.

Another example: Your friend had a Zune, but then I'm guessing they moved on to a phone, [because phones eventually] became better music players. If the Zune did all the things they wanted while they had it, especially if they had a unique need, maybe were happy with it. (Although, that isn't necessarily always the case.)

This doesn't seem quite as applicable for selecting software, though. Popularity often is part of what I look at there, because I want to know dependencies won't need replacing and support will be available. Additionally, you can potentially work with the developers so the selection iterates and grows into your requirements.
Trump eyes privatizing US Postal Service, citing financial losses
Any link to that magic? Sounds interesting.
> ...or feed entire projects to AI and let the AI code, while they do code review and adjustments.

Is there some secret AI available that isn't by OpenAI or Microsoft because this this sounds like complete hogwash.
they compare threads and coroutines for limbo. threads have much worse p90 latencies since they context switch.... im not sure they can draw any conclusions except that coroutines are faster (of course)
it's worse than that: nobody knows! how are we supposed to know if all the investment vendor A made in "reliability" of their appliance will actually work, or if it was just spent wastefully? And oops: past results don't reflect future outcomes, so you can't even really bank on a brand or a reputation: who knows if they just cut all Q/A staff? Welcome to entropy my friends!
Because it’s all made in china and the Chinese just copy crap and don’t work it. Such is the communist economy. Suck it, libs, that’s your utopia.
Over 20 years ago I modeled an internal combustion engine, an automatic transmission and a multibody chassis model all in a single model. IIRC, the model had something like 250,000 equations in it and it modeled combustion, hydraulics, friction, and 3D rigid body motion. It is capable of far more than simple models.

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&d...
I don't think Rust delivers this tremendous value. Bootstrapping it doesn't do much unless everything gets migrated forward to the bootstrappable version. It's got all the worst aspects of a systems language combined with all the pain points of npm. I don't want to be required to be online or to download hundreds of unvetted bullshit packages to make a simple program, and that's the way it's made.
Guess the hand game (Gol ya Pooch)
Yes. A CIC is just a limited company with some additional community interest obligations. You can set up a limited company to shield yourself from liability (i.e: if your website is sued by a user, your personal assets aren't at risk) and only in exceptional cases (where serious lawbreaking is involved) could you be held personally liable.

Rightly or wrongly, limited companies in the UK provide a high degree of protection for wrongdoing. Defrauding HMRC out of hundreds of thousands of pounds and suffering no consequence is happening day in day out. An Ofcom fine is nothing by comparison.
CISA Requests Public Comment for Draft National Cyber Incident Response Plan
For most of the business, they don't really need exceptionally good solutions. Something works is fine. I'm pretty sure AI can replace at least do 50% of my coding work. It's not going to replace me right now, but it's there in the foreseeable future, especially when companies realize they can have some setup like 1 good PM + a couple of seniors + bunch of AI agents instead of 1 good PM + a few seniors + bunch of juniors.
Yup. I paid like $40CAD for a single Hue lightbulb in 2017 and it's still going. In that time, I've had countless cheap Canadian Tire brand (NOMA) & Walmart brand LED bulbs burn out and need replacing totaling WAY more than $40.

I just looked and they have gotten like 20% more expensive though... that said, their non-smart bulbs are still pretty affordable comparatively.
You'll go from competing with Google to competing with IKEA.
The hacker in me is real grumpy about all this, and believes that they’re nannying a whole lot of the dumb superficial stuff while pushing serious malfeasance underground.

But they make a good point: if you exclude the smaller providers, that’s where the drugs and CSAM and the freewheeling dialog go. Assuming it’s their policy goal to deter these categories of speech, I’m not sure how you do that without a net fine enough to scoop up the 4chans of the world too.

It’s not the behavior of a confident, open, healthy society, though…
Office Space just keeps replaying in my head. All he needed was a timely fire to get away with it.
We have that issue at work, though I solved it by including the sqlite database within the container image that we use. We then deploy the new container image (with the same code as before, but with a revised database file) at most every fifteen minutes.

This gives you an atomic point at which you are 100% confident all instances are using the same database, and by provisioning concurrency, you can also avoid a "thundering herd" of instances all fetching from the file on S3 at startup (which can otherwise lead to throttling).

Of course, that's only feasible if it's acceptable that your data can be stale for some number of minutes, but if you're caching the way you are, and periodically checking S3 for an updated database, it probably is.
Europe signs contracts for IRIS² constellation – SpaceNews
This is why I love HN, thanks for sharing
Some of the best home automation stuff is cloud-less wifi. For example Shelly switches with Tasmota are awesome and I much prefer those over zigbee bulbs.
That's a fair point, but it's still likely less expensive than replacing your existing opener if you include the cost of an electrician doing the wiring for you.
You are so fun man I wonder why you don’t use your real account to gather lol points.
Show HN: CLI that explains the output of your last command
Yesterday I recorded an example of an O'reilly auto parts customer service agent to show how users can invoke them using RAG - last part of this video https://youtu.be/Qk_pVHtgcyA

There are plenty of RAG-capable LLMs in production, but still few products/UX oriented toward agentic work.

An AI product that can make purchases and API requests to external services like delivery drivers, calendars, etc. is still needed to truly enable these "agents" - which right now are basically read-only domain-specific LLMs.
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The issue is when $50 million is owed and some of the debtors offer to give up their $28 million dollar claim for the building. But then there is no cash for the other debtors with a $22 million dollar claim.

As opposed to selling the building for $1 million cash and everyone getting 2% of what they are owed.
The problem is that so many people who only take Econ 101 seem to believe their understanding is analogous to understanding the physics of reality by learning Newton's laws and equations of motion.

But it isn't. Econ 101 is more analogous to Aristotelian physics, full of outright falsehoods, self-contradictions, things that sound right but have no basis in reality, and an abject failure and unwillingness to test anything and change your mind once you've seen contradictory results.

So you have millions upon millions shouting "regulation bad" with nary a whiff of systemic understanding.

Econ 101 is terrible.
IME the only major app limitations are games. All the browsers now have a native ARM version. It's possible to get ARM Emacs, R, Visual Studio etc. Most other stuff works fine over compatibility. I have run into one program that would not install because it hard-codes a check for x64. It wasn't anything major and I cant even recall what it was though.

I have heard about issues with printer drivers but I don't have a printer or any other devices that don't just use some generic driver.
Is the trustee of a small charity on the hook for £18,000,000 in minimum fines?
Argentina is a great analog for the UK, time shifted by century. Both former first-class economies doomed to a long decline by bad policies that elites refuse to change.
If you're getting an implant already, why not make it an actual smartcard that you can use for WebAuthN, GPG, SSH etc.? :)

On the other hand, the fear of permanently bricking it or messing up the GlobalPlatform card management key has so far prevented me from doing it myself...
Reform is a spinoff, yes, in the same way that UKIP is a spinoff: it's a party consisting of people who didn't/couldn't/wouldn't get selected as conservative MPs, plus on the odd occasion one or two who left (Lee Anderson, who is terrible, awful, self-serving and alarming, and before him for UKIP Douglas Carswell, who was largely better characterised as a nice enough bloke who was completely wrong)
The average life of a consumer good anymore is sometimes measured in months. By the time you know the compressor on a particular fridge model is junk that model is no longer sold.

I have found with the exception of very expensive brands, 20k dollar fridges etc. they are all junk and paying more just gets you useless features like wifi connectivity or a tablet in the door that will be part of a botnet in 3 months.