skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are parallels here to abortion, where a certain bloc of people believe "the only moral abortion is my abortion" [0], and now also "the only moral gender-affirming care is my gender-affirming care."

There's a certain quixotic daydream appeal to the idea of vindictively giving them exactly what they demand. Merely quixotic, of course, because the harm on innocents would be unacceptable.

Ex: "I'm sorry Mr. and Mrs. Smith, but you outlawed any treatment of your anemic 6-year old daughter who just started menstruating, and your son will just have to be bullied as Big Titty Timmy until he becomes 18, our hands are tied except to help treat his depression. You also made it illegal for you to obtain gender-affirming car such as breast-enlargement, wrinkle removal, hair restoration, or erectile-dysfunction pills."

[0] https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-...
> (He wrote his own font, once, because he didn't like the way the built-in ones worked at teeny point sizes).

That's similar to how Donald Knuth came up with TeX and Metafont.
It would be different too if we didn't know the secret sauce here is massive amounts of data and the jump process was directly related to a jump in the amount of data.

Some of the logic here is akin to how I have lost 30lbs in 2024 so at this pace I will weigh -120lbs by 2034!
not a model per se but there are plenty of safeguards on, for example, oAI products.

Go ask an oAI product 'draw a portrait in the style of Patrick Nagel'.

Here's the reply I got : "I am unable to generate images in the style of Patrick Nagel due to content policy restrictions regarding artists' styles. "

I don't know of any specific copyright-centric error messages, but in my ignorant naivety I would assume that if oAI products are having problems mimicking an artists' style, it'll probably avoid copyright as much as possible.
I invented a process using some environmentally friendly solvents, grinding the sorbent and so on. It is not diy friendly unfortunately so there is little point in sharing the recipe.
I have been unemployed for almost a year now (it started with a full division layoff and then no willingness or motivation to look for work at the time). Seeing the way AI can do most of the native app development (which is what I did) code I wrote I am losing almost any motivation to even try now. But I have been sleeping the best after college (where I slept awesome) and I have been working out, watching lots of theatre and cinema and playing lots of sports (two of them almost daily), reading a lot of literature, lots of podcasts. I guess I will just wait for my savings to run dry and then see what option then I'd have and what I would not if at all. I know the standard thing to do and say is "up-skill", "change with the times" etc and I am sure those have merit but I just feel I am done with the constant catch up, kind of checked out. I don't give a fuck anymore maybe, or I do and I am too demoralised to confront it.
SVGs are just 2D geometries, and I can assure you that almost every GIS project in the world uses vector data to model the physical world.

Whether it's a good model or a model that the LLMs can manipulate, I have no idea. But it's entirely plausible that I could feed an SVG map and ask it geospatial reasoning questions like how far between A and B, what's the nearest grocery store, etc.
1. If everyone is running custom written software that's not shared with anyone else if will be really hard to find vulnerabilities in them

2. I'm sure LLMs are already way better at detecting vulnerabilities than the average engineer. (when asked to do so explicitly)
One day, we got a big box of makeup at the office

now that's a true end-to-end test.
If Tintin in the Congo is the part entering the public domain, perhaps a yikes is in order?
It will be better with a reverse proxy. Decoupling the app and the ingress is always a good practice when you can afford an extra layer. The app itself is sufficient with HTTP/1.1 if the internal network is secure and performant (which it almost always is a container network nowadays).
Physical fitness is a chemical process that we trigger with exercise; we will find a way to short-circuit/mimic it with pills or injections. There are already "exercise in a pill" compounds in the works.
i heard the same shit when people were talking about outsourcing to India after the dotcom bubble burst. programmer salaries would cap out at $60k because of international competition.

if you're afraid of salaries shrinking due to LLMs, then i implore you, get out of software development. it'll help me a lot!
These days any changes going into /etc or really anywhere which is not my home directory are done via an Ansible playbook for me. If it's too complicated to script like that (which is not complicated at all) then it is absolutely too complicated to remember I did it or why.
If you want a fun one in that line, allow piercing the corporate veil by default until you get to a human. Want to scatter conglomerates to the wind? Make the parent corporation fully liable for the sins of every subsidiary.
There is some stuff in the other projects page on the website, that project went really well too, I spend most of my time on that these days, the ERV is a longer term thing, the fan has a finish line but in a way is more epic/important because it's about halting airborne disease transmission. It works extremely well, about 1900 CFM through merv 13 filters (10x 20 by 25 filtrete) at less than 41 dBa.
Messari Theses 2025: Crypto Year in Review
You can specify goals at a high level of abstraction. But do they agree on concrete policies to achieve those goals? The fact that the government failed suggests the answer is no. Same thing in France. Countries where half the political spectrum twists itself into a pretzel to oppose the right on immigration will become ungovernable.
I was just thinking recently about how much I hate the imposition of time limits on things like this! Although I'm not super interested in figuring out my own or others' IQ, these are a fun set of questions to mull over.
Even Valerii Danevych used a metal spring ...

https://www.ahci.ch/members/valerii-danevych/

https://www.keepthetime.com/blog/valerii-danevych-wooden-wat...
I've noticed this too, it's extremely prominent to me and I'm not sure why it's not discussed frequently.
And sometimes good regulations are really hard to swallow for the uninformed, while bad regulations sound really good on paper.

"children are getting raped and we aren't going to do anything about it because we want to protect indie websites" sounds a lot worse than "this is a significant step in combatting the spread of online child pornography", even if reality is actually far more complicated.
I have this problem but only with raw pineapples. I absolutely love grilled pineapples and they don't burn my mouth
I'm not sure that it's completed as a separate fp16 ALU. There's cute ways to share logic between a dual fp16 alu and a single fp32 ALU such that it's really just one ALU with those being different ops.
What officials actually say doesn't make a difference anymore. People do not get bamboozled because of lack of facts. People who get bamboozled are past facts.
Could you give an example of an AI capability that would change your mind on this, even slightly? "Sniff test" is rather subjective, and job replacement rarely happens with machines doing something better on the exact same axis of performance as humans. E.g., cars wouldn't have passed the coachman's "sniff test". Or to use a current topic - fast food self-order touchscreens don't pass the customer service people sniff test.
> or is pretending to feel for some agenda

Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I've been using Gaudi chips for a little bit and they are totally fine (and the software stack is even pretty good, or at least the happy path is mostly covered for me). For example I set up training with autocasting, activation checkpointing, fused ops, profiling etc., without too much trouble. I'll write a long blog post about it soon but I think their issue with the Gaudi chips is simply making enough and convincing people to buy them before Falcon Shores (which will, I think, be Xe slice based, so more like a better PVC chip than a Gaudi).

In summary the software story was very surprisingly better than I expected (no Jax though).
> AOL and Compuserve were available and provided access to quite a large number of people starting in 85 iirc […] It certainly wasn’t the web as we know it today, but it was the internet

CompuServe got limited internet capability (basically, just connecting its on-platform mail to internet mail) in 1989, AOL did so in 1993.

CompuServe (and Quantum/AOL and Delphi and Prodigy and…) were not the internet in any general sense, even though most of them and similar services connected to internet mail sometime between when CompuServe did in 1989 and when the web took over.

> all at the blazing fast speeds of the time, 14.4kbps

No one was doing 14.4kbps in the 1980s; the first modems at that speed were in 1991 or 1992. They would have largely been 2400bps from the mid-1980s; in the late 1980s there were some 9,600bps modems that were really expensive, but they weren’t standard and were rarely encountered.
> protect the children isn’t to protect the children, it’s to get reelected

The next UK general election is ~5 years away so this makes no sense.

The more likely reason is that it's simply good policy. We have enough research now that shows that (a) social media use is harmful for children and (b) social media companies like Meta, TikTok etc have done a wilfully poor job at protecting them.

It is bizarre to me how many people here seem willing to defend them.
One hundred per cent this.

LLM pair programming is unbelievably fun, satisfying, and productive. Why type out the code when you can instead watch it being typed while thinking of and typing out/speaking the next thing you want.

For those who enjoy typing, you could try to get a job dictating letters for lawyers, but something tells me that’s on the way out too.
The trick to those is finding the pocket.

If you're in the pocket anything you play will be on time.

Pretty much anyone can stay in a 4/4 time if they have a lick of musical ability.

With the weird time signatures like 13/8 or 7/4 it can be tough to find the pocket, so in those cases the vibe tends to divide into 2 sections that fit right at first (like one section of 7/8 and one of 6/8, or one section of 4/4 and one of 3/4) and you bounce between them until you sew them both together and then you can stay in the pocket for all of them.

It's harder to explain via text than it is in music practice.
If SQL were flexible, I wouldn’t need to create a whole view for a single query.
You've been able to do that for years now, in a way. I forget which setting it's under, but it uses your iPhone mic.

It's actually really wild, you feel like a spy. You can eavesdrop on conversations you wouldn't be able to hear otherwise.

But you have to be extremely careful, because if a loud sound comes along then yikes.
Doesn't sound very scary on the face of it. Apparently [0] the problem with Thalidomide was that the chirality could spontaneously reverse, so that sort of thing must happen frequently in nature. If bacteria haven't figured out how to use mirroring under evolutionary pressure it probably doesn't actually have any advantages over following the herd.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homochirality#In_biology
For all the deliberate rage-baiting that Kemi Badenoch and other present-day Tories engage in, the 'controversy' about sandwiches is entirely constructed by journalists. The Politico article that parent linked to even says as much:

"The Spectator asked the Tory leader — elected to the head of the U.K. opposition party in November — if she ever took a lunch break."

The Spectator are using their press privileges to ask party leaders about their personal lifestyle rather than asking about anything relevant to policy - and although the Spectator might be forgiven for that, it is indefensible for 'serious' newspapers such as the Guardian and the Telegraph to be giving this story front-page status.

There are lots of politicians for us to be embarrassed about, but perhaps even more journalists.
Why do you immediately think of sexual things? We're talking about Tintin here...
> But can you write tickets faster than you can implement them? I certainly can.

Personally, I have a tendency at work to delay creating tickets until after I've already written the implementation.

Why? Because tickets in my employer's system are expected to identify which component needs to be changed, and ideally should have some detail about what needs to be changed. But both of those things depend on the design of the change being implemented.

In my experience, any given feature usually has multiple possible designs, and the only way to know if a design is good is to try implementing it and see how clean or messy it ends up. Of course, I can guess in advance which design will turn out well. I have to guess, or else I wouldn't know which design to try implementing first. But often my first attempt runs into unexpected wrinkles and I retreat and try a different design.

Other people will start with a design and brute-force their way to working code, and (in my judgmental opinion) the code often ends up lower-quality because of it.

Sooner or later, perhaps AI will be able to perform that entire process autonomously, better than I can. In the meantime, though, people often talk about using AI like a 'junior engineer', where you think up a design yourself and then delegate the grunt work to the AI. That approach feels flawed to me, because it disconnects the designer from the implementer.
You have to look closely at the actual test protocol, which they rarely share. And in reality noise is hard to measure and hard to understand. There is also SPL and SWL, which are not the same. The marketing department has no clue and convert back and forth with approximations, adding or losing decibels, and nobody ever checks or really knows or, usually, cares. We need third party reviewers with actual sound meters or the numbers mfrs give us are practically useless. This is why I am prioritizing selling beta units to people who can actually test the units.
> responsibility for a problem onto some group of people who are not the cause of the problem

You don't think Meta, TikTok etc are the cause of the problem ?

I appreciate that Lfgss is somewhat collateral damage but the fact is that if you're going to run a forum you do have some obligation to moderate it.
> low-end Chinese phones, including Xiaomi and Huawei

Did you mean Oppo and Vivo?
You’re watching our coworkers hit the gas pedal on turning the entire industry into a blue collar job. Not just the junior positions will dry up but the senior positions will dry up. The average engineer won’t understand coding or even do the review. Salaries won’t lower they’ll stagnate over the next 10-20 years. People don’t actually care about coding, they may enjoy it but are only here for the money. In their short sighted mind, using LLMs are the quickest way to demonstrate superiority by way of efficiency to argue for a promotion.
> It creates an unnecessary security risk by having the data wires.
What are your opinions on this?

That you are correct. It creates no small security risk (as does the
overly-chatty relation between batteries and function boards nowadays)

(I am not sure you could produce a battery bomb without a separate
back-signal to detonate it)

USB was never a very far sighted show, It's undergone so many
revisions to squeeze more transfer of power and data out of it than is
good.

There are analogue methods. Current sensing and current limiting
circuits are ancient. You can build really sophisticated power supply
designs that match supply and sense problems. You can even encode data
as a side channel on the power lines themselves. But that would be
more expensive and since the separate data lines were already there
few designers thought to prioritise security over simplicity and cost.
I am so not worried about it. This is like, ten years ago: "how do you protect your career as a vim-user when obviously Visual Studio will take over the world." It is a helpful tool for some people but You Don't Really Need It and it isn't why some engineers are super impactful.
I like seeing these on HN. Occasionally the hyper focus on tech makes me feel inhuman. Stories like these remind me not to forget how much else there is beyond my narrow world as a web dev.

You kid sounds amazing. Be proud and ramble on.
Nvidia wouldn't leave money on the table dropping the price of the 4090. There would just be more supply of 4090s at the same price. A card manufacturer selling them below MSRP would get immediately sanctioned by Nvidia.
Maybe one way to do it is to exempt smaller operations from regulation. eg less than say 20,000 users, no regulations.
My non physical desk job leaves me with a fresh body after my very much non 12 hour workday.

Because I have the physical energy to, I take that body to the ocean for a swim, to the park for a cycle, and to anywhere with a nice view for a run. Depending on the day. Oh and the gym is a pleasant 12 minute walk from home, so I do that a few times a week as well.

Sorry to burst your bubble OP.
Having also worked on desks in the 00s and early 10s I think a big difference here is what trading meant really changed; much of what traders did went away with innovations in speed. Speed and algos became the way to trade neither of which humans can do. While SWE became significantly more important on trading desks, you still have researchers, quants, portfolio analysts, etc. that spend their working days developing new algos, new market opportunities, ways to minimize TCOS, etc.

That being said, there's also a massive low hanging fruit in dev work that we'll automate away, and I feel like that's coming sooner rather than later, yes even though we've been saying that for decades. However, I bet that the incumbents (Senior SWE) have a bit longer of a runway and potentially their economic rent increases as they're able to be more efficient, and companies need not hire as many humans as they needed before. Will be an interesting go these next few decades.
Absolutely. Demonstrating how to Google (and now, how to ChatGPT) is important. The pervasiveness of Java makes it relatively easy to do.
They meant manuscript I assume.
To bring it back to the question that spawned the ask: One thing to future proof a career as a SWE is to get into business and leadership/management as well as learning how to program. If you're indispensable to the business for other reasons, they'll keep you around.
Don't beat yourself up so much, it's challenging to the majority of developers.

The article itself sums things up well "Most of the puzzles are in the realm of either string processing (somewhat applicable to programming), logic puzzles (not really applicable to most programming), or stupid gotchas in the input format (annoyingly, very applicable to most programming)."
out of curiosity, was this only something while trying to "do it in your head" or also when doing it long form on paper. which is a question I was asked a lot, but I hated. Even when doing long form on paper, there's still numbers floating in my head.

It took until I started receiving partial credit for showing work before I'd stop doing the entire thing in my head. Bad math teachers thought I was cheating while the good teachers saw me working it out but convinced me partial credit was a good thing.
One of my very vague goals is to build a clock, from scratch, without looking anything up.

It wouldn't have to look like a wall clock; just something that keeps 24-hour time within reasonable tolerances.

(It's been impossible to avoid knowledge of all clockmaking stuff, but I still avoid watching videos on how clocks are made. This is probably going to be something I do once the child is in college!)
In electronics, we have parts which need their SOA (safe operating area) respected by the design, or they will catastrophically fail (melt, vaporize, explode, catch fire). We also have safe parts that have features like thermal shutdown, or output current limiting.

That's kind of similar to safe versus unsafe language features.

You still have to respect the operating parameters, because if the part goes into thermal shutdown or current limiting, then your device doesn't perform properly.

When the device doesn't work properly, even though there is no smoke coming out of it, it can still take time to track down the problem.

When using a safe language, we similarly don't necessarily want the user to be exposed to the raw safety mechanism going off, which could have consequences like terminating the image, with the loss of unsaved data, and interrupted workflows.

Typically, in modern safe languages we have some decent choices for handling and recovering from situations like that, so we don't have to be cluttering every operation with conditionals that check for exceptional situations.
> active (especially active digital, for anechoic factory calibration and room correction) is definitely the way to go these days

An amplifier is just an amplifier... wouldn't that be something better done with software than replacing the whole amplifier?

I think I'm a "midphile" and not an audiophile. I don't want to listen to music on a cheap laptop speaker or a smartphone like most people I know do, but a high end 1970s hifi system sounds as good as a modern one to me, and I cannot tell the difference.
You don't think there is some half way point between forcing them to stay inside and letting a 4 year old, wander 40m away with no supervision.
Of course they are threats, but only stupid person would take them seriously. And nuclear war will be end of the world so no need to worry about it - the people pretend to be scared by conventional war. By this logic Erdogan wants to restore the Ottoman empire and right now is busy invading Syria - is he a threat too?
> I do feel like programmers are a bit of a masochistic lot when it comes to AoC, though.

Maybe. But for some it's really just the enjoyment of a good challenge that lets them explore and try out things. I personally love hardware like the DS simply for its accessibility. Modern PCs and consoles are way too complex, while the DS allows you to poke at its guts with no OS or virtualization in the way. It's fun to approach problems like those in AoC in completely novel ways on systems that require and allow you to do things differently.

It's not for everyone, sure, but it's certainly not torture for those who do it.
They have automated trains..
There needs to be an international body established to set standards and limitations on biological research, and it's edicts should be enforced very aggressively.

Unfortunately, even in the aftermath of a massive global disruption directly due to the creation of organisms which are supernaturally able to defeat human immune systems, it's still the wild west. There's effectively very little limitations on research that could quite literally end humanity and disrupt all life on earth, and the limitations that do exist are actively skirted, ignored with violations covered up after the fact.
That is half correct. The TW4 units operate in synchronized pairs. When one is exhausting (egressing), the other is ingressing (bringing air in). This always happens. They even have quite nice pressure sensors that precisely regulate the pressure the fans exert, controlling flow precisely and preventing the house from becoming pressurized at any time, which as you say would imply heat loss.
It is not quite correct to say that the sqlite project does not accept outside contributions at all. The web site says "the project does not accept patches from people who have not submitted an affidavit dedicating their contribution into the public domain."
And what best predicts household incomes?
USA may not be such a good bet these days either.