skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For founders it’s great. You don’t need a ton of startup capital to actually start something. Easier than ever. I think this means there will be less of a supply of goood early stage deals. And if VC can’t get in on the ground floor it becomes harder to get the multiples they sell to their investor. It also means that the good companies will be able to get to finance their own growth which means that whatever is left in the later stage just won’t be as compelling. As an LP you know have to look at potentially other asset classes or find investors who are going to adapt to still find success. Otherwise I think AI is most disruptive here now to the VC and by implication their capital markets. I think late stage financing and ipo market should not change substantially.
The key difference between trading and coding is that code often underpins uncritical operations - think of all the CRUD apps in small businesses - and there is no money involved, at least directly.
> My understanding is if you compile the essential drivers you need for boot in the kernel (not as modules), then you don't need the initramfs step.

Correct. When I ran Funtoo I did that so I can tell you it works.

> Should result in faster boot.

Possibly, but you should test. I expect it to work so long as you only bake in drivers needed for boot; if you include more then it could theoretically slow things down vs lazy-loading later.
The whole FlatBuffers toolchain is wildly immature compared to Protobuf. Last I checked, flatc doesn’t even have a plugin system - all code generators had to be upstreamed into the compiler itself.
I suppose I could already be replaced with any number of services (vercel, heroku, Google cloud run etc..). But I haven't yet. I think I still provide value in other ways. (Also a sys admin)
Australia moves to drop some cryptography by 2030 – before quantum carves it up
Bundled notifications could be on the way with Android 16
Perhaps it is because censoring the content is more important to the authors than citing the "dangerous" content.

>Is it possible these things aren't nearly as bad as they claim?

Under the premises of the censors, you shouldn't examine or question their claims. This is for your own safety. Instead, you should implicitly trust the authority figures to dole out trustworthy information.

Approaching the topic with the tools of rational inquiry is a form of wrong-think.
There’s a reason it’s done the way it is. For one, the names of the notes are letters, so using numbers makes it easy to differentiate notes from beats. Time signatures are also numerically noted. So trying to say using A/B time makes absolutely no sense. Trying to promote using numbers is arbitrary is nonsensical.
Dan never called out Fivetran, he wrote a couple sentences about problems he experienced with an anonymous ETL provider. That was it. Hell we don't even know that he's actually talking about Fivetran.

George however should not allowed to come to HN and start talking shit about random people who had the professional courtesy to never even mention the provider in question. The fact that his post isn't flagged, is highly upvoted, and dang hasn't swooped in to chastise him is a prime example of why HN is so fucking ridiculous and hypocritical.
The documents were found in a safe owned by de Gaulle's son. I'd imagine his heirs have something to say about the matter.
https://m.xkcd.com/904/
> Do we have any examples of tech that just kept improving at exponential or linear rates?

SD Cards?
Drones that sound like, act like, or maybe look like whales, might be the answer. If the adversary can't tell if its a whale or drone, likely to force them to waste a lot of resources and/or ammunition.
I think the killer feature for this will be if it's readily available at night, for reasonable prices.

I love living here, but the "do we go home or stay out all night?" decision at ~23:30 when out sucks.

If I could get across town for ~3000 JPY at 2AM without having to wait 50 minutes for a cab around Shinjuku, I'd be ecstatic.
Not sure I agree. Where it matters people will prefer and buy products that "just work" compared to something unreliable.

People tolerate game crashes because you (generally) can't get the same experience by switching.

People wouldn't tolerate f.e broswers crashing if they can switch to an alternative. The same would apply to a lot of software, with varying limits to how much shit will be tolerated before a switch would be made.
"Agentic" could argued to be nearer to "having agency" or having their own motives and ways to enact them. (see eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agency_(sociology) "One's agency is one's independent capability or ability to act on one's will").
Something was about to break…

Like my phone because I want more!!!!
So majority of software we have now is unreliable piles of sh*t. Seems to check out, with how often I need to restart my browser to keep memory usage under control
"other people's important people" is a very astute phrase - one has to see the value in that concept in order to understand the deceased's survivors that you think you already know. I've been to a few events where some folks were flabbergasted to discover different fresh aspects of the deceased - "what the...? He/she was tight with that crowd?!"
I think the error here is assuming mind and body are separate things. In reality our body, even our gut bacteria, has a huge effect on how we think and feel. There's a reason why sensory deprivation or dissociative anesthetics like ketamine have such a huge effect on cognition. I just don't think the human mind is designed to be a brain in a jar through virtual reality or whatever. I think whatever attempts we make at doing that would probably drive a person insane.
Why Big Tech Does Not Want You Anymore [video]
Wear OS updates will use Wi-Fi, cellular over Bluetooth
I did not understand what this was about, I why it was upvoted.

Anyways. I have solved the only problem OpenSCAD ever had. And that was -- you cannot tweak parameters just by pointing at them:

https://youtu.be/eG5lhLYvihQ?si=WiCnxahDx7_mJTrC
As somebody whose dad died last night, this one hits hard.
An MCP Server for Home Assistant
Bridge between Claude (Desktop) and a Home Assistant server. Works 10x better than the built in Home Assistant LLM
I have always held the opinion that the so-called LUI is a fad.
We humans are terrible at communicating, we want crutches / guard rails to help us getting the message through.
That is to say I do agree with the author to an large extent.
Which can be openly discussed, critiqued, etc. Or in the case of X, bought up by a private citizen and turned into a completely different animal. There's important and significant similarities, but they are worlds apart.
Yeah and that's mostly nonsense (but expedient). It's hard to compete with any large industry and still their inefficiency is your opportunity. See also Uber and friends against taxis (both impossible and illegal), SpaceX against Team USA (preposterous), everyone else against AOL (okay, that one was easy), Oracle (who?)... For one example, it's hard to compete against Google's core businesses but it's not like most here wouldn't be glad to find alternatives, any alternatives... Wait, alternative to what? The browser has clear dominance but that's not even Google's core business. Youtube is pretty dominant - but even then Facebook and Tik-tok beg to differ.

I'm not saying that "competition is for losers" is wrong. It's an excellent objective, to carve yourself a (large, comfortable) niche where you are the no-brainer solution. But it's no license to fall asleep.
> Let that sink in: people were so angry at their property, health, and safety put at risk as unconsenting "beta testers" that they set fire to one of the cars.

Maybe the sort of person that would take that action isn't a credible actor.
The code itself, whether good or bad, is a liability. Just like a car is a liability, in a perfect world, you'd teleport yourself to your destination, instead you have to drive. And because of that, roads and gas stations have to be built, you have to take care of the car, etc,.... It's all a huge pain. The code you write, you will have to document, maintain, extend, refactor, relearn, and a bunch of other activities. So yo do your best to only have the bare minimum to take care of. Anything else is just future troubles.
I can remember tracking down "Tintin in the Congo" - I found it completely unremarkable.
Anything that has MCP should work well.
But both bolt and v0 don't have MCP, windsurf does I think.
Also try devin?
Quality is multidimensional. Local maxima exist in any non-trivial optimization process.
It’s crazy to me that the CA debacle is still reverberating as unsettled this many years later. For a breach that’s been known for a decade to just now coming to a settlement is insane. Delay delay delay tactics should get push back from judges.
My view is that the point at which LLMs could cause the death of SWE as a profession is also the point at which practically all knowledge professions could be killed. To fully replace SWEs still requires the LLM to have enough external context that it could replace a huge range of jobs, and it'd probably be best to deal with the consequences of that as and when they happen.
Germany to Shut Down Key LNG Terminal in 2025
Presumably that's gotten a lot harder/less likely given that we've had billions of years since and life fills a lot more niches. But that's not really something to bet civilization on without a bit more evidence.
> I'm pretty sure it's legal because they offer a full refund if you chose not to accept.

They offer you the opportunity to get a refund from the retailer, subject to that retailer's return policies, which may mean "open box" restocking fees, time limitations or similar.

That is not the same thing.
As I understand it you can configure api rate limiting per-user but you'd need to work out "reasonable" values on your own to allow enough headroom for admin requests.

This would require per-cluster testing (and is complex to test since you need to induce representative load) so I suppose hardly anyone does it.
A fresh HAOS VM can not successfully boot without internet access, maybe due to how they are managing everything with Docker within HAOS? I noticed this because the VM was accidentally put into a network that does not have stable internet, and I kept wondering why it didn't boot.

Really hope that there is a fully offline solution.
You're confusing us with Cruise. Lots of reporting did the same, but we're expanding a lot across California. For example, now anyone can use our service in Los Angeles:

https://waymo.com/blog/2024/11/waymo-one-open-to-all-in-los-...
HMS Victory is in the royal navy dockyard in Portsmouth, UK. It is very impressive and well worth a visit.

There is an apocrophal story that a French tourist was caught trying to steal one of the cannon balls from HMS Victory and was told "It's only a replica, we already gave all the real cannon balls to your countryman."
> by that logic, women would have more muscle mass then men, because they carry around more fat.

No? You have to compare like for like. Sedentary obese women have more muscle mass than sedentary normal-weight women, and sedentary obese men have more muscle mass than sedentary normal-weight men. (And the ratio of women to men hasn't moved very much since 1924, and both sexes are heavier than they were in 1924.)

The rest of your comment is not responsive to mine.
Do you do this with everything? Search down examples of child sexual abuse material and murders before you believe they exist?

I don’t think it a “dubious” claim at all - you’ve been on the internet there is a community for _everything_ it’s not surprising there is a community for this.
Cohere is working with Palantir to deploy its AI models
No. This is a classic case of Jevon's paradox. Increased efficiency in resource use can lead to increased consumption of that resource, rather than decreased consumption.

Example:

1. To decrease total gas consumption, more fuel efficient vehicles are invented.

2. Instead of using less gas, people drive more miles. They take longer road trips, commute farther for work, and more people can now afford to drive.

3. This increased driving leads to higher overall gasoline consumption, despite each car using gas more efficiently.
one side thing i want to point out. There is a lot of talk about llms not being able to replace a senior engineer... The implication being that they can replace juniors. How exactly do you get senior engineers when you've destroyed the entire market for junior engineers, exactly?
Behave super-correctly, over-optimized and extra-cooperative as to minimize any negative effects for everyone.
Are these any good? Say, if I want to refresh my knowledge of calculus...
One example is Google maps. There are two ecosystems: Google and Apple. Apple is kinda meh but lacks user information (ie: menu photos for a restaurant). Google maps has become simply horrendous but here is the catch: There is no third viable alternative. There used to be Foursquare for finding stuff nearby but that's gone. It's a very legitimate market. Businesses want to be found. Users want to find information and legitimate ratings. Money can be made as Google is monetizing Maps.

Sometimes I wonder if the free market has stopped working.
I'm not in favor of a full-on precautionary principle for everything.

But if you take on too many 1 in 1000 or 1 in 10000 risks, eventually things go badly.

Russian roulette or reckless driving looks safe-- for awhile.

Note the person who really advanced the view of "igniting the atmosphere" with fission was Teller back in 1942, who was about the most pro-nuclear scientist you can find. They didn't just shrug and push the button: Bethe and others did a lot of math to conclude that it was exceptionally unlikely.

(Was it too much of a risk, given that we didn't have much experimental data about nitrogen-nitrogen cross-sections? Probably not, but we can't conclude that it was a reasonable risk purely on the basis of "we didn't die.")
This was actually an inspiration when the project started
They delivered on the clickbait title to engagement time metric, as the title promises one weird trick and the content has no TLDR.
The union is very much official, has been since 2022. It was formed independently of the Teamsters and is called the Amazon Labour Union (ALU). The ALU voted to partner with the Teamsters this summer in order to strengthen their hand and resources as they fight to get Amazon to negotiate with them.

Accusations of intimidation are just that, accusations, and they are only coming from Amazon. Furthermore, the ALU was formed independently of other established unions.

So yes, they can authorize a strike, they are a legal recognized union that Amazon has refused to meet with.
ARH! I know they are seeking attention but I never thought of it as classified ad which is true.
wow, clickbait title, then 9p and nix in the first couple paragraphs firmly set the hook.
> Of course they do? Just because they created a platform long ago doesn’t make it public

If that's what you think matters above all else, would you support a literal mafia group taking a cut if they had started the market in that particular city?

> public property

It's a market, not property.

But Apple owns none of the iPhones, so why do they get a say?

> The value of their platform is in both hardware and software by the way.

They shouldn't be artificially tied together by DRM.
That's wider than the streets near me in San Francisco :). Lots of our "two way" streets, are only one vehicle wide, because we allow parking on both sides of the street, too.
"And now, at the end of 2024, I’m finally seeing incredible results in the field, things that looked like sci-fi a few years ago are now possible: Claude AI is my reasoning / editor / coding partner lately. I’m able to accomplish a lot more than I was able to do in the past. I often do more work because of AI, but I do better work."

https://antirez.com/news/144

If the author of Redis finds novel utility here then it's likely useful beyond React boilerplatey stuff.

I share a similar sentiment since 3.5 Sonnet came out. This goes far beyond dev tooling ergonomics. It's not simply a fancy autocomplete anymore.
NetSurf’s UX, at least on Linux, is worse. The engine renders more but the actual browser around it feels half baked which is not the case with Dillo. Perhaps the main RISC OS version isn’t like this. The Windows version was barely functional last I tried it, it was not even what I would call pre-alpha, it was basically just a tech demo.
Really? Excellent debugging is something I associate with higher-paid engineers.
This is a safe space, and you can be as stubborn as you want to be.

I'm tired of citations as well. I just find that reality is often greatly more nuanced, and contains many more contradictions and exceptions than we might want it to be/have. That's why I tend to be a suspicious of broad, predictive patterns, and prefer to sit back and wait for the boring factual details to trickle in.

Either way, thanks for clarifying.
My god, sudden flashback of our CTO doing Rails code after hours and showing us how easily and quickly he was building stuff. We called that period of time the "Ruby Derailment"
Unfortunately, seems the only way to figure this out is by testing. But on the flip, nobody can really trust that it won't accidentally or purposefully escape from labs.
those llms all learned to code by devouring github. How much good code is on github and how much terrible code is on github.

My favorite thing is writing golang with co-pilot on. It make suggestions that use various libraries and methods that were somewhat idomatic several years ago but are now deprecated.
Non-sequitur, but you seem like someone who says 'virtue-signalling' unironically.
There are about 50,000 taxis in Tokyo. What are they doing there?
For me, this was stunning : “ 2:51pm to 3:20pm: The change was applied to all clusters”

How can such a large change not be staged in some manner or the other? Feedback loops have a way of catching up later which is why it’s important to roll out gradually.
This is the worst it will ever be…
I have "free offers" for Apple Fitness, Apple Music, Apple News+ sitting in the Settings app on my iPhone 16 Pro, not sure how that's any different from the Windows offers (and until you ignore them at least once, they even show up with a badge on the App icon to draw you in).
And you can learn how to hack the NetBSD kernel just by reading the man pages. That's how good BSD documentation is.

Those screen shots make me 90s in my pants. That's what a real powerhouse workstation looked like in my college years.
Taxis are readily available, but the price after hours is why people don't take them. I doubt waymo will be able to bypass taxi pricing.
> A large penis looks the same as a small penis, only larger.

If you truly believe that, you cannot have seen many penises at all.
Given the other comments talking about problems here, we don't know for sure if it was inaccurate. But even if it was, "plausible" that he was misunderstanding other things is a hell of a lot weaker than the way your comment above treated it as the truth of the matter.

Overall I think it's pretty unlikely that it wasn't broken.
>* They stop on the side of roads and streets whenever they feel like it without worrying about blocking the traffic.

To be fair, that's also true of pedestrians in this country.
Seeing something once doesn’t make it a real phenomenon.

Besides, if that is common, Waymo will have data on it and if it’s common enough, they’ll fix it.

I’ve sat in Waymos on 2 occasions, each on a separate ride, in which the car avoided collisions that would have happened due to bad human drivers. Your fear is worth examining closely as it’ll hold you back from enjoying this amazing technology.
You still need a person to be responsible for the software being built - you cant fire chatGPT if the code blows up.

The developer has in fact even more responsibility because expectations have gone up so even more code is being produced and someone has to maintain it.

So there will be a point when that developer will throw their hands up and ask for more people which will have to be hired.

Basically the boiling point has gone up (or down, depending on how you interpret the analogy), the water still has to be boiled the more or less the same way.

Until we have AGI - then it's all over.
It is somewhat strange the way how things worked in UK.

I guess in the US I would expect wealthy to find some interest, donate some money, start ( funding ) planting Oak trees and get this moving.

In the UK I dont see much of these happening.
except how do you know that the llm is actually telling you things that are factual and not hallucinating numbers?
Exactly, but that's out-of-story knowledge. Presumably in-story, the "red beads" means something else which we don't have intuition about - downtime incidents, number of broken widgets produced, part yield...

If those (in-story) managers had a basic statistics knowledge, they would have said: "Wait! The variance is too high, you cannot make any decisions based on 2-4 points". Then they'd do some statistical tests (or at least plot points with error bars and eyeball it), and realize that the numbers given are random noise and are not actually related to individual performance.

But those managers apparently flunked their stat, or they forgot it all, so innocent people got fired, and project got cancelled.

A sad story about why math is important even if you are not in STEM directly.
> or received any push notification about using Safari as my browser (which I willingly do anyway)

"Do you want to use Chrome or Safari?" - _after_ I have both installed Chrome AND set it as my default browser.
Dupe. Discussion (1012 points, 3 days ago, 450 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42412718

Deemed a suicide (8 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42414452
I worked at a big tech co years ago. Strolling up to my bus stop in my casual attire while others around me wore uniforms, rushing to get to work. A nice private shuttle would pick me up. It would deliver me pretty much at the doors of the office. If it were raining, somebody would be standing outside to hand me an umbrella even though the door was a short distance away. Other times there would be someone there waiting on the shuttle to hand me a smoothie. When I got to the door, there would be someone dedicated to opening it. When I got inside, a breakfast buffet fit for a king would be served. Any type of cuisine I wanted was served around campus for lunch and dinner, and it was high quality. If I wanted dessert, there was entire shops (not one but many) serving free handcrafted desserts. If I wanted my laundry done, someone would handle that. If I wanted snacks, each floor of my office had its own little 7/11. If I didn't feel like having all this luxury treatment, I'd just work from home and nobody cared.

All of that, and I was being paid a very handsome amount compared to others outside of tech? Several times over the national average? For gluing some APIs together?

What other professions are like this where there's a good chunk of people who can have such a leisurely life, without taking much risk, and get so highly compensated compared to the rest? I doubt there's many. At some point, the constrained supply must answer to the high demand and reality shows up at the door.

I quit a year into the gig to build my own company. Reality is much different now. But I feel like I've gained many more skills outside of just tech that make me more equipped for whatever the future brings.
> reduce us and the entire ship can be reduced too

You may enjoy "Gentle Seduction" by Marc Stiegler [1].

TL; DR Leave the meat part in place and project your consciousness through offboard sensors.

[1] http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html
Last week bought IKEA motion sensor - AAA