skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have built a managed platform automating HTTP API testing, at https://www.skybear.net. The core basis is to run your Hurl files. Automatic report persistence, scheduled runs, and multiple files supported with hundreds of requests per "run/execution".

Soon, I will be adding analytics, insights, and automatic test generation features.

I have been working for a year on it, and will keep working on it for many years to come, since I am using it myself a lot anyway.
No, but AI will replace a lot of web developers.
Why should the null hypothesis be preferred?
The quote from Margin Call is used a lot, but the more I look at the world, the more I believe it's a naive take. There are three ways to make a living in this business: be first, be smarter, or cheat.

That statement has the wrong boolean operator: the implicit OR in place of commas should be replaced with AND operators. The reason is simple - if you are not willing to cheat, you are leaving an edge to those who do.
Is it possible to tell intelligence from a simple lookup-table based script by asking questions? I think so.

If you ask one question, there's a chance it was in a lookup table.

If you ask multiple questions from an immense set of questions (like trillions of trillions of trillions..., sampled uniformly), and it answers all correctly, then it's either true intelligence or a lookup table which covers this whole immense space. (I'd argue there's no difference, as a process which makes this nearly-infinite table has to be intelligent.)

Same with self awareness - you can ask questions where it applies...
People get behind on taking a shower? Amongst that list it seems the only one you can’t skip out on.

Unless you start putting on dirty laundry. That’s probably worse.
Some Americans can't even visually distinguish the two:
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/yikes-trum...
How is it different from traditional OCRs
According to many Americans, I'm from the country called Amsterdam, with the capital city of Copenhagen, where everybody speaks German.
"No matter how you slice it, emissions reductions are more cost effective than removal."

What about politically effective? You can start removing CO2 from the air without coordinating your effort with all the industrial powers of the world.

This is an invalid argument, in a world where China and the US are quickly becoming sworn enemies unlikely to agree on anything?
Take a look at Windsurf: https://codeium.com/windsurf
Spherical security robot enhances policing in crowded streets
Nobody is going to sit and wait for a robo uber in the suburbs for ten minutes to go to the grocery store ten miles down the road.

I absolutely would do that. Sometimes I already do wait that kind of time for a taxi or bus. Having the robo taxi turn up in ten minutes from when I decided I wanted to go to the shop would be fantastic.
I did not say what you are saying I said.

Motorsport audiences in almost every discipline I know can rattle off a litany of safety incidences that have happened over the past 100 years. My point is that we do not shy away from talking about it because the presence of danger in this sport in general is well known.
Why bother? You’ve already made the most significant changes in your life by cutting down your reliance on animal agriculture to a quarter cup of milk and some whey.

If it’s for some kind of ideological purity thing, it’s probably not worth it.

But if you must… oat milk for coffee is my preference, and pea protein for whey.
Been using https://github.com/stolendata/exifstrip for many years. Note: only source code, author doesn't provide pre-built executables.
I tried writing C games when I was 12 and never got anywhere. I personally feel like I've cultivated quite the overgrowth of dopamine receptors now due to the access of the internet I had as a kid. Curiously, my parents tried to limit access for a long while, and for a long while, the desktop PC only had games and no internet. I do not think giving my child free access to the internet via a desktop would have a similar outcome to yours - not without replicating a whole lot of other environmental factors.
netcat should work but timing out for me

nc -t pdp1173.com 23
Always great to read about excellent linux command line apps and how to use them, cheers.
Yes, so we should bundle the excess entropy into a rocket and shoot it into space. As Futurama showed, this is perfectly fine!
while-loops are also seldom used in Java code. At least from my observations. For-each and stream functions have deprecated for/while in modern Java code.

As a Java dev, I love Go by the way. Recently adopted it and I find it anything but boring.
Currently there is no actual means for net reduction via CO2 removal.

Human activiy (the extraction and burning of fossil fuels) puts some 11 billion tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere every year.

There's a lot of industrial activity required to move 11 billion tonne (and that in itself creates additional emission issues to circimvent).

At this point in time the largest global project to sequester CO2 is adjacent to a SANTOS natural gas extraction project.

* It's not yet working as planned.

* Were it to work as planned the total CO2 sequestered would be a tiny portion of the amount required to be removed.

* It's a "cheat" obfuscated by mirrors in any case - the CO2 planned to be sequestered is a small proportion of the CO2 released by the natural gas extraction project its part of.
I think it's a pretty clever advert to be fair.

And I really like some of the stuff they are doing.

Their TOTP app is great.
Environment management, testing, formatting, libraries and building in one tool should be a minimum requirement.

Poetry kind of tried that, and in doing so failed to allow for a lot of uncommon but vital corner cases. In fact the main reason I gave up on poetry and switched to uv is that uv is a lot less opinionated and happily handles my 'weird' setup and lets me plug in the tools that best serve me rather than requiring me to use it for everything. I have no doubt that uv (or at least the uv 'family') will grow to handle everything sooner or later, but by tackling one piece at a time and making the tools more or less independent also gives flexibility.
How do you use other Saas products or is this the first one you consider using ?
Perhaps metaphor would be better terminology than models.

AI as an animal we are trying to tame. Why does it have to be a machine metaphor?

Perhaps AI is a ecosystem upon which we all interact at the same time. The author pointed out that the one-on-one interaction is too slow for the AI - perhaps a many-to-one metaphor would be more appropriate.

I agree with the author that we are using the wrong metaphors when interacting with AI but personally I think we should go beyond repeating the mistakes of the past by just extending our current state, I.e. going from a physical desktop to a virtual „desktop“.
I haven’t seen the architecture of QwQ but I just assumed it learns languages insofar as to pick up relationships between words. It must mean it picks up logic across languages. Huh
In my participial case, I am not asking about scalable companies. Instead, I am asking about our childrens' education. LLMs for coding are a bit of cheat code, and cheating is not necessarily ideal in this case.

To be entirely honest, I would love to read pg's take on this. He seems like the type of guy who might have expended some thought on this topic, as difficult as it is.

No matter who writes this piece, we need it to move forward.
I think the better mapping of unit tests would actually be proofs of lemmas ?
Actually Go is great to read. And as we know it’s more important for a language to be readable than writable, since that’s where most of your dev time is usually spent. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19542574
> The fact that industry still hasn't gotten the message even after SpaceX ate their entire lunch is a continual source of astonishment.

Industry incumbents were based around the premise of extracting as much money from of the government as possible, while delivering as little as they can get away with to keep the money flowing.

They got the message, but they have no idea how to respond to it. They've never had to run an efficient, mission-focused business before.
A podcast you say!

Child mortality is even worse. Not all countries count neonatal deaths the same. In many countries premature babies that die are "stillborn" and not counted.

In the US, very, very premature babies are resuscitated and if they pass away, are averaging "zero" into the stats. So in fact, aggressive medical care in neonates can actually make mortality measures worse.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4560894/

The popularity of the infant mortality indicator notwithstanding, international variations in birth registration laws and practices have the potential to bias comparisons of infant mortality. Problems can arise from differential registration of live births and stillbirths, especially births occurring at the borderline of viability (e.g., gestational age <22 weeks or a birth weight <500 grams, who typically do not survive the neonatal period), and/or their classification as stillbirths versus live births
Eh, I'm a handholdless wizard who's been down in the dumps for years now, so trust me when I say I know what you're feeling (kind of). The trick is that yes, we need distraction from our shitty lives and it's very comfortable sinking into a zoomer routine to numb yourself BUT you can get the same level of distraction from saner occupations, as long as you still have some fire inside you (often in the form of spite and bitterness, which are much healthier than simple decay).

Lift heavy objects and acquire mass, lose yourself in classic nerd crap (old school fantasy/SF novels, obscure music, do the Advent of Code in Lisp/ML/Forth/Prolog), solo hiking, drive fast, etc... embrace the loneliness and become someone better than the rabble, choose the path of the "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog", not that of the brainrotten goblin!

I'm not saying that existential pain will cease, especially when being around people with a normal life full of joy that seems so unattainable, but it certainly makes you feel better in the long term.
I'm not sure what disappointment you're predicting. Unless your GPU is connected through a cache coherent protocol like CXL to your CPU, you are unlikely to make your code run faster by transferring data back to the CPU and back again to the GPU. You have 128 compute units on the 4090, even at a lower frequency and higher memory latency, you will probably not end up too far away from the performance of an 8 core CPU running at 4.5GHz. Nobody is running millions of CPU threads in the first place, so you seem to be completely misunderstanding the workload here. Nobody wants to speed up their CPU code by running it on the GPU, they want to stop slowing down their GPU code by waiting for data transfers to and from the CPU.
My old man is in his 80s. I run a small brick & mortar business. I figured I'd bring him in and keep him busy -- do him a favor and perhaps help slow down his cognitive decline. But it turns out I was the one who needed him around. He's meticulous with the bookkeeping and really good at crunching numbers with pen & paper. It dawned on me... they don't make people like this anymore...
The chart of "Thermodynamic Beta" on wikipedia is great. I like to think about the big bang as a population inversion where the entropy temporarily becomes negative leading to the hyperinflationary epoch as the universe "collapses" into existence finally cooling to a near "infinite" temperature making the CMB nice and smooth.

The big bang clearly defies thermodynamic laws so why wouldn't be a negative entropy and temperature phenomenon? It's the "cheat code" the "primordial universe" uses to dodge problems like realities popping into existence.

Anyways.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic_beta
It is pretty well agreed upon that the Kelly criterion strongly overestimates bet sizes for continuous bets where accurate probabilities are hard to determine, like the stock market. It has given rise to many variations such as Half-Kelly, Kelly minus constant, etc, which is a pretty good tell that it's an inaccurate approximation. Using Kelly to invest in the stock market is roughly like using half the Black-Scholes formula to invest in options. You'll get good results when the market agrees with your direction, but spectacular failures when it doesn't.
why do you say it's not worth to be anonymous while still using a throwaway?

internet today is very different from 90s forums.

imo it pays handsomely to be anonymous most of the time.
Very interesting paradigm shift.

Tangentially, I have considered the possible impact of thermodynamic computing in its application to machine learning models.

If (big if) we can get thermodynamic compute wells to work at room temperature or cheap microcryogenics, it’s foreseeable that we could have flash-scale AI accelerators (thermodynamic wells could be very simple in principle, like a flash cell)

That could give us the capability to run Tera-parameter models on drive-size devices using 5-50 watts of power. In such a case, it is foreseeable that it might become more efficient and economical to simulate deterministic computing devices when they are required for standard computing tasks.

My knee jerk reaction is “probably not” but still , it’s a foreseeable possibility.

Hard to say what the ramifications of that might be.
That was before dark silicon and real estate was still somewhat expensive, so probably having two blocks wasn't really an option.
> At this point, we have 1% of the federal budget dedicated to dialysis

That’s insane, it can’t possibly be correct.
Perhaps these models will be more personalized and there will be more personal data collection.

I am currently building a platform for heavy personal data collection including a keylogger, logging mouse positions and window focus, screenshots à la recall, open browser tabs and much more. My goal is to gather data now that may become useful later. It's mainly for personal use but I'd he surprised if e.g. iphones weren't headed in the same direction.
implementing this via profile links is strange.

this should just be a link at the top here. people post the city and date. done.

why should it be more complicated than that? you even got the idea of people posting meethn exactly like that earlier on.
> (Unsurprisingly they all get quite stubborn if you ask them about topics like Tiananmen Square)

I wonder how the abliterated variants respond to this query.
Really? Has Flutter turned into the new Flash?
I know it's a myth, but this is just the late stage capitalism equivalent of the Spartans casting away weak children and every eugenics program ever.

Either Benji (the kid in the article) gets the help they need to be part of our society or they don't.

Who are we?
What worked for me is getting in really good physical shape and good physical conditioning.

I can remember constantly thinking how much life sucked, no matter how good it actually was. Slowly, the negative thoughts just went away as my physical conditioning improved.
appreciate it, also wow his min/km is very good
Climate change doesn’t just pause because there are more imminent threats. Human-exacerbated or not, it is changing, and it won’t wait for us to notice.
These people are bringing mammoth back: https://colossal.com/mammoth/

Calves expected by 2028.
Not training new workers and relying on senior engineers with tools is short sighted and foolish.

LLMs seem to be accelerating the trend
Next he goes to fight poor children in Africa.
Does it support JavaFX applications aswell, that would be very cool? Last time I had to recreate a project in Flutter.
Define „I“. Are you mass (obviously) and information?
I'm talking about information that you „have“ in the sense of the one that is part, or maybe more importantly, makes up your mind. If we were able to entangle it with a (partial) information set somewhere else in space then we could achieve what I would call information traveling. And since at quantum level there seems to be something very similar, I hope this would allow us „traveling without mass“.
> I was initially fascinated by the amount of engineering that goes into extreme buildings. That fascination shifted as I started to see skyscrapers as cultural markers, and the results of complex systems of economics and politics.

I don't think any field is free from this adage.
I would absolutely not drink from a metal or glass straw while driving, BTW.
I've heard that in the '60s and '70s, gaggles of young women dressed for a night on the town would hop into black cabs, ask to be taken to 'a good party' with no elaboration, and get exactly that.
> The reason why bosses/ non technical people want to talk so much before and write so much non-code is because they can.

can -> can't
> Maybe it's the way games and apps are designed these days and attempt to hijack your attention

Very much this. I think a social media ban would have most of the benefits of a mobile phone ban.

While you mention FB, you do not say when, and I do not think it was always as addictive.

The other problem with phones is that thy are very much consumption devices. You are not going to build websites, let along games, on one.

> bullying that is pervasive based on your status and wealth often displayed as the latest iPhone, Playstations, etc and the chance of them being outcasts for not conforming to such structures.

The real solution there is to find a different environment for them. Unless its a really toxic environment, its not a big issue. Do you really want your kids to grow up with having to conform to status and wealth displays?

People also tend to overestimate this. lots of people said my kids would be ostracised because we did not have a TV. it was not a problem.
That's more shades of brown than a typical Unreal Engine 3 game! :)
Australian here.

In my youth, we would often take long’ish car rides to get to our favorite beaches. One of them - Bunker Bay Beach, right on the Western-most tip of the country, was a particular treasure as - at the time in the late 70’s/early 80’s, it was somewhat difficult to get to, involving a bit of bush bashing and whatnot.

44C, a stinking hot day, and we’d been driving for what seemed like hours to get there, my sister and I basically boiling in the back seat while Dad navigated the dusty road.

We arrive at this beautiful beach (it’s truly a gem) and I open the car door and run like mad to get into the pristine, blue waters, levitating on the baking hot sand, ignoring all and sundry in my rush to cool down. My Dad yelling something in the background did not deter me, nor did the pleas of my sister.

I dove into the waves and was instantly greeted with a hard, rushing white noise of pain. It was literally like someone had glued an untuned TV set to my eyeballs, just white noise and pain like nothing I’d ever experienced.

I blacked out. The next thing I remember is being rolled around in the scorching sand, my torso covered in blue bottle tentacles, the scars of which I still bear, almost 50 years later. My Dad, screaming at me to breathe, my sister yelling at me to read the signs: “BLUE BOTTLE SWARM IN SEASON: NO SWIMMING!”

What had been a joy turned into misery, as we now needed to get back in the car and battle the dust to take me to a hospital and make sure Dad and I were okay - he’d been covered in the tentacles too, as he ripped them off my skin and rolled me in the sand.

Subsequent visits to that beautiful spot were always tempered with at least 10 or 15 minutes of observation and surveillance, and for sure I never ran like that to get into those beautiful waters quite the same again .. and I subsequently learned that Bunker Bay Beach was kind of the final destination for every bluebottle that ever got caught in the winds along the Western Australian coastline, sort of a catchment of misery on one of the most beautiful beaches in the world ..
> Yet, the alternative, the rich man's debugger, introduces another tool into the project, something I try to avoid

I would not call this introducing a tool into the project. The debugger is not part of the project. I would call this utilizing the tools that are already built into your editor to make yourself more productive, instead of kneecapping yourself to only printing things.

Talking to the main point of that paragraph - using a debugger and having hot reloads are not mutually exclusive. You can use hot reloads to rapidly see live changes, then use breakpoints to inspect state if required. Additionally, that a debugger "cannot change the implementation" is not universally true; this varies by language and debugger, see Erlang/Elixir.

When people say things like this, it makes me think they simply lack the knowledge on how to effectively use a debugger, or they (or their language ecosystem) have not invested in good tooling.
The tendency of your type to immediately accuse anyone who acknowledges that they have subjective awareness of themselves and that this is meaningful with "aha, evidently you believe in magical souls" is very telling, I think.
For those looking a way to run java console apps in the browser, check out doppio: https://plasma-umass.org/doppio-demo/ it's old and unmaintained but it works. For example I run the java H2 database online: https://www.timestored.com/data/h2-database-online/ which allows me to try disposable SQL queries in my browser.
It's unfortunate that some sites only accept one Yubikey and not multiple.
i was not able to change the midi device to the appropriate one, so i couldn't use it, it looks really good though.
> In VS Code, it maintains its own undo stack, and the interactions between the two undo stacks are terrible and terribly frustrating

That’s because Vim has a more sophisticated undo stack than VS Code.

Vim keeps its history as a tree where you can jump between branches.
> I’ve been coding for a long time...

I think having been coding for a long time, I don't think you fall into the same category. Dart having paradigms not too different from other standard languages, a lot of these skills are probably transferable.

I've seen beginners on the other hand using LLMs who couldn't even write a proper for-loop without AI assistance. They lack the fundamental ability to "run code in their head." This type of person I feel would be utterly limited by the capabilities of the AI model and would fail in lockstep with it.
Clearly better than nothing, but how does it work with perceptual hashes? I gave it five minutes to try to get pHash to run locally but didn't manage to get any useful results from it, I was probably holding it wrong.
Looks to me like USB-C/HDMI cables are in the 5-20 EUR price range, about the same as USB-C/DP. I just got a new USB-C hub with HDMI port (4k@60) for about 15 EUR. Simple HDMI or DP cables (ie. same port on both ends) are available for 2-3 EUR, are there USB-C/DP cables in that range?