skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The fact that this whole discussion happens in english, partially explains why there is a discussion at all. The whole problem could have been avoided if the development of computers had been a more international effort.

Your comment makes for a solid example of why DEI efforts have a very practical side to it, and actually makes solid sense in the 21st century.
> payday loans that lend for 30% APR (Apple Store takes 30%)

You have to flip the percentage. The fraction of money that goes to the intended destination after a 30% tax is 70%. The fraction of money that goes to the intended destination with a one year 100% APR loan is 50%.

Though there's no reason to assume a year in particular. If you take a six month loan at 100% APR, you have to pay back 141%. Paying back 141% is equivalent to a 29% tax. And if the best comparison is "six months of compounding payday loans" that's even worse than the initial comment suggested.
Waymo will bring autonomous vehicles to Tokyo
https://archive.is/g2MXp
Approximately everyone loves godbolt, yes!
The Premise Trap
>Repubs put it in with Ukraine aid to force it through.

The bill passed with the House with 352-65, which I recall this forum often says is more representative of the population than the Senate. You're implying that Republicans bundled it against the opinions of the Democrats when it reality it was more of matter of expendiency for a bipartisan addition with the foreign aid bill. Biden obviously signed it off, the Democrats overwhelmingly support this bill, it's the Republicans who care more about free speech anyways.

>And a consensus doesn’t mean it isn’t against the principle of the country and the first amendment. Literally. Banning. Speech.

That's just your individual interpretation that the divestment bill conflicts with the "principles" and the first amendment, clearly the house, the senate, the courts do not. America dosen't share your opinion on that matter. A more obvious principle of American Principles is respecting the democratic process even if you don't personally agree with the conclusion.
This sounds like a plausible list.

Often times on HN it can be hard to distinguish between scoundrels/trolls/losers/etc… with ulterior motives and genuine people with accurate information, but for this case since Dan Luu has done a lot of credible actions, he should be given the benefit fo the doubt.
Some of this is being tested in court right now.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
Waymo to begin testing in Tokyo, its first international destination
There’s a breed of programmers around who just like making things harder for themselves, and are somehow good at it. It’s like being a competitive power lifter or something like that. More weight, more weight, and at some point you get excited by more weight.
Made it worse if you consider that the book prompted authorities to bury the problem further. They went from claiming administrative detections didnt exist, to admitting they exist, to obfuscating the system so they can claim administrative detections no longer exist.

>it contributes nothing to solving that problem

His solution was to remove administrative detections, so that beat cops dont:

1. Get rewarded for "detecting" 30 crimes, where the 30 crimes was 10 people being harmless in public
2. Spend all their time writing reports about their administrative detections instead of being a visible presence.

"a policeman had a word with the guy" is I believe the authors wish. He seems to make a case for removing police powers to the point where they are little more than private citizens.

I quite liked the old man yells at cloud format. But I didnt like his obsession with the yank sherrif.
I read most of them with my kids when they were little; I used to just gloss over certain panels…
Yep, massive LOC means massive maintenance. Maybe the LLMs can maintain their own code? I'm skeptical. I feel like they can easily code themselves into an unmaintainable corner.

But maybe the times that happens is so rare and low that you just hire a human to unstuck the whole thing and get it running again. Maybe we'll become more like mechanics you visit every now and then for an expensive, quick job, vs an annual retainer.
Show HN: Chipped beta (a small game about mineral collecting)
turn your sound on and break some rocks!

chipped is a small game about mineral collecting written on Reddit's Devvit platform where I work. it's open-source (https://github.com/reddit/devvit-chipped), all the minerals and their locations are queried from Wikidata, the Voronoi diagram software is by Raymond Hill (the lead developer of uBlock Origin), and the Patrick Hand font is by Patrick Wagesreiter.

it's a little rough around the edges but please try it out! if you're interested, learn more about making games and apps for Devvit at: https://developers.reddit.com.
> The system isn't cutting edge and at best will be in the private market with massive subsidies.

It's intended for governmental use (which includes the military). As such, there's no need for it to be competitive with any private marketing offering.

> So we are paying 10x is more, for getting about 10% the value.

Such is the price of strategic independence.

Or would you really feel better if the EU were completely dependent on staying on good terms not only with the US (whose soon-to-be leader is publicly considering to let some of its adversaries "do whatever the hell they want" with Europe), but also US-based companies essentially being able to charge the EU whatever they want for space launches due to a lack of alternatives?
Just imagine how big goliath was then! Surely at least 7 hectares!
> There will be less SWE and DevOps and related jobs available in the next 24 months. Period.

I wish an AI could revisit this comment 2 years later and post the stats to see if you're right.
>And if you've taken Waymo anywhere it's pretty amazing.

Yeah, about that: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/hilarious-video-shows-waymo-self-1...
Does lossy means you may see previous inputs change ?!
What content promotes eating disorders?!

They’re talking about thinspo. Was pretty popular and survived search bans on many platforms. To save you a search, it’s mostly about getting thing legs that do not touch and overall ~40kg body type.
Pretty good except the backwards body and the strange wing movement. The feeling of motion is fantastic though.
Obvious answer would be to buy a license for TH3 and run its tests against the alternative in question, but unfortunately (judging by https://www.sqlite.org/prosupport.html) it seems like Hwaci won't provide direct access to TH3 unless you buy an SQLite Consortium membership for $120k/year.
I don't use UEFI often. Last night after installing a new kernel, I noticed that updating-grub failed to add that kernel to (either of 2) GRUB bootlists. After consulting a Boot-Repair report, I found that deleting a partition on another drive flagged as 'boot,esp' resolved that problem. Moral: 1) don't leave skeletons in closets.
> self-replicating photosynthetic plastic

Cellulose? It did cause quite the stir, I'll grant you.
> LLMs don't have to be "great," they just have to be "good enough."

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!!!! It may be that some random script you run on your PC can be "good enough", but the software the my business sells can't be produced by "good enough" LLMs. I'm tired of my junior dev turning in garbage code that the latest and greatest "good enough" LLM created. I'm about to tell him he can't use AI tools anymore. I'm so thankful I actually learned how to code in pre-LLM days, because I know more than just how to copy and paste.
The bulbs are ok but I tried moving my Hue motion sensors over to my main Zigbee network and they were terrible, constantly dropping offline and needing reset.

Luckily Hue is made by Philips who I'm pretty sure aren't going anywhere.
Full grown cow gemini says 1,400lbs. World squat record 1,311.8. Panathenaic Stadium, Athens was 850 feet long, further than a single squat. Either we've gotten weaker, or cows have gotten bigger.
Can openwrt run HA? To run it on the router itself?
SSHing to your doorbell to make it stop bothering your neighbor would be an awesome move
> not be cannibalized by cloud providers

That would be discrimination against certain groups/persons, so not acceptable under the OSD.

https://opensource.org/osd
Ooh! I would super recommend reading into the Tintin author's friendship with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Chongren. It also touches upon and confirms/applies to what the French individuals say about Hergé, but up until his writing of The Blue Lotus, I'd argue.

The section on Zhang Chongren's wikipedia was cool

```

# Influence on Hergé

Hergé's early albums of The Adventures of Tintin were highly dependent on stereotypes for comedic effect. These included evil Russian Bolsheviks, lazy and ignorant Africans, and an America of gangsters, cowboys and Indians.

At the close of the newspaper run of Cigars of the Pharaoh, Hergé had mentioned that Tintin's next adventure (The Blue Lotus) would bring him to China. Father Gosset, the chaplain to the Chinese students at the University of Leuven, wrote to Hergé urging him to be sensitive about what he wrote about China. Hergé agreed, and in the spring of 1934 Gosset introduced him to Zhang Chongren. The two young artists quickly became close friends, and Zhang introduced Hergé to Chinese history and culture, and the techniques of Chinese art. Of similar age, they also shared many interests and beliefs. Hergé even promised to give authorship credits to Zhang in the book, but Zhang declined the offer. As a result of this experience, Hergé would strive, in The Blue Lotus and subsequent Tintin adventures, to be meticulously accurate in depicting the places Tintin visited.

As a token of appreciation, Hergé added the character "Chang Chong-Chen" (Tchang in original French-language version) to The Blue Lotus.[1]

As another result of his friendship with Zhang, Hergé became increasingly aware of the problems of colonialism, in particular the Empire of Japan's advances into China, and the corrupt, exploitative International Settlement of Shanghai. The Blue Lotus carries a bold anti-imperialist message, contrary to the prevailing view in Europe, which was sympathetic to Japan and the colonial enterprise[citation needed]. As a result, it drew sharp criticism from various parties, including a protest by Japanese diplomats to the Belgian Foreign Ministry.[citation needed]

```

I bought a copy of The Blue Lotus after learning about how the publication of that adventure was a turning point in Hergé's understanding and open-mindedness about other (specifically China, in this case) cultures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Lotus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang_Chong-Chen
All the programming for the Apollo Program took less then a year and Microsoft Teams is decades in development obviously they are better than NASA programmers.
If you think that state-of-the-art LLMs are "random text generators" I don't know what to say to you.
Yep, I learned this the hard way. I thought meeting customers, selling them on an automated, cheaper version of their current crufty manual system would be so easy I'd barely need to try.

I'd never been more wrong.
I’d be thrilled if mathematicians would just use multicharacter variable names instead of getting overly fancy with diacritics and italic/bold/capital/Greek variations.
I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding about both evolution and markets, which is that either one "optimizes" something. Neither needs to create a perfect outcome. An organism doesn't have to be the best, most efficient possible at getting food, it only has to be good enough to survive long enough to reproduce. A cheetah does not need to be the fastest cheetah on the plains to survive, it only has to be faster than the slowest antelope. A company does not need to make a perfect product, it only has to be just good enough to turn a profit, any profit, in order to survive.

Once you realize this everything starts to make sense. Why can accountant have errors? Because they aren't bad enough to lose customers. Why can a product be made shoddily? Because it isn't quite shoddy enough that people stop buying it. Indeed, the most optimal thing for a company, profit-wise, is to be just as shitty as possible without going out of business. Any additional resources spent on increasing quality that is not demanded by the market are, in a sense, wasted.

This hurts from an engineering perspective because we want to make things that are good, but too often customers don't actually care about how good it is, just that it is cheap and just barely good enough to be worth purchasing.
It’s a line by Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
It is racist but staunchly in the normal racism for its time category.
Copilot and aider-chat
I'm assuming this is the site mentioned in this video? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C3y6SsGAWks it might be best to remove the actual link so people in a bad mental state don't end up there. Cc @dang
I tried the same GGUF on LMStudio and it seems to sometimes leak its training data.

Prompt:
Are you based on OpenAI?

Reply:
No, I am not based on OpenAI's models; I am developed by Microsoft. While both systems are designed for natural language processing and understanding, we may have different architectures, training methodologies, or datasets. However, our shared goal is to provide helpful and informative responses while ensuring user safety and privacy.

Are you similar to ChatGPT?
The opening screen in this game is why I ended up working at IBM for 8 years.
> If the proponents of AI were serious about their claims of intelligence than they should also be pushing for AI rights , there is no such serious discourse happening

It's beginning to happen. Anthropic hired their first AI welfare researcher from Eleos AI, which is an organization specifically dedicated to investigating this question: https://eleosai.org/
I guess I'd have to set up a hollow tube in the backyard, pointing at some position of the sun, to set my clock by. Or a sundial.

Come to think of it, I guess the easiest possible "mission accomplished" I could declare is by jamming a stick into the ground on a sunny weekend.
yeah I f'ing love HA, it's my favourite hobby. But as it turns out I'm a programmer so I guess it fits :D

HA is only good for normies if there's a techie setting it up and keeping it running.
https://archive.ph/lgUsJ
Thanks for the example.

> This website is for support for those with an eating disorder who feel alone and by themself with this issue.

Where are people with anorexia and bulimia supposed to get support/information if forums about the topics are untenable?

Many can't beat the condition, and there's potential benefit in learning to accept and live with it.

I'm not saying the site is unequivocally good, just that it's not unequivocally bad, therefore onerous regulation that has huge side-effects on information sharing to curb something that's arguably net-beneficial is dubious and shouldn't be pursued without strong evidence that 1. It will work as intended, and 2. It will actually be beneficial.
It's easier for the same reason that in 500 years no one will watch or have heard of any of Disney's products, and people will still be reading and performing Shakespeare wherever English is spoken.
I think the only conclusion one can draw from this is that high school statistics is actually useful in real-life.

If the company is crazy enough to put people on PIP based on 2 low-precision data points, and fire them based on 4 data points... it's not going to be a good place to work at, and nothing will get done. If you are looking only at the numbers, then at least use proper statistical methods. Or stop treating people like numbers and treat them as humans, this'll give you much more data to work with.
How's thinspo different to fat-acceptance communities? (I have nothing against either, I think people ought to be free to pursue information on their body-type)
Hooray for Asterix and Tintin! If anyone here hasn't read Asterix, you definitely should : https://youtu.be/rkNkanTnRwc?si=__EyTehCivEAZlc1
Boringness classifier! Pretty cool because this implies the large models already know what is useless and what isn't.
Blackmagic Debuts $30K 3D Camera for Capturing Video for Vision Pro
Torpedo juice: Legendary, illegal WWII liquor drunk in Alaska and the world
huh? it's OSS
At what point does a "new" playing field become an "existing" playing field? Surely they don't deserve an outsized cut forever, and we're more than 16 years in.

Their hardware sales shouldn't entitle them to a cut of the software used on it, and the hosting is not worth particularly much.
They have limited authorities! They should be unlimited. /s
The original is available and playable online on the Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/msdos_Alley_Cat_1984
Is it possible that after 3-4 years of performance optimizations, both algorithmic and in hardware efficiency, it will turn out that we didn’t really need all of the nuclear plants we’re currently in the process of setting up to satisfy the power demands of AI data centers?
In simplistic terms, they buy machine with 1000 knobs. They have engineers who know how much and when to turn each knob.
We are putting lots of optimisation efforts into lots of worthwhile endeavours.
I'm a big fan of their papers, this one didn't disappoint
Seems like some kind of achiral algae would actually be the most dangerous.

People forget that blue-green algae caused a global climate apocalypse, polluted the oceans and atmosphere with deadly oxygen, caused all exposed iron to rust massively changing ocean chemistry, and threw the entire globe into an ice-age that lasted 300 million years.

I wonder how we would stop something like that. It'd be like the algae bloom from hell. Plankton likely wouldn't be very successful in attempting to eat it.
Sysadmin here. Thats what we used to be called. Then some fads came, some went. DevOps, SRE. Etc.

I have notes on particular areas I am focusing on, but I have a small set of general notes on this, and they seem to apply to you SWEs also.

Headline: Remember data is the new oil
Qualifier: It's really all about IP portfolios these days

1) Business Acument: How does the tech serve the business/client needs, from a holistic perspective of the business. (eg: sysadmins have long had to big picture finance, ops, strategy, industry, etc knowledge) - aka - turn tech knowledge into business knowledge

2) Leadership Presence: Ability to meet w/c-suite, engineers, clients, etc, and speak their languages, understand their issues, and solve their issues. (ex: explain ROI impacts for proposals to c-suite)

3) Emotional Intelligence: Relationship building in particular.
(note: this is the thing I neglected the most in my career and regreted it!)

4) Don't be afraid to use force multiplier tools. In this discussion, that means LLMs, but it can mean other things too. Adopt early, keep up with tooling, but focus on the fundamental tech and don't get bogged down into proprietary stockholm syndrome. Augment yourself to be better, don't try to replace yourself.

----

Now, I know thats a simplistic list, but you asked so I gave you what I had. What I am doing (besides trying to get my mega-uber-huge-sideproject off the ground), is recentering on certain areas I don't think are going anywhere: on-prem, datacenter buildouts, high-compute, ultra-low-latency, scalable systems, energy, construction of all the previous things, and the banking knowledge to round it all out.

If my side-project launch fails, I'm even considering data-center sales instead of the tech side. Why? I'm tired of rescuing the entire business to no fanfare while sales people get half my salary in a bonus. Money aside, I can still learn and participate in the builds as sales (see it happen all the time).

In other words, I took my old-school niche set of knowledge, and adopted it over the years as the industry changed, focusing on what I do best (in this case, operations - aka - the ones who actually get shit into prod, and fix it when it's broke, regardless of the title associated).
No, just dumb.
> At a certain level, watches aren't about quality. Only exclusivity.

Annnnd at this level I'm out.

I mean, cool engineering solving a particular problem, near impossible tolerances, astounding art/materials all appeal on some level - but "exclusivity" on it's own doesn't mean anything.
Well, Google Search trends are also only an imperfect proxy for what we are actually interested in.

Eg tap water is really, really useful and widely deployed. Approximately every household is a user, and that's unlikely to change. But I doubt you'll find much evidence of that in Google Search trends.
Homelessness does not seem particularly related to EoL care.
It seems (feels?) likely that demand for LLM is elastic, especially when it comes to specialized niche. Less power requirements just mean we run more of them in parallel for stuffs, so the power needs is gonna be growing anyway.
I think they meant they're missing having one now, and so will switch to HA partly to have one.
>All in all, I have a hard time buying all this.

You might, but if there's anything 2020-24 has taught us, the target audience is definitely going to be stupid enough to believe whatever the narrative becomes, probably "we need such-and-such extra powers and funding".
Oh, I don’t know, how about reducing the search space/accelerating the search speed for potential room temperature superconductors? Or how about the same for viable battery chemistries?
At this point it makes sense to just buy an Nvidia Quadro RTX 8000, with 48gb of ram. Especially since I will be using it for LLMs locally.

Also, for gaming, it makes financial sense to just buy a console at this point especially since these GPU prices are stupid pricey.
The observation here is far too easily explained in other ways to be considered particularly strong evidence.

Memorizing a solution to a classic brainteaser is not the same as having the reasoning skills needed to solve it. Finding out separate solutions for related problems might allow someone to pattern-match, but not to understand. This is about as true for humans as for LLMs. Lots of people ace their courses, even at university level, while being left with questions that demonstrate a stunning lack of comprehension.
That's simply not true when you see the owners of these forums throwing in the towel because of the compliance requirements.
My last project made millions for the bank I was working at within the first 2 years and is now a case study at one of our extremely large vendors who you have definitely heard of. I conceptualised it, designed it, wrote the most important code. My boss said my contribution would last decades. You persist with making statements about people in the discussion, when you know nothing about their context aside from one opinion on one issue. Focus on the argument not the people.