skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a market, scarce services will always be more valuable than abundant services.
Assuming that AI will at some point be capable of replacing an SWE, to future-proof your career, you will need to learn how to provide services that AI cannot provide. Those might not be what SWEs currently usually offer.

I believe it's actually not that hard to predict what this might be:

1. Real human interaction, guidance and understanding: This, by definition, is impossible to replace with a system, unless the "system" itself is a human.

2. Programming languages will be required in the future as long as humans are expected to interface with machines and work in collaboration with other humans to produce products. In order to not lose control, people will need to understand the full chain of experience required to go from junior SWE to senior SWE - and beyond. Maybe less people will be required to produce more products but still, they will be required as long as humanity doesn't decide to give up control over basically any product that involves software (which will very likely be almost all products).

3. The market will get bigger and bigger to the point where nothing really works without software anymore. Software will most likely be even more important to have a unique selling point than it is now.

4. Moving to a higher level of understanding of how to adapt and learn is beneficial for any individual and actually might be one of the biggest jumps in personal development. This is worth a lot for your career.

5. The current state of software development in most companies that I know has reached a point where I find it actually desirable for change to occur. SWE should improve as a whole. It can do better than Agile for sure. Maybe it's time to "grow up" as a profession.
That's intriguing; one might assume that a key feature of eFuse would be the ability to reset easily. But I guess it could be implemented without it
Nvidia is helping power the tool that destroys the software moat.
Just this weekend I had the perfect problem for sqlite, unfortunately 200MB and above it became unwieldy.
If you can use the exhaust heat to temper the incoming outside air, that's all an ERV does. Or, get a direct vent fireplace (draws in outdoor air)
Tig does about 10% of what Magit does, alas.

EDIT: It does the things it does well, but it's not even close.
The US government often takes the role of purchasing services and contracts, whereas the EU seems to favor more direct funding of corporate projects, like the one this article mentions, or the Airbus 380.

That said, I was talking about the sentiment around these activities, where much of the US is fairly hostile to the idea.
High schools still teach Shakespeare and that's always been in the public domain. As is a lot of Mark Twain's works.
Ryan Dahl on the Deno vs. Oracle Petition [video]
>Other countries are growing faster

Other countries have grown faster by copying from the most developed countries (and taking advantage of international trade facilitated by the US) which only works for significantly-less-developed countries.

The US was 25% of the global economy in 1960 and it is still 25% of the global economy.
I think you've taken the most cynical view possible.

SQLite is open source but not open contribution. So if they "won't do it for us" and "we need it", what else are they supposed to do? They're offering SQLite in the cloud, obviously they need to offer a streaming backup solution. Is there something wrong in building that?

Alternatively, do you want them to reimplement features in SQLite already built out by the SQLite team?

Really sounds like you're complaining about getting an open source, MIT licensed, open contribution bit of software for free that you're under no obligation to use. And here you are complaining about "community consensus".
Wasn't the 500 mile email [1] caused by something similar, i.e. software loading a config file made for a newer version loading it and behaving in an undesirable fashion?

[1] https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
Reading and understanding what you’ve read is difficult. Don‘t give up, you‘re going to master it one day!
> Might the author be overreacting a bit to this new law? As I understand it, it doesn't put that much of an onerous demand on forum operators.

As the manager of a community where people meet in person, I understand where he is coming from. Acting like law enforcement puts one in a position to confront dangerous individuals without authority or weapons. It is literally life-endangering.
Yes. This is frustrating. Notable examples:

Updating an ESPHome device config requires network to build/compile the image. [0]

Viewing your Integrations page leaks a list of integrations you are using to "brands.home-assistant.io". [1]

[0] https://community.home-assistant.io/t/esphome-completely-off...

[1] https://community.home-assistant.io/t/wth-why-are-brand-icon...
Basically everything Dan posts online is deeply insightful, fearlessly honest, thoroughly footnoted, and dryly humorous.

I think even he is a little averse to straight up saying it out loud (we’ve discussed it many times): software and product outcomes have gone to shit because we don’t enforce anti-trust law already on the books, let alone update it in light of 50 Moore doublings.

You want a smart phone? Here are two vendors with the same App Store vig at payday loan shark rates. You want to rent cloud compute? Here are several vendors where the 4th place vendor charges the same as the first place vendor. You build disruptive encrypted messaging app? You better live on a boat and watch your six like Jason Bourne Mr. Marlinspike.

Is it even a little surprising that everything from Google search to Netflix is a shittier version of itself ten years ago? There’s no incentive to make it compelling!
That's not what Open Source means. The development team not being willing to review your pull requests does not limit your freedom to use sqlite in any way.
> Lately I've been wondering if the efficient market hypothesis was actually more true a century ago than it is now.

Probably.

A century ago, the companies which approached monopoly were in industries that had either huge economies of scale or very strong network effects. The United States Steel Corporation was an example of the first, and the Pennsylvania Railroad an example of the second. Even railroads were somewhat local monopolies - the Pennsylvania never merged with the Union Pacific. Not that the government at the time would have let them.

What changed?

- Better transport and communication. Selling to country-sized and world-sized markets became feasible.

- Computerization. Big companies used to have huge clerical plants of people pushing paper. Some of that paper pushing scaled faster than linearly, so the bigger the company, the worse it got. The administration system of big companies couldn't get out of its own way. It's forgotten now, but pre-computer, railroad companies had no idea where most of their shipments currently were. Paperwork was nailed to the side of boxcars and traveled with the load. As late as the 1960s, auto companies were struggling to figure out where their vehicles in transit on rail cars had gotten lost.
Today the mechanics of tracking everything is a non-problem. Walmart, Target, and Amazon work fine. Planetary-scale companies are possible and common.

- Bigger banks. Until the 1980s, US banks could not operate across state lines. Until the 1990s, nationwide banks did not exist in the US. This limited large business access to borrowed capital. Most companies were primarily funded by equity, supported by national stock markets.
Storing CO2 in rock: Carbon mineralization holds promise but needs scale-up
"Let's make synthetic prion diseases!" sounds like a phrase that'd make a biologist shudder.
Droste’s Lair
Bold of them to assume we’ll survive the century at any level above the Iron Age, and with any population above the high millions to low billions.

Capitalism is keeping us locked into the “Business As Usual” model that will bring us to civilization-destroying climate change by the middle of the century, and with tropics-denying lethally high wet bulb temperatures that will get well into the temperate zone by the end of the century. Think most of CONUS being uninhabitable for multiple days to weeks every year, with or without AC.
in my testing, clickhouse dies on various queries with OOM on large datasets, because algos are subefficient.
That would result in a domino effect that would inevitably result in the internet being segregated by nationality.
Okay, so is the aim to run this locally on a client's computer or served from a cloud? How does the math work out where it's not just easier at that point to render it in game?
> Why not create mirror viruses to infect these mirror bacteria? And mirror predators to consume the mirror bacteria.

"No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death."
I heard about strcpys (secure strcpy) #defined again as strcpy
Zero lag. If they lose power they revert to cool white. All local. Checked home assistant and its direct integration (yeelight)...no mqtt.

And looked up my old notes - copied in below though don't recall details of what I did. Suspect maybe I used the python stuff just to check that lan is enabled rather than editing

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https://github.com/Squachen/micloud

pip install micloud

miiocli device --ip 192.168.1.88 --token FOOBAR info

miiocli device --ip 192.168.1.88 --token FOOBAR info

On iphone go to yeelight app, select the apps overall setting menu and enable lan control
> maybe there's a Guile/Scheme library somewhere out there that Emacs could desperately use.

It isn't the reason for Guile Emacs, but there is in fact a library Emacs could quite desperately use: fibers (<https://github.com/wingo/fibers>). The Emacs concurrency story is about as bad as you could expect from a 40+ year old application.
Maybe this thing works that way?
https://www.modlar.com/brands/nu-air-ventilation-systems-inc...
I think you’re being overly charitable in thinking this happens because they don’t understand these things. The main thing is that they don’t care. The purpose of passing legislation to protect the children isn’t to protect the children, it’s to get reelected.

If we can get the voters to understand the things you mention, then maybe we’d have a chance.
One person talking in front of thirty kids is not much of a connection.
> Millennials are in office now.

The most stupid influencers, at least in my country.
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Companies like CursorAI successfully redesigned code editors for this purpose, demonstrating benefits over standard interfaces. Yet, similar advancements in text editing remain limited and much work is needed to unlock LLM capabilities for text editing.

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Polpo also uses LLMs from various providers, enabling users to choose models based on their strengths and limitations.
Check it out at https://polpo.ink/.
it's a bit disingenuous to call Peter Thiel, the man who helped bankroll Trump's first presidential run and groomed and chose the vice president for the second, "some libertarian tech founder". this is arguably _the_ tech founder in politics next to Musk, using their money to wield undue influence over democratic elections.

futhermore, the described "spyware and facial recognition technology" has actually been used to silence dissidents and journalists ("silence" meaning torture and kill): https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/18/nso-spyware-us....

tech is "big" right now in the sense that they've overtaken the world and democratic institutions. that's how they're different from other large corporate entities: they have managed to subvert traditional safeguards, which is why "big tech" has become a threat.
Except, having 1000 subs in Chinese waters (just as an example) doesn't help you. The point isn't just to evade being blown up, or which is the sub with weapons, it's also to evade detecting you were ever there or are there.
They're rewriting SQLite. They're going to put their effort into that surely? Also SQLite explicitly state that they do not accept outside contributions, so there's no point trying.
If your competitors are doing and you were either forced to follow or go out of business… they can have my sympathies.
Just use Docker?
Agree, I'm hugely bullish on AI but this implementation is just so fucking bad. The Apple execs involved should feel a deep sense of shame and incompetence. What a joke. The Siri org leaders have proven to the world, time and time again, that they can't get anything right.
Really? Let's say the bottom 70% of earners in the U.S. decided that AI was dangerous and its development should be stopped. Do you think the top 30% would allow that?
Sorry for tangent but any recommendations for small smart phone (i.e. <6" screen)?

I like my iPhone 12 mini with its 5" screen (though it is glitchier than one would hope) but now all phones seem to be 6"+ which is hard to fit into a pocket or even manipulate with one hand.

I know the Samsung ZFlip 6 and Motorola Razr+ are small, though rather pricey at $800-1000. Any opinions from folks on reliability/usability etc of these?

I am embarrassed to say I have some Apple lock-in with earbuds and even basic conveniences like "find-my" working for my children's watches so not sure if these are worth staying with Apple for, even if I dislike their latest devices.
Show HN: AI Powered Audio Summaries for Sophisticated Concepts
A short story/cautionary tale on this very subject: https://laprade.blog/your-dietbet-destroyed-the-world
Open source inference time compute example from HuggingFace
Do we really "accept" microplastics? It seems to me most scientists in the field are terrified of microplastics, while simultaneously acknowledging it's a problem that we almost assuredly can't realistically solve on any reasonable timescale.

I'm confident if we had seen microplastics coming when we first started using plastics, science at least would have tried to prevent their use becoming as widespread as it has.
>Cryptocurrency has always been an application of caveat emptor where the caveats can be hidden in the code or the economics, or both, but with the integration into the legal system, it's now possible for cryptocurrencies with solid code and economics to scam the public with legal caveats.

In other words, a EULA?
If I choose to buy alcohol or cigarettes and I look over 25 in the UK I do not have to show any ID. If I do need to show ID, it doesn't get tracked by the government. It is only seen by the whoever is serving me at the checkout. I don't honestly believe that you don't understand how this is different.

> It's illuminating that your post is both "tech can't solve it" and so brazenly pro-tech with manifestations of its laziest arguments each way.

I believe that the only way to stop enforcement is to make it impossible to enforce. This would require new software that is easy to use by the majority of people. I don't see this happening in the near term.

> Of course tech can solve the ID problem. It could solve it in a way that doesn't need to give ground to your slippery slope argument too. It just doesn't have the incentive model to do so. Any "control" in this space would reduce the marketable headcount and so it's not in tech's interests to solve - without government intervention.

I am not sure what you are trying to say here. The fact is that some sort of government ID will be required or a credit card and that would be directly linked to any accounts you may have. Simply this is a bad idea for my own security, I don't want to be giving my government ID to some social media company in the first place or a third party that I maybe unfamiliar with. That before we get into any other wider reaching concerns.
There are ≤3B models far better than the absolute garbage Apple is running on the iPhone.
I've never used it, but I'm surprised to never hear anything bad about Quasar.

It seems like a pretty niche project with am enthusiastic following. Like Elm, but even more niche.
Any chance you know of good DAE books/resources that go into combining symbolics and numerics or parametrized DAEs?
A quote from SICP:

> First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations, but rather that it is a novel formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology. Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

From this perspective, the code base isn’t just an artifact left over from the struggle of getting the computer to understand the business’s problems. Instead, it is an evolving methodological documentation (for humans) of how the business operates.

Thought experiment: suppose that you could endlessly iterate with an LLM using natural language to build a complex system to run your business. However, there is no source code emitted. You just get a black box executable. However, the LLM will endlessly iterate on this black box for you as you desire to improve the system.

Would you run a business with a system like this?

For me, it depends on the business. For example, I wouldn’t start Google this way.
All episodes of the 90s Tintin animated series are on DailyMotion:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x749uno
I'll grant you that in a world where a chat app like Discord is >400 Mb, this is on the smaller side, but that just goes to show how low our standards have become.

But then consider for a moment that the entirety of Windows 95 is ~100 Mb installed.
Answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42434349
I'm working on this project right now - and I'm looking at everything from chassis to screen from scratch. (unfortunately, v0.1 here is probably going to be B&W). Hoping to have a working prototype in the next few months.

WavShare is probably my rec for e-ink screens and drivers (https://www.waveshare.com/13.3inch-e-paper.htm). You can find those with partial refreshes and HDMI driver boards.

For the driver - the Glider project has some good progress to drive the display and how-tos. See https://gitlab.com/zephray/glider

Agree with other comments - MacOS and other existing software aren't designed for this - I'm writing my own. Scrolling, mouse-dragging and dark mode are just a few of the annoyances. (I have the Dasung 25" as well and it gets frustrating).

Also happy to hop on a call and chat more about this stuff
NVidia has software moat for specialized applications but not for AI, which is responsible for most of their sales now. Almost everyone in AI uses pytorch/jax/triton/flash attention and not CUDA directly. And if Google can support pytorch for their TPU and Apple for their M1 GPU, surely others could.
The Effect of TMI on the Electric Grid Or: How We Didn't Learn to Love Nuclear
I feel like this as well sometimes. I have a pretty good setup there's been instances where things like activating the correct Python environment, have the LSP work properly or understand some arcane docs has been an issue. I don't see how Guile fixes any of this and it also suffers anemic docs imo.
Ask HN: Documentation in an Emergency
My teammates and I are in a bit of bad spot and I have to make a quick decision.

For reasons I won't get into the lead developer (and a few non devs) at my employer abruptly left the company that now includes 4 full time developers, and one dev ops person (who just joined recently).

For many years the lead developer worked both cooperatively, and semi isolated from the development team pushing out code, altering database schema, and so on. Much of the knowledge of how the system works, both day to day operational processes, technical documentation, and so on are a mystery.

We're now faced with learning / investigating / putting out fires on the fly and we've all agreed we need to document everything as we go and start now. My first thought when it came to documentation was a wiki like Wikipedia. Nice big pages where content is king, easy to link page to page, and edit.

As I've looked around I've found all sorts of "wiki" like documentation options but I'm both overwhelmed at the variety of options, and a little annoyed that they all look the same.

What I'm looking for:

- Speed and ease of use. I documenting things to be easy and as low friction as possible.

- I've seen some self hosted options, but in this case I'd like this hosted outside our hybrid cloud setup. We're concerned about the stability of our platform at the moment and need access to this documentation when that platform is having problems.

- Security is obviously important as we're going to be documenting some sensitive material. Everything from network diagrams, logical data flow diagrams, client documentation and so on.

I tried out Notion, silite, and looked through similar options inside services we already subscribe to, and while I don't think they have any deal breakers with what I've tried they're all kinda the same.... and I dislike how every time I make a new page you get this modal style pop up to edit that seems smaller than the page it was on, that's not a deal breaker but for situations where the page will have wider content it is a little annoying / doesn't feel very documentation content focused.

I'm wondering, if you were in our spot and you were starting some collaborative documentation on an established system from nearly 0, what would you pick?
Probably it's rather the world that runs our technology. But i digress...
What good would that do? Look who elects them!
Funny indeed.Ada Lovelace has been persistantly recognised for a very long time, but has never been held up as a sufferget type mayrter, as by all accounts, she enjoyed herself out on the bleeding edge and is still making people uncomfortable 150 years after not fitting into any stereotypes then.
Its clear from the footnotes that, whatever crowd
around Babage and Lovelace, grasped the possibilities.
Also interesting is that durring the apollo moon mission, the memory modules for the guidance computers were crafted by some of the last lace makers, working by hand, to survive the introduction of the jaquard looms and there punch cards.
Time and money are better spent on creating actual video, animation, and art than this gen AI drivel.
So far I haven't found much use for LLM code generation. I'm using Copilot as a glorified autocomplete and that's about it. I tried to use LLM to generate more code, but it takes more time to yield what I want than to write it myself, so it's just not useful.

Now ChatGPT really became indispensable tool for me, on the one row with Google and StackOverflow.

So I don't feel threatened so far. I can see the potential, and I think that it's very possible for LLM-based agents to replace me eventually, probably not this generation, but few years later - who knows. But that's just hand waving, so getting worried about possible future is not useful for mental well-being.
just to remind everyone that state of the art was Will Smith Eating Spaghetti in April of 2023

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/yes-v...

We're not even done with 2024.

Just imagine what's waiting for us in 2025.
Tide prediction machines came about 30 years later as an application of the "science of harmony".
> Laws are meant to be dynamic.

The US Supreme Court disagrees. https://www.dentons.com/en/insights/articles/2024/july/3/-/m...
I just can’t get my head around that this (Tintin) is for the US. For the rest, including the EU, the copyright is until around 2050.