skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Years ago I read an introduction to a collection of Chekhov's letters that provided an illuminating context to the intellectual & aesthetic climate of Russia in the 19th century. It explained that authors like Chernyshevsky asserted that all novels, really all art, ought to be of a politically salient character; that it ought to highlight the suffering the marginal & subaltern. So many of the authors we now revere -- Dostoevsky, Chekhov, even Tolstoy, aroused the ire of the Russian intelligentsia for failing to meet this standard, for writing for purposes other than political and revolutionary utility. The introduction asserted that this was an overwhelmingly unanimous sentiment among the Russian left.
Interesting examples. Personally, I don't really consider Ebay, AirBnB, Reddit, or Substack to be "technology companies". They are businesses that happen to be online, imo. I'm sure that e.g. AirBnB has lots of machine learning technology now, but I reckon it's doing niche stuff like optimizing conversion rates and profits by customer tracking, recommending, etc. So basically, after-the-fact value optimization. Nothing really invented or new created, aside from their novel ideas and unique executions.

Other actual tech examples seem to fall into 1 of 2 camps: obvious but hard to do (better search engine, better rockets, electric cars, etc), or cool but non-obvious customer end uses (maybe LLMs, VR/AR, curved or flexible high def screens, etc). The latter category has more risk but probably lower hanging fruit to get started, because the market needs are less obvious.

In your example, do you think the customer focus lead to pre-mature optimization and kind of tunnel-visioned the team away from further LLM development? That's another type of trade-off that's probably impossible to predict at the time. I mean who doesn't want customers.

I'm not entirely surprised that OpenAI was able to achieve so much given their structure - they had the mandate of a trendy new research lab, top talent, with 100M+ funding and no need to cater to any early customers. Seems like a great (though typically impractical) way to build big new things. Then they had the right top-level guidance when the tech was getting ready, to pivot and raise more money (unlike XEROX PARC for example).
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> I think we're tired of copying and pasting our codes and sharing links using PasteBin, GithubGist, or Slack.

I think I normally just encourage my coworkers to push the branch (to Github, Gitlab, etc.) to share larger snippets. Smaller stuff, `/snippet` works alright.

But I think the bigger issue with any tool is that corporate isn't going to want company IP uploaded or put into a random website. (This is already the case for a "PasteBin", too; the companies I've worked at wouldn't want me using that, either.) That said, I see this rule violated … a lot. More nowadays with the litany of LLM stuff out there. So, that "self hosted" feature would almost certainly be a requirement, but hosting small tools like this is a high barrier to adoption vs. a process like Slack or Github that has some small friction, but otherwise works.

> Pain points in your current code-sharing process?

Honestly I think the biggest pain point I have with sharing in Slack is that other people don't seem to know how to use Slack. You'll get a code snippet not in a `/snippet`, not even in a code block, just variable-width normal paragraph text.

(The other pain point is that Slack corrupts code-block contents in some cases. ("a known bug here […] currently being investigated by our engineering team […] don't have a timeline for a fix just yet" … the bug has been around for years, so yeah…))
I would like to add Programmatic SEO and doing Organic TikTok / Reels if you're in the B2C space. These things compound fast and don't take as much time as long term SEO and can be as effective as paid media with luck and persistence.

Of course it'll not be easy so expect to put in effort and reps.
No, I think the correct response to biased network carriers is community Internet.

The unregulated capitalist free-for-all that strikes down net neutrality cannot also disallow independent network networks from being stood up.
I agree the "evidence is scant" as can be the case when NDAs are strong, which prevents people with categoric knowledge from commenting in depth.

I agree continued conversation is warranted, which is why a hobby of convincing people they're wrong about this could be past its shelf life.

There is more than one source available, including certain TV set makers with specific language permitting this (and I don't mean the language that just permits voice recognition that gets people excited, much like language that lets a web site publish your comments gets people excited). Various denials are very carefully parsed for good reason.

Thanks to incentives, I would encourage people to avoid being inappropriately dismissive of watchfulness, or evangelistically sure things are not happening, when it comes to advertising shenanigans.

> if any of the tech giants are doing this, it'd be a pretty major violation of various laws/FTC agreements, etc

This is not the interpretation of adtech. Without something stronger than GDPR or CDPR, very little data gathering and brokering, particularly when "anonymized" or blended into cohorts (especially if mapped "on device"), is actually a legal problem. Whatever anyone is selling, there is more than one buyer for, so generally all ads, even retargeted ads, are ostensibly to cohorts instead of individuals, which allows this. Of course, it is likely to be court tested eventually.

// Finally, "might be time for a new hobby" is (a) not definitive, and (b) clearly humor referencing the hobby line in the post.
Wouldn't that be an indication that your screen brightness is turned up way too high, rather than a problem to be solved by making the background brighter? I'd think that if white text on a black background was blinding, you'd really have problems bringing up a page like HN which has a solid white background...
Which is unfortunate, because all keeping it secret can do is lead to a lack of respect. We will all stand around and wonder, and whisper. There might even be rumors of suicide, when it was something completely unrelated.

I refuse to adhere to this ridiculous idea.
I agree on the product and customer service front, but Google's reliability is top-notch.
Im not the guy, but you never bother trying to prove anything; you just ramble about vibes most people will implicitly agree with. “Oh boy rich people sure do suck and companies sure do suck.” “Aww geez my wife got a targeted ad.” I loosely figure that they spy too, but I expected a better showing from HN in rebuttal to the article. If it’s so damn obvious then show some actual proof.
>I wonder where all these Russian intellectuals sparking social changes are now? Their country needs them, the world needs them.

Like Lenin? I mean - yeah, he was an intellectual. He was also the one who in his letters and written orders expressed the will to terrorise and kill more people than some can imagine.

PS: just trying to point out that people sometimes confuse smart\intellectual people and something magical like "good" people.
this came to mind

https://www.spiceworks.com/tech/data-management/news/google-...
I bought my ex-wife one and she loves that thing.
The very top end of that range is normal in todays market, but it'd be paired with ~50-100% of salary in Bonuses / Equity.

So it really depends on what the rest of the comp looks like.
It's generally considered rude to gawk at other peoples' suffering, even if it is a normal and empathizable reaction. I think this gets even more acute the closer to the suffering the action gets. I doubt many people would be surprised that people are curious about what happened, though.

(FWIW I perceived your comment as "natural curiousity" moreso than gawking, thanks to your respectful hedging.)
It's not clear whether "we" means Russia or the rest of the world. But even so, would Russia be better off if the revolution hadn't happened?
I'm curious what you have in mind for evidence of "koolaid" there?

Hard not to disagree with the general trend you are outlining. Most of that feels driven by product choices, moreso than execution. I think a lot of the previous glorification of their work was likely misguided, as well. But I would be hard pressed to be quantitative on that.
Power wire-less motherboards pump 1,500W over 50-pin connector
41. Get up at 6:15-6:30. Take 15-20 minutes to wake up, brush teeth, toilet, drink some water. Put on workout clothes, do either 45 minute run outside (no matter the weather) or 20 minute kettlebell workout. Meditate for 10 minutes if time permits. Take a cold shower. Wake up wife + daughter if they aren’t awake yet. Prepare daughter for kindergarten, eat something in between. Start work after getting her to the kindergarten.

I just know I‘ll have a better day if I can slot in workout, meditation and cold shower.
I don't think that matters. We exhale so much moisture that cloth masks are saturated in 10-15 minutes, and after that the air pressure just recreates the droplets as it goes through the mask, spreading it from the outside.
Perhaps you can appreciate the difference between The Lord of the Rings, which was self-consciously written to be a mythology for England, and The Brother's Karamazov which is set in the middle of the 19th century. We get it Walter, you hate socialism.
> Fwiw, Cloudflare does do a multivariate confidence check which is why it has multiple tiers: no captcha, a one-click captcha, the annoying puzzle captcha once, the annoying puzzle captcha six times in a row.

That's not correct, Cloudflare challenge pages / Turnstile will never show you a puzzle.
Seek meaning by helping others, or strive to conquer and shape the world through your will.
I would suggest trimming the 15m intro video down to 1 minute or less.
> Vladimir Putin is unlikely to make the same error

Putin made almost the exact same mistake with Prighozin.
Well its been less than a week that the persons husband/father passed away unexpectedly. The sense of loss and tragedy is at an all time high. They already addressed the death with "Noah's passing was sudden and very fast. He did not suffer". I think its fair to assume that if they wanted to share more, they would have, and otherwise thats all they want to put out publicly at the moment.

When someone young dies, you can assume there is a higher level of tragedy and unexpectedness involved. And so in many ways its harder for loved ones to cope with. Its not really about not being allowed to ask, its about giving them time to grieve. And even then, imagine having to resurface the grieving just to satisfy morbid curiosity of strangers.
Even weirder then that the vim theme I'm using has a "light black" text background, slightly darker black background in the statusline, and then solidblack border around all this... Though that may be because I have my terminal background set to black rather than it being part of the theme?
I see the launch date for Artemis II is listed as "April 2026" on this NASA page:

https://www.nasa.gov/mission/artemis-ii/

...how likely is that?
I kept things stupidly simple. I didn't invent a new product or idea. I seen a number of companies doing it and I thought, "I can do that..."

The initial product was built with Ruby on Rails. It stayed in Rails for three years. At that point I had enough API traffic the memory on the server was getting out of control and Ruby just couldn't handle the concurrent traffic (with a reasonable budget).

I re-wrote the entire product in Go on the third year mark (converted ERB to Go templates, re-wrote all backend logic with Go, etc).

The Go version worked wonderfully and reduced my server costs substantially (from $600/month to $88/month). I had the Go version running for four years and I re-wrote it again in Rust (actixweb, askama, htmx).

For funsies, I re-wrote a portion in Rust and noticed the amount of code used was substantially lower (about 50% less code in Rust). I was surprised by that (I figured it would use more being lower level). At that same time I was growing frustrated with maintaining the Go monolith (it had a lot of legacy cruft from the Rails port and spaghetti code). I decided to re-write the whole thing in Rust and cull the cruft in the process.
> I think we're tired of copying and pasting our codes and sharing links using PasteBin, GithubGist, or Slack.

Is this a common feeling? These all work fine for me, what's the issue?
Meh. P5's decode algorithm looks very much like VLIW to me, and emphatically not like the 21264/P6 style of dispatch that came to dominate later. I find that notable, and in particular I find senseless adherence to jargon definitions[1] hurts and doesn't help in this sphere. Arguing about how to label technology instead of explaining what it does is a bad smell.

[1] That never really worked anyway. ia64, Transmeta's devices and Xtensa HiFi are all "VLIW" by your definition yet work nothing like each other.
Ask HN: Who Is Retiring?
After (many) years of work, I've decided to take a break. Maybe for a year. Maybe indefinitely.

Has anyone else here pursued FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early)?

Any tips, tricks, or warnings?
Not being sarcastic, this is why I prefer living in what I call a "dumb" home. Too many of my friends have run into these kinds of issues over the years and it becomes a right royal mess to get everything figured out and working again. These tools were supposed to simplify our lives. All they seem to actually do is further complicate it.
Perhaps not - as it happens at the rename stage and thus only with immediate values, it's all fixed behavior for a given instruction stream; with branching you can of course get dynamically different renamed immediates, but, as that's branchy code, it's not time-constant anyway.
> Market may be saturated, but 99.9% of all software and apps are unusable garbage.

in terms of marketing the question is how you reach customers, and demonstrate to them that your software is not garbage unlike other within 5 sec of their attention span.
Opposite side of the same question, but how can I better approach solo devs to help with marketing? I have led marketing at several startups/companies (3 acquisitions, 1 current unicorn, and 1 public company). Most developers are rightfully cautious bc of being either burned by marketing types in the past or just don't like the overall vibe (I don't blame them). I work best 1-on-1 with a builders and would like to do this more to get out of the bureaucracy of larger companies, but have mostly spun my wheels.
THIS.Could be such a great tool to visualize work being done for outsiders. Just a Screen in the lobby showing the commit history up until today in an endless loop.
NATO does not want to get involved at the level you're mentioning. Also just for the record, Ukraine is a not a member of NATO.
I have a 24gb Nvidia on my desktop machine and a tailscale/headscale network from my laptop. Unless I'm on a plane without Wi-Fi, I'm usually in a great place.

Thanks for your comment! I'm going to try out qwen.
I don't think it should, if the performance change only depends on immediates hardcoded into the binary, and not the variable data being processed. Maybe if the algorithm branched on the variable data and had two separate ways of loading something, but branching on variable data is the #1 thing you're supposed to avoid in the first place.
I really want to like this because you can tell a lot of love has gone into it and visual programming environments is an area that needs a lot of love. But sadly this feels like it’s missed the mark by some margin.

Watching the videos and looking at the IDE, I’d say it’s exactly like coding compared to a lot of the other Visual Programming languages I’ve seen and used.

If I had to describe this, I’d say it’s a mouse-driven IDE with a YAML-like code. But in its current guise, I can see people itching to use the keyboard for speed once they know what text pieces they want.

Whereas some of the other visual programming languages, and their accompanying IDEs, aim to represent program logic in a way that is graphical rather than textual. Which is I think you would normally make the “no code” distinction.
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I have experience as an electronics engineer, an IT professional, and now I have added technical writing to my skills.

Something I have learned is that good documentation is a massive force multiplier. It allows others to up-skill quickly. By building a knowledge base for the support team I reduced call times by 40%. By incorporating the most frequently asked questions of customers into the documentation I was able to reduce support calls by 60%. By collaborating with devs, QA and support we found how to increased system performance by 42x.

You need a Technical Writer. You have developers that have trained extensively to talk to computers often in multiple languages. And it is hard enough to write documentation for other developers. Asking them to create documentation talking to users, system administrators, DevOps and management are even more dialects because they speak in their own jargon, and it costs a lot of their very expensive time.

I know technology, hardware, software, firmware and more. In tech, medical, aerospace, automotive and IT industries. I can do the translating for developers so they can concentrate on making the hard stuff.

I also know user experience (UX) I can guide you to make better user interfaces and keep you from making those mistakes that cripple many products.
The point was exactly that "VLIW" as a term has basically no meaning. What it "means" in practice is parallel in-order dispatch (and nothing about the instruction format), which is what I said upthread.
Another empty, dismissive comment. Why are you even commenting on this site?
Suggested solutions: Suitably positioned and serviced trash cans and public toilets.
stuff like this working is why you get odd situations like "don't hallucinate" actually producing fewer hallucinations. it's to me one of the most interesting things about llms
The comparison was risky, I’ll give you that. I think we’ve both already come to the conclusion that neither of us is going to prove much to the other, as you’ve stated our belief systems clash in multiple important ways. I would argue that my idealistic and (more importantly but not yet mentioned) my humanistic views of the world are not wholly incompatible with naturalism, given you are willing to give wide berth to aspects of natural forces like consciousness and what we do with it, which you may not be. On materialism, I don’t think we’ll get anywhere.

And to your apple example, I never implied that numbers do not originate in the material world or are not derived from there, only that their true utility is realized when they have been abstracted over all the other types of fruit, and animals, and crops, etc. What started as piles of apples becomes something like one level of abstraction higher than a pile of apples, it becomes 10. But you have specifically said you have no interest in discussing things of this nature so I’ll stop. But I’m leaving this paragraph because I took the time to write it.

Your request for an abstraction that does not derive from the material is a bit of an impossible task isn’t it? And like I said I never claimed that these abstractions did not originate in the material, just that over time they accumulated related truths to become greater than the material itself.
If your relatives believe so, they can choose to share the cause of death. But at the same time, if they choose not to, I think we should respect that.

I mean, I'm curious too. I think it's normal to be. But life goes on either way.
if the first person to notice a correlation between alcoholism and cirrhosis was an alcoholic, you'd dismiss what he said out of hand and keep drinking?
> call to external db, and then to llm with retrieved context.

Right, neither of those are CPU intensive in a different way than LLM inference itself (the latter is LLM inference itself.)

> also business rules, no?

Business rules can vary quite a bit in content and complexity, but either tend to be simple enough that they won’t impose much additional load, or complex enough that you are probably going to want to simply use an existing rules engine (many of which, regardless of their implementation language, have Python bindings) which are going to behave the same way no matter what language you call them from.
Op said he got lucky, the response implied he didn’t. My example is extreme because the circumstances of making several hundred million dollars on a startup exit is EXTREMELY rare, and has far more to do with luck than skill.
Good to see another Postgres CDC solution. I have used both Debezium and PeerDB before. Currently, I am using PeerDB in my work to replicate data to ClickHouse and have been loving the experience. The pace at which it performs the initial load is impressive, and the replication latency to ClickHouse is just a few seconds. I haven’t tested PeerDB other targets, such as Kafka, where the latency might be lower.
Imagine a billion AI regulators and lawyers and a judge in the Eastern District. Move fast, sue things.
The ISA spec itself suggests one fusion - that of mul and mulh (lower and upper halves of n-bit * n-bit -> 2n-bit product).

The only other source I know of was this 2016 paper that suggested specific macro fusions. https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02318 This predates the B extension so some of those fusions are dedicated instructions now, but I suppose Xiangshan still implements them for the sake of software that was not compiled with B enabled.