skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What makes NATO proximity so bad for Russia? Do they actually think NATO would use it to launch invasions? Do they have no idea how much Europe hates war and military combat? There are other more likely reasons for Putin to invade Ukraine, such as mineral/crop/nuclear resources and leaving behind an imperial legacy. NATO expansion is almost certainly just the most convenient scapegoat, without which some other justification would be floated.
ML is better than biological neurons in some tasks, they are different contexts.

Almost all the performance of say college tests are purely from the pre-training, pattern finding and detection.

Transformers are limited to DLOGTIME-uniform TC0, they can't even do the Boolean circuit value problem.

The ability to use the properties of BPP, does help.

Understanding the power of, and limitations of iteration and improving approximations requires descriptive complexity theory IMHO.
I see from your demo that it appears that this is less about just sharing code and more about rapid feedback. Before I watched the video I was wondering how this was different from JetBrains' "Code With Me" or VS Code's "Co-Edit". Might be worth clarifying that it's more than just sharing a snippet in the landing copy.
I'd argue it is a bit more common than you think, but probably for different reasons than you would assume. It isn't so much the impact of the side project that gets you the job, but more about networking. If you are involved in an am-pro manner in a given FOSS community by actively participating (code, docs, etc) and speaking (blogs, conferences, workshops, etc), your networking opportunities explode. Anecdotally, this is how I landed some really nice gigs, even if that community (and tech) has all but evaporated now. But if you're toiling away on some project and not actively engaging with anyone that would remotely care, your potential employers very likely won't care either unless they are specifically looking for it.
It must be awfully convenient to believe that the only possible reason for it to be on is the same reason you made up entirely based on nothing. Personally, I don't find that logic convincing.
Ask HN: What was the best research paper you read in 2024?
Comp sci or otherwise
SRE == Site Reliability Engineering.

Quoting Wikipedia:

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a discipline in the field of Software Engineering that monitors and improves the availability and performance of deployed software systems, often large software services that are expected to deliver reliable response times across events such as new software deployments, hardware failures, and cybersecurity attacks[1]. There is typically a focus on automation and an Infrastructure as code methodology. SRE uses elements of software engineering, IT infrastructure, web development, and operations[2] to assist with reliability. It is similar to DevOps as they both aim to improve the reliability and availability of deployed software systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_reliability_engineering
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Another option is rcmd. https://lowtechguys.com/rcmd/
Hmm… does this have any impact on time-constant cryptographic algorithm implementations? In particular the wider "addition in register renamer" story?
Because their culture is deeply broken and built on generational trauma.
Most of the small businesses of San Franciso would disagree with your statement.............................
Some. There was the philandering, which was not necessary, and tainted my mom's perceptions.
Thanks for the note! I tend to get all those things mixed up, I will try to remember this.
*brakes. Freudian slip much? ;)

If you're curious, Meadows has addresses this common counterargument about price (time stamp directly to the relevant remark, but the whole talk is excellent):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuIoego-xVc&t=614s
Stock sales to fund a small business venture.
Yes, but Windows isn't where the vast majority of people watch Netflix, so I don't see the incentive for media DRMs suddenly also making TPMs mandatory.
There are many good treatments of this supposed loophole. I happen to like this one:
https://blog.gruffdavies.com/2017/12/24/newtonian-physics-is...

It points out many flaws in Norton's reasoning, some fatal to his argument, some not. Putting it as simply as I can, Norton seems to claim that "Newton's Laws" are non-deterministic. That's not quite right. Rather, they are non-complete. I.e. they are incomplete. They're incomplete insofar as Newton's First Law ("An object at rest remains at rest, and an object in motion remains in motion at constant speed and in a straight line unless acted on by an unbalanced force") establishes first-order and second-order derivatives (momentum and acceleration) as state variables but places no constraints on higher-order derivatives. However, higher-order derivatives are (as many as are needed) among a system's state variables. In many real systems (but far from all), higher-order derivatives are zero and human experience with them is rare, so they're easy to overlook. Norton's (unphysical) Dome is a specific example of a general class of systems where higher-order derivatives are not zero. Given that, the two branches of Norton's equation of motion (for the stable and unstable trajectories) cannot both describe the same system (or the same particle) with the same set of state variables. That's the sleight-of-hand.

Again, all credit to Gareth Davies for working this out. I am absolutely not trying to pass off his work for my own. Just reporting it and trying to summarize it.
Every time it comes up empty I think of how many filters we still have to clear.
If Russia is winning I'd hate to see what losing looks like. Even if they manage to finally take Ukraine it's going to be a Pyrrhic victory in the extreme given the losses they've sustained and how the war has expanded NATO and solidified their opposition.

They seem to be pretty successful in sowing discord overseas with their propaganda but it's not getting them much in the long run. Their domestic problems are the biggest thing killing them and hosing the rest of the world down with bullshit won't help them there.
Assuming it works from a terminal session, maybe try:
https://asciinema.org/

It can be self hosted if you want.
> Though sometimes I remember how just about everyone in my life that I love, respect and have spent a lot of time with has said something stupid, insecure, distasteful or offensive at some point

You don't think there's maybe a bit of difference between "has said something stupid, insecure, distasteful or offensive at some point", and "has said something stupid, insecure, or distasteful multiple times a day every day since spending $44B for the privilege to project those stupid, insecure, distasteful or offensive statements as far and wide as possible"?
A slice of my property I leave to grow naturally. I threw out apple cores into it frequently, hoping one will sprout. They never did. I finally just bought an apple tree and planted it there, it now produces delicious apples once a year.

A couple onions I threw there did sprout!
I don't think it's the wondering people are turned off by, it's the wondering out loud. I'd imagine everybody wonders. I have no opinion, but people (around the globe) seem to feel strongly about this.
Oh hey, that's my post :)

I keep collecting more links and more points that I need to add in an update to that post. The latest thing we're running into is a conflict between the `browser` field in `package.json`, which some tools look at to find an artifact that can be served from CDNs like Unpkg _or_ an ESM artifact in general, vs Webpack 4 looking at that field first but not accepting `.mjs` artifact extensions. Still trying to sort that one out.
Someone is going to get sued. Inevitably it'll be quoted verbatim at some point.

We are in such a bad place with this technology. And it is beyond criticism because of the amount of money resting on it.
Overview of the KX45ED1 / PVM-4300 (Worlds Largest CRT) [video]
42 - Spacecraft Simulation
You can have both (and a cat while you're at it).
Specifically, looks like Windows PC only for now? Although github says 100% Python so unless you've used something Windows specific probably easy to port to Linux (which includes Raspberry Pi and the like) or macOS.

> This project's Roku specific code could be modified or further extended to work with specific Smart TVs or any TV that supports HDMI-CEC (Consumer Electronics Control).

Other good options would be trying to directly integrate with an infrared transmitter or support MQTT which would make it easy to use some of the existing options there (or to connect with things like Home Assistant, if you're into that). That has the advantage of being fairly generic so the same code in this program can drive a bunch of different things on the user side.
> A reasonable alternative would be for the app to have no permissions and request permissions from the OS that would either deny access or prompt the user.

A reasonable alternative would be for the app to have no access to the internet and work freely with the available files, just like before. Why must every app be an RCE vector ?
> OP sounds like a rich white dude having rich white dude problems.

Yeah, definitely white: https://www.google.com/search?q=vinay+hiremath&btnG=Search&u...
Agreed, but it’s remarkable how well this approach worked for him till then. No approach can solve every problem. I wonder if this one, on balance, was the right one for him, or for others.
These sort of black and white, good and evil, analogs don't make any sense as NATO is, in large part, a proxy for the US. And we've overthrown, invaded, and destroyed more countries than literally anybody. Multiple of those invasions were also based on fabricated evidence/lies. And when international law, such as the UN, gets in the way - we simply ignore it.

These are not the behaviours of a 'neighbourhood watch.'
In fact it's far easier to sell ten $1000/m subscriptions than it is to sell 3,333 $3/m subscriptions (the equivalent).

But you don't learn this until after you've tried the latter.
This is at High settings! And I haven’t even mentioned that the game is running via Crossover through multiple translation systems. That’s translating both Intel Windows to ARM Mac as well as translating the graphics APIs (DirectX or Vulkan to Metal).

The cyberpunk native Mac release comes out this year and will almost certainly improve performance further.

Why would anyone care about ultra settings on a laptop? I don’t even set my PC desktop to ultra settings in the game and I have a current generation mid-high end GPU. Setting demanding games to Ultra just giving up FPS to not tell the difference.

30fps 1080p is basically console-level standards for a AAA graphically intense game (not esports or online shooter). And that isn’t bad at all for the processor with integrated graphics that Apple sticks in its cheapest computer and its tablets.

Your MacBook Pro M4 Pro is one of the best gaming laptops on the market in terms of hardware! Especially if you want something that’s thin, light, and quiet with good battery life and not just a thick tank of a system or a loud but thin and light gaming laptop that struggles to power and cool its dGPU.

Depending on your configuration, you can actually play Cyberpunk at high settings at or above 60FPS on your laptop. You’re vastly underestimating it!

Your laptop just needs the software to get ported, and the Mac gaming space is rapidly evolving now that Apple is paying attention to it.
I don't think this is an apt analogy. It would be more like "I only robbed your house b/c you threatened to join the neighborhood watch, after twenty years of explicit promises by the neighborhood watch that you wouldn't." And the "neighborhood watch" vs "crime" thing is stacking the deck a bit---in modern society we have a professionalized police force and a norm against vigilante first-strike violence, but sovereign countries can by definition go to war.

This doesn't even mean I "want Russia to win" or whatever, but I definitely would like NATO to put on its adult pants.
> More than money or anything they need your energy and enthusiasm

> I think it's better than lack of energy and stamina. At least that's what I extrapolate from my experience so far

I had children late --essentially retired when my second was born at 40-- and I completely agree: it would have been better to have the last kid before we turned 35. You made the right choice!
The thing is, Russians are deeply uncomfortable with actual democratic openness. Read about the reactions of normal people to watching televised political debates in the 90s. It inspired pure panic, as people had never seen anything but utter certainty from their leaders. Perhaps it's changed a bit now, but I really really doubt it. Russians are genuinely more comfortable with a strongman in charge even if it means they live in shit. At least they are familiar with the shit.
I don't see where this explanation is strange, it's straightforward GR (General Relativity), as much as one can call GR "straightforward." It's a simpler explanation than inventing Dark Energy, for which we have no direct observational evidence.
A lot of organizations simply renamed the functional area of "systems administration" or "systems engineering" to "DevOps," and at many of these places, "DevOps" is the new name for the group that software developers will throw stuff over the fence to.

The issue with the above names is that they can be applied to a domain or area of practices, or an organizational boundary. In a non-trivial number of organizations, "DevOps" is viewed as a support entity for one or more software development teams, versus software development teams practicing "devops."

This applies to many of the *_Ops names in fashion during the past five years or so.
Building a Smart Container Terminal: From Heuristics to AI
On the main question, I don’t think Python will disappear for LLM inference soon. But I think there are two processes that will determine the longer term process, as AI inference gets built into more things:

(1) Python’s dominance in AI inference is driving, and will continue to drive, more investment in improving Python for lots of things that it isn’t great at right now that people want to do a long with AI inference. We’ve actually seen a lot of that over the last few years, with physics engines and robotics simulation platforms for Python, some of which are Python bindings for existing libraries written in other languages, but some of which are built in Python (e.g., via Taichi or Numba, both of which can produce and execute GPU kernels from Python code, and the latter of which can JIT and parallelize (mostly numeric) Python code on CPU, as well.) This will also include investment in Python’s core and standard library to address pain points.

(2) The increasing importance of AI inference will at the same time drive more investment in AI inference libraries for non-Python platforms.

The relative balance between the progress of those two efforts will be a big factor in how much Python is used in inference going forward, for AI in general, and for LLM’s in particular.
I like to recommend Ivan Turgenev's "Fathers and Sons" as it gives a contemporary critical view of the nihilistic and utopian ideologies that shaped Russian intellectual discourse of the 1860s.
> check out the movie "The Lost City of Z"

And the 2005 Charles C. Mann book "1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus".
If we find abundant ET life, it's evidence we're fucked, since at least one filter is in front of us. Only by having little or no ET within cosmological distances would the possibility remain open there's no GF ahead of us.
Overcoming Resistance to Extreme Programming
This looks more like part of an art project than an actual thing.
The "but that's not the real Musk" game doesn't work anymore. They aren't "ill-advised" retweets. They are who and what he is. Increasingly they are all he is. Musk is the crank on Twitter.

Musk spends all day, every day showing you who and what he is. Believe him.

Here are two exercises for you:

1. Musk is keen on criticizing many governments, both foreign and domestic. Can you find for me a single criticism of the Chinese government from Musk?

2. Musk likes to spread conspiracy theories. Musk says he is a technologist. Musk says he knows a lot about computers. Musk says the last thing he would do is trust a computer program:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/musk-pushes-debunked-...

Can you reconcile Musk's position that he would never trust a computer program with his claim that Tesla has a full-self driving computer program that does full autonomy (this time for sure!) and everyone should trust it (it will save lives!) and buy it and rent it and hail a robotaxi?
> Societies have made the poor better off by preventing people from becoming too wealthy

Example, please.
People tried to argue that in the PR, suggesting to change variable names.

This one: https://github.com/hotwired/turbo/pull/971/files#r1317386731

> function buildFormData(formElement: HTMLFormElement, submitter?: HTMLElement): FormData {

> It might be useful to know that submitter is optional argument here.

> How would one express that? The variable now needs to be renamed?

And two lines later:

> const name = submitter?.getAttribute("name")

It's already easy to see that submitter is optional.
Developing for a single platform in 2025 is like developing for a single web-browser in 2005.
A big CO I work for makes them last only 90 days so you put them somewhere more permanent. There's a gap for the people who can code but don't know how to use the real version control system.
Why do I have to enter a phone number to use an (optionally) on-device-only app? According to the AppStore listing the app collects your contacts and health and fitness data, along with others. Why?
The JIT Calculator Challenge
He's probably referring to the fact that we're still dealing with the effects of communism brought by Vladimir Lenin.
These days I wonder if Google is really the example to follow. There was a time 10 or 15 years ago where Google seemed to be leading the industry in everything, and I feel like a lot of people still think they do when it comes to engineering culture. These days I tend to see Google as a bit of a red flag on a resume, and I have a set of questions I ask to make sure they didn’t drink too much of the koolaid. Perhaps more importantly, when I look at Google from the outside these days, I see that their products have really gone downhill in terms of quality. I see Google Search riddled with spam, I see Gemini struggling to keep up with OpenAI, Google Chat trying to keep up with Slack but missing the mark, Nest being stagnant, I could go on and on. All this to say that I don’t think Google is the North Star that it used to be in terms of guiding engineering culture throughout the industry.
so this is a political thing? “thats what you get with Dems??”

people who run businesses and start businesses should stay the F out of the government. government is by the people and for the people, businessman (especially ones that currently bought their way into politics for a couple of years) do not give two shits about people, only themselves and absolutely nothing else ever
> Russians are genuinely more comfortable with a strongman in charge even if it means they live in shit. At least they are familiar with the shit

At which point a monarchy makes sense.

Dictatorships are unstable. They tie the fate of an immortal nation to the mortal whims and needs of a man. We came up with monarchy as a solution to this problem, and then swept it away when the modern republic was invented.

But republics aren't for everyone. Democracy requires compromise, and staring the uncertain and unknowable honestly in the eye. It may be high time that we admit that some populations prefer the certainty of autocracy. And within the domain of autocracy, the time-tested model is heridatory constitutional monarchy.
C.f. the linked xkcd
If everyone's wealth goes up 10%, the gap between the rich and the poor increases.

Besides, someone creating more wealth than you do does not hurt you.
> It's a pretty common issue overall regardless of the OS, it's more of a device and driver quality question.

Right. I suppose I've been both lucky, as well as intentional in seeking out hardware with high-quality drivers when it was very important.

I'm just surprised that *Macs* have this issue, given that one of the alleged selling points for Mac is that it runs on a very limited set of hardware which is supposed to enable careful OS/hardware integration and testing.
I couldn't have said it better. It is an immense change for the better and for the worse, and it made us feel like that's when we truly became adults. It's one of those experiences that you can't understand until you go through it.

And I say this as somebody who really did not want the responsibility of raising children.
Son #4 hit frequently his head between 18 and 36 mos. After one of those resulting knots began to swell slowly (indicating brain fluid, not blood), I rushed him to our pediatrician.

Our family Dr of 10yrs examined #4 for a bit and then started addressing me as sir. Which told me his next call would be to the police if I didn't talk him off the ledge.

I did, he didn't and we got #4 into a padded helmet for the next year or so.
That's oversimplifying a bit and missing some critical information.

Cloudflare wants to "protect" people from exposing even their general region. This has the side effect of making CDNs that aren't Cloudflare work worse. Cloudflare are being dicks because they do to others what they wouldn't want to be done to themselves, or what they themselves don't do to themselves.

It's not even that people are choosing to opt in to Cloudflare's bullshit. If you use Firefox in the US (and many other areas, but the US for sure) and you haven't manually configured Firefox or set up a canary domain, all your DNS lookups are going to Cloudflare, and they're using that to make other CDNs work less well. That's definitely shady and definitely bad on Cloudflare's end.

I'm glad some people are taking a stand.
>Notice it’s never free climbing the nose in a day, which would require 5-7 years of dedicated training.

Would take way more than that for the average person. You can count the number of people who have done that as of now on one hand.
In my experience, nothing is universally true.