skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, the whole affiliate marketing with behind-the-back deals and kickbacks just reeks of corruption. We have made the kickbacks illegal for public servants ... why all the rest are fine?

The money that "the creators" and Honey are in disagreement over to whom it belongs, should have never left the consumers' pockets to begin with.
I met Noah at my first Ruby conference. I didn't know anyone, but he was very friendly and didn't seem to mind that I tagged along with him between sessions for a few hours.

I thought he was just a nice guy; it wasn't until he took the stage and started presenting benchmark methodology that I realized how valuable his technical work was for the community, too.
People on here just can't seem to comment without the political cheap-shots. Believe it or not, you can enjoy a thing/place/etc without "americanizing" it (making everything political).

I thought Istanbul was amazingly rich in terms of culture, food, etc as well as fairly liberal and safe. Didn't think twice about who's in charge nor cared. Can't wait to go back.
To be a fly on the wall when they decide to go live with a Teams (New) that asks if you want to keep using Teams [not new].
As someone who works in C# and TypeScript, I suspect that people who work in weakly typed languages either:

- Don’t have big projects.

- Have lots of unit tests to cover some of what a C# or Java compiler would have caught through static analysis.

- Don’t even consider doing certain kinds of refactoring (which would be trivial on a strongly typed language) because they have no way of knowing what will break.
Junior dev behavior without any potential to be trained into not making the same mistake again next time!
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>$7000 for a computer that costs $3500 DIY. The DIY cost would be somewhere around $4000-4500 and would have a 2.6 GHz CPU and Dual 10 GbE instead of 25 GbE.

I'm seeing some deals on the ram which can get it down to 1200 or less for the 512

So instead of a 100% markup, a modest 75%.

I just can't imagine the person who.

A) Needs this setup.

And.

B) Can't fit some computer
parts together and install an OS.

Even then eventually issues will emerge. I have more faith in being able to fix my own PC vs waiting a full week for tech support. All the parts should be under warranty.
Children are the best. The highs in life are orders of magnitude higher, and the lows are _so_ much lower. But the baseline is incalculably higher. My children have made me feel so much more fulfilled. And they have also made me better.
Claude can write a sonnet about quantum physics but can't touch Taylor Swift lyrics. Funny how LLMs boundaries reveal who holds the power, in the US copyright rules; in China it’s politics. They say to find out who rules, just look at what topics are untouchable.
Evidence suggests that cancer was a lot less prevalent before the modern era, yet people have consumed alcohol for thousands of years. In fact, a number of non-human mammals are known to consume alcohol, apparently for recreational reasons.

I understand the impulse to eliminate all possible risks from your life, but this risk seems pretty low compared to many that we take on without a second thought. Freeway driving, processed foods, UV exposure, tobacco, a sedentary lifestyle -- it seems to me that these are a lot more dangerous than moderate alcohol use.

I also have heard that a number of public health agencies have recently been "infiltrated" by members of a group that is vociferously anti-alcohol. It may be no accident that the perils of the demon rum have been in the news lately.
The really annoying thing is that if you opt out on your phone it does not opt out on your computer and vice versa. You have to opt out in both places individually.
For some reason seeing a fellow developer pass always hits me hard, even if I didn't know them at all. Especially a fellow Ruby dev.

There's that quiet voice that's always in the back of my head somewhere reminding me a little louder that we're all going to the same place eventually (some sooner than others).

Part of me feels like the reminder should help me reduce the stress of the daily grind. The reminder that it doesn't really matter how good or bad my code is, or how frustrated I am at management, or how many deadlines I have. But it seems to have the opposite effect often: the stress remains, and then I have the extra tension of "but life is short, why can't I release this stress and enjoy the journey?!"

Condolences to Noah's friends and family! He seems to have touched a lot of people's lives.
There's also a new process for Titanium production; for removing the oxygen FWIU:

"Direct production of low-oxygen-concentration titanium from molten titanium" (2024)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-49085-4
Thanks for the tip, though I’m not sure how complexity theory will explain the impossibility of superhuman results. The main advantage ML methods have over humans is that they train much faster. Just like humans, they get better with more training. When they are good enough, they can be used to generate synthetic data, especially for cases like software optimization, when it is possible to verify the ground truth. A system could only be correct once in a thousand times to be useful for generating training data as long as we can reliably eliminate all failures. Modern LLM can be better than that minimal requirement for coding already and o1/o3 can probably handle complicated cases. There are differences between coding and games (where ML is already superhuman in most instances) but they start to blur once the model has a baseline command of language, a reasonable model of the world, and the ability to follow desired specs.
So do you agree with me that the statement "consciousness transcends evolutionary necessity" is not necessarily correct?
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Did you read the two paragraphs written above and the one where he made that statement?

My comments on "what you are not sure" is that Max is a software engineer (I am sure a good one) and he kept iterating the code until it reached close to 100x faster code because he knew what "write better code" looked like.

Now ask yourself this question: Is there any chance a no-code/low-code developer will come to a conclusion deduced by Max (he is not the only one) that you are not sure about?

An experienced software engineer/developer is capable of improving LLM written code into better code with the help of LLM.
Well.. I've pretty much accepted that I'm more or less an NPC. So no harm done from my side.
The slow state is when rcx has a special "hidden immediate" attached it, from the `mov rcx, 1` or `add rcx, 1`. If the last option on the register doesn't fit that narrow template, it is fast, so loading from memory in any way, like pop, xrestor, plan load, etc, will be in fast mode.
> But if you have bigger ambitions -- you might actually have to talk to humans and look into this weird thing called "sales."

that's the step after sufficient revenue generated or funding received to hire ans scale sales team probably. But the question is for solo hacker at the beginning of the journey.
A saying I heard once is that the difference between over-engineering and under-engineering is that you can fix under-engineering.
yes, this one conforms to 'whatever linux agrees to exec(2)', which apparently is a lot that is out of spec.
Sales is hard because it's less about building and more about listening. You need to figure out what customers actually need and that starts with talking to them directly. Here’s a framework I use, based on the Customer Development Ladder I wrote about in my upcoming book. It breaks down the process of learning about customers into four kinds of interviews. Each interview takes you one step closer to a sales call and the last step invites them into a sales process.

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Once you notice a pattern in the problems people describe, you want to make sure it's shared by a wide subset of customers.

3. Paper Feedback Demo -
Before building anything new, create a low-fidelity prototype (mock-ups, sketches, or slides) of how you might solve the problem. Share it with prospects and get their feedback.

4. Real Feedback Demo -
When you have a working version of your product, test it with those same prospects and ask for feedback. The goal is to see if the thing actually solves their pain. If it does, you can invite them into a sales process. “Looks like it might help, can we set up some time to explore what it would look like to implement at your company?”

This approach isn’t magic but it works. The best part is that it teaches you how to find customers and what messaging will resonate with them. Resources like The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick are great for learning how to have these conversations without bias.
"I only robbed your house because you threatened to join the neighborhood watch!" isn't the incisive argument you may have meant to advance.
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Does anyone remember his username on hacker news?
> It would be very, very difficult for a lot of people to simply boycott their internet provider.

As I said; "Time to actually suffer to get what you want people."

But I am not just talking about the providers, I am talking about compaines like Facebook and Google.

But my Grandfather was a coal miner in PA and they had strikes that led directly to some of their deaths by murder by agents of the coal companies, so do not talk about losing your job would be hard.
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Ah, good to know on the uop count. Still could be (or, well, has to be to some extent) the same concept, just pipelined within one uop.
Simply an incredible test program to witness with so much transparency.

120 mbps is nuts through the plasma of reentry - this was being discussed in a thread yesterday.
Neat. And it'll get rid of the mice and bats in your house.

But seriously, I wonder how much acoustic energy - that they point out you can't hear - is still entering your ear and interacting with the delicate structures there.
This. The ISPs can go back to prioritizing and pricing traffic based on their own commercial preferences. Thankfully, I have Starlink as my ISP.
I am curious about the validity of (re)phrasing of Newton’s 2nd Law as “instantaneous.” The acceleration is non-differentiable at T=0. Can we really combine it with analysis of times t<T and t>T?
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In theory it is a flag. However in practice it almost never works. I cross compile all the time and there is nearly always something that the developers didn't think of (probably didn't know about) that makes their code not cross compile. Automake never works right. Even Cargo often fails to get something right (and I don't know rust/cargo well enough to know how to figure out what, much less how to fix it though I suspect Cargo would fix my bug reports if I could figure out what is wrong with enough detail that they can figure out the issue). Cmake always works in my experience.

Note that I didn't mention python above. If python is acceptable performance you probably have enough power (including memory) on the target to just compile everything on that system thus avoiding cross compiling.
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Apologies, my point was that for a while, getting python to go cross platform was surprisingly difficult. Specifically if you had any native included, of course.

And agreed that you needed a cross compiler with all of the necessary libraries. For common targets, I don't remember this ever being that particularly difficult with gcc?
I wonder if Linux/ARM (or specifically System76) has figured out how to do hybrid sleep-suspend out of the box. “closed laptop” performance in AMD/Intel land seems to have regressed substantially in the last 15 years; Microsoft is even encouraging vendors to drop support for regular S3 sleep https://www.spacebar.news/windows-pc-sleep-broken/ and my Steam Deck AMD machine makes no attempt to hibernate and will drain the battery in sleep in about a day and a half.

I personally had an okay time with Linux sleep in 2019 but for the life of me couldn’t get sleep-to-hibernate working and a quick google does not instill confidence in the current state of the world here. At least the process to set it up in 2024 is more straightforward on PopOS compared to my 2019 Ubuntu experience https://www.adlrocha.com/til/2024-02-13-linux-hibernate/

Power management is the one area Apple’s nanny state is a substantial advantage. Android took a long time to get good at battery compared to iOS (on my Nexus in 2013 I remember doing a LOT of fiddling to make sure random apps weren’t waking the CPU too much) but it seems great today.

Hopefully mainline Linux laptops get there too. Until then I’ll keep updating my mac-setup.sh script with ever more work-arounds…
This is more of a hypothesis than a well-rounded and evaluated theory. I could argue that rather than the viscosity of seawater the isolation of hydrothermal vents during the Snowball Earth period was the primary driver of eukaryote evolution and diversity. Isolation makes evolution speed up, and homogeneity slows it down in general. Fascinating to think about it though.
I think in this context, it’s attempting to draw a distinction between “programming” and “coding”. Reasonable minds can disagree with whether or not this is successful (or even all that meaningful).
I have a dog.
It requires period attention (petting),
getting up from your chair and taking for walk
feeding it.

At an open seating hanger type office,
I never able focus deep enough that
sitting too long become a problem.
Not that great for productivity but.
No, it's perfectly reasonable to not like popular music. I was only responding to what I perceived to be amazement in your previous post that someone is claiming you might find a way to enjoy ABBA: I was claiming that, since a lot of people do enjoy it, it shouldn't be hard to imagine that you could find something to like one day.

Conversely, if you said you don't know how you could possibly enjoy, say, the Plastic Ono band (Yoko Ono's band), then it would be harder to suggest it's even possible (not to say that enjoying them, for anyone who does, is in any way wrong!).
From that point yeah, “transcends evolutionary necessity” like you said, is a positive claim.

More accurate to my intent would be “consciousness is untethered by evolutionary necessity” maybe?
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What specific features are we talking about that require Coreboot ?

This feels like a really odd niche to me.

Users who want Linux, but don't want to do the work to install it ?

I think I see your point though.

Here's a Clevo for 900$, which is 300 less than System 76's cheapest model.
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I've just been using them for completion. I start writing, and give it a snippet + "finish refactoring this so that xyz."

That and unit tests. I write the first table based test case, then give it the source and the test code, and ask it to fill it in with more test cases.
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Fun ad/poster included in the article (https://goodfuzzysounds.com/ma/img/phonovox_250.gif) which has pretty much exactly the same sentiment today where companies try to replace people with AI, like https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/artis...

I wonder if "The Orchestra that draws no salary" was as controversial at the time as "Artisans won't complain about work-life balance" is today.
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Fair that there are often problems. My expectations would be that nothing is flawless, with how often native builds can be difficult. Still, I thought for the common targets with minimal dependencies, it was largely a flag.

And apologies for the confusion of mentioning python. I did that largely because it was frustratingly hard to get a cross target python for a long time.
I meant Michael, my bad.
Since this seems like an optimization going awry somewhere, I wonder if there's a chicken bit that disables it, and if so, how broad the impact of disabling it is...
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A non-engineer would not be able to interpret ANY of what he did here, or fix any of the bugs.
Yeah whoops
Between 1991 and 1998 there was an undercover war waged in Great Britain between two warring factions of a secret cabal. At various points one faction or the other controlled the so called "Ministry of Magic" main function of which is to enforce the secrecy of the whole conspiracy.

I know it is true because I read it in a book. Except it is not, it is completely made up and none of it is true. One can accidentally stumble upon true statements in the book. For example there is indeed a Kings Cross station both in the real world London and the fictional one.

> You can say the same thing about any book ever written,

Not really. There are this class of books called "nonfiction" where the stated goal of the author is to write true things. For example if you say "Socialism was already in the air in 1870s Russia, I read it in Peter Kenez's A History of the Soviet Union from the Beginning to the End" that would be not mistaken.
I was originally worried that my coding job would suck the passion out of me, but weirdly, it’s cut the other way. The banality of the work that I do for my job makes me appreciate my personal projects more, and makes me more galvanized to do coding that does bring fulfillment. I suppose this isn’t necessary desirable however, since it relies on your job being a chore.
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I sure wish Jeff would learn some Nix or NixOS. Not only does cross-compilation not need to be hard, there is a cached flake that supplies Cosmic for aarch64-linux.