skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, from the SD card. Quite fast though. SSD is just a storage volume.
That claim has a very robust history in philosophy of mind. Peter Hacker and M.R. Bennett, a philosopher and a neuroscientist respectively, cowrote Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience[0]. There was also a fascinating response and discussion in a further book with Daniel Dennett and John Searle called Neuroscience and Philosophy[1]. Both books are excellent and have fascinating arguments and counter-arguments; you get very clear pictures of fundamentally different pictures of the human mind and the role and idea of neuroscience.

[0]: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Philosophical+Foundations+of+Neu...

[1]: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/neuroscience-and-philosophy/97...
The book covered a lot more ground and had some nifty illustrations.for those interested,

https://archive.org/details/pokayokeimprovin0000unse
Already done! This actually works pretty well when two conditions are true
1. cost becomes an engineering-org wide pain point
2. there are a bunch of low hanging fruit (another way to say you're just starting off your cost improvement journey)

Since cost is not really a "deliverable" for non-platform teams, this incentive doesnt go far. Especially after a few iterations of this are done, saving 1K is hard.

We did a short program(similar to a bug bash) for a couple of sprints to dig up all the improvements we can do to reduce to cost. This was early in our cost reduction journey. This did help us get a huge list of what we can do and we picked the most impactful items from this.
Counterarguement: This will be solved mostly by documentation.

Historically, most of my SO usage boils down to:
1) finding how to implement something esoteric that results in finding a clever solution or a under described feature flag in a function/tool
2) finding a workaround bugfix for a broken feature in some software (>70% of the time finding link to a github issue in the description

If we consider that LLMs are functionally an information retrieval function containing natural language program subroutines. In this context, a web-browser enabled LLM should be able to determine go to source and return a functional answer on a model that is not pretrained on the source.

So as long as there is good documentation on a particular piece of software, we should theoretically be able to generalize to non-existing tools. At least long enough for there to be a newly-created training dataset from people hitting the problem for the first time.

Side note:
In some sense, the foundation model labs are aggregating the Question-Answer pairs (typically from stackoverflow) from their user data. I wouldn't be surprised if they created a stackoverflow clone at some point to opensource the dataset creation and labeling efforts.

This is basically what community notes is for X and now Facebook
Else-recent-SE https://gist.github.com/hopeseekr/f522e380e35745bd5bdc3269a9... and https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1hwg2px/stacko...

From the attached .csv

Year Month NumQuestions
2025 1 2967
2024 12 25566
2024 11 26832
2024 10 30428
2024 9 32376
2024 8 36010
2024 7 42219
...
2017 12 142102
2017 11 165479
2017 10 166236
2017 9 158760
2017 8 173592
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2009 12 36729
2009 11 37204
2009 10 34009
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VLIW seems to be in that awkward space where (at least in the 00s), compilers weren't good enough to beat traditional code + traditional CPUs. But tweaking the assembly for VLIW / Itanium was still too hard. So SIMD (which is much harder to write than VLIW) wins because if the programmer drops down to the assembly level... "might as well" go for the harder SIMD-model that achieves slightly better performance over VLIW.

I do wonder if today VLIW machines with modern compilers could be a thing. Compiler technology is so much better now, maybe we are in the era where VLIW could be renewed. But on the other hand, CUDA shows that SIMD-compilers / SIMD-languages have improved as well.
But the users who matter do.
We'll need to look into benchmarks when the numbers come out. Software support is also important, and a Mac will not help you that much if you are targeting CUDA.

I have to agree the desktop experience of the Mac is great, on par with the best Linuxes out there.
Same. I didn't like Fulgora, then I didn't like Gleba, but pushed through to get to Aquilo so I could see all the content. But then Aquilo wasn't fun either thanks to the massive amount of ice platform I needed to build and how slow it is to build. I just stopped playing. Overall I was pretty unhappy with Space Age, as it doesn't really feel like Factorio any more (except for Vulcanus which is excellent).
> It's really quite ridiculous that compiler implementers have managed to overzealously nitpick the C standard so that you can't implement a memory allocator in C.

This is good because it's also what gives you valgrind and CHERI. Take one away and you can't have the other.

(Because if you define all undefined behavior, then programs will rely on it and you can't assume it's an error anymore.)
Judge halts attempt to retrieve £600M Bitcoin wallet from Welsh dump
That says something about you and your peers, but nothing about "all men are bad".
I don't find the comment to be without substance. It's a concise and concrete critique.
Nonlinear (and inverting!) response curves for drug dosimetry that's population and person specific. Especially when there's a temporal delay. Trying to explain grapefruit to my elderly parents is like pulling teeth.
Get solid on the basics. Some aspects of computing are transient (react-router, the PDP-10) others are part of math and are eternal (some aliens who live under the ice in a moon somewhere know it takes N log N comparisons to sort N items as well as you do.)

The CS curriculum contains classes like: comparative programming languages, compilers, algorithm analysis, etc. You want to learn these things not to have them memorized but to have the outline of the fields and the skill to, faced with a tough problem, look at the literature and benefit from other's experience (last month I wrote a simple chess program; if it wasn't for https://www.chessprogramming.org/Main_Page I couldn't have done it)

The obvious way to get into AI is a CS PhD in AI, I don't think starting one right now is a great idea in terms of career. Fields like this often have a wave of explosive growth, make a huge amount of progress in a short time, then get stuck.

What they don't teach you in CS but you learn if you get good at applications work is talking to people, understanding their mental model, realizing that their mental model is too fuzzy to build the application on, and developing a mental model that's good enough. If you've got the right ontology for the domain the application almost writes itself. If your data structures are wrong it will be a struggle all the way through and the app is going to buggy.

My impression is that hardware work is actually harder in terms of age discrimination kinds of problems than software work. If you're busting your tail on front-end work, for instance, you're probably a few years ahead of what's being taught at the university. I met a recently minted EE who'd gotten a job at a drone company working on radars. I mentioned that I'd been impressed with advances in power supplies, how what I read in 1970s books as a kid in the 1980s was obsolete. She told me her first task at work was... designing a power supply, because a freshly minted EE actually knew newer approaches to this than the average senior EE.
You pay per compute, and thus you have unpredictable costs. People and businesses don’t like unpredictable things, we tend to avoid it.
I do agree, the experts could do a better job of communicating to the parts of the public who may not understand the scientific consensus. But there is a broad swath of people who will reject any information, because it’s already been politicized to death. (Why this is political I can’t tell you)

But the public reception doesn’t really tell us much about the strength of the conclusions. For which there is overwhelming consensus, very clear mechanisms of action, and pretty straightforward directional signal.

Are you questioning the comms or the consensus? I’m not clear from your response.
Made a version with charged particles. Probably bad physics all around, but here it is: https://shorturl.at/ocvEO
Atari ST 40th Anniversary
I love Factorio, although I haven't gone far in the expansion. I don't expect any more from them. They've done a lot for this game and they've done it for a very long time. I assume they're now interested in doing something new and I hope they find success at that.
People must be excited for this since a lot of people are commenting for the first time in months or years to say how much they love it. Some people liked it so much they commented for the first time ever to say how great it is.
It was along the lines of public owns the means of production.
Bernie Sanders asks Musk why he fired American workers and hired H1b workers.
Health insurers limit prosthetic limb coverage, questioning medical necessity
Show HN: Kate's App
Caregiving is a natural, human act of compassion and caring, and most of us, at some point, will rely on someone to help us with our health care (> 70%) or be tasked with helping someone else (> 10%).

Kate's App is a tool to coordinate doctor contact information, prescriptions, pharmacies, appointments, notes, and other information with family and caregivers, and do it safely and privately. This is not a clinic portal, and is not associated with any insurance or medical providers.

The app is 95% complete, and is entirely usable as is (for any interested beta users). I intend to clean up the rest of it, and go GA within a few weeks. In the meantime, I would love to answer any questions or hear helpful critiques.

BTW, Show HN is the best.
Indeed...
I've run on Hetzner for 20 years with triple redundancy and VPS for batch processing/CI and some internal tasks. My costs are fixed and only on very big database alters/upgrades/migrations our service has any downtime.

I have a friend who recently made a stupid bug in his processing pipeline on AWS. He woke up on morning and saw a message from his bank that his CC was over the limit.

When we have a bug, our Nagios send us a message that responces are more than 150% of average and we do a rollback.

So it's not only the risk of vendor lock-in, but also in surprising bills and policy changes, updates and other 3-rd party risks you end up with.
This highly depends on workload. We migrated a service that generates terrabytes of content to send to customers each day. We moved the content generation from J2EE to java lambas and our costs went from $6K/month (on savings plans, evemn) of ec2 to ~$400/month in lambda, sqs, and elasticache/redis costs and the work was done in 1/8th the time. Mind you, our content is highly bursty where we need to be able to generate the content within seconds seconds of initiation.

Serverless also means a lot of things. We also serve static content from an S3 bucket and cloudfront. Nothing else to manage once its setup.

The flip side of serverless is you really do need to think of state yourself. The J2EE code was rock solid in reliability, including recovering from almost every kind of issue you can imagine over a decade (database, connectivity, software crashes).
I'm in year.. let's see.. 24 of being a CTO. I always enjoy reading what other people see as important enough to write about. The conversation about shipping code is something most technical CTOs feel, and my solution to that 'need' has been to continue to explore my deeper technical 'must be building' in other parts of my life.

I have a small Youtube channel that follows a few different technical paths, and I keep another array of deeper technical challenges in the development pipe always ready to go. I still write code, design hardware, build cars, and look at stars, but they are all self driven projects.

I find the result is a tighter focus at my core job of technology strategy and the bigger decisions but also not a loss in my core technical abilities. To me the T in CTO means technical, and I think it is my responsibility to deeply understand the technology that our teams use. That understanding however can come from personal learning just as much from being in the production loop. Be a nerd.

Food for thought, at least for me.
Assuming these are network devices - it can be harder to certify future working if the network services they rely on become unavailable or when the failure only occurs at scale.

Case in point when 700,000 Netgear routers pinged the University of Wisconsin–Madison NTP server (harcoded IP address) every second.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTP_server_misuse_and_abuse#Ne...
This might sound insensitive but if you own a house in California, which millions of people in the US and around the world would give a leg to afford to be a homeowner in, you're probably well off and I'm not sure why we would lose sleep over these fires.
Any suggestion to learn Mandarin? Apps, courses, resources?
His statement is still correct, even though he inverted the sign.

Fewer hours asleep means 2 more hours awake.
https://www.nutrient.io/blog/how-to-program-a-calculator-pdf... See here for how we did a calculator in a PDF
The Complete Text of "All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace"
I know four very negative covid vaccine reactions and zero covid anythings aside from two people saying it was the sickest they have ever felt. I don't know 100k people. Make up any stat that makes you feel smug to throw shade at my math skills. From my personal, lived experience, you can't say the sky ain't blue.
Hey, champ, way to jump in with an unrelated "no, but". At the start of this thread the person chose to marginalize this speaker and what she had to say because she appears "15 years older than they should be." Then they failed to give any representation of what a 63 year old woman _should_ look like, let alone a 63 year old cancer survivor. So to avoid being pedantic I'll just call it what it is: ageism.
“First”? Or “early”?

It seems to me that most job posters don’t even look at resumes anymore. I tested this by having logs for when the resume link is hit
The system allocator is the one that comes with all the system's memory debugging tools and security (or lack of it), so you'd better not mind losing those if you want to ditch it.
I’d much rather write 20 lines of boilerplate code and a Dockerfile than deal with 100s lines of CDK code, distributed tracing, and the associated observability challenges.
Does "suck up huge amounts of power" for a seal imply "generate lots of heat"?

If so, is that heat another issue or is it a "don't care" because the heat is over a large enough surface?
I suffer the same. I have suspected, for years, that in my case it's several factors.

1. I'm a small person, and in America, I've observed, or think I have, that there's a daddy culture here and a lot of people respect size more than content. This may simply be frustrated cynicism though. But I sincerely think I might be a dumb looking person too.

2. I've a weak voice and it doesn't carry well.

3. To some degree, it is a choice of company. That might be difficult to consider in some cases, eg the wife, but I don't bother with people who don't listen, unless it's necessary. I try to be very accommodating to others when they communicate.

4. To some extent it's not you. Low attention spans are becoming more and more pervasive. Social elegance isn't much in style right now. Also, with a culture of sensory or information overload, many people are generally aloof.

5. Try to eliminate discourse particles. Unfortunately this might compound the problem in circles where "like" is used as punctuation, adjectives, verbs, nouns and pretty much as a monosyllable language consisting of tonal variations. But at least you can keep your dignity while they squeak back and forth with their one word.

6. Timing. As a product of cold, callous patience.

Edit: Another possibly worthy consideration is gestures, primarily but not exclusively, I imagine, with the hands. Think magician, or conductor. Many people are becoming more visual. Some may even require certain visual stimulation to function. And maybe there could be some strange subconscious threat factors in the background, promoting increased alertness. And if that fails, you'll be well warmed up in the event you must resort to violence.
Thank you. I did not read closely enough to get the gender correct, my mistake.
How can pip install –user break system packages?
Gut reaction is this feels like petty and vindictive retaliatory behavior hiding behind an official façade.
Why not have an AI do it? Because it doesn’t know your history, right? So just write up your history and have the AI remix it and fill out forms.
Why does this do anything? The attack described is a timing attack, so a local proxy doesn't really help.
While the DKIM passes, the SPF fails (per the Yahoo screenshot), so if I have this right a bad actor would still need to hack the legitimate senders DNS records (assuming DMARC rules are set up somewhat strictly). Do I have this right?

Of course, if you can modify the SPF records, you can make the DMARC record say whatever you want.
Documentation is more important than tests
How much would a VPS or a rented server cost where you can boot your own OS and be the sole tenant of the SSD and don't fight with the IOPS of the other videoconverting dude using the same machine?
Oh but it gets so much worse: https://tobacco.stanford.edu/cigarette/img0742/
This is the best hacker comment on the thread. Trying to find innovative solutions to a big problem. Thank you!
Sadly this rings true. Of all the apps and games we've ported to Android the cost has never been worth it. The games were pirated more than purchased and across both apps and games our support tickets went way up.
And how exactly do you go “directly to the source”? Spam the hiring team?
What are you even doing that your website requires 3-5 seconds before it becomes interactive?

This isn’t a iOS vs android problem, it’s a “our website isn’t optimized and we run 1000 ads and trackers” problem.
SLAs are terrible. I agree.

But at least there’s (usually) some exciting shows on while you are waiting!
i wasn't suggesting that you were out of touch with technology, i was talking about career/life strategies. i believe that what worked for your generation isn't as sure a thing for my generation, and building various small revenue streams is a better approach. this is how i see it from my point of view as a younger person observing the world around me and where i fit in. a lot of people tell me that your way is right for me, but i disagree. a corporate 9-5 makes me want to kms, not exaggerating. i think we have fundamentally different worldviews and that's ok.

> My latest project I’m leading is a Kubernetes + Generative AI project.

we are no different. i'm leading a project to deploy an etl pipeline on azure kubernetes right now.
Not an axiom, just a prior with enough evidence to smash the probability of ghosts quite near to zero. You're welcome to pretend that I said "zero" and continue shadow-boxing a straw-man, but if you want to fight my actual argument you need to contend with "near to zero."

The difference between Woo of the Gaps and Science of the Gaps is that science is on the advance and woo is on the retreat, it has been this way for centuries, and the pace always seems to be determined exactly by the rate at which science advances rather than any actual opposition from the Woo camp. Nothing is over until it's over, but how much do you actually want to bet on a glorious turnaround? You do you, but for me the answer is "not much."
US hiring announcements in 2024 lowest in nine years
New permit needed as of today for Canadians flying across the pond
This paper does at least lead with its version of what "agents" means (I get very frustrated when people talk about agents without clarifying which of the many potential definitions they are using):

> An agent, in the context of AI, is an autonomous entity or program that takes preferences, instructions, or other forms of inputs from a user to accomplish specific tasks on their behalf. Agents can range from simple systems, such as thermostats that adjust ambient temperature based on sensor readings, to complex systems, such as autonomous vehicles navigating through traffic.

This appears to be the broadest possible definition, encompassing thermostats all the way through to Waymos.
Rocket Lab asks NASA to open up MSR to commercial competition – SpaceNews
Yes, but then familiarity is often a positive quality.

Knowing where the AC always is, could be seen as a benefit (even if you don't want to use it).

By aim for iterative improvements, the system could focus on personal contextual features; and the way we end up using a product over time.
The majority of PC users do not use either.
>If an engineer is frustrated at the responsiveness of an ‘Add to cart’ button click during development, then they’re probably more likely to investigate why and resolve it.

IMO this should be in QA/SDET's realm (ideally via automated testing). If you're rich maybe you have one or a few SWEs devoted to performance. This will force other people within the company to also think about these metrics. Don't be a siloed developer quietly fixing all of these things for free just because it's slow on your machine.
Oops. I realized now, unknown PDFs are not safe.
After years of being iPhone-only, my site recently released an Android app. One month in, and we received a review that simply says "asking money"—unfortunately, the stereotypes seem to hold true. At this rate, we might break even on Android if we're lucky.
HipScript
... who would "solicit accusations"? How am I "not a part of" it? How can I stop self-appointing what I comment about? Why are you knowingly posting microaggressions at all? Why do you think it creates drama, and why do you think said drama is pointless? And why aren't you responding to the strongest good-faith interpretation of my comment?
How much of the city budget does the LAPD need for crime to finally go down then? 60%? 80%? Maybe all of it, replace the mayor with the police commissioner and run the city like a quasi-military dictatorship?

Studies have found "no consistent correlations between increased police spending and municipal crime rates". Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/27/world/canada/canada-lette...

Unlike policing, where clear alternatives to it like mental healthcare, drug rehabilitation and social welfare programs exist, there isn't really an alternative to the firefighting service for stopping fires.
Founder salaries are generally not high (at least until the company becomes mature). They own a (significant) portion of the company and want to minimize burn.
Just in case you are unaware, these build issues are entirely solvable by defining a Nix flake for your project, resulting in a repeatable, reproducible build every time:

https://nixos.org/
https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Flakes
Lean GraphQL Resolvers with Rich Models in Ruby: A Clean Architecture Approach
Don't you want to watch before the end of the week roundup? To know if you need to lay low?
Been using it for a while but it's been hit and miss, unfortunately. It's not a plug and play solution and doesn't have a pre-game compatibility database that Proton has Crossover had their own, but many games still don't work or play acceptably.
But the Pi 3 didn't. You'd think with the process improvements they'll be able to have more performance in the same heat envelope, but they want to do their own Pentium IV...
Notes on Gilbert Simondon's "On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects"
This reminds me of how the diesel spout at the gas station is too big to fit into a car that takes gasoline.
For multiplayer it's really about the people you play with, with is the incentive. Basically doing that stuff with friends is a ton of fun. And you can also include some people new to the game which multiplayer makes much easier for them.