skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Then they write geopolitical analysis or whatever with enormous confidence, frequently calling out the experts in the field as idiots.

Slightly OT, and of course only half anonymous but for example G.S. Bhogal really fits that bill. His posts come up here occasionally and I get a kick out of them but the real gold is in his twitter (1) Don't listen to the haters and make sure to follow for quality life advice (like don't listen to politicians and journalists because they're all corrupt liars, or that "below average IQ" people should reproduce as to not spread their genes, and the really smart people don't need friends or go outside, what they need a "circle" of other highly intelligent people like themselves on X

(1) https://x.com/G_S_Bhogal
You wrote three separate comments for this course. Can you just combine them?
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I'm happy to agree that caddy is easier, but the claim here is that it's "tuned for short-lived certificates", which... I guess could be true, but I seriously doubt that it's meaningful (on the basis that reloading certs isn't exactly expensive on any other major web server, so even if the most obvious interpretation is true and the made it take, say, 100 ms instead of 1000 ms, but we're talking about reloading every few days, who cares?).
That's a really good question! Because DBOS is backed by Postgres, it scales as well as Postgres does, so 10K+ steps per second with a large database server. That's good for most workloads. Past that, you can split your workload into multiple services or shard it. Past that, you've probably outscaled any Postgres-based solution (very few services need this scale).

The big advantages of using Postgres are:

1. Simpler architecturally, as there are no external dependencies.

2. You have complete control over your execution state, as it's all on tables on your Postgres server (docs for those tables: https://docs.dbos.dev/explanations/system-tables#system-tabl...)
YMMV, but I'm not finding any of those to be problems with my Deck.

Reboots take a noticeable length of time and could certainly be faster but they're almost entirely "oh there's a new version of the OS" for me.

I haven't had any problem with games crashing either.

Its native controllers largely Just Work, and it's easy to turn on turbofire or rearrange buttons to work better with Steam Input. When I connect it to the projector and pick up the PS4 controller I have attached to the dock that works fine too, someday I should really try to properly pair it so I can use it wirelessly, but I mostly just play it handheld.

I basically spend zero time futzing around with Proton unless I am trying to get some old PC game to run.

I spent a while fooling around with installing emulators when I first got it, but I never actually touch them in practice, that's the only time I've ever been outside of the Steam UI.
Can you provide evidence of this strong claim? It looks like you’re conflating his population genetics work with eugenics/race science (which in turn have significant differences that I won’t go into).
What are you saying then? Maybe posting more than a half finished thought as a headline would help spur discussion?
Super Smash Brothers worked very well with the second pad.
They ping medical insurance after you buy it
This seems weird to me. The number of records is minuscule compared to internet scale tech.

The data model for this sounds like it would be simple. Exactly how many use cases are there to be implemented?

Build this with modern tech on HA Linux backends. Eliminate the batch job nonsense.

This could be written up as a project for bootcamps or even a YouTube series.

I suspect some internal politics about moving forward and clinging to old methods is at hand.

Perhaps someone could build an open source platform if the requirements were made public.
Because SpaceX can build them cheaper.
includes (among others) a bunch of countries that would normally be seen as close US allies - e.g. some NATO countries (most of Central/Eastern Europe).

Yeah, this is really a bit insulting.
> The US is moving toward a system where government controls and throttles technology and picks winners

What else can it do? They don’t want to lose their lead, and whatever restrictions they’ve been putting on China et al. have let the exact desired outcomes so far. The idea is to try to slow down the beast that has very set goals (e.g. to become high tech manufacturing and innovation center), and try to play catch up (like on-shoring some manufacturing).

Personally, I’m skeptical that it will work, because by raw number of hands on deck, they have the advantage. And it’s fairly hard when your institutional knowledge of doing big things is a bit outdated. I would argue, a good bet in North America would be finding a financially engineered solution to get Asian companies bring their workers and knowledge to ramp us up. Kinda like the TSMC factory. Basically the same thing as China did in 2000s with western companies.
How is being happy with someone’s job performance celebrity culture?
I was young when dune was released and a big fan of herbert books. there was also star wars that ive seen at the same time. Dune is still today to me one of the great SF movies and I count a very few I really love (cloud atlas is another more recent one, speed racer too).

All his weirder movies were great experiences but my favorite ever Lynch movie is the Straight Story. such a perfect beautiful movie. I loved badalamenti music as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCzAetSFRC8&ab_channel=amast...

I always thought writing and directing a movie of pure kindness and making it interesting as a piece of great art was the real mark of genius.
It would neither improve nor worsen their chances. I'm only looking for their ability to model a software application.

I wouldn't see it as a challenge, as it has nothing to do with the task at hand. If they said "I don't want to do this exercise, because I don't believe in library fines," that might hurt their chances.

My comment was more about being surprised that they had never checked out a book from a library, since I thought that was a fairly universal experience, at least for software engineers, but going forward I don't think I'll assume that.
One interesting geopolitical fact about this document that's not being discussed much is the way it includes Taiwan in lists of "countries".

Usually, the US government tries not to do that.
Fisher’s main scientific and statistical argument boils down to the possibility that gene variants that contribute to lung cancer are tightly linked with gene variants that make nicotine more or less addicting. By “linked with” he meant “close together on the same chromosome”. This kind of linkage can lead to strong a statistical association but without a mechanistic association (guilt by neighborhood).

Disproving this hypothesis is tricky, and Judea Pearl does a brilliant job of explaining the problem and its solution in his marvelous book: The Book of Why.

Fisher gets “assist points” for debilitating and killing millions, although full horrible credit goes to cigarette companies and their advertising co-conspirators.

Judea Pearl points out one cruel irony: The cholinergic receptor gene CHRNA5 that modulates risk of nicotine addiction also modulates lung cancer risk separately. To sort out the causality we now use Mendelian randomization.

Bottom line: smoking cigarettes does kill even when you tidy up the statistics and genetics.
Chinese Innovations Spawn Wave of Toll Phishing via SMS
I don’t see an issue here, because our legislators probably care more about FLOPS than humans.
They have sold millions of faulty joycons (referring to drift), when the solution was already available (hall effect sticks) but it would have cost them an extra $1 per joystick, reselling games that came out in 2010 for $60 today, and using DMCA to bully youtube channels that show videos of their games are some morally reprehensible things from the top of my head.

It does not entitle anyone to pirate their games, but taking your words, Nintendo is not exactly starving either, they could have spent the extra $1 on the joycons to fit them with non drifting sticks. Even if you use their replacement program, you just get another joycon with the same stick.
"You know about death...that it's just a change, not an end." – The Log Lady
I know what I think. I also think I know what you are trying to say.

That said, before I address what I think you mean, could you elaborate a little? I want to give you a chance to explain your point further.
Microsoft is somewhat to blame for new controller features being underutilized because they're extremely reluctant to add anything to the Xbox controller. Motion control in particular stands out, the hardware isn't expensive and it's proven to be very useful in some types of game, but the lowest common denominator Xbox controller still doesn't have it so multi-platform games can't be designed around it. Especially multiplayer games with crossplay since you can't let some players have more precise inputs than others.
Yeah, coaching and mentoring are totally different things. Coaching is more structured—you teach people a skill or process you’ve mastered. Mentoring is way more personal. It’s about actually understanding someone, their goals, their struggles, and helping them figure stuff out.

That’s why good mentoring is so hard to find. It takes real effort and emotional investment. You can’t just scale it up infinitely. But even a little bit of good mentoring can be life-changing.
For some people at that time, smoking was a non-trivial part of their identity. Or even a significant part of what it meant to be a proper Englishman (that and tea). Fisher strikes me as that sort, just look at pictures of him.

The (fairly obvious) lesson here is that people lose their objectivity when it comes to fighting over stuff that involves their identity.
The three comments are communicating three separate things, I think it's clearer that way.
Unfortunately a significant fraction of the US is entirely okay with people (mostly black people) being turned into indentured servants for our prison system. They have zero appetite for prison reform, justice reform, police reform, etc, and would much rather we all sit down and shut up.
"All this has happened before, and all this will happen again" --Battlestar Galactica (originally from Peter Pan though)
> They are like the word "man" now ("IDK man").

That's actually how it was originally, because in Old English "man" just meant a gender-neutral "person."

Gendered versions were "wer" and "wif", so you could have a "wer-man" and a "wif-man", the latter changing pronunciation to become "woman". I suppose this also means that there are both "werewolves" and "wifwolves".
It has always been on my list, but I haven't watched it yet. Thanks for the reminder!
This is really wonderful and well made. The only change I'd make is to have the context window opened via ctrl + g to be on by default (w/ an option to toggle off).
> In my experience you can't rebuild such a thing "in 3 months". People who believe that are those that don't realize the complexity and the extraordinary amount of specifics, special cases, that are baked into the system, and any attempt to just rebuild from scratch in a few months hits that wall and ends up taking years.

Rebuilding a legacy system doesn't require you to support every single edge case that the older system did. It's okay to start off with some minor limitations and gradually add functionality to account for those edge cases.

Furthermore, you've got a huge advantage when remaking something: you can see all the edge cases from the start, and make an ideal design for that, rather than bolting on things as you go (which is done in the case of many of these legacy systems, where functionality was added over time with dirty code in lieu of refactoring).
awesome to hear!
I agree with you IRT scale but not speed.

Copy and demo videos are essentially one way communication channels ("fire and forget"). The creator has no idea if the message was understood.

Also, writing copy or making a video typically takes 10 - 100x longer than consuming the same video.
RSS is great, Nostr is potentially greater. A lot of work is being put in "transparent" and customizable algorithms for discoverability.
Don S. Davis played Maj. Garland Briggs in Twin Peaks and Captain William Scully, Dana Scully's father in the X-files first season (and in one or two later cameos). In both he plays a stuffy high ranking military officer which is quite amusing.
This is untenable. I could be AI. You could be AI. The whole idea of value is going to change when there is 99.99% noise from AI, and genuine human created content will be hard to distinguish if at all.
It's a way to add emphasis on "They did a good job".
We could translate it as

"I'm somewhat biased against BlueOrigin, but BlueOrigin managed to overcome my personal bias with how impressive their launch was".

It's similar to saying "I normally don't like country music, but that was a good song". In that sentence the intended message isn't "I don't like country music", instead it's "I liked that song"
Is that distinction material to the point the GP is making?
Definitely more work untangling, reverse engineering, optimising things that worked, but eventually reached its Schwarzschild radius.
I’m in Seattle and during the summer heat, the city dries and sometimes ends up with smokey haze from wildfires.

Then comes that random rainy day at the end of the heatwave, gives the city a shower it needs and the fresh smell is unbeatable.

I’m not sure what heaven smells like, but if I had to guess it’s like the air after summer rain in my city.
Gentle intro: Rabbits, on youtube.
"It does seem like Javascript is required on more sites as time moves forward."

If the statement was "Javascript is used on more sites" then I would agree and it is easy to test for use of Javascript.

But a statement like "Javascript is required on more sites" is difficult to agree with as I have a very different experience..

For example, I am now retrieving Google results from the command line without Javascript using a specific UA string. Arguably, that means no Javascript is "required" to retrieve search results. A specific UA string is now required though. Use the wrong UA string and then Javascript is "required" to retrieve the results.

Rather than focusing on Javascript, a more interesting question might be whether more sites are requiring specific UA strings.

By default I do not use Javascript (I do not use a graphical web browser) nor do I send a User-Agent header. The overwhelming majority of websites "work" for me with no problems. To me, it does not seem that more sites are requring specific UA strings as time moves forward.

Google www search is just one website. The www is vast.
By large scale do you mean large software or large amounts of developers? Because there's some absolutely massive software in terms of feature set, usefulness and even LoC (not that that is a useful measurement) etc out there made by very small teams.

I'm not sure that you've got the causal relationship the right way around here re: architecture:team size.
actually it is an elusive puzzle :D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa16cd5zAuc&ab_channel=KyleL...
Thanks. I was relying on automated dupe-forwarding. Weird, they both have the same exact URL.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/14/openai-quietly-revises-pol...

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/14/openai-quietly-revises-pol...
So you've rehosted the original PDF (from https://doompdf.pages.dev/doom.pdf) on an AI generated site with a ton of SEO spam?

It really just looks like you're just trying to take advantage of my work for clout/ad revenue.
Dollars are not lost; they are just very indirectly invested into gpu makers (and energy providers)
Starship Flight 7
"Did I ever tell you that this here jacket represents a symbol of my individuality and my belief in personal freedom?"
I also use Certbot (v2.1.0) for my small VPS/hobby setup (www + email) and I haven't had to mess with it since I set it up in 2021. Just adding another data point so you know it doesn't have to be painful. I'll be happy to help, just drop me a line.
Why typeorm over something like https://mikro-orm.io/?
Focusing on tech or unoriginal production values (that's photo real! You don't need a great art director, you need a photo..) is appealing to companies because it's predictable vs the creative uncertainty and subjectivity of "fun".
This makes a good point. Many salespeople want the process to be more effective as well. Their time is money, just like ours. Good communication principles absolutely apply
"This is the water and this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within."

(I had to check if that was part 8 - but of course it is.)
GHA can do nested virt via KVM. Here is an action that runs a test that boots up a VM running NixOS: https://github.com/aksiksi/compose2nix/blob/main/.github/wor...

You can also run QEMU if you want to build for ARM (although this announcement makes this unnecessary): https://github.com/aksiksi/ncdmv/blob/aa108a1c1e2c14a13dfbc0...
What you do at Keygen is you take the specifications from the customer and bring them down to the software engineers?

Yes, yes that's right.

Well then I just have to ask why can't the customers take them directly to the software people?

Well, I'll tell you why, because, engineers are not good at dealing with customers.

So you physically take the specs from the customer?

Well... No. My secretary does that, or they're faxed.

So then you must physically bring them to the software people?

Well. No. Ah sometimes.
It's fine to question that "great men" are the prime movers of history. But you're taking it too far by saying something like "all discoveries would have been made by someone else so individuals get no credit". First, that's obviously not true -- we can't know that every bit of knowledge would have been discovered by someone else. Second, it's beside the point -- the discoveries weren't made by someone else.

"Great men" vs. "impersonal historical process" is one of those dichotomies that will never be resolved. If you find yourself at either extreme, you're making an obvious error. Find a comfortable place somewhere in the middle.
> At that time, the carriers controlled so much of the cell phone experience.

In English-speaking countries, maybe. But I remember at least Windows Mobile PDAs that had both a cellular radio and wifi before the iPhone launched. At least Russian carriers never cared at all what kind of phone or other device you were using on their network. You bought it unlocked for the full price from somewhere else anyway. There were various attempts to do US-style carrier-locked phones with 2-year commitment with no or little upfront payment, but none of that really stuck. The only exception to that was SkyLink, Russia's only CDMA carrier. They sold their own branded phones but even those, iirc, were for the full price upfront.
it would be the delivery of the information and its context in the whole of your other content analyzed
And don’t forget Thawte which ended up selling strong SSL outside the US, cornering the international market thanks to US restrictions, and getting bought by Verisign for $600M.
Someone still sees Eastern Europe as a provider of cheap brainpower. This is insulting.
Imagine outing yourself as someone who uses these mind numbing apps.
> It's nuts to imagine that Amazon hasn't done the math here.

The same could be said about Walgreens, and yet here we are.
From a customer perspective, if you're making purchases of a certain size "Call for Pricing" is just a dance you need to learn to do.

It is pretty annoying that the first call is almost always with an SDR who can't answer basic questions about the product, whose whole job is to make sure you are a qualified customer, and book a second call. The goal of that call is basically answer their questions as fast possible, book the next call, and get off the phone.

On the second call, hopefully with a sales rep and a good solutions engineer -- you don't have to politely listen to their whole spiel, more often then not they'll be very happy if you start peppering them with very specific questions, rather than sitting through the generic demo. A good solutions engineer is able to answer my questions a lot faster than I can find the answer on the website.

It's also highly beneficial to have individual names and phone numbers inside the company if things don't go so well once you're a customer -- if google shuts down your gsuite account, it's nice to have your account rep's cell phone number.

Also, differential pricing is a perhaps a silly dance we all do, but it's life when making purchases of a certain size. It can also work in your favor as a buyer -- if you can, figure out when the company's quarter end is, and line your purchase with that -- there's a pretty good chance they'll be incentivized to cut you a good deal if they're trying to hit their numbers. Also, even if you're not planning on buying from a competitor, get a quote from them, and say "your competitor gave me X price, Im going to go with them unless you do better."
You're splitting hairs. There wasn't peace on Oct 6th.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/palestinian-killed...

And the Occupation was still increasing.

https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/palestine-occupied-pa...
I camped out in line on Hollywood Blvd for several hours to be in the first public screening of Dune at the Chinese Theater. So I know I saw the release print and to my then college-aged perceptions, I didn't really connect with it. I didn't think it was bad but I didn't think it was good either.

I blame this on the muddled mess that was the release edit and how misleadingly the film was promoted by the studio. I was a huge fan of pop sci-fi like Star Wars, Alien and Blade Runner and the advertising set a very different audience expectation than what the film delivered. Unfortunately, that experience kind of tainted Lynch's Dune for me.

I didn't really begin to appreciate Lynch as a great filmmaker until Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks, both of which I loved. Someone linked a 'highly-regarded' three hour fan edit of Lynch's Dune which I've bookmarked to check out.
The compute limit is dead on arrival, because models are becoming more capable with less training anyways. (See DeepSeek, Phi-4)
>The estimated training time for the end-to-end model on an 8×H100 machine is 2.6 days.

That's a $250,000 machine for the micro budget. Or if you don't want to do it locally ~$2,000 to do it on someone else's machine for the one model.
Ok.

You could:

- host your own set of static runners on AWS -- which, have a fixed monthly cost.

- pay a provider for hosted runners -- most providers bill in CI Minutes. So you will run out of minutes if jobs run amok, not run up your bill.

- Set up auto-scaling runners that ebb and flow based on demand. This case is the one that represents the risk you are describing of an unexpected bill increase.

2/3 cases of "paying someone else for CI compute" are just as predictable as your solution cost-wise. Yours could be cheaper, but the risk of "unexpected bill increase" is not really there.
Direct IO useful for databases and other applications that use their own disk caching layer. Without knowing what you run in Proxmox no one will be able to tell you if it's beneficial or not.
> First, it assumes that scaling models automatically leads to something dangerous.

The impression I had is with reversed causation: that it can't be all that dangerous if it's smaller than this.

Assuming this alternative interpretation is correct, the idea may still be flawed, for the same reasons you say.
>The problem was at the board and executive level. These people had a blind spot for software. They thought they were still in the electronics business.

A very common story in European tech and automobile companies.