skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The market might disagree with your take. Plenty of exotics like the Lamborghini Countach, Ferrari F40 and Porsche Carrera GT had some crazy design faults that would cause expensive reliability issues or could even get the driver killed (see the Paul Walker case), and that didn't hinder their high desirability or valuation, quite the contrary. That's the power of a a halo product.
This is it. There will always going to be impossibly unpredictable errors even if you measure everything perfectly.

The point of measuring is to be * as accurate as possible *, not 100% error-free. It helps to better estimate portion sizes, calorie / macro amounts. This is enough precision to control weight gain / loss correctly.

A lot of people also get their maintenance calories estimation wrong, so it doesn't matter if you can measure your food down to the molecules but still eat too much / too little.
Use Bazel.

GHA/Gitlab CI/Buildkite/whatever else floats your boat then just builds a bunch of Bazel targets, naively, in-order etc. Just lean on Bazel fine-grained caching until that isn't enough anymore and stir in remote build execution for more parallelism when you need it.

This works up until ~10M+ lines of code or ~10ish reasonably large services. After that you need to do a bit more work to only build graph of targets that have been changed by the diff. That will get you far enough that you will have a whole team that works on these problems.

Allowing the CI tools to do any orchestration or dictate how your projects are built is insanity. Expressing dependencies etc in YAML is is the path to darkness and is only really justifiable for very small projects.
Spain and other EU countries are growing but not really from technological development.
https://www.euronews.com/business/2024/10/31/why-is-spains-e...
Some thoughts

I'm on a Duolingo family plan, studying Ukrainian. It keeps throwing more and more difficult words without really building my knowledge and experience with the previous words.

I'm not sure if I can't hear the words correctly (it's possible, I'm partially deaf and it sounds like the voices it provides are low quality). I'm not sure if I'm not pronouncing them correctly (it often doesn't accept my pronunciations). Its feedback for improvement is extremely limited. For example, no matter how hard or slow or fast I pronounce it, it pretty much never accepts один ("oden" = "one") when I speak it.

When I was in 3rd through 6th grade of school, I learned English pronunciations using Spalding phonetics [0]. There are about 70 or so English phonemes if I recall. It would be handy to have that for other languages. It specifically taught how to put letters together to form sounds, and which combinations of letters are synonymous for sounds (but not for spelling, which was a separate class based much more on memorization of rules and exceptions). I excelled in both of these classes.

I've also sometimes asked ChatGPT for translations of words. It seems semi-OK. But it's much better to ask Ukrainian friends and colleagues. Friends and colleagues don't have a lot of time or patience to teach though. And they'd often throw additional meaning or context that was difficult to understand (for example, English has much less assignment of gender to words).

Not too much later in life (8th grade or so), I started writing software. I was homeschooled then, and had a lot of time on my hands. So I'd write software for most of the day every day for months at a time. There came a point where I stopped thinking in English and started thinking in objects and code relationships. I didn't realize it until my mother asked me what I was doing and I had to think to translate to English.

I've heard similar anecdotes: you start to become a native speaker when you can think in that language. I want that from Duolingo but haven't yet achieved it after 2.5 years. I imagine what's missing is just as @cat_multiverse said [1]: I don't really use the Ukrainian language in my daily life and should just start doing so even if it's just a journal. But without any feedback about correct pronunciation or grammar I worry that I would end up with my own mini language instead of truly a Ukrainian one.

[0]: https://spalding.org/

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42774032
>and even trained professionals are still off by 40%

I find this very hard to believe, unless the term “trained professional” is quite broad. When I was much more into fitness and weighed every meal to the gram, I could tell if a bowl of cereal was a serving to within a gram or two.
This stands to reason. If you need the answer to a question, and you can either get it directly, or spend time researching the answer, you're going to learn much more with the latter approach than the former.
You may be disciplined enough to do more research if the answer is directly presented to you, but most people will not do that, and most companies are not interested in that, they want quick 'efficient', 'competitive' solutions. They aren't considering the long term downside to this.
*natrium
I have the $100 trillion dollar iirc.
I've used Google's Cloud Vision API to detect explicit content, and found it quite effective at flagging all kinds of risky stuff. (And a unique challenge for testers on how to exactly to safely test for such content.)
Anyone needs to send data between HubSpot and PostHog?
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Yeah, the abstract could use a bit more work. The gist of it is being in a closed-loop cycle with ChatGPT only helps with the task at hand, and not with engaging with the full learning process. Instead they say "When using AI in learning, learners should focus on deepening their understanding of knowledge and actively engage in metacognitive processes such as evaluation, monitoring, and orientation, rather than blindly following ChatGPT's feedback solely to complete tasks efficiently."
Certainly the most important EO of the series.

Oh, wait: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=whitehouse.gov
what are the mem/vidmem requirements for running deepseek-r1 locally?
Zucker-verse has a nice ring to it. It's a place for all those zuckers ;)
It's very common, and increasingly common because of AI, since it was trained on a lot of meaningless business speak, but that doesn't mean it's not lazy and thoughtless, or particularly lazy and thoughtless now it's mindlessly pasted.
Do you know the criteria used to pick the nx.dev? That is, do you pay for their Cloud, or do you do some plumbing yourselves to make it work on GitHub and other things?

Looks interesting. We’ve picked tools based on time saved without too much extra knowledge or overhead required, so this may prove promising.
Actually, this is why stats exists in the first place. Larger samples (including metastudies) are so powerful -- you can measure and predict causal impact of test factors even if you can't control for unobservables. The goal is to minimize type 1 and type 2 error. So long as those unobservables are not driving a selection bias, you get wonderful things like the central limit theorem coming to the rescue.

No one can monitor or measure everything, whether philosophically (Heisenberg uncertainty principle) or prosaically (cost). But if something is true, we can often probe it enough to get at least a low-res idea of the nature of it. This moves us light years ahead of primarily using our personal experience, gut, and vibe to establish epistemologically sound assertions.
Man, so much of this still rings true today. Focusing on the niche where you're an expert; solving a single problem 10X better than the alternative; bootstrapping; focusing on profitability; the importance of focus.
I haven't seen it mentioned yet, but Odin also has an implicit `context` variable:

https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#implicit-context-system
I built a popular integrated reader and SRS (with Anki integration as an alternative option) similar to LingQ but focused on Japanese currently

https://reader.manabi.io
In that context metacognitive process are the processes used to plan, monitor, and assess one's understanding and performances.

So metacognitive lazyness would be the lack of such processes
I wish I could explain further why your comment was hyperbolic, but your comment is now flagged. Too bad.
Outside investors aren’t looking for slow growth companies or those that may one day throw off a little money. If that were the case, they could just invest their money in the stock market and call it day.

On that note: Warren Buffett made a 1 million dollar bet with some hedge fund managers that he could beat their returns just by putting money in an index fund over 10 years - he won the bet.
Nice product. I assume you're using some kind of RAG on quarterly releases?

I personally would pay ~$30/mo for something that uses the same data but a different way. I want a "Stripe for company data". There are financial data brokers out there, but as a fundamental retail investor they are ridiculously expensive and I don't need microsecond prices of stocks. I need a way to access large amounts of fundamental data in a Python notebook. Right now i know of no solution even remotely close.
This is insightful. Thank you for sharing it.
Same issue for me and I can't find anyone else discussing this online. How can we download vsix now ? I need to install an extension on an offline datacenter
I'm just old enough to remember pub trivia before it was possible to look things up with a phone. I firmly maintain that phones ruined pub trivia.
The reason it gets unbearably messy is that GitHub has constructed an ecosystem that encourages developers to write Turing complete imperative behavior into YAML without providing the same language constructs/tooling that a proper adult language provides to encourage code reuse and debugging.

Without tooling like this any sufficiently complex system is guaranteed to evolve into a spaghetti mess, because no sane way exists to maintain such a system at scale without proper tooling, which one would need to hand roll themselves against a giant, ever changing mostly undocumented black box proprietary system (GitHub Actions). Someone tried to do this, the project is called “act”. The results are described by the author in the article as “subpar”.

The only sane way to use GitHub Actions at scale is to take the subset of its features that you leverage to perform the execution (event triggers, runs-on, etc) and only use those features, and farm out all the rest of the work in something that is actually maintainable eg Buildkit, Bazel, Gradle etc
That doesn't really address that the burnout/startup/hustle culture is part of the risk/reward valuation employees make to work at a startup.

If I can get the same compensation working at a FAANG with less stress, better hours and more balance/control over my life, and the resume entry may be 'more interesting' in some ways, but its hard to argue with FAANG on a resume either why wouldn't I? the choice to risk all of that for only a chance at reaching that compensation is a hard sell.

The possibility of pouring your hard work into a company from the start/early on with others equally dedicated, and if it blows up you all blow up is the selling factor.

On top of that, how many startups came from employees of previous successes that turned that wealth into more innovation? Restricting that path to wealth for many and concentrating the profits to a smaller and smaller group doesn't seem to me the best economic bet to make long-term.
>TUI was peak computing.

it still is!
UK gov launching app for digital documents, driver's license this year
But he didn’t end his article with “my next startup after these six failures was a success based on what I learned”
> Do they know when the GenAI is bullshitting them?

Anecdote from a friend who teaches CS: this year a large number of students started adding unnecessary `break` instructions to their C code, like so:

while (condition) {
do_stuff();
if (!condition) {
break;
}
}

They asked around and realized that the common thread was ChatGPT - everyone who asked how loops work got a variation of "use break() to exit the loop", so they did.

Given that this is not how you do it in CS (not only it's unnecessary, but it also makes your formal proofs more complex) they had to make a general one-time exception and add disclaimers in exams reminding them to do it "the way you were taught in class".
> Booze, cigarettes, gas

If the government took less of a tax cut from these items they would be a little more affordable.

Also, Z's still smoke, but it's in the form of Zyn patches and nicotine bars.

Booze is mostly a women and poor person thing now. And gas, most of the Z's don't seem to drive because their parents always chauffeured them.
COPD is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States
This has been the game of capital since the 1700s. What's new with AI is actually a novel apex of irrationality, wherein the efficiency and profitability is being abandoned somewhat in favor of preservation and control over production (businesses are electing to sacrifice efficient deterministic modes of analysis in favor of less reliable stochastic approaches just because these technologies will allow them to continue to divest the laboring masses of any power over capital)
RealtimeSanitizer for Rust
Does it ever worry you or make you feel powerless? What can I do, I'm a middle age man with health problems that make things very difficult. I have kids and a family and friends with their own problems. I'm strapped for time and resources. What can I do? I worry for my kids future and the future of the world.
Thanks for the feedback! Thought about this as well! If enough people are interested I'll integrate a one-click install option. :)
There is innovation, but you’re operating within the same business domain. I wasn’t talking about stagnation but addressing the point made in the article as a software-based founder: will you compete with NVIDIA? Highly unlikely. Will you create an AAA game? Unlikely. Will you advance AI at a fundamental level? Again, highly unlikely.

When I said “no way” I meant the chances are close to epsilon. In the past, there was more room for improvement and breakthroughs in these fields. This doesn’t mean you can’t create a successful startup based on AI, but its success will likely stem more from the business development side than the software itself. The secret lies in bizdev.
I do the same for swimming.

Teach them to put their head in water, then to do the "dead man's float" for as long as they could. Without realizing, they often start pedaling - which is basically the stroke.

I have used this to great effect with dozens of kids, all who are swimming within a session or two.
For an individual trying to lose weight this isn't a problem - if you are not losing then you just need to eat less. For population level trying to figure out if curry is healthy in the first place this matters though (is it curry itself that is good/bad, one of the spices, or how much sweetener added - if all we know is curry that isn't helpful)
If there's a problem that the left and center have it is that they are reactive, not proactive.

Benjamin Netanyahu is planning for 500 years from now when it won't even be a memory that there was a population of Arabs in Israel.

"Project 2025" began in 1971 [1]

On the other hand, Democrats decided to dump Biden for Harris at the last minute possible. Sam Altman is saying we have to draw a line in the sand now. Peter Thiel has been drilling his well all this time. The center right paper The Economist, founded to advocate for free trade in 1843, is politically homeless in today's UK.

There is no effective counter-movement against the far right; one can hypothesize reasons for that, one of them is that people like Altman should have been trying to make common cause with people who are further to the left than hecould stomach ten years ago, yet there is no promise that those people could get behind any movement at all. (I have to write up my experiences with "vanguardism", I too used to believe that I could fly a flag and stake out a consistently radical position on every issue and people would group behind it, the leader of a black nationalist group gave me some tough love -- yet something similar seems to work for the right)

[1] https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/democracy/the-lewis-powell-me...

[2] https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-01-08/renee-dires...
AI Mistakes Are Different from Human Mistakes
Yep. When we bought our first house (mid-1990s), interest rates were over 7%.

The future is hard to know, but demographic changes are going to move a lot of money out of the stock market (because retiring boomers and soon gen-xers will want safer investments). At the same time, labor will itself become more valuable, because the same forces are going to tighten the labor market. To me that is suggestive of an environment where the rewards of startups vs. engineering jobs are weaker.
It's an economic theory for characterizing market dynamics. The paper's conclusion: "Thus many of the problematic outcomes from SMD theory remain entrenched."
yeah i thought thats only after you get your citizenship. til.
Yellowstone's standing dead trees pose growing wildfire danger
I was really hoping one of the P2P apps would take off. There's no real reason why we need a middle man injecting themselves and taking fees. The apps just get better marketing.

We literally just need an app to connect restaurants to couriers.
> > Musk and trump have shown they can petty and vindictive

This is great. Sociologist tells us that any given person can only have 150 friends maximum, same goes with enemies , it will be very long 4 years for whoever sits in the 150 enemies at any given time, but all things considered they aren't people too dissimilar compared to Musk and Trump.

While petty revenge goes on, policy as always gets ignored and problems emerge (inflation, other pandemic etc) and the whole thing will collapse because at the end of the day even a perfect and experienced captain won't be able to steer perfectly a 400M people strong super tanker such as the US, let alone a vindicative one busy lashing out on his enemies aboard.

It will end up like the Evergreen in the Suez canal.
If you run internal apps on ECS, cognito effectively gives you beyondcorp for free. Being able to put cognito as a rule in your load balancer is choice. I wouldn't use it for anything else, though.
are we assuming only 9-5? 2.3 SDE could do that, but i don't get 6. a 24/7 operation needs 2FTE and 1 PTE per shift, and there are three shifts.

And i suppose "6 SDEs" for a service that has... what number of MAU or whatever?

me and a great friend of mine split our roles with our "projects", he deals with paid clients, and i deal with our required services (email, matrix, nextcloud, pastebins, misskey, PBXen, wireguard/VPN/Proxying...) and there's just two of us. I can't even think of the last time we had downtime, except at the tail-end of last year, one or the other of us caused a fault in proxmox, where commands were no longer issuing, and we had to do a reboot and fsck, the drill.

I understand at "AWS" scale obviously there's going to be more fires than 1 or two people can put out, but 6 SDEs is over 2 million in compensation all told for amazon, right?

So i guess what i am asking for is context. I've run stuff with hundreds of millions of monthly unique (for a paycheck). That company had over a billion uniques across all of their verticals 14 years ago. One network admin (like senior, but still). When i was there, there were 4 DBAs. there was 1 who could deal with developers, the oracle/postgresql guy who is one of my favorite humans ever - he could convert C-level grunts into sql queries or whatever it is they do. Then there was a part time mariadb; and then a full time Oracle DBA for just 1 site. I'm really straining to remember who else was basically infra/ops and it was less than 6[^1] of us for the whole company. We did have a NOC in another country but prior to my arrival all they were really trained to know how to do was page the correct person in the US. Before i left, 3 of the NOC people moved to the US and started working at the office i did.

If you know anyone else that's worked for this company, you'd know. If you haven't used one of their sites today, you probably will this week.

sibling and other comments note that amazon has "consistent look and feel and management and..." so maybe all that "busywork" takes 6 full times?

[^1] i don't count the DBA team as KTLO since i can only think of a single instance when i had to be on a conference and they also were. hurricane in Va!
Sure, same as I'm probably pretty bad at going to the library and looking up information there, with the advent of the internet.

In practice, this lets you reasonably process the knowledge from a lot more papers than you otherwise would, which I think is a win. The way we learn is evolving, as it has in the past, and that's a good thing.

Though I agree that this will be another way for lazy children to avoid learning (by just letting AI do the exercises), and we'll need to find a good solution for that, whatever it may be.
A jar of mayonnaise?? you can measure by the spoonful (or better, by weight, since its nutritional value is in the package) whenever you eat.

A month is a long time and the measurement error will accumulate every day, especially with fats. Not so much problem if you do that with cucumber or spinach.
Funny that weren't better prepared and had it ready for when the ban hit.
> and I would let users trust each other instead, and hunt cheaters themselves

If you've ever played a decent amount of basically any online game you'd know that players make cheating accusations CONSTANTLY based on very little evidence. And then there's also the social aspect of just reporting players you don't like to get them banned

In such a system you'd get way more false positives than any kind of anti-cheat
Yeah. I lost my house in a divorce, and it was quite a shock when I looked at the "new" pricing. Not sure that can last.
It's a case of what is not explicitly allowed is banned, that is the difference between European continental law and English law where things are allowed unless explicitly banned. Here is a quote from the email I had from the CAA -

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"At present the CAA do not allow for these types of flights as there has to be some degree of collision avoidance in that the aircraft must be kept in visual line of sight at all times to avoid a collision.

The CAA does not regulate the use of drones indoors and there is a short section on indoor use at the following web page, about ½ way down the page.

https://www.caa.co.uk/Consumers/Unmanned-aircraft/Recreation..."

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As if a search and rescue, or crop monitoring drone would be useful inside a building, complete madness.
Raspberry Pi Installation:
- Open Raspberry Pi Imager
- Select Raspberry Pi OS Lite (32bit)
--> Lite is without desktop environment and saves some Memory on the PI :)
- Start the Pi and enter:
curl -fsSL https://printercow.com/pi/install.sh -o install.sh \
&& chmod +x install.sh \
&& sudo ./install.sh
People are bad at reporting ANYTHING. Exercise, food, sex, grooming. Just ask a lawyer or anybody trying to get a story out of somebody.

This should be a fundamental understanding of anybody asking people anything. That scientists imagine there's some accurately-reporting population of subjects for their experiment is an example of the breathtaking naivete of scientists.