skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> launching my own products

It may sound weird, but it's based on my 20y observations in the industry (including teaching noobs).

Given the goal, you don't want to bee strategic about learning technical skills.

It is a botomless pit - the more you dig for the sake of improving a skill - the more there is to dig. And the worse you feel about yourself, the more unrealistic your goal seems.

The best thing I would do in your place is stay focused on the business goal - i would try a couple of courses, books that is think would get me to shipping some specific product in mind ASAP. You don't have (and even better not) to be a good coder to launch a product.

You only need to be good enough to launch and get your first client. Then the users/market would hint you specific directions and highlight your gaps pretty well.

If your product is complex - I would dumb it down to some school class grade prototype and attack it first.

When you just want to play a cool song on a guitar — you learn the song. You don't spend years of your life becoming a decent guitarist, unless this (or procrastination) is you real goal.

Specific piece of advice: Ruby on Rails is your friend.

All batteries included, noobs friendly, time saving framework designed for one-man shows / quick prototyping. Yet mature enough to scale with you out of your prototyping phase.

Countless of startups has been started (and most continued) as Ruby on Rails web app.
Groupthink is what happens when people don't share their dissenting views, so the group as a whole makes poor decisions. This is why it is a bad idea to silence dissent. This defines the ROS community, as you have exemplified.

So it is good that you come and read the comments here. Welcome!
Please tell me there is a blog post or something documenting this experience. Sounds like a fun read.
Housing+Development Board comes to mind. Singapore housing policies ensures people can afford to live somewhere reasonable.
I'm protesting Drew for his RMS smear campaign.
Drew is very convinced that he is one of the good guys. I hope he doesn't end up like Drachenlord or Chris-Chan, because the way he is breeding his anti-fans/haters, that's his current trajectory.
It is also possible that Central Asia would be still Buddhist or Manichaean, as those were the major pre-Islamic world religions in the region alongside Nestorian Christianity.
> The other thing was that o1 had access to many more answer / search strategies. For example, if you asked o1 to summarize a long email, it would just summarize the email.

The full o1 reasoning traces aren't available, you just have to guess about what it is or isn't doing from the summary.

Sometimes you put in something like "hi" and it says it thought for 1 minute before replying "hello."
Just shows how much fruit is available outside of just throwing more hardware at a problem. Amazing work.
The us generally would do 95% in the safe s&p500 and the other 5% in high risk things. The exact numbers varry of course but that is a good rule of thumb for good future growth.
I'll justify asking here because the thread is dead, it seems, probably the "2018".

Is there a clean, new method of configuring a persistent boot to cli? A link will do if an explanation is too much.
Your comment about how it makes editing flow like python is spot on, and I've been saying this for years. I'm a long time parinfer-rust user in spacemacs, and it makes me very happy.

However it also made me very strict and opinionated about formatting. One of the main downsides of parinfer comes when you have to interact with someone else's poorly indented or opinionated (wrongly) formatting that goes against the clojure style guide. Parinfer can then ruin otherwise working code because things are out of alignment. To fix this, I set up a function to force format files on open, which mostly works but then for the longest time made me the source of a lot of white space commits. It also struggles with egregiously long files.

Thankfully I eventually got my team on board with force formatting all files and treating non standard formatting as linting errors. We also cut down the largest files one of the other devs made, and that helped a lot.
I've stated this before, but on my ancient (12 year old) i7 a sufficiently complex C project (6000 lines, more or less) can completely compile in under a second.

I dunno how much under a second because my build process only reports durations in seconds.

When using vim with the autocomplete using clang, single file compilations can finish in between keystrokes.
It's in quotes because the actual English initialism is CPC.

Using "CCP" shows your ideological bias.
Are you going to create a new account for every comment?
The only people not on any lists, are boring people.
The plague and climate change probably also had a massive impact. The latter giving an edge to decentralized nomadic societies.
i think it meant the rims for the punch outs were the best for keeping a nano sim in the reader stable (which presumably took one of the larger formats).
If you use the JMP eSIM Adapter you can use a fully open source app, or even your own build of the app or whatever you like.
would love to see some citations on these… you work for the weather channel severe weather department by chance?
> This is the sequel to "You better learn calculus because you won't always have a calculator in your pocket."

Yeah it's all fun and games until you find a cashier who can't substract 20ct from $1 and need to get their iphone out to solve this really hard equation. Or people who can't locate Africa on a world map. You don't build a prosperous society on these foundations, regardless if LLMs can answer your questions
Vast majority of NHS expense is keeping an aging population alive. A lot of the rest of government spending (nearly 80% of my council tax for example) goes on social care for that same aging population.

The NHS spends less per capita than the US spends on medicaid. Not less per person covered, less overall.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42738464

This has been publicly litigated well.
Note cloud provisioning does require an active data esim profile on the card already
I was playing with some techniques to create an API, and needed a project to not be so abstract, so I asked an AI to create a frontend. It did need some help once in a while to get out of hyperactive-todler-creating-code mode, but I'm certainly impressed. Used bolt.new (by stackblitz)
I own the domain as well, so there's no reason I couldn't just do that.
See, the discontinuity is at the App Store and mobile shift. It was iPhone and App Store that destroyed equal human right to code and run, turning it into elite privilege to profit by code. And the escape hatch known as the Web is slowly closing.
> Find a youtuber who meets these 3 criteria:
> - 1. is a great coder

This never happens (i'm happy to be mistaken, please share example).

Great coders are busy being coders. Youtubers are busy being youtubers, different game they playing.

What you mean I suppose "is (was) real professional programmer", that and #2 is a good enough mix for most of the noobs to start.
Next, the Next big thing? (2017)
Drew goes after smaller fish too like writing smear campaigns on the Hyprland author (i.e. praising RedHat employees for banning Hyprland from FDO of all things for old non-FDO-related activity as a form of their little ideological vendetta, arguably damaging the OSS particularly cursor standardization efforts).
Which direction of contrast is your problem?

For me, the small contrast on pages like HN (in particular with any of the gray text) strains my eyes because it’s more effort for me to see the letters.

But I also read a reasonable amount of PDFs (black on white) which is relatively comfortable on most of my monitors (LCDs with generally low brightness setting to have less light shine into my eyes).

I think what I am saying is, I agree that what is comfortable depends on the user, so websites not moving off the defaults is better, because then users can configure what works for them.

Addendum: The low contrast example on the article is very uncomfortable to read for me.
We all stand on the shoulder of giants? Should every engineer rediscover the Turing machine and the Von Neumann architecture?
"To access EUV technology, Intel in 1997 formed the EUV LLC, which entered into a cooperative R&D agreement (CRADA) with DOE. As part of this agreement, Intel and its partners would pay $250 million over three years to cover the direct salary costs of government researchers at the national labs and acquire equipment and materials for the labs, as well as cover the costs of its own researchers dedicated to the project. In return, the consortium would have exclusive rights to the technology in the EUV lithography field of use. At the time, it was the largest CRADA ever undertaken."

In return, the consortium would have exclusive rights to the technology in the EUV lithography field of use

https://issues.org/van_atta/
I'm sorry, but you're getting into "I'm smart and want to argue a point" territory.

Nothing of that applies to Pompeii, as it was buried by a volcano, and everyone and everything that wasn't taken as the people were runnung away stayed as it was. It's basically the Pripyat of Classical Antiquity
Except that not so long ago the dream mostly came true. For many decades an engineering degree was a golden ticket to middle class financial stability and job security. Both in Europe and the US.

Nowadays that is no longer the case. Mostly because of international competition. People are still completely in denial, that there are people in China who do just as good of a job as they do, but for half the wage. Even more striking in software, where outsourcing to India is very common.
To ensure compliance with trash laws, NYC considers deploying drones
White House issues pre-emptive pardons for Fauci, Milley and January 6 committee
Sure, but that's not the correct usage with proper noun acronyms, i.e. ones referring to official names. The official name is the Communist Party of China.
you just tell typescript to stay away from import syntax, and use node-native resolution and it all just works.

its 2025 and node is finally good :)
How about suicide rates?
Git has notoriously bad CLI (as other commenters here noted). Your snarky comment provides no value to this discussion.
I do appreciate your point because it's one of the interesting side effects of AI to me. Revealing just how much we humans are a stack of inductive reasoning and not-actually-free-willed rehash of all that came before.

Of course, humans are also "trained" on their lived sensory experiences. Most people learn more about ballistics by playing catch than reading a textbook.

When it comes to copyright I don't think the point changes much. See the sibling comments which discuss constructive infringement and liability. Also, it's normal for us to have different rules for humans vs machines / corporations. And scale matters -- a single human just isn't capable of doing what the LLM can. Playing a record for your friends at home isn't a "performance", but playing it to a concert hall audience of thousands is.
>if you asked o1 to summarize a long email, it would just summarize the email. QwQ reasoned about why I asked it to summarize the email.

Did o1 actually do this on a user hidden output?

At least in my mind if you have an AI that you want to keep from outputting harmful output to users it shouldn't this seems like a necessary step.

Also, if you have other user context stored then this also seems like a means of picking that up and reasoning on it to create a more useful answer.

Now for summarizing email itself it seems a bit more like a waste of compute, but in more advanced queries it's possibly useful.
Perhaps these
1. Stress relief
2. Makes boring work a bit more interesting
3. Rubber duck debugging
4. A small amount of distraction might actually boost productivity by allowing us to jump out of a local optimum?
Diving with a little compressor tube looks fun. I used to clean my dad's pool that way, as a kid.
> Serialisation Compared to serialisation in almost any modern language, serialising state in C (or C++) is excruciating. There are no reflection capabilities in C, and minimal capabilities in C++, so you need to manually specify each and every field when serialising or deserialising the game state

I got tired of that years agao, and have used this approach with success in a few projects: https://www.lelanthran.com/chap2/content.html
OK, these are a LOT of fun to play with. I've been trying out a quantized version of the Llama 3 one from here: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-...

The one I'm running is the 8.54GB file. I'm using Ollama like this:

ollama run hf.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-GGUF:Q8_0

You can prompt it directly there, but I'm using my LLM tool and the llm-ollama plugin to run and log prompts against it. Once Ollama has loaded the model (from the above command) you can try those with uvx like this:

uvx --with llm-ollama \
llm -m 'hf.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-GGUF:Q8_0' \
'a joke about a pelican and a walrus who run a tea room together'

Here's what I got - the joke itself is rubbish but the "thinking" section is fascinating: https://gist.github.com/simonw/f505ce733a435c8fc8fdf3448e381...

I also set an alias for the model like this:

llm aliases set r1l 'hf.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B-GGUF:Q8_0'

Now I can run "llm -m r1l" (for R1 Llama) instead.

I wrote up my experiments so far on my blog: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/20/deepseek-r1/
The point of the article WAS to debate someone criticizing something they don't understand. AI as a whole is using a lot of energy and we should think about the environmental impacts, but I pretty regularly meet people who think that every individual ChatGPT search is uniquely bad for the environment. I tried to make it as clear as possible that that's the issue I'm responding to, not all AI energy use.
I wonder if (when) there will be a GGUF model available for this 8B model. I want to try it out locally in Jan on my base m4 Mac mini. I currently run Llama 3 8B Instruct Q4 at around 20t/s and it sounds like this would be a huge improvement in output quality.
> Give me five odd numbers that don't have the letter 'e' in their spelling

Compare the reasoning times!!! 84s vs 342s

R1 (Thought for 84 seconds)

No odd number in English avoids the letter 'e' in its spelling. The request for five such numbers cannot be fulfilled.

o1 Pro (Thought for 5 minutes and 42 seconds)

No standard English spelling of an odd number can avoid “e.” Every odd digit (one, three, five, seven, nine) already includes “e,” so once you build any odd number out of those digits, the spelled‐out form will contain “e.” As a result, there are no such odd numbers in standard English without an “e” in their name.
The way I first learnt.

Scratch from a young age.

codeclub.org Python. Pulling data from APIs and showing it. Using pyautogui to do silly automation. Reading about denial of service attacks from cloud flare blog posts, then googling "send UDP packet python", sticking it in a for loop and a while loop, and crashing the router. Circumventing the school firewall in increasingly elaborate ways.

Subscribing to every computer related subreddit possible and learning through osmosis.

Building things, breaking things, and learning as I go. It's been good fun.
Use the time command when running make.
Show HN: Operation Voidstar, AI-Generated Conspiracy Comedy
This is an AI side project I've been having a lot of fun with. I start with an absurd premise, then generate "source documents" with ChatGPT. Then I feed those into NotebookLM and generate a podcast. The theme is from Suno. I use ffmpeg and sox to composite and edit audio. I'm actively looking for alternatives to NotebookLM for the audio synthesis, if anyone knows any.
Interesting that you'd read that and much more (like me) and had a very different reaction. I came out of it feeling understanding for people caught up in such a cruel system. To be clear, not the stoolies or collaborators, but the vast majority of people who were swept up in a system that they had no control over. I just think it's human nature. Slightly hand-wavy figures here, but I feel like you have 10% of people who are bullies and will absolutely buy into the system, 10% of people who are brave and will try to fight somehow, and 80% of people who aren't either. And as much as I'd like to think you could tip the balance significantly in favour of the brave, I just don't think that's human nature, so I don't really feel like I can blame those people for just wanting to keep their heads down and survive. If you don't have it in you, you don't have it in you. My reading also taught me that when push comes to shove, many people aren't nearly as brave as they think they are. The Gulag Archipelago in particular was instructive about what happens to people when they're starved and worked to the bone. Any notion of humanity goes out of the window, and it's the airy-fairy "we should all share" people who die almost immediately.
If the ERA was dully ratified, then it would not need Biden to decree it law. If Biden can decree an amendment to the constitution as law, then the constitution has no meaning.
I would argue anything requiring insights on spelling is a hard problem for an LLM: they use tokens, not letters. Your point still stands, but you need different examples IMO.
Honestly, the response is not that great. Right off the bat they're just going on the defensive, enumerating "false claims" that printer will require subscription etc. But the concern wasn't that Bambu _will_ do that, but that they _could_ do that, and generally that inserting Bambu's infrastructure as a mandatory step in the printing pipeline is _not great_.

Then, the first point in their `truth about the update` section:

> This is NOT about limiting third-party software. We're creating Bambu Connect specifically to ensure continued third-party integration while enhancing security. We're actively working with developers like Orca Slicer to implement this integration.

The `we're actively working` with Orca was already addressed by the OrcaSlicer developer [0]

> Bambu informed me of this change two days before their announcement.

and Bambu's idea of "working with" is helping to implement redirect from Orca to their own software that would actually start the print. Seems like limiting third-party software to me.

> This is beta testing, not a forced update. The choice is yours.

This is bizarre, surely beta firmware is intended to be release firmware at some point? If anything, the community outrage proved beta track to work as intended.

> About Panda Touch. We reached out to BTT as soon as we became aware of their product. We warned them that using exploited MQTT protocols...

Also addressed by BQ in [1], tl;dr they tried to work with Bambu but didn't get much response, only a warning that the MQTT might stop working in a future update. So technically Bambu _reached out_, but only to say "don't improve our product". In the end, Bambu is screwing over their customers more than BQ

Further down they still go and defend their decision

> When using third-party slicing software like Orca Slicer, the difference in users experience is not much.

and proceed to demonstrate that Orca Slicer will _easily_ open the new app which will be able to start the printing. Which is exactly what the community complained about, and doesn't address things like missing Linux support.

Finally, they're presenting a diagram showing how the new flow looks like. Except the diagram is missing any details about what the new software does — it doesn't show how, when and why the new software communicates with the cloud.

For someone with even cursory understanding of security, the changes just don't make much sense, and Bambu is not doing much to explain the security protocols they're trying to implement. For all I know they just slapped a private certificate somewhere in the Bambu Connect app and started signing requests to the printer, which doesn't improve security at all if the private key is already public

[0] https://github.com/SoftFever/OrcaSlicer/issues/8063#issuecom...

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/BIGTREETECH/comments/1i5lzzf/latest...
Posts like this make me miss Travis. Travis CI was incredible, especially for testing CI locally. (I agree with the author that act is a well done hack. I've stopped using it because of how often I'd have something pass in act and fail in GHA.)

> GitHub doesn't care

My take: GitHub only built Actions to compete against GitLab CI, as built-in CI was taking large chunks of market share from them in the enterprise.
I like the movie a lot, but the beginning is a little problematic from a modern viewing iirc. It discusses how the poor and uneducated produce more kids than the higher classes, thus a dumb population after many generations.

Factually true about the correlation between higher standard of living and having fewer kids. However, that exact discussion has been used as a dog whistle against other "undesirable" groups in the past. The movie's beginning implies it would be better if we decide who gets to have kids.

Overall a great movie, but I think that part has aged poorly.
Afraid not. I don't have much of an online presence, so didn't think to write anything.
Gen-Z shifted on Israel vs. Hamas from 50-50 (Dec 23) to 79-21 (Jan 25)
But this wouldn't give you two-way interactivity, and RSS and ATOM are just different ways to go about representing RDF.

I could entertain the argument that we don't need two way interactivity, and that most of the applications would be fine by implementing their own ad-hoc API. This is exactly what is happening in the Fediverse now, where every microblogging project ends up implementing Mastodon's API and every Lemmy client goes straight up to Lemmy's API instead of getting the data from "raw" ActivityPub.
The US Constitution does not allow the president to decree new constitutional amendments.
Hasn't Microsoft (which used to be ultra hostile against FOSS) taken part in FOSDEM? Why would selling a company be anti-FOSS?
> did Trump just lose popularity by doing this

No. Heads up, he wins; tails up, blame Biden.
I added in the article that I think this is all the wrong way to think about environmentalism anyway and that people should spend most of their time working on systematically changing the energy grid to renewables. But I keep meeting people who are worried about their personal emissions from ChatGPT, so I wanted to make it clear that if you are worried about that ChatGPT isn't really a drop in the bucket compared to other things you could change.
No Trump, didn't make $50B from his memecoin
Actually I would bet money that the UK gives Nuclear weapons capability to Iran in the next 25 years.
And these products need to be globally unique. You can not compete with a product that China can make far cheaper.

The US has achieved this numerous times through start-ups.
Can't find a source at the moment but cool side anecdote to this...working from memory

Honeywell was largely the driving force behind developing terrain avoidance systems for commercial aircraft. Those initial systems worked based on comparing the terrain below to the flight profile of an aircraft using a radar altimeter.

There was a CFIT (controlled flight into terrain) accident (I want to say AA in Peru?) where the mountains basically got to tall to fast to give the crew sufficient time to react because of that system. That caused Honeyweell to go back and look at ways to improve the system to be predictive rather than reactive - using a terrain database.

Honeywell bought/came into posession of a russian world wide terrain altitude database to do the first generation of this. I can only imagine the US had the same thing, or more accurate, but this was far enough ago that US Government wasn't sharing.