skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is about the number of connections in a graph.
> One can think of the emergent scientific method as effectively learning to respect complexity.

Which I'm reading like it's the ONLY way we know of how to "respect complexity".

> The tangible result of this new trait (respecting complexity) was pretty amazing. But only for a precious few domains. Our default mode, being 100% sure about things we have little clue about (who needs hallucinating AI when you've got humans), continues to be the prevalent one.

Which means if only everybody in other areas learned to respect complexity as we enlightened scientist do, everything would be great in these other areas too.

And so on...

This is classical enlightenment scientific positivism that is fuelled by technical prowess of the contemporary society.

It's only natural to assume that all these wonders in science can be replicated if we only applied the scientific method for everything, and if it's not working we need to just work harder and eventually find the right set of hypothesis and reductions to prove the necessary theories that will render break through in other areas. What's wrong with this thought?

Well first in philosophy, science is a set of assumptions and simplifications that limit the scope of search to what's measurable and ignores qualia. This is the first simplification. [1]

The second is reduction, which is responsible for the wonders in physics. You break things down, you study the components of reality in an isolated and reproducible way in hopes to understand the larger picture by means of decomposition. It's just that science isn't direct about how to put things together after reduction. In most areas it's ok, things are simple enough we can make do. But it's being catastrophic in areas like quantum physics. In fact the calculations start to skyrocket in complexity so fast that reductionism itself is put in question, specially when geometric objects like the amplituhedron are known to exist that simplify the calculation quite substantially but isn't prone to investigation by reduction. [2]

Which puts in question the assumption that science as you put in your comment is the correct way to manage complexity in all areas. This positivist approach to science is put in question by many other philosophers, including Karl Popper [3].

[1] https://platosmirror.com/galileo-galilei-measure-what-is-mea...

[2] Donald Hoffman, The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes ISBN-13: 978-0393254693, ISBN-10: 0393254690

[3] https://www.sobider.net/FileUpload/ep842424/File/12.two_crit...
Spacecraft buzzes Mercury's North Pole and beams back photos
Yeah, this been my experience as well (in South/West Schengen, by car). I've seen spot checks more regularly though, compared to some years ago when there was literally nothing.
Ah thanks, I was looking in the FAQs, not the docs.
Yeah I agree. The market for companies that do something in a web browser may be saturated, but outside of that world it feels like there are more opportunities than ever. For example in the space of AI + robotics we’ve barely scratched the surface.

I wonder if part of what’s happening may be a generational shift in how people in and around the startup world view work/life balance. In my limited experience, GenZ folks tend to place a premium on reasonable working hours, so it’s not surprising they would evaluate the trade offs between startups and big tech differently.
Hate speech is against only one religion. Against all other religions, it is perfectly ok according to these people as well as in Congress.
> more a set of fast network-shared, generic data structures

Exactly. It's a distributed list, map, etc that is often used as a cache, and sometimes as a queue, but it's bigger than all that.
What? One moment, you're defending Musk's Nazi salute and the next you're stating that "we should not forget"?

Not forgetting implies that we must NEVER tolerate Nazi sympathisers and Nazi ideology. Musk has been promoting Nazi/extreme right-wing ideologies for quite a while now and his latest stunt is to perform a Nazi salute which insults the memories of everyone that fought against the Nazis in WWII.

What specific part of history are you alluding to? I'm reasonably knowledgable but not an expert in European history and I certainly found it very frightening when I visited the Holocaust Museum in Berlin and saw that the exact same methods were being employed by the Republicans/Trump.

Can you be more specific as it seems that you're just trying to obfuscate.
actually if you understand a bit of the meaning behind the salute and how Nazis appropriated terms like "unify", "heal" and a "new beginning" [for Germany] then some of the quotes which they use to weaken the argument of it being a "Sieg Heil" actually strengthen it.
Steve Jobs should have offered to rename it to Zimmerman.

I never heard of Dylan Thomas's estate threatening legal action against Bob Dylan.
There are two solutions, depending on your real use case:

1) You're calling Read() directly and don't need to use functions that strictly accept io.Reader - then just implement ReadContext:

func (rc ioContextReader) ReadContext(ctx context.Context, p []byte) (n int, err error) {
done := make(chan struct{})
go func() {
n, err = rc.Reader.Read(p)
close(done)
}()

select {
case <-ctx.Done():
return 0, ctx.Err()
case <-done:
return n, err
}
}

Otherwise, just wrap the ioContextReader with another ioContextReader:

reader = ioContextReader(ctx, r)
> France as one country which correctly identified the threat of US going batshit crazy soon after WW2

This was equal part pragmatic foreign policy and a desire by the French elite to hold onto their colonies, an institution strongly opposed by the United States since around WWI.
Someone decided that that article needed an illustration. Astounding the breadth and depth of things you can find on the internet.
> Also, a number of the mathematicians who worked on FrontierMath would possibly have not contributed to this if they knew about the funding and exclusive access. It feels concerning that OpenAI could have inadvertently paid people to contribute to capabilities when they might not have wanted to.

This is odd. The issue isn't o3's "capabilities" or AINotKillEveryoneism, it's the spreading corrosion of OpenAI's dishonest marketing. Presumably those contributors thought they were making a good benchmark. Instead they got misled into making an infomercial.

This specifically hurts Terence Tao, because it raises the question about whether or not he knew that OpenAI had privileged access. Epoch and OpenAI tarnished his reputation in order to improve o3's reputation. Truly despicable.
You assume all value creation happens in these big companies and that the only valid exit is being acquired by them.

That's not really the case. A lot of value gets created outside these companies. And every time that happens, their default mode seems to panic, do a lot of hiring and ramp up some big R&D effort. Failure seems common for these projects. And typically more expensive than doing it via startups. Just look at all the spending on AI in big tech companies. Most of it seems rushed and not really that effective. And they are all responding to each other; and to some well funded startups that are succeeding where they are failing.

> you need ten of thousands of startups

Just do the math. That's a few tens of billions in funding. Well within range of the R&D budgets of these large companies (individually even). And of course a lot of the investment burden and risk is shared with a wider community of investors. Their main issue is absorbing this R&D and value back into their companies. Acquisitions and acquihires aren't that effective mostly.

Employing a large ineffective workforce at premium rates also isn't free and hardly a guarantee for value creation. That's why layoffs are a thing.
How much does India invest in infrastructure? China's infrastructure investment and speed are mind boggling, which fuels their growth and modernization.

Does India do the same?
Relative out-timer here. I came here because of smart people having smart discussions about life, universe, and everything (tech or otherwise). HN both got me to drink the startup kool-aid early on, and then cured me from it later on, ultimately making me a startup-skeptic (and infecting me with an unhealthy dose of cynicism). I guess this is how growing up looks like :).

Ultimately, I still hang around HN because of high-quality discussions; there's really no other place like it, or at least I've found none. Or maybe after all this time, it just feels like home. Still, were the balance to shift hard towards startup talk, I fear we'd lose all the intellectual curiosity driven submissions and discussions - they'd just turn into sharing tips and tricks to make moar moneys with tech, which I personally find BOOOOOORING AF.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42330179 .. https://www.notebookcheck.net/University-of-Tokyo-researcher... :

> multispectral [UV + IR] camera ... optical, non-contact method to detect [blood pressure, hypertension, blood glucose levels, and diabetes]." [ for "Non-Contact Biometric System for Early Detection of Hypertension and Diabetes" https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circ.150.suppl_1.413... ]

>> "Tongue Disease Prediction Based on Machine Learning Algorithms" (2024) https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7080/12/7/97 :

>>> new imaging system to analyze and extract tongue color features at different color saturations and under different light conditions from five color space models (RGB, YcbCr, HSV, LAB, and YIQ). [ and XGboost ]
> We have higher standards for AI than humans, and regulation reflect that.

This is the most likely reason that we won’t see widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles in the next 30 years.

Around 120 people die in automobile accidents every day and people shrug. But if 12 people died in accidents caused by autonomous vehicles in a year (yes I changed units), they will quickly be banned.
As an ex-engineer in I relate very much with :

> 3. The VC model's limitations have become apparent. The focus on hypergrowth and exits has left many founders [[engineers]] feeling trapped between authentic business building and investor [[founders]] expectations.

Damn me! I’ve be naive to trust the (marketing) promise of the last startup I worked for, as an authentic promise from the founders. A few weeks into and I understood the real goal was to grow and get market shares, whatever the means. I felt betrayed but stayed because I liked my peer and the day to day job, and economic insecurity feeling.

Fast forward 2 years: burnout and quit.

Probably some of the 3 founders did kind of trust in the marketing promise at first and after so many speechs and work they confirmed it via some IKEA effect and confirmation bias [0]. But I felt we were actually building fancy CRUDs (forbidden idea there!) not disturbing anything at all.

0 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA_effect and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
reading their marketing page made it clear just what a huge boost this style is for readability etc

agree it's just a style/design, but one with a lot of value no one captures

and it's obvious why. where are all the ads and distracting nonsense?
I'd be very much interested in those documents.

You can reach me via mail to s at username dot eu

TIA
Because they're being trained to answer this particular question. In other contexts it wasn't prepared for, Sonnet v2 readily refers to "OpenAI policy" or "Reddit Anti-Evil Operations Team". That's just dataset contamination.
True. But this code is only proof-of-concept of how non-context-aware functions can be wrapped in a context. Such usage of context is not standard.
In academia, respect for complexity still exists, but industries prioritize simplicity to enable mass production, reduce costs, and make things easier for people to understand, remember, and use. That’s why logos are becoming flat, with simple shapes and colors, buildings are often bland rectangular boxes, and apps have fewer texts and buttons on each screen.

As with almost everything, we need to find a balance between simplicity and complexity.
I was the second engineer (series A) at a company that IPO’d at a unicorn valuation. By all rights that’s a great outcome. I made about as much in that exit as I would have if I were just at a FAANG instead
> There's simply no real reason we can't have a deep and robust manufacturing base in America.

One reason is that cheaper labor exists.
There are two kinds of "fascination" at play here - those who believe he is a hero and someone to be emulated (as seen on Reddit and the like) and those who are fascinated by the fascination (mostly legacy media and whoever is still on FaceBook).

Of course, the average person might remember the shooting (stressing might at this point) and almost none would know Luigi Mangione by name. Which is to say, almost any "fascination" today is just a reflection of a highly distilled internet alcove, a self-identified cohort which over time builds it's own culture and assumes that everyone around them is to some degree as "informed" as the are about their "fascination".

It does not take an obscure novel to explain the "fascination" the powerless have with the dream of somehow gaining power over the powerful - but as the movie Parasite so perfectly illustrated - that moment is likely to be fleeting, self-destructive, and ultimately meaningless as the world will quickly lose it's "fascination".
Yes, but the proportions have still changed. It's not static, it's a progression.

2010 will have been different to 2008 (when I joined) but so will 2013 with respect to 2010, 2020 with respect to 2013, and 2025 with respect to 2020.

It's fine that it's much more broadly a tech forum now - but it's silly to infer things about the wider world by comparing attitudes in HN across eras unless you take account of the change in demographic.

As to the culture wars? Perhaps it's time for another "erlang love bombing" campaign to recalibrate :D (When was that anyway...?) Edit: Ah yes, it was in 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11
I'm glad to hear that the opinion to move away from heavy client-side frontends is getting more popular. On a slow connection and a mid range device, they were almost unusable, often laggy on my smartphone.

Good to know that moving to a server rendered frontend cuts lines of code and development time.

These big clients were a fun and exciting experiment but they can go now, we're done.
GPT: whatsapp, instagram, airbnb, slack, uber, snap
Even then, you could probably set up an aim bot with a second computer using computer vision to detect characters, and sending inputs as a USB mouse.
Free market thinkers should realize that market doesn't work as intended - it just works. POSIWID[0] and all. The workings of the market are sometimes aligned with the best interest of humanity, but not always, and they have no obligation to be, because at this point, we've long lost any control we had over it (if we ever had any).

--

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...
As I understand it, Dokploy Cloud [https://docs.dokploy.com/docs/core/cloud] makes the hosting "managed" by removing the need for Dokploy UI to be installed on your own VPS. With the free/open source version you need to host the UI yourself.
Assessing Taiwan's Importance to U.S. Economic Growth and Security
ZFS snapshots based on CoW are superiour to VSS previous states as they work only on a good will base on open files while ZFS snapshots represent simply the last state of the fiesystem prior a datablock write.

Luckily OpenZFS on Windows is near (currently release candidate 11) with some remaining bugs around volume mount. If you avoid encrypted volumes not a serious problem, good enough for evaluation. Development is fast with a new release candidate every few weeks to adress remaining problems.

The sister project OpenZFS on OSX has already reached release state last week.
Ultra has better battery life, most people don’t wear a watch while sleeping, so it’s easy to charge at night like you do with a phone anyway. It also enables you to do almost everything essential in terms of communication without a phone if you want to leave it. Garmin watches do not.
We all didn’t escape to knowledge work. Half the MAGA movement was the result of “rural America” not being able to adjust to the loss of factory work and manual labor.
> no on can just sit and decide what's best simply by reasoning

Scary as it sounds, this happens more than most people realize because it stems from directed marketing in structures where financiers are making the decisions and the engineers are just expected to adapt. I don't know about the developer arena, but in industrial automation (my field) new tech and software gets pushed frequently based on whether or not a bean counter said it would improve efficiency, not because it was tested in that specific environment. It's a constant headache for integrators. The number of times I have had to sit and listen to a room full of salesmen explain to me why we're suddenly using Y when X was working just fine is ridiculous. They see in dollars, and to them, testing the new software or component in the working environment prior to making the call is a waste of dollars when weighed against how many dollars they will save with expedited implementation.

It's maddening, and probably the prime factor that makes my job unpleasant.
I first attempted to use ruff for a small project ~2 years ago, and at the time felt that it wasn't quite good enough to replace the: black+isort+whatever linter combo we were using at work.

I've used it a few times since then and now I'm a big proponent of using only ruff. I think most of its value comes from:

1. Being fast (or at least fast enough that it's not annoying).
2. Replaces the linting/formatting combo of multiple tools, reducing the cognitive load for the developer.

Anyway, big fan.
The author has seemed oblivious to the difference in past discussions - to the point of deleting issues asking for the description to be changed (https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy/issues/82 - unfortunately not archived on Wayback).

The fact they're still advertising it as "Open source", even now is astonishing and are clearly just using it as a marketing point and are not interested in it in reality.
fun fact:

> deportation of illegal immigrants

Initially Hitler Germany also, at least to the outside, pushed a position of them just wanting to "deport" Jews outside of Germany. They then decided to instead place them
into forced labor camps to extract value out of them while slowly working them to death and later (but not much later) they also started with the industrialized mass killing in death camps.

Similar before murdering Jews they started with going after disabled people and then queer people as this was part of their idea of healing (i.e purging) Germany.

Not saying the US will treat immigrants like Nazi Germany did treat Jews, that would be dump.

But given how they have a profit orientated prison system which more or less forced people to extremely underplayed work and how being an illegal immigrant is a crime and given how some US companies are looking for replacing "cheap labor" from China with something else more under their control I would still be worried.
I guess the real reason was they thought that you couldn't hit the ground running but they didn't even try to see if that's true or not. I have changed projects in the same company before and they really wanted to know how fast can you become productive and anything beyond 2 weeks sounded too much and the they needed 2 months to create all my accounts and give me access.
I.e. censorship is bias manually injected into, or after training. Often done to correct learned bias, particularly when that learned bias doesn't sit right with some people.
> most people don’t wear a watch while sleeping, so it’s easy to charge at night like you do with a phone anyway

for me at least, the silent alarm so as to not disturb my partner is a huge part of the value in a smart watch.
I wouldn't mind these "smart" TVs so much if they didn't suck so much for regular use. Why does it take 30+ seconds for me to get my television turned on when I just want to use a gaming console plugged into one of the inputs??
All I can say is the John Williams's Stoner would have handed back the essay covered in red ink. For that matter, so would have John Williams himself.
I think a lot of people get annoyed (probably including myself) because the term sort of implies that there's great work-life balance which definitely isn't the case with a lot of small businesses.
It wouldn't, but, if the vendor somehow made it require one, despite the very impressive technical feat, I'd feel cheated. Robbed, even.
> none of the carriers here in Europe that do prepay offer eSIM anyway.

Not true, e.g. in Portugal: https://www.nos.pt/movel/esim (though you need to go to a store to pick-up the QR code, I think to avoid people from other countries using it?), https://www.meo.pt/servicos/movel/tarifarios-telemovel/e-sim same thing
Another example of a tech company that would not exist without the military
I certainly did. I have options/stocks from 3 different companies, all vested, but zero expectation of seeing any money out of it. One of them recently went belly up and had an exit for peanuts.

I didn't go for big tech but I did pick a job on a YC startup that, while demanding, allowed me to purchase my own house and work on my own stuff in the evenings.
I don't know if their other product lines are better but the software and user experience of their Edge 1040 cycling computer is atrocious. It has every feature you could think of and some you couldn't but I swear it was designed by someone who has never ridden a bike.

Even the navigation isn't great. Most of the time when I get to a roundabout it wants me to exit at the first exit, then immediately perform a u-turn, rejoin the roundabout, and take the actual exit. Not even sure what's going wrong here, the same routes on a Wahoo unit work fine.

It would put me off buying another Garmin product to be honest.
Why the after 2008 foundatuon criteria. Someone who joined FB in 2010 could have got rich right? Same with Google, Amazon, most other unicorns that established before 2008.
I've mostly ditched requests in favour of httpx these days. https://www.python-httpx.org
I've recently been enjoying Book Overflow https://www.youtube.com/@BookOverflowPod - they're reading and discussing really interesting (programming / software engineering) books, getting interviews with authors etc.
Openai?
It's so nice to see my homeland is famous for something! :-) Zimbabwe Dollars FTW. I have 500 billion dollars in a cupboard somewhere BTW.
I've had one successful exit as an engineer. Made enough for a (very) fancy dinner for two, or a short city break. Just a fun bit of pocket money, essentially.

Founders made more than I'll probably earn in a lifetime.
Something ignored in the article is that the old gas furnace was of an early and eceptionaly inefficient type, proven by its rotten flue pipe, newer gas furnaces are of the condensing type, and exract so much energy from the exhaust, that it condenses water, and the flue pipes are made of plastic, as the exhaust is barely warm.Older furnaces have hot caustic flue gasses, that will rot and corode the pipes.
Total efficiency is what counts from an environmental standpoint, and grid electricity can often come with CO² outputs that are high, per delivered heating energy at the load compared to
delivered fuels.
Heat pumps realy start to look good, when there is grid tied solar PV, and energy bills can drop to 5% or less of anything else.This works as far north as 45°latitude, at least.
But the truth is that even @45°n, a house that is built to the best insulation standards, has no heating system whatsoever, as domestic activities
and heat air exhangers alone, will produce excess
heat, and party gatherings of organic heat machines, will require opening windows to stay comfortable, in the depths of winter.
They are holding it wrong!