skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When did we give up on debugging?
I am not an AI expert, so if you need to stop reading, here's your chance.

When did we decide to give up on debugging software?

We are creating faulty AI's or at least AI's not provably correct and sticking them in everything from computer mice to industrial machinery, some of which can kill, maim or injure humans without pause. These AI's are given piles of data, a lot of it unchecked which is processed and used to create more data for a next generation of AI and so on.

But everyone seems perfectly content to say "Well, these things happen" when AI's hallucinate. They say "It's too difficult to fix" when it's show than AI's are producing bad results. My favorite: "it's too expensive" when someone would lose profits if they actually tried to fix an issue.

I've been a programmer since the late 80's. I'd like to think that I was taught that, if there is a problem, you fix it. End of discussion. That we write software, which has rules and we follow those rules, and if it doesn't work, we fix it or we (occasionally) make new rules, but follow the same correctness principle.

But the end goal is always to create software that, at the end of the day, does exactly what we tell it to do, the way we tell it to do it. Not "mostly what we tell it to do". Not "mostly the way we tell it to". Exactly. No marketing department equivocation. No "allowances".

We seem to have reached a point that smells like management decided money is more important that correctness and programmers smelled a Porsche in their future and decided to go along with it. Someone decided we could skip a step or two, examined the process and thought "Well, unfortunately we need those programming clowns but I guess we could skip the testers …" and it was good and profitable and all was right with the world, except when it wasn't, but that wasn't profitable, so the world is just hallucinating and oh, we can't fix that … etc.

What. The. F***.

Software is 0's and 1's. There's not a lot of leeway there. It either works and kudos or it doesn't and it's time for some defenestration, in my opinion.

Everyone seems perfectly content to throw money and data at AI and when it screws up, the creators say "Yeah, no one understands the underlying structure anyway, so we just throw more data and money at it, and … oh, hey, Porsche dealer, gotta go! Cheers!" Meanwhile, we're standing in a smoking ruin, wondering where did we go wrong?

Software is either right or it's wrong and if it's wrong, you fire someone (like me) and then you go fix it. Wash, rinse and repeat.

Why are we not demanding this with a gun pointed at a manager's head?

Note: I know this will get downvoted to the depths of Hell for any number of reasons. I'm still asking the question.
Indeed, just because one dellusionally believes they are presecuted, does not mean they are. People have been memeing and satirizing leftist about this for decades at this rate, "oppression Olympics" and such. More recently, "Rugged. Vegan. Compassionate. Victim": https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=arw1pcqLI_M
I loved mine until the transmission blew out at 96,000 miles. Could be a one-off, but then a friend bought a used one with 108,000 miles, and the dealer proudly noted that it had a new transmission just installed. I think that vaunted reliability is gone.

That aside, the one thing I haven't liked is the electronics. Many times it gets out of sync with the phone and simply can't connect, the only fix is to shut the car off, open the door so the stereo shuts off, then restart the car. The FM radio also quit working at one point, which I didn't really care about, but the dealer applied a software update and it started working again. That's just the visible stuff though, so much of the car is software controlled now, I think you have to start taking any software issues as a warning about the overall car.
OpenStories: The Open Stories Format
Wonder if they use llms to write those puzzles
Yes, but we can assume - Trump and his people have openly communicated, planned, and followed through on it - that the actions of executive branch agencies are politicized.

Here we are told that the "C.I.A.’s new director, John Ratcliffe, ... wants the agency to get “off the sidelines” in the debate."; that he's long favored the lab-leak theory (which is a politicized issue); and of all the things a brand new new CIA director must do, we see that this was Ratcliffe's first priority. We know that the CIA did not choose to release the report before the Trump administration.

I think the overwhelming evidence is that it's a politicized action. Would Trump or his team lie or mislead? Of course. We can't give them the benefit of the trust until proven false; they have embraced deceit.

Unfortunately, even though they weren't always credible before, I think that means that these things are now meaningless, other than as clues to Trump's and others' intents: Why prioritize this messaging? Whose idea was it? And always, cui bono - who benefits?
Your comment is confusing. Are you reccomending pod scheduling as a band aid while you rewrite the app in something else? Or making fun of trying to rewrite?
ukraines fpv drones supply a mountain of training data..
IME, yes.

Here a couple problems I've run into using GQL for backend to backend communication:

* Auth. Good GQL APIs think carefully about permission management on a per-field basis (bad GQL apis slap some auth on an entire query or type and call it a day). Back-end services, obviously, are not front end clients, and want auth that grants their service access to an entire query, object, or set of queries/mutations. This leads to tension, and (often) hacky workarounds, like back-end services pretending to be "admin users" to get the access they need to a GQL API.

* Nested federation. Federation is super powerful, and, to be fair, data loaders do a great job of solving the N+1 query problem when a query only has one "layer" of federation. But, IME, GQL routers are not smart enough to handle nested federation; ie querying for a list of object `A`s, then federating object `B` on to each `A`, then federating object `C` on to each `B`. The latency for these kinds of queries is, usually, absolutely terrible, and I'd rather make these kinds of queries over gRPC (eg hit one endpoint for all the As, then use the result to get all the Bs, then use all the Bs to get all the Cs)
This video just won't stick!

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

There are comments on this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42808889

https://github.com/runevision/Dither3D
Poof. What if I don't keep the IP at all and just the timestamp? Essentially "Someone visited at 23:12 January 20th", nothing else stored. Still banner needed?
Ah wow, now I see. It is a bug! Thanks for reporting, will fix it!
I’ve been running half-a-billion parameter models comfortably in a web browser, especially with WebGPU, and you can definitely run billion parameter LLMs in the browser. It becomes a heavyweight browser app, but if the main costs are running ML models you can pretty easily serve static files from a directory and let clients’ browsers do the heavy lifting. Feel free to reach out if you have questions, happy to help, I’ve been working on language web apps as well
Biotin mitigates the development of manganese-induced Parkinson's disease
"Manganese is essential for various cell functions, but chronic exposure causes a neurodegenerative condition with symptoms resembling Parkinson’s disease. Lai et al. developed an adult fly model of manganese-induced parkinsonism and found that altered metabolism of biotin (also known as vitamin B7) mediated the metal’s neurotoxicity. Manganese exposure reduced the amount of “free” or bioavailable biotin, which resulted in neuronal loss and mitochondrial and lysosomal dysfunction in the brain and impaired motor function. Supplementing the flies’ diet with biotin alongside manganese exposure prevented these effects. The cellular effects were reproduced in cultured human dopaminergic neurons. The findings suggest that supplementary biotin may be a preventive intervention for at-risk individuals."

I have an idea of why Biotin lowers Manganese if anyone is interested!

Hint: https://www.uniprot.org/uniprotkb/P11498/entry
I kinda have the same very subjective feeling where o1 is the first AI that is clearly superior to me.
Hn moment. Blue green with zero downtime on a VPS is not extremely trivial. Simple for some, at best.
Most developed economies have shifted to services. Its a natural progression that results from higher productivity and higher wages.

I think the big problem is too much reliance on on service sector.
Fastly has the Fast Forward program. Seeing as your app is non-profit, perhaps their program could cover part of your infrastructure needs?

https://www.fastly.com/fast-forward
https://web.archive.org/web/20250125122536/https://www.wired...
> "Why are we not demanding this with a gun pointed at a manager's head?"

This kind of ranting doesn't belong on HN.
At some point pirates come along with their own streams offering better service :P

MBAs think they can enshittfy into perpetuity, but eventually people have enough and leave to whatever the competition is.
I purposely installed a browser plugin that removes comment sections from web sites. I really don’t know why anyone would want to add one.
A single emoji is a sequence (of bytes)
> They do have plans.

I don't know that they do, and I see no indication that they do. Uncertainty and confusion are very different things. The article talks about confusion, not plans (thought I might have skimmed past that) and adjustments.

Experienced NIH personnel should know exactly what is possible, what possible counter-measures are, and have prepared and prepared others for them. They should be organized and prepared.
The interviewers were fans of Franz Kafka, I presume.
The most interesting thing about this isn’t that it’s a RISC-V implementation but that it’s written in a Scala HDL language, SpinalHDL. There are quite a few of these now - Chisel (which Spinal forked from long ago), Amaranth (Python), and Clash (Haskell) all come to mind.
These are burner addresses, the vast majority of which I don't care about. If I ever wanted to move away, iCloud conveniently can show me each address, when I created it, and for what site. I could then change my address on the few sites I wanted to retain the account on.

I actually have a domain I setup with Fastmail just for burner addresses, but Apple offers enough additional functionality (easier to use, tracks the site I created it for and when) that I keep using Apple's offering.
Can confirm. $DAYJOB makes robots subject to hard worst-case latency constraints. The product runs on QNX.
It doesn't work as well, but I tried this on split-flap display: https://milek7.pl/.stuff/splitflap_clap.mp4
CPU to GPU to FPGA to ASIC

All the acronyms
I speculate that the reason it always come out cheaper in your calculations is because you have all the knowledge as a datacenter expert so you save a TON of money there.
"when you realize that 'script kiddies' is anyone who ran an executable from an image board; you couldn't ask for a lower bar."

Wow. Just wow.

I looked at keygens and whacked an entire site of 900+. Not a single one did not have a virus, and some more than one. I kept it as a zoo to test scannets.

Astalavesta baby.
SMTP?
What are you defining as a BigCo? In the UK I can only really think of FAANG, a small number of hedge funds / HFT firms, and more recently some AI firms that are paying that level of salary.

I'm also guessing that salaries in football might be suppressed similar to video games jobs. There'll be a lot of people willing to work under market rate because they enjoy the football environment.
The problem isn't that criminals can use your service, its that the service provider really doesn't want to be liable for that happening, which generally only happens when you host illegal content.
For many services which allow arbitrary emoji reactions (most notably discord) they remain ordered by "first reacted" order, which can allows emergent behavior like spelling out words with the letter emojis
That may be your impression, but what does it mean beyond that? It's not my impression. In fact, many of the (formerly) serious journalism publications have bowed to Trump and normalize what he does: Washington Post, Politico, many others.

One problem is 'media' is an incredibly large landscape. Who are you referring to?
Well said. I tried and bailed on LinkedIn about ten years ago because so much was forced happy-talk like this article. I think this author is writing earnestly but there is a load of pressure on everyone to think and speak this way even though it makes zero sense for their specific cases. I think it may be called "toxic positivism" in that context.
https://archive.ph/CpBIu
Let me guess, you consider yourself firmly middle-class...
Bluesky isn't really federated, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42215410
What policy would benefit the north, without (even further) subsidising it?

If we could invest £10Bn and get £20Bn back for the economy with our money back over time then not a single politician would turn that down, there's actually been a load of support over the past ~5+ years for "levelling up" (AKA investment in the north) but we've not invested much because the returns are abysmal. Meanwhile there's a whole stack of projects with good returns in london, but politically it's really difficult to "give more money to london" so we don't really do them. Bakerloo line extension and crossrail 2 for example.

The Elizabeth line, will over time pay for itself entirely with fares alone, yet has also already added ~£2.50 to the economy for every £1 spent.

This is a absolutely classic example of chicken and egg, network effects and first mover advantage. There's perhaps a case for being absolutely ruthless and just spending an obscene amount of money on Manchester/Leeds/Liverpool. What might it look like?

-No third runway for heathrow, instead BHX gets 2 more runways (or MAN 1 more) and all the funding it needs to become an international hub, including an reduction in APD for 5 years or something. Central London in ~48Mins via HS2 is already committed and being built, frankly that's not that much different to what it practically takes to get from a random heathrow terminal to central.

-HS2 to Manchester AND Leeds (via the branch just above BHX), that would connect BHX to those cities in <30 Mins or so and to London much quicker.

-Trams for Leeds, maybe a metro for Manchester.

-Liverpool>Manchester>Leeds express line (which seems committed).

-Enterprise zone covering all underdeveloped commercial areas in Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham. Give rates, or tax relief on businesses investing, or employing in the zone, planning exemptions, easier permitting.

Anything short of an absolutely insane bet like this, just isn't going to work. Chucking 1Bn to Leeds for them to buy some trams just isn't going to have a transformative effect, it might actually be a total waste because, in short, network effects.

The North of England frequently runs a combined fiscal deficit in the tens of billions, with all of that subsidy coming, effectively, from London and the SE.
The Wikipedia page links to this [0] article as a source, where the table states an estimated 9 billion “ever lived” at the 8000 BCE mark, and 55 billion at the 1 CE mark. The end of prehistory isn’t too well defined, but it’s usually taken to be around 5000 BCE (if not later). So while it’s not very precise of course, from those estimates it certainly looks like more humans lived in prehistory than now, by a few billion at least.

Given that the world population is predicted to peak at about 10.5 billion roughly 60 years from now, it also looks like this won’t change anytime soon.

[0] https://www.prb.org/articles/how-many-people-have-ever-lived...
Like this software? Not that I've seen, but there devices that offer that functionality.

VoIP GSM gateways, sometimes with basic PBX functions, are absolutely a thing. Yealink do some (that I've not used) that act as a SIP registrar, you can basically log SIP clients straight into it.

And there are more heavy duty options that take 16+ SIM cards that are basically a rack-mountable mobile call centre.
I don't know if anything's actually changed here, but the issues discussing that and mentioning GPL are gone. Not "closed, fixed", but deleted instead. The author was claiming they delay the source release to prevent other projects from copying them, but argued with anyone raising the issue of that not being GPL compliant. It does not smell good.

The code currently says it's 0.10.4 (repo is for "community edition"), but the website changelog says 1.9.2.
The concept art version is this one https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview
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KGB Spy's Confession Reveals Cambridge Ring's Secrets
So one person can send 10 hearts + some rate limit? Feels like if this took off it would be like a cookie clicker.
I lived there
Making an SNES Game the Way Nintendo Intended [video]
A 99.9% successful defense system is unlikely. CWIS is nowhere near that good.
Overwhelming a defense with an attack from multiple directions has worked.
Read up on the sinking of the Moskva[1] and Russia's current efforts at drone defense.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Moskva

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/vikrammittal/2025/01/24/russia-...
None of what you are writing jibes with the current state of the industry.

I’ve been doing this since the mid 90s professionally and the mid 80s as a hobbyist.

Can you come up with some real world examples?
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A natural progression and not necessarily a bad thing, but it makes further productivity growth more difficult.
Since you're downvote, this not be a popular view.

It is the nature of bureaucracies to bloat, public or private, changing their aim from why they were originally created to self-propagation.

_Systemantics_ (aka _The Systems Bible_) is a great read on the topic, surpassing even Parkinson's essays (and as easy to read)

https://www.amazon.com/Systems-Bible-Beginners-Guide-Large/d...

https://www.amazon.com/Parkinsons-Law-C-Northcote-Parkinson-...
>so you save a TON of money there

Yes, that is a fair speculation, but it is not really true: everyone can save a lot, not just me. I rent out this knowledge to my customers, so they can save tons as well.

You can test this out by actually renting a M4 Mac mini server for 3 Euro with me, still cheaper than most hosters who rent you a fraction of a server (VPS) at (for example) nearlyfreespeech.net or fly.io because with me you get a full-blown server with traffic and energy cost.

My customers are companies who want to move off the cloud to self-hosting. They pay my labour and save tens of thousands per year on their hyperscaler(like AWS) and datacenter bills.

The expert knowledge comes from 40 years of planning, simulating, building and operating several datacenters, servers and websites over decades and delaying hundreds of kilometers of optical fiber.

Every time my self-host solutions have proven to be cheaper than hyperscalers or datacenters (data available on request. As you see clearly, labour cost dominate so the trick is to eliminate labour costs almost entirely while still have enough redundant low power servers in the cheapest locations.

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I guess this is part of the reason for C++ having zero-cost abstractions.
You're not totally wrong about the 51% thing (although it's really 50% + 1 vote), but it's not like that is a panacea that keeps out corporate interests. Leverkusen and Wolfsberg are owned by Bayer and Volkswagen respectively (although I understand there's historical reasons for that) and Leipzig is 99% owned by Red Bull, but they only have 50% - 1 voting rights to comply.
Bluesky talks ATProto, which is a different protocol than ActivityPub used by Pixelfed.

Pixelfed federates with anything speaking AP in "the Fediverse", though, like Mastodon, Lemmy, PeerTube so you can follow people across all those (https://fediverse.party)
Such an arms race probably won't end up anywhere good. Thus my sig: "The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity."

LLMs are tools of abundance. Scammers (and apparently even anti-scammers as here) are using these tools from a perspective of scarcity. Rather than help build more wealth for everyone, they burn wealth through competition. Consider instead as just one alternative if, say, the anti-scammer LLM helped the scammer figure out how to get more meaningful work? Maybe that specific alternative won't be effective (dunno), but the alternative at least points in a healthier compassionate direction.

For more on this, see my essay from 2010:
https://pdfernhout.net/recognizing-irony-is-a-key-to-transce...
"There is a fundamental mismatch between 21st century reality and 20th century security [and economic] thinking. Those "security" [and "economic"] agencies are using those tools of abundance, cooperation, and sharing mainly from a mindset of scarcity, competition, and secrecy. Given the power of 21st century technology as an amplifier (including as weapons of mass destruction), a scarcity-based approach to using such technology ultimately is just making us all insecure. Such powerful technologies of abundance, designed, organized, and used from a mindset of scarcity could well ironically doom us all whether through military robots, nukes, plagues, propaganda, or whatever else... Or alternatively, as Bucky Fuller and others have suggested, we could use such technologies to build a world that is abundant and secure for all. ... The big problem is that all these new war machines and the surrounding infrastructure [and economic] are created with the tools of abundance. The irony is that these tools of abundance are being wielded by people still obsessed with fighting over scarcity. So, the scarcity-based political mindset driving the military [and economic] uses the technologies of abundance to create artificial scarcity. That is a tremendously deep irony that remains so far unappreciated by the mainstream."
Subtitle: A former USDS employee called the repurposing of the Digital Service into DOGE an “A+ bureaucratic jiujitsu move.” It will give Musk and his associates access to unclassified data in every government agency.

Later it says:

The Service’s mandate allows it the wide-ranging ability to enter any government agency and access its software or technical systems with the goal of helping to streamline or reform existing systems.

That doesn't necessarily mean you can access data, though the first quote says they can.