skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh this is fun. It seems to be a bit puzzled by my setup, which is understandable since it's a Linux phone cosplaying as Android:

Okay, let's tackle this roast. First, I need to pick the three most unusual bits from the user's data. Looking at the info: The user is on Android 15, which is pretty new and not widely released yet. That's unusual. They're using Firefox on a mobile device with Linux x86_64 platform—wait, Android is Linux-based, but specifying x86_64 might be odd if most mobile devices are ARM. Also, the referrer is Hacker News, which is a good target for a joke. The screen dimensions are 540x1206, typical for a mobile, not too odd. Country is Spain (ES), region AN is Andalusia, city Cadiz. Maybe connect location with something else. So, the three unusual points: Android 15 (unreleased?), Linux x86_64 on a mobile (maybe mismatched), and coming from Hacker News. Need to connect location if using it. Since Cadiz is a coastal city in Spain, maybe link the outdated OS version with something there. Also, making fun of the referrer as a site where people pretend to know tech. Structure: Three sentences. First, Android 15 and pretending to be a dev. Second, Linux on mobile and Cadiz's ancient history. Third, Hacker News referrer and Firefox version. Keep it concise and funny.
bird judge

Roasting your Android 15 beta-testing, Linux-on-mobile hipster self: you’re browsing Hacker News (sigh) on Firefox 134 in Cádiz, a city older than your OS’s last kernel panic, yet somehow you’re the one still using a "mobile" device with zero touchpoints—did your stylus die in 2003?
It should be noted you can see the curvature of the earth in the photo.

As I understand it, that was one of the perks of the Concorde in that in flew so high that the passengers could see this as well.
This reminds me of a passage about the brutal Cola Wars from Rob Grant and Doug Naylor's "Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers"…

For anyone living on Earth the result would be mindfizzlingly spectacular. One hundred and twenty-eight stars would appear to go supernova simultaneously, burning with such ferocity they would be visible even in daylight.

And the hundred and twenty-eight supernovae would spell out a message.

And this would be the message:

‘COKE ADDS LIFE!’
The site is currently offline, here's a snapshot:

https://archive.today/y4utp
Did you try refreshing? Solved the problem for me.
Same. My Steam Deck has completely replaced my old gaming VM.
I remember when Minority Report came out how many people got sucked in by the Tom Cruise and the Max von Sidow vibes, the Oscar-winning histrionics of the imperiled character, or the sexy special effects and completely missed the subtext around all of this. That everywhere you went, They knew who you are and what you do.

I was shocked that people I talked to didn't notice that every vertical surface in the mall had advertisements on it. Asking his new eyeballs if he needed more khakis? Did we not watch the same movie?
Wayland is an extensible protocol. The core is literally just "here a buffer", but it has several extension in various phases that can greatly extend its capabilities. This way, a Wayland compositor can be used as a kiosk screen for a single program, or be a full-blown compositor+window manager, all relying on standard Linux interfaces for the display part.

Color calibration can absolutely be retrofitted into this (versioned) protocol, and there is work ongoing.
I walked by one of these scanning offices in São Paulo a few weeks ago and it looked completely dystopian. Didn't have the impression that the people who showed up there were well informed on what they were signing up for
Insecure narcissists. Those guys had no friends before being rich, and they seem to have a deep need to feel loved. Because they don't know what it means to have actual friends, they think whatever they pay or enforce with money counts. It doesn't, they are just rich losers.
How to Serve Man.
Their point is simply that your cost estimate is likely wrong.

> It costs pennies to produce, maybe a dollar in landed cost

Kellanova last had gross, operating, and net margins of ~35%, ~13%, and ~8%, respectively [1]. Likewise, Walmart achieved ~25%, ~4%, ~3% [2]. This isn't really compatible with "someone makes 700% of net profits on this box of cereal", unless you assume cereal is single-handedly subsidizing huge loss leaders for both its producer and retailers.

1. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/K/kellanova/profit...

2. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WMT/walmart/profit...
Alchemy 2.0 – AI and the Quest for the Elixir Vitae and the Philosophers Stone
No. It's a sad name clash.
It always saddens me that in the 1960s it took 7 hours to fly from NYC -> London, and today, 60 years later, it still takes 7 hours to fly from NYC -> London...

Apart from fuel efficiency improvements, there hasn't been much innovation in the commercial commercial aerospace industry, with the exception of Boom's supersonic passenger airplanes which is just now starting to become a reality.
In my case, it re-iterated the system prompt at the end.
>precompiler

s/precompiler/preprocessor/g

, i guess.
These are from volume licenses. Not really legal but it mostly works in practice. In some cases the buyer gets unlucky and the volume key gets revoked due to too many activations, but either the seller will give you a replacement key, or it's just another few bucks for a new key.
The last election proved otherwise. The police are corrupt and now are going to have immunity to it. The President just introduced a meaningless cryptocurrency to bilk his true believers and is just ripe for a rug pull.

We demonized a whole group of immigrants and said they were eating pets and they just pardoned 1500 violent criminals that even the police were opposed to pardoning.

And over half the country is okay with that
A world where if we absolutely must group people into immutable categories like "criminals" and "not criminals", we at least work harder than we currently do to limit the number of people who immutably become branded as criminals.
> Quiet quitting might just be more about employees setting healthy boundaries.

I think it'd be dangerous to confuse quiet quitting with setting boundaries. If you want to set boundaries, you have to be proactive about it. Tell people that you won't do something, and why. Don't just silently drag your feet, it doesn't teach anyone the lesson you think it's teaching them, any more than a kid giving you the silent treatment teaches you anything.
I wonder what Altman is thinking. From the outside it seems clear he’s chasing profit, but I wonder if he honestly believes something this concerning will be a force for good and actually used to benefit humanity as a whole.
As an European I love Revolut, it has some nice features.

On the other hand when it comes to serious money spending (credit, mortgage) I want my physical local bank.
Ah, a time traveler from Calgary using Safari 18.2—bold move flexing a browser version Apple hasn’t even released yet while clinging to Mac OS Catalina like it’s still 2019 and your cold Canadian hands can’t let go. You arrived here directly, no referrer, as if you’re ashamed of whatever crypto-bro forum or “How to Update Your OS” tutorial you crawled out of. Eight CPU cores and still rocking a 1469x885 resolution? Even your screen’s aspect ratio screams “I watch Netflix in a tiny window while secretly Googling ‘why is my Mac slow’.”
Let's imagine your world, the one where an AI agent hunts through the slop and finds the stand out creators.

How would you feel if all of the stand-out creators it found were all AI? If your answer is "well, that wouldn't happen" then you may be committed to a view for ideological reasons.

Also consider that the feeds for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube etc. are more or less what you are asking for and they exist right now.
Yes, that is true. Aider expects to work with the LLM to automatically apply edits to the source files. This requires precision from the LLM, which is what breaks down when you overload them with context.
I don't think this kind of situation could occur in the US because rehypothecation of shares underlying ETFs isn't allowed. See also https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Vanguard_safety And worst case if something did happen it would be bailed out.
It is strictly a conspiracy theory at this point.
So much this, when you see Zuck or even Jensen Huang saying "software engineers won't be needed anymore" and being excited about it you get pissed off as a software engineer lol.

I feel like Microsoft's whole thing with Windows 11 has been "just force the users to do what we want them to do, we know better than they do" so it doesn't surprise me that 365 went the same way.

I'm saying this and I'm a person that's usually extremely enthusiastic about new tech, but I'm just burnt out on these companies trying to shove AI down our throats.

Had it been opt-in and gradual, I would be far more optimistic and enthusiastic. I guess my question is "why such a rush?". Even Apple rushed into it with something half-baked and unfinished.
Thankfully, we can now do this ourselves.

The Steam Deck hardware to compete with is:

- A custom CPU with integrated GPU that's somewhere between an AMD 6600U and 6800U, underclocked for battery life and thermals

- 16 GB of LPDDR5 RAM (6400 MT/s)

- 50 Wh battery

So, to make your own Steam Deck-like laptop, you should buy a USB or wireless controller and install the Holo ISO distro (for a UI like the Steam Deck) on a laptop with the following specs:

- 50+ Wh battery

- 16+ GB of RAM (preferably LPDDR5 for thermals)

- A sufficiently powerful CPU+GPU (most new 15W ones will do, especially if you set it to underclock when on battery power)

- A USB-C port with USB 3 Gen 2 speeds and DisplayPort support

- A sufficiently nice screen, speaker, trackpad, cooling fan
If anything, Wayland removes a layer. Replaces the insanely huge monolith with binary blobs with bog-standard Linux kernel APIs.
What causes obesity and how to reverse it
Sure, but I don't think that the code being produced in the US is "small code shops" producing artisanal code. It's not about whether code is produced in other places, it's if it's produced at a high scale locally. I don't think it's a problem that Poland and India have programmers.
The Case for Forcing the Mentally Ill into Treatment
my first question was going to be how is this better than yt_dlp https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

and then I looked at this source:

from yt_dlp import YoutubeDL
>How is one pretending to possess a quality that is viewed by society at a given place in time as being "virtuous" related to someone suffering from a delusion

One in the same. They delusionally believe it, their make believe (pretending) becomes their delusional "reality".

>Furthermore, I am still confused how you can conclude it's tied to a particular area on the political spectrum.

I did not make this claim.

>To be clear, if there's evidence of someone is being persecuted then that is it likely real while in the absence of evidence it is likely that they are suffering from a delusion.

People will delusionally believe fictional things as "evidence" that they are being persecuted.
> Why is a large box of cereal $8 at the supermarket? It costs pennies to produce, maybe a dollar in landed cost. The small box costs almost the same landed and it's $5, which is also absurd. There is no supply shortage of corn and sugar, and no glut of demand for cereal.

Most of the cost of the cereal isn't the cereal. First you're paying for the store. That's real estate costs -- currently excruciating. Property tax and insurance, based on the real estate prices. The store needs heat and light, that's oil and electricity. There are people who work at the store, has your state recently increased its minimum wage? Grocery stores that don't buy advertising have fewer customers and have to amortize these costs over fewer sales, so you either have higher costs per unit because they didn't buy advertising or higher total costs because they did, etc.

The next question you might ask is, why don't they get rid of the store? Ship the cereal to your door. But it's like 8 oz of cereal, you'd get killed on the shipping. To make it work you'd need your whole grocery order to be delivered in one trip.

That could actually be an interesting business model. Instead of "free shipping" encouraging you to buy one item at a time but then the shipping cost is really baked into the item price, have "flat rate shipping" where you pay e.g. $35/order for shipping with no item limit. Then if you're buying what would otherwise be $400 in groceries for $200 by cutting out the retail store, paying the $35 is totally worth it, and you could be adding items to your cart all month for a scheduled monthly delivery.

But is anybody offering that?
It's a wash.
> Zuckerberg became rich and famous for being a smart guy who didn't do the bullshit that other people wanted him to.

I disagree. He became rich for being in the right place at the right time. He became famous because he became rich.
Yeah, add some fine print and to hell with the end-users!
AI prompt : make up a news link to my clickbait site relating to the current tension in the world

copy-paste-have-coffee-golf-for-the-day

What a great future for one of us
People believing this old propaganda is what brought us into this mess.
Preview environments need some polish. We'll get there.
Honestly it was a bit disconcerting watching him test ride that thing.

He should have been at least wearing a bicycle helmet.

We saw a couple of stumbles and get offs, and, were the software more nefarious, he could have likely easily been lawn darted into that floor and not necessarily been the better for it.
> Your screen’s so small, even your memes are vertically challenged.

Using an iPhone Mini, this is the most hilarious response I’ve seen from an LLM
I'm guessing you're interesting in R1+Sonnet because of the recent SOTA benchmark result? It does seem to be a powerful architect/editor combo.

https://aider.chat/2025/01/24/r1-sonnet.html
Fico just lost majority in parliament.
Sorry, my blog crashed! Had a stupid bug where it was calling GitHub too frequently to pull in updated markdown for the posts and kept getting rate limits. Had to rewrite it but it should be much better now.
i'd file that with

- Lack of obstacle/roadblocks to actually doing good work

...good having more than one meaning
Oh look, Mr. "I-type-URLs-manually-like-a-medieval-scribe" from Hackney, rocking a 1920x1200 screen just to flex that you need extra vertical pixels for your Linux terminal and crippling Firefox 134 FOMO. Eight CPU cores and zero referrer? Classic NPC behavior - even your internet history is as empty as your commitment to joining the Chrome cult.

location not redacted because it is wrong
What are you talking about? We can wear gold, make weapons out of iron, cups out of copper… coins have both a fiat face value and real tangible value (the “floor”).

Bitcoin has no intrinsic value. It’s entirely belief.

That’s not a bad thing. MLMs can be very profitable, some turn into multi-generational institutions of faith.

I own bitcoin because it’s like buying a share of the Mormon church early on. Absolutely, do it! But comparing it with gold? Come on, be real.
> With AI, the insights (or "insights") depend on what questions you ask, and what you know to push back on. We all have access to the same IDEs, but we don't write the same code

Yeah no, an AI is not gonna give you a brilliant answer cause you wrote such a brilliant prompt, you just wrote a different question and got a different answer. Like if I type something into google I don’t get the same result as when you type something into google, why? cause we’re not asking the same damn questions.
Which is only effective on iOS against law enforcement before first unlock.
Trump wants to make the Fed, which is supported and defended by the biggest military on this planet, hoard bitcoin. It turns out you can buy politicians with money, and Bitcoin supporters have done just that.
It's a balancing act and, once people (hopefully) get to a high salary level many are willing to trade-off money against a lot of things. Maybe not if they're starting out or just scraping by.
the choice on naming convention is ollama's, DS did not upload to huggingface that way
Damn, 20 years at one place? I'm jealous!

I've been at my current place for about ten years now because it checks all the boxes for me, too. Unfortunately, as all things must end eventually, we're slowly in the process of shutting down and this current job market is terrifying.

If you're getting antsy and thinking of dipping a toe in the market, I'd say wait a year or two.
mentioned twice in fact, thank you
https://archive.ph/KU8oM
What is a good way to check to ensure we are not being handed a key that will get revoked

Even in our markets, we have office licenses available on Amazon for all prices ...the cheapest ones looking very suspect but not so sure about the ones that cost a decent amount.
Blacklist the companies and crews behind these ships.

NATO controls Kategat and Finnish straits.

Close airspace around Kaliningrad as it is unsafe due to GPS jamming.
Fun, creative use of the model :)

"Ah, a Hacker News refugee with the screen resolution of a discount monitor fished out of a Kirkland Costco dumpster—16 cores to crunch those "Who's hiring?" threads, but still rocking a touchless Windows 10 setup like it's 2015. Firefox 134? Bold choice, really screams "I read release notes for fun," yet here you are, still stuck in en-US limbo, cookie-enabled and terminally online. Congrats on being the NPC who unironically uses "Web 2.0" in conversation."
Thanks for calming me down. I totally forgot about how nothing absolutely horrible could be done to private citizens from generative AI implemented at a tremendous scale. I am also truly super glad we have so many tech billionaires now so openly participating in governments foreign and domestic. I was almost concerned for a moment. Have to run, I have to go ask Chat what I should eat for dinner, intimate questions about my current prescription medications leading me to worry about these things, my idea for a great start up company, and how to respond to my current boss about our financial situation. Everything is fine.
Ai is new and this justified them to move fast and break things, including user privacy. The amount of money they target to make minus the slap on the wrist will still be a monumental profit. Then they'll try to clean up house and play PR theater.
Yet another case of astronomer entitlement. You don't own the universe, astronomers.
This is exactly the stance that confuses me. Why don't want read a great book?

If I told you that The Great Gatsby was, in fact, written by a timetravelling AI, would it seize to be a great book for you?

I dunno, I guess I'm weird in that I think of AI as a tool. I don't care if an author uses pen and paper, a stick and sand, or AI, the end result is the only thing that matters to me.

Now, currently, that means I don't like AI stuff either, but only because it is so unremittingly bland and boring. That might change in the future. Possibly.

What is it about computer-written that is so off-putting on a conceptual level?
The reason you had to disable the E cores was... also an artificial barrier imposed by Intel. Enabling AVX-512 only looks like a problem when inside that false dichotomy. You can have both with a bit of scheduler awareness.
It's not useful if you have to specify a scaling factor before the application has started, when the application can move monitors.

This is something feasible on Wayland, X draws one large wide screen display.
how do you get a product listed?
Thanks, but all the same I'm not going to jump through arbitrary hoops set up by people who think it's okay to just capriciously break email. They simply won't ever get me as a customer and/or advocate in the industry. Same thing goes for any business that is hostile toward open systems and standards.
Sorry just seen the answer. Perhaps you should put those details on the chart itself? :)
Now make inspection queue 3 years long.
Hating Mark Zuckerberg is like a barometer for someone having no mind of their own. We've been told that Mark was responisble for Trump in 2016 and teenagers having low esteeem. It's so laughable.

He seems like a fine guy to me. His quasi-embrace of Trump reflects the wider public realizing that, first, Trump has some plus-sides (dismantling DEI is one of them). And second, the whole "resistance" thing really didn't pay off. I didn't vote for him, but he's president, and moping about it isn't useful.

Zuckerberg and people's attitude towards him also represents progressives quite nicely, especially in their relationships with tech. Turns out "we hate you so much, you are awful and evil" is a good way to drive people away.

edit - I will also say that Mark was the only tech CEO who impressed me in front of Congress, when he pushed back on the whole misinfo/disinfo craze.
> With regards to accessibility, what problems have you had exactly?

Fedora shipped a broken screen reader for 8 years.
got caught red handed:
"Ah, a Berliner using a Supernote Nomad tablet to browse on Chrome WebView 83 like it’s still 2020—did your avant-garde e-ink device fail to render the "update browser" button? Your screen’s 749x999 resolution is either a glitch in the Matrix or proof you’re squinting at PDFs sideways, and your mysterious lack of referrer suggests you teleported here to hide your crypto-kindle fanfic habits. Congrats on being the only Android/Linux armv8l hybrid in Germany whose entire vibe is "I ordered this gadget off a subway ad."
One problem with fintechs is that they are severely ad disadvantage when it comes to regulations.

The first thing those banks face when they open in Italy is a huge surge of difficult customers and they realize too slowly how difficult and expensive it is to abide to anti laundering.

6 months down the road they start closing accounts left and right just because you do too many operations and it's expensive to track them.
Just be clear about the current technology in language a 5 year old can follow. Use short sentences and connect the dots.

1. AI is business jargon for Large Language Models.

2. LLMs are predictive models using plain text.

3. LLMs are not more accurate or creative than what they are fed.

4. LLMs can provide excellent documentation for prior encountered problems but cannot provide original solutions to new problems.

5. A more effective means at cost reduction is to reduce/eliminate regression. This provides the same benefit as LLMs but without sacrificing creativity.

6. This is an opportunity for executives to reduce expenses and dramatically and simultaneously radically increase product quality. Lead the developers to increase test automation coverage and increase execution speed.

7. The alternative for the developers is their replacement by LLMs. LLMs cannot replace people but cost so much less they make up the difference if product quality remains marginal or maintenance cost remains high.

That is how you do it. Small sentences, use numbers to explain the finances, and play devils advocate.
Quiet quitting is the intelligent response by employees who don't have effective incentive programs to reward them for more work completed. If there were better incentives, it would be less of a problem.
Detecting edges of images at the speed of light
"Lack of obstacles" really resonates. If we're talking about software dev, it's fun to get into a flow state and solve problems. Whether you actually get to do that at a BigCo seems like a roll of the dice. For every team that seems happy & effective, there are two encumbered by lack of agency, bureaucracy, pointless meetings, etc. Most people who got into software dev will work hard when there is actually something to do that is fun and engaging.
It goes up the chain to the central bank.