skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right but I think the take away here is that isn't that we can't predict where new technology is going, it's more about how profitability effects how the technology is implemented (where it's most profitable).

The most obvious profit is replacing moderators, but that's not really making money just saving on infra. Targeted advertising is also a low hanging fruit but people are resistant to advertising and block it.

Astroturfing, community organization and similar domains is where it really shines. And I think it's being hidden well. People see obvious, non-contributing Ai slop but they don't anticipate that most of their online interactions are with bots or that the entire belief structure is algorithmically determined and enforced.
>That was before anyone in the news was saying that.

May be in the west? It was certainly well publicised in other regions.
> Moreover, Nordstream has never been called "hybrid warfare".

https://theconversation.com/hybrid-warfare-nord-stream-attac...

https://www.offshore-energy.biz/hybrid-warfare-paints-gray-z...

https://www.nato.int/docu/review/articles/2024/04/26/russias...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/28/nord-stream-bl...

https://energynews.pro/en/sabotage-of-the-nord-stream-gas-pi...

are we just making stuff up now?
Reducing the ability for protestors to coordinate on the streets.
I think that if we can't define a category like that then the next century is going to be pretty awful in a lot of ways. If "public" automatically means "accessible instantly from anywhere in the world and irreparably archived forever", then we're either going to have to have a lot of stuff pulled from the public space or we're going to have a lot of lives ruined by all kinds of "public" stuff.
Using pynput (https://pypi.org/project/pynput/), it listens for the option key being pressed twice, which triggers the opening of a floating window.

This serves as a signal that the user wants to process the highlighted text, prompting the floating window to open.

Once the floating window appears, the already-typed text in the focused application is captured and processed.
Thanks, I think you're right.
You're reading the post of the OP uncharitably (which is against the rules) and are deliberately misinterpreting their words into ridiculous extremes.

Please unlearn that.
Guy thought the open in OpenAI means open source
And, as noted in the article, that's an instruction which only works on two desktop CPU architectures (Tiger Lake and Zen 5), including one where it's arguably slower than not using it (Tiger Lake).

Meaning... this entire effort was for something that's faster on only a single kind of CPU (Zen 5).

This article is honestly one of the best I've read in a long time. It's esoteric and the result is 99.5% pointless objectively, but in reality it's incredibly useful and a wonderful guide to low-level x86 optimization end to end. The sections on cache alignment and uiCA + analysis notes are a perfect illustration of "how it's done."
Well, I just tried this, and I didn't see any censorship?
Are we really pretending multi-monitor on X is not an absolutely shit show? Try mixed DPI and VRR in one of the monitors and see how you get that working well.
The AI hardware race is still going strong, but with so many rapid changes to the fundamental architectures, it doesn't make sense to bet everything on specialized hardware just yet.. It's happening, but it's expensive and slow.

There's just not enough capacity to build memory fast enough right now. Everyone needs the biggest and fastest modules they can get, since it directly impacts the performance of the models.

There's still a lot of happening to improve memory, like the latest Titans paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.00663

So I think until a breakthrough happens or the fabs catch up, it'll be this painful race to build more datacenters.
I actually liked the stronger pin stripes on Jaguar
>the driver chooses to be available, but within that availability window, Uber can arbitrarily define them as unavailable

This is basically the result of new york's legislation. In jurisdictions without such legislation, uber doesn't cap the amount of drivers that can be online. Moreover "availability" in this context is entirely arbitrary. The amount of fares available is still the same. The only difference is that uber caps the amount of people that can be online because new york puts them on the hook if anyone is "available" but doesn't make minimum wage. This was never the case for regular cabbies, but for whatever reason decided to apply this to ride hailing apps only.

>Contractors don't just hang around your job site because you tell them you don't have work for them now but "stick around 5 minutes or 2 hours, we might have some then".

Right, because the labor required to build a house isn't spiky like the demand for drivers.
Very interesting, I love to see a bit of ingenuity. Cheers!
He’s clearly paid off someone to not be arrested
Just not as natively, quickly, or ergonomically.
I don’t think bitcoin is a deliberate Ponzi scheme, but it does have Ponzi scheme-like elements, in particular the absolute dependence on a greater fool to take it off your hands, with value _purely_ being based on what other people imagine it to be worth (ie not backed by any intrinsic value). Gold, yeah, isn’t a million miles away from this, either (as I mentioned previously, historically it is a _bad_ investment) though it does have the benefit of a few millennia of cultural cachet, increasing the chances that there’ll be a greater fool along soon.

Oil and real estate are totally different, though investment in oil in particular _is_ rather speculative; you’re betting on future real demand, but that demand is at least, like, _real_; there are obligate buyers of oil, almost no matter how high the price goes. Real estate, as I previously mentioned, produces value in terms of either rent or not having to pay rent.
I guess it depends; see the recent case where apparently some old French lady was scammed out of hundreds of thousands of euro that she thought were being sent to Brad Pitt.
Government non-intervention doesn't typically lead to monopolies. What monopoly are you referring to?
Will states lead the way on AI regulation?
> expense increases due to consultation / public demand have come from demands made on the route between London and Birmingham.

I'm pointing out the problems in the whole country outside London, not just the north. So this includes the demand for 100km of unnecessary tunnels. Tunnels that the create higher risk and uncertainty.
I did this in Emacs, created a function that will search a keyword on various sites. :) M-x omnisearch keyword<RET> And it logs all of my searches in an org file. Pretty useful logfile after a while.

So yes, I can see the value of such a tool :)
Better off doing it in the application? Bro im not pulling that much data to do a top N query
I can definitely see this perspective. I'm a bit torn myself on the public event section. The second consideration is, yes they are filming, but just because someone is filming it's not necessarily a useful picture (blurry, low res, bad angle, obstructions, etc). Your picture might be useful especially since you may be closer to the action.
Perhaps it is ‘undocumented’ and is used as proof of someone copying the source code some portion of the source code.

Another possibility is that is a special institution in the chip specifically for Apple that again was used as a copy write detection or protection scheme.
Agreed, was going to mention the same thing.
That is unacceptable. You’re describing a black box that cannot be examined, understood or held accountable; you’re assuming it’s programming is absolutely objective, which it wouldn’t be even if all responsible parties had the best intentions. That throws us back into times of worshipping an infallible god at the temple.
Law, democracy ultimately, must be made by the people for the people, or it becomes a tool in the hands of the rich and powerful agains the majority. This is the same reason elections must be held using paper, so every single citizen can understand and participate in the election process. The second you bring voting machines into the equation, you’ve created a technocracy, leaving the unknowing out and depend on those in control of the machines.
Do they cover anything Sapphire Rapids Xeon's don't? I thought they share the same arch (Golden Cove).
That’s not really accurate, both historically and presently. I highly doubt it's true even in a place as progressive as the Netherlands.

An obvious one is that many fraud victims are often shamed for "falling for it."
Trade is a positive sum gain and Bitcoin makes it easier.
Can you post some videos from people who posted on social media reporting that people are dying in the US before Chinese people did it?
This is a really great idea in theory. Do you have a proposal for how to get there without stepping over tens of thousands of broken lives? How do you go about educating an entire population that's accustomed to thinking that arrest=guilt that this isn't true, especially when their news sources continue to report as though the arrest is the only really interesting part of the criminal justice system?
And if those risks are too great due to state over-reach, best stay at home.
This is some kind of mental gymnastics right there, I showed you poverty is rising and we're supposed to take it as meaning the people are richer for it?

Show me a single example of a country drastically slashing public spending and its citizens living better afterwards.
Is a picture of gold jewelry (NFT) worth the same as jewelry?
> I wish not every Prolog discussion had a top comment about Mercury, Curry, Minikanren, et al

Absolutely. Datalog too.

> but I think you missed the end of my comment where I recommended SWI over Scryer for most people

I did not miss that. I have no complaints about that part of your comment. I complained about the prologue to it, which I thought was beside the point and devalued the whole thing.

> but then I'm not aware of anyone using Prolog for anything, anywhere.

Fortunately, other Triska fans have got you covered with the standard talking points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42829782 ;-)
> I just tried to use Excel for the first time in ages … I edit the cell and hit enter without changing anything. That cell updates, the other 299 don't. What? What?!

You sure that wasn’t an operator error? Sounds like a pretty basic feature to not have working.
Walgreens and Storenet
Protecting the 2A doesn't have to come at the expense of the 1A. The real problem is the license criterion that presumes guilt, not the accurate reporting of the arrest.
A better (fairer?) answer would probably be a figure in-between the 2 amounts quoted.
So maybe a much lesser $$ amount , charge for installations where software was installed but not used. The $154K amount is the (discounted) loss for all the PCs where software was actually used. ( In my mind raises very interesting questions where other similar electronic goods, books , moves are copied but never looked at )
GitHub Actions is surprisingly case-insensitive
Never got to the bottom of it. TV was set to game mode, I tried various scaler settings on the deck itself, couldn't get it below about 90-100ms. I've tried on two TVs.

You can learn to play Space Channel 5 by tapping 100ms ahead of the beat. But I worried that if I succeeded too much, I'd end up doing everything that way: jumping red lights, taking espresso shots while they were still being poured etc.
> That also means that 2nd easiest to acquire PADI qualification is enough to dive there by yourself.

How? Open water diver is 18m, advanced Open water diver is 30m. With „deep diver“ specialty, you’re at 40m.

I think you need to become an instructor to go deeper, that’s not the 2nd easiest qualification at all.
What kind of a comment or question is that? Do you have a point? I'm arguing this dude shouldn't be suing a reporter for reporting facts, you are willfully ignoring the fact that wealthy CEO-types often use money and high-powered lawyers to hide their misdeeds, who knows if this was the case here, and I am not saying it was, but how is this defamation? The guy was arrested for domestic violence, the statement by the officer states the woman was injured, what am I doing wrong here by repeating these same facts I just read in an article? Your comment is useless as-is, it's just appeal to authority.
I'm also from NI, our school officially used year 8 to year 14, but everyone knew both ways around and just switched between them.

Edit: I should clarify I'm currently in uni so this was fairly recent.
i’ve seen so many people make this misunderstanding, huggingface clearly differentiates the model, and from the cli that isn’t visible
> costs a dollar or so to deliver landed to a store costs me $8 to buy.

Delivery optimization, logistics, and last mile operations are an unfathomably difficult problem(s) to solve, so much so that the entire world participates and there are still enormous gaps in efficiency, many that likely will never be solved due to physics.

I know you're plain wrong about it costing "a dollar" to deliver. Even if it did, you do not pay for just the operational cost, you pay for the convenience, expertise, reliability, or many other factors that comes with procuring a contract/agreement.
Those only require you to understand them because you’re working directly on top of them. If you were writing a filesystem driver you would absolutely need to know those details. If you’re writing a database backend, you probably need to know a lot about the filesystem. If you’re writing an ORM, you need to know a lot about databases.

Some of these abstractions are leakier than others. Web development coordinates a lot of different technologies so often times you need to know about a wide variety of topics, and sometimes a layer below those. Part of it is that there’s a lot less specialization in our profession than in others, so we need lots of generalists.
Is that something a country is actually allowed to do? Isn’t that international water?
No rates are high excluding the wildfires which has a separate surcharge to finance.

But PGE having to provide power to wilderness areas in genera costs all PG&E customers to bear the cost and it’s a cost that Municipal power companies in CA don’t have and their rates an 1/2 or even more than PG&Es.
>but this is a forced change for the worse for so long

Can you explain who is forced to do what in that context?
> Why care whether something is AI slop or human slop? It’s not worth reading in either case.

That's not always true, and this is one of the fundamental points of human communication that all the people pushing for AI as a comms tool miss.

The act of human communication is highly dependent on the social relationships between humans. My neighbor might be incapable of producing any writing that isn't slop, but it's still worth reading and interpreting because it might convey some important beliefs that alter my relationship with my neighbor.

The problem is, if my neighbor doesn't write anything other than a one sentence prompt, doesn't critically examine the output before giving to me, it violates one of the basic purposes of human to human communication—it is effectively disingenuous communication. It flies in the face of those key assumptions of rational conversation outlined by Habermas.
I would argue that any given technology tends to improve on an S curve, so exponentially at first and then flattening out. See Moore’s law as a great example.

Or more on topic see the improvements in LLMs since they were invented. At first each release was an order of magnitude better than the last (see GPT 2 vs 3 vs 4), now they’re getting better but at a much slower rate.

Certainly feels like being at the top of an S curve to me, at least until an entirely new architecture is invented to supersede transformers.
Been on Render for a few months now. Its main value prop is clean UX for infra, which ended up mattering a lot more than I thought. AWS generally induces way more cognitive load than I care to give it (except for S3).

Congrats on the raise!
People are getting pretty...clever?...with long context retrieval benchmarking in papers.

Here, the prose says "nearly perfect", the graph is all green except for a little yellow section, and you have to parse a 96 cell table, having familiarity with several models and technical techniques to get the real # (84.4%, and that tops out at 128K, not anywhere near the claimed 1M)

I don't bring this up to denigrate, but rather to highlight that "nearly perfect" is quite far off still. Don't rely on long context for anything you build
Zombie mode: "Others are stuck in “zombie” mode — surviving but unable to grow. They can muddle along like that for years, investors said, but will most likely struggle to raise more money."

https://archive.is/HNJoo
"From Unicorns to Zombies: Tech Startups Run Out of Time and Money"

Discussed at HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38554608

(I also wondered what it was)
potato, potato, tomato, tomato
Recent and related:

Microsoft just renamed Office to Microsoft 365 Copilot on Windows for everyone - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42751726 - Jan 2025 (47 comments)

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I’ve read these arguments quite a few times and always found them a bit questionable. Sure, if everything is driven by the vblank time (or any other clock that counts in frames), it makes sense. But that’s a silly approach! There is nothing whatsoever special about allocating one full frame interval to the compositor to composite a frame — if it takes 16ms to composite reliably, it will take 16ms to composite reliably at 30Hz or 60Hz or 144Hz. So shouldn’t the system clock itself on a time basis, not a frame basis?

Put another way, a system fast enough to composite at 144Hz should be able to composite at 60Hz while only allocating 1/144 seconds to the compositor, which would require offsetting the presentation times as seen by the compositor’s clients by some fraction of a frame time, which doesn’t actually seem that bad.

It gets even better if variable refresh rate / frame timing works well, because then frames don’t drop even if some fraction of compositing operations are a bit too slow.

I assume I’m missing some reason why this isn’t done.
Burchett says he believes aliens have underwater bases on Earth
Windows has added several things with the newer WDDMs to help alleviate compositor problems: flip model, overlays, etc. They've definitely identified the problem areas and are trying to correct them. It's been quite the turnaround since Vista.
Do you really need to explain it? Why are other teams picking your tools?
> Why do devops keep piling abstractions on top of abstractions?

Mostly, because developers keep trying to replace sysadmins with higher levels of abstraction. Then when they realise that they require (some new word for) sysadmins still, they pile on more abstractions again and claim they don't need them.

The abstraction du-jour is not Kubernetes at the moment, it's FaaS. At some point managing those FaaS will require operators again and another abstraction on top of FaaS will exist, some kind of FaaS orchestrator, and the cycle will continue.
I encourage you to actually work on a twenty year old piece of technology. It’s easy to forget that modern computers are doing a lot more. Sure, there’s waste. But the expectations from software these days are exponentially greater than what we used to ship.
The point of the clip/episode is you should "brand" yourself as a "victim" (even though you're not) because it's in vogue and perceived as "cool." For leftist, it's virtuous to be a "victim", so people pretend they're being persecuted or victimized to gain clout.
> What if I wanted this system to expose authorization as an HTTP endpoint with REST semantics, and store authorization rules on disk? Would this be straightforward, involved, or impossible?

Straightforward. Prolog supports self-modifying code. You can mark the user_role predicate as "dynamic", i.e., modifiable. At runtime you can then read rules from disk or receive them via HTTP or construct them based on some other form of input, and add them to the code, or remove them as needed.

The HTTP part is not standardized; you would need to use libraries specific to some concrete implementation. But the libraries exist.
I like your post, I still prefer zones and jails over anything in the Linux ecosystem. Building and admining an on-prem k8s cluster has only enforced this opinion.
All of the author's complaints are correct, of course, but the question is simply whether the juice is worth the squeeze. For the most part, I think, it is.
The most evil pattern is when application developers force users to install Docker to use their applications.
Cool story but at least try to give some argumentation when you say stuff like:

>The design of the language in Dockerfile is ad hoc in a bad way. It’s difficult to understand, for me, and easy to make mistakes.

Because that reads like a skill issue to me
Calling suffering people "zombies" is kind of offensive; it seems pretty obvious that people who are too high to stand up or keep their eyes open pose less of a threat than people who are fully alert and in control of their faculties would.
You can do the same on Windows with the command `shutdown /r /t 0 /fw`.
You are trying to turn “the corporations are committing crimes” into “the peasants are starving”. I know that this is board of diverse backgrounds, but you have to be very out of touch for that hilarious reversal to be convincing.
In CA, in 2025, if you have PG&E it’s approx 55 cents/kwh at peak, non-peak rates are lower but the average ands up being close 50 cents. It’s close to the highest in the country.
> I prefer to use virtual machines. They’re slower to set up, and start up a little slower too [...]

LXD containers solved a lot of the problems inherit to virtual machines for me, though I don't like their reliance on global configs (something like Docker compose for LXD containers would be ideal).
Sysadmin, the old way.
> Do you have a proposal for how to get there without stepping over tens of thousands of broken lives?

An innocent unless proven guilty law. Employers, et cetera, may not conclude adversely from criminal charges absent a guilty plea or conviction.
If your only contribution to a field is a trivial mathematical observation you are in excellent company. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy%E2%80%93Weinberg_princ...
So it bubbled and crashed forty years ago. In the past 25 years it's had decent returns, and in particular:

2007: 31.59%, 2008: 3.41%, 2009: 27.63%, 2010: 27.74% [1]

Owning too much gold is terrible, but a modest allocation to gold in a portfolio of mostly stocks, which you rebalance every year or two, works out pretty well. [2]

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/1333/historical-gold-prices-100-...

[2] https://portfoliocharts.com/2021/12/16/three-secret-ingredie...
Obviously you're being sarcastic, but this is pretty much how things function in 2025.

Faith in the justice system is almost zero, and widespread skepticism of mass media means that “Internet Guy online with 0 firsthand knowledge” is often viewed as just as credible as major news outlets.

I don't have an answer, but it is a sad state of affairs that people aren't incorrect to embrace.
There is an important difference between someone claiming on TV they can do something and seeing the effects of people believing something for which there is objective and easily obtained evidence that contradicts that belief.
Honestly, the title should be "I don't like Docker because I don't know how to do certain things, so I prefer to do things the way I know better".