skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You say that but I don’t think it’s entirely fair. The tech industry is often living in an entirely different world. Hearing SWEs in places like SF and Seattle who are personally bothered and upset because homeless people have the gall to exist and they have to see them makes me want to scream.

Also SWE often just have the worst attitudes and egos to rival surgeons who think they’re gods. Real talk: a lot of them are working on shit that doesn’t matter to anyone and is a solution looking for a problem. SWE are very often not producing anything of value to anyone. The entire startup industry is predicated on the hope that you’ll exist long enough to get a giant payday from the big boys.

The person who fixes your toilet did real work with a tangible benefit. The person who takes care of your grandmother by cooking/bathing/shopping for her is doing real work that has a tangible benefit. They don’t get paid anything comparable to a SWE who is making Uber for dogs or the 15th messaging system that Google will shut down after a year.

Maybe SWEs are overvalued for their output compared to other people.
Yet they don’t so clearly its not so easy. Who do you sell your potatos to? Mcdonalds? They probably have a contract already. Where do you even get your inputs, some farm that happens to not have a potato buyer lined up already? Where do you get your machinery for the process, from the toolmaker owned by the competitor perhaps that won’t sell you the state of the art?

Business concepts are easy. Actually doing business is hard no matter what it is. Especially when for one reason or another, 97% of the market is controlled by the potato cartel. Chances are you will find a Great Filter somewhere that ensures this cartels market share is maintained.
Libreoffice is way better than Pages.
I don’t believe the author of that blog cranks out articles like this sometimes twice a day. They write faster than I can give a thought to their thoughts.
Things are different when "mission-critical" is the highest priority.

Before PC's really got popular, I went out to a petroleum pipeline installation one time where they were just unboxing one of these Tandem rigs.

They were going to use it to further automate, control, and account for transfers like some of the other oil companies were doing with their mainframes. As part of an expected technology advance at the time.

Here it was not just a CRT terminal and a printer, but the whole thing right there in a fairly hazardous location in the blockhouse office where contractors would do their hand calculations.

I was there to take readings on the mechanical totalizers, especially on the piping section we had independently calibrated, and bring samples back to the lab for precision viscosity and density determination to more decimal places than available elsewhere. Along with all kinds of other routine and research parameters.

Turns out I was the pioneer in digital densitometry among the multinational contractors. That's another story altogether but within a decade they all had it and I was in more demand after the niche had grown than it was when I owned the niche. People still never want me to stop.

Anyway, I had a pretty good handle on floating-point error and was doing my part to reign it in with improvements in physical measurement.

It didn't take long to realize that my Atari would be basically capable of handling all of the things they were going to use the Tandem for.

The shortcomings would be the redundancy/reliability and Atari just couldn't count that high :)

When you're moving large numbers of barrels the numbers go through the roof when you convert to liters or even worse, some currencies.

If the figures didn't agree very well with manual calculation using 16-digit calculators, some big shot may very well hit the roof.

I would have had to hook two Ataris together and try to get more precision somehow at the same time as try some redundant reliability. Never did.

Although within a couple years I did hook up two TRS-80s together and they were quite adversarial . . .
would love to see this test repeated with a non-compositing WM on X11
That's possible, but unlikely given conventions in embedded development and how something like this interface would generally need to work.

More likely (but not necessarily), Nordic's early example was either bugged or conditionally valid (benefiting from other implicit details of their implementation) and then was revised either because the mistake was identified or something else about the example change.

That's all pretty common in this domain. Inadvertently stumbling because you uncritically followed some vendor example is also pretty common and completely understandable. Better tools, like using a language with richer semantics, are indeed something that can help with that.
I'm skeptical that the intentions of the Wells Fargo executives were pure and white as the driven snow.

The incentives align to encourage executives to commit crimes in service of short-term gains — even in the extreme case of Wells Fargo, Carrie Tolstedt and John Stumpf have both avoided prison time and ended up money ahead to the tune of tens of millions of dollars, even after clawbacks and fines.

Not only shouldn't intent matter, we should assume the worst. Whether assuming the worst is a workable enforcement regime, I don't know — but it most accurately models a reality where the most rational behavior for executives is indifference to the law.
A single threaded SIMD loop over densely packed data, will outperform the same transformation on a linked list running on 50 threads (this obviously an over generalization and there are transformations and data layouts where this doesn’t hold, but it’s very common. You could also construct cache line aware hybrid data structures, but there are trade-offs).

The only reason you’d need to deal with increasing parallelism (beyond SIMD) is if you wanted it even faster than that.

I’m not saying immutable data isn’t a good idea in many cases (my primary day job language these days is Elixir). What I am saying is that if you are “optimizing for raw speed” immutable data structures are almost never the right choice.

That doesn’t mean immutable data structures can’t be fast enough to be the best choice in many situations.
Inflation is down and the economy is doing better, but what's the point when poverty rates just skyrocketed to over 50% of the population [1]? Will it "trickle down", like it never did anywhere?

Moreover, cutting public services as aggressively as Milei did is bound to hurt the economy in the long term, with less access to education, healthcare, worsening public transit... All things companies rely on the state to provide their employees.

If you need proof of the dangers of austerity, take a look at the UK. They reduced spending, but are they really better off?

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceqn751x19no
so impressive the work that went into this.

TIL that markdown-like audio file formats existed more than 20 years ago!
I tried to use GNOME for about 8 months but there was just too many WTF moments (one caused by Ubuntu's own dock extension). There's plenty to love about GNOME but missing features, bugs, and design/usability issues makes it feel like beta quality software.

A few months ago, someone wrote a blog post[1] cataloguing many of these issues. One thing not mentioned was the lack of a caps/num lock on-screen indicator, this is a feature that is present in GNOME 2, MATE, XFCE, Cinnamon, KDE, and Windows 7/8/10/11 out of the box and toggleable in their settings window. The only way to gain this functionality in GNOME is through a third-party extension. Many laptops continue to be manufactured without a caps/num lock indicator on their keyboard, it's insane this isn't a supported feature in GNOME.

I don't get the feeling that GNOME team has ever implemented accessibility research in their design choices. For those with disabilities, GNOME is unnecessarily difficult to use [2][3].

[1]: https://woltman.com/gnome-bad/

[2]: https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/s3vvot/state_of_acce...

[3]: https://lobste.rs/s/3bdlpn/thread_on_deterioration_accessibi...
This is weird. When you say “query builder” I’m thinking of something associated with an ORM so it already knows the table specifics and you don’t have to initialize it with “SELECT * FROM table”.
WSL is a big improvement over the MinGW era
> Anthropic have hit their maximum capacity

Yeah. They won't reset my API limit until February even though I have 50 dollars in funds that they can take from me. It looks like I may need to look at using Amazon instead.
China's AI Earthquake: How DeepSeek's Surprise Model R1 Shook Silicon Valley
How does Precursor suit you? It's an open core CPU implemented on fpga, no modem included tho (feature not a bug etc), not android but from the ground up rust os "xous"

https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor

https://xous.dev/
As I type this, I'm playing "the finals" on Linux via Proton on Wayland. I won't pretend I'm any kind of competitive gamer type, but it's perfectly fine and I don't feel like I'm being held back by input lag. So this is very much a niche issue to have.
Not expecting prices to be flat.

But the cost of raw materials did not rise 50% to 100%, neither did wages. Residential rents jumped, but commercial rents -- which is what would affect cost of business -- did not.

So there's not really any way to explain this other than companies along the chain realizing that the prices are sticking (meaning customers are still buying) so there's no reason to go back. But the reason that the customers are still buying is because in many cases, as the article brings out, there is serious consolidation of the market which means that there's not enough competition to push prices back down.

> If companies like trek were making appreciable more profit margin today than 7 years ago, it should be apparent in their quarterly reports no?

Trek is private so we can't know. But in the original article the author cites examples of companies with a monopolistic position increasing profits. Also, it may not be the consumer-facing company -- Trek -- that is taking the bulk of those profits, but a supplier with a hold on the market (i.e., Shimano-SRAM duopoly) that is.
>To avoid having to pay any difference to make up the hourly wage to drivers, Uber runs an algorithm which kicks drivers out of the app randomly if demand gets too low, without warning or indication of when they can get back in. It can be minutes or hours. So the drivers remain on the road, driving/idling, waiting to get back into the app. The "work" is still getting done, but it doesn't count against Uber.

I get legislators want uber drivers to earn a living wage, but expecting uber to continue allowing unlimited amount of drivers to be "online", when they have to pay for them is absurd.

>Imagine a small restaurant doing similar, deciding at random slow times instead of sending staff home for the day, they assign them no tables and mark them as off-the-clock. When demand picks up again, they get assigned some tables and resume making money.

You're trying to imply small businesses don't do this but this happens all the time. It's not even limited to minimum wage laws. After the ACA was passed, everyone started avoiding hiring people for more than 32 hours if they could, to skirt the "you have to provide healthcare to all full time employees" requirement.
Wage theft, like any other kind of theft, is a self-incentivizing crime. I agree people shouldn't be allowed to turn a blind eye to systematic lawbreaking, but no system of incentives can erase the fundamental accounting identity that a business unit will have more money if they pay workers less than promised.
He doesn't, that's the fun part.
I tried to understand Deepseek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCqqCLlsIBU

but it seems to me a set of methods for data augmentation, I can't see why it's cheaper than OpenAIs?
Usually, protests are located in one somewhat easily defined area, until you cannot be there anymore or the goal has moved somewhere else. So then you need to get to another spot, this is the moment you disconnect your battery until you've arrived at the other place.

So yeah, they'd be able to say that "person A was at location B and later C", but not necessarily the way there or after/before those specific locations.

I agree that the safest is to assume they can definitely track you no matter what protocol/antenna you use, so you have to chose what moment it's OK to be tracked (like large groups).
I must’ve hit the random button 10 times and haven’t seen any bird related mysteries
Financial Advice on Social Media Is Growing. And Risky
How much copper is needed to electrify the US car industry?

-The mining industry is slow and long-term oriented, and can't keep up with the increasing demand for copper.

-It would take more than twice as much copper to electrify the US as has been mined in all of human history up to 2018

-It would take decades to build new mines, and copper mining is expensive
It's because you need more tesla coils, brrzzing.

Jokes aside, after reading a few of the official tounament strategies, its where the magic disappeared for me - its so much weight towards rushing over the enemy that wins every time, it kinda lost its bliss.

Still, sometimes its fun to just play with some like-minded friends in a multiplayer game
Why this behavior emerges is an active area of research. What they did is use reinforcement learning, this blog post replicates those findings. The “recipe”
is detailed in the R1 paper.
Sure, there are always compromises that can be made and my point wasn't about insider trading specifically, it was that there are tradeoffs to consider. But let's take your example, how long is the blackout period and how long is the open period? I would contend that there is almost no open period short enough that a motivated insider couldn't trade on their non-public knowledge if they were "lucky" enough to have it during the open period, so you're kind of back at square one where you still need the SEC and DoJ to investigate and borderline cases will slip through the cracks. And for everyone else, they've lost some liquidity in case of personal emergency, etc. Again, this isn't to argue against blackout periods specifically, they might be good policy, just pointing out that law and law enforcement is not always easy.
> There was a proposed standard for this but its name escapes me for the moment.

XLink? It supports a feature known as extended links, which seems similar to what you're describing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XLink
> Depending how we count, there have been a dozen or so pandemics comparably novel or deadly to the 1977 flu in the last fifty years. Of those, at least one was research-origin. So are you really saying p ~ 1/12 is an "extraordinary claim"?

Yes, I think it is extraordinary to extrapolate one event in 1977 to a "once every fifty years" rate
The Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency
> Does that explain things for you?

Not the only one.
I really really struggle to understand how anyone can have a rational justification of that guy.
You can turn it off. Go to preferences -> Copilot and uncheck the Enable Copilot checkbox.
I think it's the death of essays and also of reading. Why read a book when AI can read it for you? Teachers I know have already seen this happening.
Goethe's "Sorcerer's Apprentice" – power over wisdom
Not that erosion of trust, an erosion of trust. Big difference.

But yes, an erosion of trust was already there, just like there was never perfect trust, and like even in the worst hellscape humans can physically maintain "there will always be some trust left, somewhere". All that is true, but also doesn't say much.

Erosion of trust is also not something that just happens or "is here now", it's a description of a living process after all, between humans and groups of them, and you can reverse it with honesty. Erosion and regrowing of trust happens all the time, you might say. It takes time, kinda like reversing erosion and planting things takes longer than erosion and cutting them down, but so what.
Sublime Text and VS Code both do the same thing. I can imagine that it takes a bit to get used to, assuming that you'd even want to, but I've found it to be very handy: At this point in time 6 unsaved text documents open in Sublime Text, covering a variety of subjects that I haven't quite finished working on, or that I just want to remember for later
DeepSeek is based on llama, right? that 3% is only the fine tuning money?
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putting DVDs in the mail was legal but when Netflix first started streaming they broke some laws.

Craigslist and ebay were "unregulated marketplaces".

You're absolutely correct that YouTube complied with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by implementing a takedown system for copyrighted content. However, YouTube's early operations still faced significant legal challenges and criticism because its platform enabled widespread copyright infringement on a massive scale. secondary liability. Viacom claimed that YouTube was aware of the widespread infringement and benefited from it, which they argued disqualified YouTube from DMCA safe harbor protections.
The memory test is missing some deprecated and non-conforming elements. The HTML spec doesn’t have a single comprehensive list either, so it can be a little tricky to define or name “all” of the elements.

For example, there are elements like nextid or isindex which don’t have element definitions but which appear in the parsing rules for legacy compatibility. These are necessary to avoid certain security issues, but the elements should not be used and in a sense don’t exist even though they are practically cemented into HTML forever.
The manufacturing of H2 from CH4 is one thing that really bothers me about the whole concept.

We have CH4 cars today, and an infrastructure in place. It should be expanded and tbh it's a great fuel. The leakages are a problem but I think much of them can be fixed.

I had a Honda Civic Gx, (natural gas) and it was comfortable and very convenient while in Los Angeles. Road trips and camping sometimes sucked so we just rented for those. But there are already "natural gas" highways because so many trucks use it.

Sadly I think it's era is over, oh well.
Exploration of what’s possible and what’s not, identifying whether the weaknesses can or cannot be addressed.

A bit like traditional autocomplete can help streamline familiarising oneself with various libraries, a clear step ahead when compared to just needing to dig through documentation as much.

Maybe there’s a class of code problems that LLMs can be decent at solving, given the ability to iterate, verify solutions and what works or doesn’t, perhaps with 10x more compute than is utilized in the typical chat mode of interaction though.
The First Perfect Computer
As an oldtimer, when Redhat 9 came out at the same time as Windows 2000, Windows 2000 was ridiculously far ahead. Many engineers switched back to Linux from Windows for a while.
The core issue is that many people are afraid to speak up or take action. We can see that things aren’t okay, yet we’re constantly told “everything is ok” and “this is normal”.

Depending on the topic, expressing concerns can result in being labeled as “racist,” “transphobic,” or “woke,” which discourages open and honest discussion.
I think a lot of this confidence that the sentence will "work itself out" has to do with being able to frame a general direction of the thought before you start, but not have the precise sentence. It takes advantage of the continual parallel processing humans perform in their brain. Confidence in a simple structure of what you expect to convey. When LLMs are able to generate this kind of dynamic structure from a separate logical/heuristic process + fill in the blanks efficiently, then I think we are getting close to AGI. That's a very Chomsky informed view of sentence structure and human communication, but I believe it is correct. Currently the future tokens are dependent on the probabilistic next token rather than having the outline of a structure determined from the start (sentence or idea structure). When LLMs are able to incorporate the structured outline I think we will be much closer to an AGI, but that is an algorithmic problem we have not been able to figure out and one that may not be feasible until we have parallel processing equivalent to a human brain.
This is the default behavior of Notepad++, and is quite useful.

There are times I want a scratch file to stick around without saving it to disk (I know it's still saved to disk somewhere, but that's not the point).

The answer is to close the file you don't want to stick around.
"Competitive FPS gaming" stops allowing anything besides fresh Windows installs after a certain point. It's a diminutive distinction, like pointing out that emulating GameCube games won't let Smash Melee players fight competitively; nobody playing on either side actually cares.
> It's not a gotcha to say "They just want to hold China accountable".

Sure, it’s not a gotcha if we divorce such a statement from all of its surrounding context.

But context in communication is incredibly important, and it’s unwise to analyze these kinds of statements in a context-free manner. I find it occurs on this site fairly often; it seems endemic to engineers. I try hard to avoid it myself, but frequently fail.

The relevant context here, of course, is the rabid anti-China sentiment expressed by folks like Sen. Cotton for years, dating back to well before the COVID pandemic. I take no position on whether or not his views are accurate or fair - but a context-informed analysis of the situation suggests that Sen. Cotton (and others) are not simply seeking truth and accountability: rather, they seek pretext to justify their views.
Jane logs in, enters her DOB which is 11/5/1998, does Y the result of which is Z.

Where X, Y and Z are very specific.

These example scenarios work well as a communication medium for discussing intended program behavior as well as translating well into tests.

>enumerate every possible combination

Whereas if you start doing this you will probably confuse your stakeholders.

Specific examples tend to make better specifications.