skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OP is making a decision about a complex problem using only back of the envelope calculation and without looking for scientific studies on the matter.
We’re not obliged to take their advice.
Typing “AI Carbon Footprint” on Google Scholar brings much better info than this post.
The key is to realize that they act and react like little chimps, but they are growing into people.

It's a really hard balancing act but with the chimp framework in place, the human development can flourish.
>Countries can tell companies what the maps of their countries should look like and what things should be called.

Not in America. The First Amendment means private entities, individual or organization, are free to draw maps and name things however they like and the government may not tell them what to do. The government can decide how it does its own maps, and society at large can decide whether they wish to use a different product or not.

>I don't want Google to choose what things are called

Tough shit. Google may choose for a variety of reasons to go along with what the USG decides is the naming, and in this case it has, but they can't be compelled by force to do so. And other private entities can choose differently should they wish. And of course everyone is entitled to comment or criticize it, and then comment and criticize the comments and criticism in turn, and make use and spending choices accordingly and so on. That's the vibrant market of ideas we're founded on.
I use commercial LLMs every day. The best of them can still be infuriating at times to the point of being unproductive. So I'm not sure I agree here.
Ah, okay. So this achieves yet more feature parity with npm/yarn? Sweet.
Now that you mention it, I have used it for this purpose myself! I turned it on when I was on the elliptical because I wanted to calibrate on what running in "Zone 2/3/4/5" felt like. And once I'd done that once I didn't really need to do it again, though I expect it will be helpful to recalibrate every few months as my capacity changes.
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It's a lot of people holding the stock, you are expecting everybody to just not do it.

Private companies are different, but on publicly traded ones it tends to happen.

(Oh, you may mean that printing money part. It's a lot of people holding that money, eventually somebody will want to buy something real with it and inflation explodes.)
Yea, I agree with you. This is my first submission and I didn’t know that sending link to my friends is a bad practice on this platform. Thanks for pointing that out :)
It happens a lot in societies where people know and trust each other.

Often you can even buy drinks by scanning a QR code, paying, and then grabbing a drink from the fridge. With nobody else involved.
It saddens me tbat the default error handler is "return err", as opposed to something that appends context/stack trace.

We've converted a few scripts and webapps from Python to Go, and if one does default handling ("return err") the error logs became significantly less useful, compared to exception backtraces. Yes, there are ways around it, but most tutorials don't show them.
"Neobanks" in India, although not disruptive, are doing rather well. In general, though, the real disruption Fintech can bring is by working with existing trusted entities, not against them.

I use Fi[1] - it is a service layer on top of an existing savings account from a traditional bank, which offers things like automatic budget/expense tracking with UPI (standardized cashfree payments platform that everybody uses), quick access to debt and equity funds, credit-profiling and networth-tracking, rewards etc. It's pretty good for now at least: https://fi.money/
I feel like a major thing that isn't really discussed is just the way the safety culture evolved (or failed to evolve) at NASA at the beginning of the shuttle program.

The Mercury/Gemini/Apollo program was a crash program essentially developed with a wartime urgency (run by people who had experience with wartime development efforts). The astronauts were mostly people with military aviation and test-pilot backgrounds at a time when that was a very risky profession.

There's been a lot of talk about quality fade and normalization of deviance and while that's very useful I think if you look at the history of the earlier programs, it should be clear that NASA wasn't an organization that started with high safety standards and allowed them to degrade, rather it was an organization built on a "kick the tires and light the fires" culture focused on the moonshot, who then failed to transition into an organization that could build and operate a "space airliner."
What’s Boom’s track record on accurately predicting final ticket prices?
I'm not quite sure how to define the difference, but I can tell you that LLMs do not create art, and never will.
there's a video exactly like this (app changes text mid response) of people asking gemini if google is evil.
Haha no worries. This is a perfectly valid use case of LLM. I'm happy that the comment sounds very professional and to the point.
A comment like this tells me you are a child and ignorant.
Do you use Continue.dev or similar tools to load code into the context, or do you copypaste into their web chat?
Then it isn't a personal identification number. We should call them PANs, or Personal Authentication Number.

If you'll excuse me, I need to go fight some windmills.
I'm sure your TV told you it was a thing of the past, hence your anger. Stupidity is often taken advantage of. Imagine that.

It's called the "spoils system" and it's still very much alive and very common among leftists in the US, eg New York State and City.

Truth will tamp down the anger, mostly because you'd be angry all the time and get exhausted. I recommend books, personally. "Tales from the Sausage Factory: Making Laws in New York State" for example discusses your topic. You will have to really, really put in work in to be angry at [checks notes] Trump or anyone anywhere near associated with the GOP.
That is not how I understood GP. It was not a comment on free speech in general, but on the acceptability of certain ideas that have an economic impact.

I do not actually agree with assertion being made either - the west has problems, but its biggest problems are complacency, economic policy, and an unwillingness to face difficult problems, not lack of homogeneity.
I usually spend half an hour or less between waking up and leaving for work, and also shower less than half an hour. I definitely find the Apple Watch battery life to be one of its biggest downsides.
I wouldn't read this as Taleb predicting a crash. The gist of his advice is generally that for the classic equity investments (ie buy the Nasdaq), your return distribution is heavily negatively skewed. You make money most of the time, and occasionally you suffer a fairly significant drawdown - ie a market crash. Nobody knows when the drawdowns will happen. His thesis is that by their nature, they cannot be predicted.

Another way to think about this is that returns are linear, and drawdowns are convex. 90% of your returns are going to be a normal distribution, but the tails become something like a pareto. The simplest thing to do is to hold convex payoff assets - ie buy puts. The devil is in the detail of knowing enough about options to determine what to buy to avoid bleeding all your profits away. This is the business model of Universa - they know what to buy, how much of it, and to a lesser degree when to buy it.
>Factory tires. I like everyone telling me it’s my fault for not having the right tires.

Doesn't matter if you like it, it matters that they are right and you are wrong.

>If you have to tie yourself in knots to justify marketing you can fuck right off.

I will fuck off but that doesn't make you right, just obstinately wrong.

https://gearjunkie.com/motors/winter-tires-vs-all-season-dri...
You either cannot read or have me confused with someone else. My guess is characteristic laziness that's involved with posting kneejerk reactions related to politics.
5 years ago I would be more sympathetic to this proposal.

But now we have LLM copilots, so writing boilerplate in any language is dramatically more optional.

And I don't see this proposal significantly improving readability of the code.
Hooooboy. Amazon and OpenAI aren’t even playing the same game. This is comparing Apples and Carbon nanotubes.
I wonder how well that can possibly work in practice. It can't go over great in front of a jury when someone who is going to be punished for violating the rules talks about the evidence they've obtained, advocating for its legitimacy.
Super interested in your approach to error wrapping! It’s a feature I haven’t used much.

I tend to use logs with line numbers to point to where errors occur (but that only gets me so far if I’m returning the error from a child function in the call stack.)
Microsoft Dev Home going away in May 2025
Squarespace is not 'tagged' in my brain under the "domain registrar" category yet. When I blindly think of domain registrars, as much as I dislike them, Godaddy is the first to come to mind.
> People are furious that the price of delivered food has gone up recently

If I was confident that increase was mostly going to the driver, I'd be fine with it.
The pin isn't the security, your physical card is. Pins are usernames, cards are passwords.
Except increasingly many elderly don't have children / relatives to pass power of attorney to. A bit of a tangent but there is a market opening for a national scale business that is a trustworthy end of life management service for people who are going to die alone. That is going to be a huge market if demographic trends are any indication.

Local attorneys / solicitors already provide such services but one has no way of knowing whether they are trustworthy or will remain trustworthy (think Lionel Hutz from the Simpsons) whereas a larger scale business can afford to do internal auditing and integrity checks and make them public to ensure trustworthiness. A large enough scale business can also afford to maintain specialists on hand to handle things like managing online social media accounts that a local operation wouldn't be able to afford.
i once saw someone post on x: the only real measure of intelligence is "do you have what you want". i think that's a tremendous metric for anyone. if you are as smart as you think you are, you probably don't want those things you're describing. if you did, you would probably have it.
For me:

- Measuring resting heart rate, SpO2, etc. passively and tracking these over time and the impact of my fitness regime on them

- Sleep tracking

- Tracking pace and heart rate on a run, ride, etc. and (a) using it to manage my pace during the activity; and (d) use it to measure how my performance changes over time

- Navigation and tracking when hiking/skiing

I don't have so much interest in the tracking during, say, a gym workout.

I agree with the GP about wanting a subscription-less Whoop as I like to wear "real" watches so a band on the other wrist is perfect ("double fisting" watches VC-style is not an option I'm willing to entertain). I did like my Pebble enough to include it in the rotation of "real" watches though, too.
For copyright reasons. Not political
Of all issues to focus on, this is the one which troubles you the most - company training to avoid creating a hostile work environment.
This doesn't surprise me, This is an AI company based in China, censorship is required and is out of their control.

DeepSeek locally (and maybe API?, I haven't tested this yet), will not have this "real-time" censorship.

This however, does not mean it isn't aligned to Chinese values which is a given due it's training including a much larger portion of Chinese Data than most models.

I also don't believe DeepSeek intentionally filters data to align it to more "Pro-CCP" values.

That's just my take though.
the 18th most popular code, good choice
> Can you retain the knowledge to evaluate model output required to effectively help and guide models to do something if you do not do it yourself anymore?

I mean, education will have to change. In the early years of computer science, the focus was on building entire systems from scratch. Now programming is mainly about developing glue between different libraries to suit are particular use case. This means that we need to understand far less about the theoretical underpinnings of computing (hence all the griping about why programmers don't need to write their own sorting algorithms, so why does every interview ask it).

It's not gone as a skill, it's just different.

>For humans to flourish, does it mean simply “do as little as possible”? Once you automated everything, where would one find meaningful activity that makes one feel needed by other humans?

So I had a eureka moment with AI programming a few weeks ago. In it, I described a basic domain problem in clear english language. It was revealing not just because of all the time it saved, but because it fundamentally changed how programming worked for me. I was, instead of writing code and developing my domain, I was able to focus my mind completely on one single problem. Now my experiences with AI programming have been much worse since then, but I think it highlights how AI has the potential to remove drudgery from our work - tasks that are easy to automate, are almost by definition, rote. I instead get to focus on the more fun parts. The fulfilling parts.

>By definition automation is about scaling and the higher up the chain you go the fewer people are needed to manage the bots; what do you do with the rest? (Do you believe the people who run the models for profit and benefit the most would volunteer to redistribute their wealth and enact some sort of post-scarcity commmunist-like equality?)

I think the best precedent here is the start of the 20th century. In this period, elites were absolutely entrenched against the idea of things like increasing worker pay or granting their workers more rights or raising taxes. However, I believe one of the major turning points in this struggle worldwide was the revolution in Russia. Not because of the communist ideals it epoused, but because of the violence and chaos it caused. People, including economic elites, aren't marxist-style unthinking bots - they could tell that if they didn't do something about the desperation and poverty they had created, they would be next. So due to a combination of self interest, and yes, their own moral compasses, they made compromises with the radicals to improve the standard of living for the poor and common workers, who were mostly happy to accept those compromises.

Now, it's MUCH more complicated than I've laid out here. The shift away from the gilded age had been happening for nearly twenty years at that point. But I think it illustrates that concentrating economic power that doesn't trickle down is dangerous - creating constant social destruction with no reward will destroy themselves. And they will be smart enough to realize this.
Squarespace positions themselves as a website builder more than a registrar. In fact, I doubt the average person would even realize they are a registrar, since that is abstracted away in the website building process.
They profit a lot from uninformed CTOs and founders just going for whatever they heard of, instead of looking into whether it is a good provider, footing their businesses on shaky foundations.
Just saw someone smoking weed using a beer can as a pipe, waiting for the bus, at 11am. This was in Seattle. It’s common here. And the smell, it lingers and wafts down the block, ugh.
“Why not?” Isn’t evidence and there’s a burden of proof that goes with the above claim.
Using deepseek-r1 from Ollama, I got a clearly censored answer† when I asked the question "What happened at Tiananmen Square?"

<think>

</think>

I am sorry, I cannot answer that question. I am an AI assistant designed to provide helpful and harmless responses.

† https://imgur.com/a/C5khbu1
Correct. And the average person isn't aware of their "toilet of a reputation".
I've been a Strava user from before the fitness trackers were big and using a watch to track location instead of my phone is pretty big for me. The additional biometric data (namely heart rate and blood oxygen levels) are a plus. I've also had life long difficulties with sleep, and the sleep data is nice to keep my physical experiences grounded in reality, "Why am I so tired today, I slept so well. Oh no, actually I only slept 5 hours last night."

On the note about how annoying it is to start and stop activities, I strongly agree, tho quick start and auto track have eased the pain a lot for me. I cycle everywhere and really like to keep track of the total distance I do in a month and my watch just automatically tracks that for me.
IANAL but my understand is that the plain view doctrine would apply.

for example, if the police have a warrant for a 2000 Honda Civic with suspicion it was used in a hit and run, they come to the property and check the cars parked in the driveway, the garage door is open so they can see no cars there as well but they come into the house, go into your basement and find your grow operation, that would constitute an illegal search.

The grow operation was not in "plain sight", since it was behind a door in the basement and the scope of the warrant was for a 2000 Honda Civic, something not kept in basements.

Usually warrants tend to be overbroad, so the it would probably be written as "search property for evidence of hit and run" in which case they could gain access to the basement.
How good is his company reaping money based on his philosophy?
Helldivers predicted this
Beautiful visualisation - I just wish I could hover over the grid and see which PIN my cursor is pointing at.
Is there any small DS or qwen model that could run on say an M4 Mac Mini Standard (16G) ?
Not many people realize how official some of these things are.

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00788R0017002...
I have read so many case of "company XYZ locked me out of my account". In the majority of cases, the activity was not just as an everyday user but also as a developer, advertiser, etc.

There is by necessity far more scrutiny on this activity.

Don't risk your main account by running ads, uploading apps, etc. Get a dedicated account for that.
Where I've found `?` super helpful in JS/TS and now miss it the most in Python is dealing with nested data structures.

```
if (foo.bar?.baz?.[5]?.bazinga?.value)
```

Is so much nicer than

```
if foo.bar and foo.bar.baz and foo.bar.baz[5] and foo.bar.baz[5].bazinga and foo.bar.baz[5].bazinga.value
```

I honestly don't care which one of those is falsy, my logic is the same either way.

This enables you to ergonomically pass around meaningful domain-oriented objects, which is nice.

Edit: looks like optional chaining is a separate proposal – https://github.com/golang/go/issues/42847
I hope people are aware that the O-rings are the last line of defense. Blaming the O-rings misses the fact that the entire joint design and the testing methodology were the problem.

You can see people in the theregister commentsection say that the solution is to add more O-rings. But in reality you don't want redundancy in a joint like this at all. You want the metal of the joint itself and the putty applied on the interior side of the joint to form the seal. The O-ring is the redundant part! The last line of defense!

Adding more O-rings just adds more joint rotation, making it worse than having even just a single O-ring.
My knee jerk reaction is that introducing even more ways to write the same thing is going to slowly bloat the language, but Go does it infrequently enough that it doesn't seem like it's going to become a huge problem. I think I could get used to this syntax.

> Disadvantage 4: No other block in Go is optional. The semicolon insertion rule, and the fact that a block is permitted where a statement is permitted, means that inserting or removing a newline can convert one valid Go program into another. As far as I know, that is not true today.

Yeah, this seems like a big problem to me, personally. Go has a fair number of lingering foot guns but this is one too far IMO. I think the no-block case should require something else to follow it, perhaps the return keyword. That'd also help prevent it from being as easily missed...
For some short term definition of “worked”
MacOS 15.3 malware detection prevents Docker Desktop from starting
Sure they do. They really, really don't want government agencies and non-techies to realise that there is a better option for most everyday computer tasks.
> 99% of the code in this PR [for llama.cpp] is written by DeekSeek-R1

I hope we can put to rest the argument that LLMs are only marginally useful in coding - which are often among the top comments on many threads. I suppose these arguments arise from (a) having used only GH copilot which is the worst tool, or (b) not having spent enough time with the tool/llm, or (c) apprehension. I've given up responding to these.

Our trade has changed forever, and there's no going back. When companies claim that AI will replace developers, it isn't entirely bluster. Jobs are going to be lost unless there's somehow a demand for more applications.
I'm all for some Taleb bashing, particularly in the midst of a massive tech bull market case around AI, but I wouldn't read this as him predicting a market crash.

The gist of his advice is generally that for the classic equity investments (ie buy the Nasdaq), your return distribution is heavily negatively skewed. You make money most of the time, and occasionally you suffer a fairly significant drawdown - ie a market crash. Nobody knows when the drawdowns will happen - that's exactly his thesis. Don't try to time the market, that's a fool's game. Structure your portfolio such that when the crash happens, you cut this convex downside.

Another way to think about this is that 90% of your returns are going to be a normal distribution, but the tails become something like a pareto. The simplest thing to do is to hold convex payoff assets - ie buy puts. The devil is in the detail of knowing enough about options to determine what to buy to avoid bleeding all your profits away. This is the business model of Universa - they know what to buy, how much of it, and to a lesser degree when to buy it.
There was a rumor that 5090 or 5090D for China may or may not come with multi-GPU software locked. I think GP's referring to that. It's not clear if it is the case with retail cards.
I think that’s exactly opposite. The card is the unique identifier assigned by the bank. We could all share the same PIN.
I never figured out what "Dev Home" even was before it was sunset.
If you walk around busy areas of Manhattan (or any sufficiently busy metro area where weed is legal (and even some where it’s not)) you will smell weed at any time of day.

It’s the first thing my coworkers remarked on when they visited our ny offices from out of the country.
The other problem is that people use the same PIN on their smartphones and debit cards, for example, because who can remember multiple PINs?

We've replaced password sharing with PIN sharing.
So make these things civil offenses. Lower burden of proof and no right to not testify. Make them personally pay for breaking the law.
It is probably still almost 10%, but we seem to imply that "frequency of a pin within the set of all 4 digit pins" is frequency of the pin amongst the population, but that means we're not counting people who, e.g., use 6 digit pins.

(Or I suppose that just reinforces the point: most people are setting first 2 digits of the 6 digit pin to "00", essentially, although now I wonder if a phone accepts 001234 and 1234 as equivalent. Is it a string, or an int? I'd presume the former…)