skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are a consulting company that tries to do some element of product development in house. This is not a new strategy - all the big consultancies, agencies, etc have been on various forms of the path for the last 15-20 years.

The reality is there is sometimes a space for custom product dev, and sometimes better to rely on actual software/product providers that already have scale, market understanding, etc.
> What's so bad about this cult is all the murders.

Seriously, that's the best opening sentence I have read in a long while, kudos!
Reality as we find it responds to power. Without extreme force multipliers, the main driver of power is numbers/bodies.

Do you perceive that those communities possess power? No.

You are "indicting" powerlessness.
Extending the Coreutils project – Rewriting base tools in Rust
If they are understaff (namely giga honest, super solid competent people for air traffic ground control), you have to reduce air traffic as it is way too dangerous.

For this kind of staff, it is not just a matter of "training", it is way more demanding.
There’s nothing surprising about them copying our stuff and making it cheaper
Tangentially related: When I was doing C# on Windows full time I ended up using LINQPad a ton for almost all of my daily scripting.

LINQ + MoreLinq + Extension Methods makes it really easy and fast to make type safe internal DSLs that I wouldn't want anyone I care about to have to use but worked really well for personal power tooling. (you also _can_ definitely write more sane ones, but I didn't have to for personal stuff and it let me burn off the cleverness in my brain before working on code other people might have to work with)
Open-source is about having the whole stuff, not restrictions on "Embed Bruno into your SDLC with deeper Git integration, automation."

What I do resent is the fact that Bruno was a reaction to shitty restrictions from another application, and they did the same thing a few months/years later.
The advantage of luxury products is that it targets a market segment where people have lots of money.

Of course it is important to distinguish between a hard definition of "luxury" as the domain of the very very wealthy, and luxuries accessible to successful dentists and those who aspire to live like successful dentists. What I mean is successful dentists might buy Ferraris, but they are not buying diamond encrusted Ferraris (so to speak).
That zizians.info page makes several claims about their beliefs in regards to being trans, and both articles make claims about the number of trans people involved in the events described that, if true, seem to indicate large trans representation.

But all of this may be false information. I would like to hear specifics, if so.
Again, that problem solves itself when he realizes he can’t make more money with this and no one wants to keep giving him money to try.
Here's my view. (Disclaimer: I lean conservative, quite anti Trump, and think liberals have some valid points. Use that to decide whether to bother reading.)

Liberals/Democrats, classically, were the party of the little guy, the working class. The working class has been being destroyed ever since NAFTA. Thinks are getting worse and worse for them. The Democrats should have been running on how the economy effects the little guy. They should have been the ones screaming about the price of eggs.

Instead, the impression everyone got was that, if you're working class but you don't think gay marriage is a good idea, or you don't think trans people belong in womens' bathrooms and on womens' sports teams, or you don't like abortion, then you're a moral leper, and the Democratic party is committed to the total eradication of your viewpoint and culture.

Unsurprisingly (given human nature), a bunch of people on the receiving end of that decided to flip the Democrats the bird, and instead voted for the guy who at least pretended to care about their concerns.

So, yeah. There may be "reactionary masculine pushback", but I think it's more pushback from the socially conservative section of the working class. Those people are supposed to be the Democrats' core constituency, but the Democrats quit listening to them.
I cannot express in words how much as an engineer I am sick of every app people suggest to me needing an entire quasi-visualized OS running behind it, written in the shittiest language ever to grace our cursed machines, just to render text and perform web requests.
Have Gemini stage and write commit messages for you
The Auto-Commit Bot is a Python-based tool that automatically monitors a directory for changes, generates meaningful commit messages using the Google Gemini API, and commits the changes to a Git repository. It’s perfect for automating repetitive Git tasks and ensuring consistent commit messages.
That would describe everyone who follows a major religion as well.
So you have no reality filter to alert you on the condoms claim?
> Now that AI is actually making advancements, very little of that work seems to have had much effect.

This is not actually true. RLAIF (augmenting the Human feedback in RLHF with AI) was proposed by Rationalist-aligned folks, and real-world systems like Claude from Anthropic have been using it and other techniques (such as "Constitutional" alignment) to great effect. It's not entirely by coincidence that Claude is often described as the "friendliest" and most "social" of the LLM's, though that can have mixed effects in practice (with the occasional weird refusal for creatively sanctimonious reasons).
Hey the model from https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1 is used.
This is not the real thing? Just 671b is the real thing or what are you going to tell me?
Id consider offering more in free trial. AI is still nascent people need to figure out how it’s valuable to them. Plus AI can be rife with errors. How do you give potential customers enough data for them to figure out whether it’s reliable enough for them and to make it a habit?

I’d say 1 free week or 100 free recordings. If you aren’t sure of trying that, you can always position it as a limited time offer and roll it back.

In any case at least a few demos would be helpful.
You took that burden upon yourself by choosing to deride the GGP above, who said "The US is undergoing a fascist takeover basically". Don't put this on me, you opened this line of argumentation. I am merely trying to get you to commit to an actual argument with substance rather than deflecting and whining.
I always thought that (as well as the things you said) the word burner means it is cheap enough to discard (burn) after a single use.
Thanks for correcting the quote, it's been a while since I read it. Yes I struggle with doing chores, mainly because there is no reward and they are tedious and boring and I'd rather spend my time doing interesting things. But AI can't do that for me because it's more profitable for them to use the technology to steal.
"Sharing between users" doesn't make it cheaper. It makes it more expensive due to the inherent inefficiencies of switching user contexts. (Unless your sales people are doing some underhanded market segmentation trickery, of course.)
Concurrency, startup time, memory usage, I/O bound workload.
You average grad student in physics is less wrong than Newton in physics (he knows about special relativity for example). It’s not "smugness", of course building on the shoulders of those who comes before means building better than them.
ML is "easy". Some scam-ish west is balooning ML hardness to get ridiculous funding... well LLMs to be accurate.

Let's wait china to announce their own EUV photolitography tool to produce at scale cutting-edge chips... yeah... this is "silghtly" harder than ML...
I mean, that I get? I'm a professional connoisseur of cryptography vulnerabilities, so, for completely different reasons, I'm also happy to see things blow up. But like, the general sentiment of "it would be best if any given cryptosystem blew up", that sentiment I do not get. Platform security modules, sure (though: at that point you're conceding a lot to governments).
My partner got the "you must download iOS 18.3, it has security fixes!" message, and did so.

It defaults to Apple Intelligence "on", which they had already declined in the last update. So, turned it off in settings. Then discovered they had to turn it off in each app that uses it individually.

That is not good, Apple. Terrible UX.

All the other changes were just as big of a hit. Mail went wonky (the Categories view is not great). The iMessage apps list is now gigantic and many of them you can't turn off, only reorder.

Honestly, this Wall Street-influenced AI goldrush is getting out of hand. Apple used to be better than this. The last updates to iOS did not make the devices better, just different. I'm staying on iOS 17 as long as I can, my feeble iPhone 14 won't do Apple Intelligence anyway, but I also don't want 18 and its changes.

Honestly, I'm about ready to just move to a flip phone. The only feature I really need is a WiFi hotspot.
Screwing with people’s sleep is a common cult tactic, it makes people much more susceptible to indoctrination.
Humans always hallucinate like this, seeing the original problem instead of the twist.
Recently I've got bitten by the comically poor cross-platform cryptography support in .NET

Just look at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/security/c... and https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/network-p... for a sneak peek into this madness.
I'd rather wait to get a good response, than get a quick response that is much less useful, and it's the nature of these "reasoning" models that they reason before responding.

Yesterday I was comparing DeepSeek-R1 (NVidia hosted version) with both Sonnet 3.5 (regarded by most as most capable coder) and the new Gemini 2.0 flash, and the wait was worth it. I was trying to get all three to create a web page with a horizontally scrolling timeline with associated clickable photos...

Gemini got to about 90% success after half a dozen prompts, after which it became a frustrating game of whack-a-mole trying to get it to fix the remaining 10% without introducing new bugs - I gave up after ~30min. Sonnet 3.5 looked promising at first, generating based on a sketch I gave it, but also only got to 90%, then hit daily usage limit after a few attempts to complete the task.

DeepSeek-R took a while to generate it, but nailed it on first attempt.
Static methods in modern C# are either extension methods or some other very rare cases like mathematical functions.

The super complicated comments become readable and useful when you hover the mouse cursor over something. There are also tools that can parse those comments and create documentation.
It will be slower for a 70b model since Deepseek is an MoE that only activates 37b at a time. That's what makes CPU inference remotely feasible here.
You're really mining a lot out of a throwaway line there.
is it hyperbole? seems pretty literal
If there was not a disproportionate number of trans people involved in these murders, then I hope that you can point to the specific elements of the story that were wrong.
Why would that effort be enlightening? Many many more people are part of Falun Gong; shouldn’t I prioritize learning more about Falun Gong and what it is about the human psyche that draws people towards it? And why do I need to offer such people a better version?

Given the choice between reading a good book or Harry Potter fanfic from a guy who’s scared of floating point numbers, shouldn’t I read the good book?
>the broligarchy will keep being surprised.

No matter what expressive nickname you use, there are natural limitations in vision that cause some well-heeled players to throw away billions before the first Pikachu gasp catches on. That's how they get these nicknames.

No big deal, they can afford it, easy come easy go.
And possibly not even assigned at all. I looked at the lowest known ISBNs for Czech publishers and a different color stood out: no, https://books.google.cz/books?vid=ISBN9788000000015&redir_es... is not a correct ISBN, I'd say :-) (But I don't know if the book includes such obviously-fake ISBN, or the error is just in Google Books data.)
Nah, stop using the US$ for trade is as simply as just stop doing it. There's no lack of infrastructure, and plenty of commerce doesn't use it already.

What is hard is desinvesting from the US treasure. You have to sell those somewhere, and if everybody tries, their value will quickly go to 0. But if the US is successful in making their trade-balance positive, this will solve itself without a lot of hardship, it's just a matter of the rest of the world helping them here.

Macroeconomics is not what will show you problems here. The US is inserted itself into every supply chain on the world, but you will only notice this if you look at the details. Maybe we should start with an intellectual property reform...
bcrypt is not a "salted hash function". It's a a password hash construction (at the time of its invention, it was called an "adaptive hash"; today, we'd call it a "password KDF"). If you're using bcrypt, you're fine.

What you can't do is use SHA2 with a random salt and call it a day.
You don't need to turn it off, there is no real Apple Intelligence in the first place.
I have been using the Garmin watches after I used the Apple Watch but detested having to charge the watch almost everyday. I started with the Forerunner 255 (7 day battery life, then upgraded to the Fenix 8 solar with battery life of 18 days. I can certainly entertain getting a Pebble watch since I loved the timer feature that calculated the time the timer would go off so you did not have to do the math in your head. I have yet to see another watch do this even though I have asked many times :). Here are some must haves….bigger display with minimal borders, thinner than leading watches and 30 day battery life. Godspeed.
There is also no way to disable the AI summaries even if you are logged in.
I agree that strength is specific, but my point is that ‘bodybuilder muscle’ is not strictly ornamental.

Powerlifters have incredible muscle mass, they just aren’t picky about covering it with body fat because it doesn’t make sense for the sport. The main reason bodybuilders are weaker is that their caloric intake is much lesser (especially at meet prep when they sometimes are practically starving themselves to death).
I didn't think about the privacy aspect, my concern is mostly with the subscription model. You won't be able to just buy an automatic dishwasher, oh no. You can start out at the basic plan for $x a month and bundle it with countertop plan for $y/month.
LLMs are to a good approximation zip files intertwined with... magic... that allows the compressed data to be queried with plain old English - but you need to process all[0] the magic through some special matrix mincers together with the query (encoded as a matrix, too) to get an answer.

[0] not true but let's ignore that for a second
I think you are right. An even better counter example imho would be darts :)

Although... fine motion control is more natural for hands then for legs. In football, running on full speed, while keeping the ball close to the foot, then evading defenders (still on full speed), making an accurate pass to a team player. Almost any boy on the planet dreams about those skills, some are able learn a few of these skills somewhat. But it requires abnormal leg control.

In football there is a harsh filter of it not only being the global #1 sport, so insanely competitive, but also because it requires an insane fine control where we normally don't have that.

Does not take away from other sports like tennis, or base ball. For most sports the elite level will be unreachable for most humans.
Really cool!

I also want to add tracking for profiles. When that's ready I might include a link to your app there. Would be cool if you could open a specific profile directly with a link like https://gitmentor.app/toniengelhardt.
I appreciate that you admitted to not voting.

How do you feel about having a small slice of the responsibility for (just to pick two examples) HIV patients not getting their life-saving meds, or nearly all science research being ground to a halt?
You’re living in the past.

That model worked when people were much more equal in output, before the ambitious could leverage skills and tools to become an order of magnitude more productive than average.

It’ll never work today, because there’s too many people in too many industries who outperform the average worker 10:1.

Collective bargaining is quite unfair to those people and they’ll never accept it.
I would like to see ALL FDA documents on covid-19 vaccine emergency use authorization. Biden's FDA has been fighting court orders tooth and nail for 4 years. Where were all the Trump haters with their outrage... hypocrisy at its best.
Well, yes. Practical use of muscles -> strong muscles -> looks good -> pumping-up of muscles just for the looks. But the muscles are still there, only excessive for the practical use.

OTOH weightlifting is still an activity performed for show, not practical tasks requiring strength. Equally, a Lamborghini is still a pretty nice car, and a Tissot watch is still a precise mechanical watch. But it's not the point.

By contrast, a police car does not look like a super-fast car, even though it's very fast. Equally, most Marines don't look like bodybuilders, even though their job requires exceptional athletic prowess.
You'll be pleased to know that multiple countries elsewhere do worry about this, and will continue to publish evidence-based recommendations about appropriate drug usage. Every other member of the G8, NATO, AUKUS, and so on, all publish science for free, so as the US declines into a corruption-fuelled failed state, there will be access to that material still. I saw Mexican emergency services helping in Los Angeles the other week during the fires - more mature and capable countries are always here to help, even in very direct ways like this, where the US public sector is too fragile and broken to support their own citizens. There's been a rich history of this happening across Europe and Africa for decades, so others know what to do.

You might think I'm being sarcastic, or patronising or somehow trying to belittle the US. I'm not. That's where the country is now. It's failing in a way we've seen others fail many, many times before. The future is predictable, and it doesn't seem like anybody wants to change it.
Intel has officially missed the boat for AI in the datacenter
Waiting for llms for compilers.
I have not. Any suggestions on which one(s) to explore to get started.
For what it's worth I wasn't being sarcastic. I spent some time in the smallholding/no-till/organic/homesteading world and there are some pretty decent arguments that modernity has done a lot to make us depressed and lonely. I also actually agree that a lot of government funds are wasted or spent poorly, if that counts for anything.
They got Capone on tax evasion. I don’t really care what they get Elon on as long as it’s true.
Someone who does decathlon professionally? They certainly look closer to the ideal aesthetic than most track and field athletes.
The biggest problem with electricity is the batteries. Right now an EV pollutes more an ICE engine, the pollution is just moved to the power plants. But then you have to take into account the batteries. Making them pollutes a lot and they don't last forever.

We should be minimizing the use of cars instead.
It’s going to be really funny if Trump realizes that maybe he didn’t read all of DOGE’s fine print, and gets buyer’s remorse because he’s the one on the hook for crashing the economy, not Musk. Well, it won’t be funny at all actually.
Seeing the Engineered System of Life
> At some level it's a zero-sum game

To live a life thinking this way outside of work would fill me with existential despair. Life well lived is more than a mere exercise in market efficiency.

Academia isn't supposed to maximize our return on investment, and the people who made this their lives work didn't choose the field because it was the highest pay they could obtain or the thing which contributed the most to the orphan crushing machine (the economy).
It hasn’t, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42767368 I regret every time I go “modern Linux” and think that people who advise to use it for desktop are either blind to numerous obvious bugs and failures or don’t even use it beyond running a browser.

all the hardware worked out of the box

Does it sleep and wake up without issues? Can it go sleep twice in a row without reboot? This is the first pain point to check with linux desktop. Programmatic issues are relatively minor compared to this.
All these .NET has better performance at. Go explicitly trades it off for smaller memory footprint. (Yes, even the things Go is supposed to be good at, because NativeAOT is a more "high-end" solution to the problem - more scalable binary size, and borderline absent startup overhead).

Also finely grained concurrency has especially big gap: https://hez2010.github.io/async-runtimes-benchmarks-2024/tak...
Agreed, pretty much any man can dramatically increase their lean body mass from baseline with 3-6 hours per week of resistance training for 6 months if they haven’t already done so.
The tax credits were eventually reapplied to Tesla with the changes starting in 2023, but for a while, Tesla had crossed the sales limit so that the credit wasn't available.
We crawl so we can learn to walk.
Rethinking Carnot: Scientists overcome traditional power-efficiency trade-off
there's a massive block under "German Language" that's almost entirely english

https://i.imgur.com/LKDuTJP.png
So what's the difference between cops and other criminals? Cops get protection for their crimes.
But that’s likely to be very unsafe, especially in a multithreaded program, or if it relies on stack unwinding for RAII.
8x 3090 will net you around 10-12tok/s
H2 is not instant, it is a pressurised gas. Recharging h2 vehichles is as fast as the pressure difference between the intermediate tank and the vehichle tank.
> I don't see how "attaching" functions to types is easier than attaching them directly to namespaces.

There's basically no difference between a static class and a namespace, so you're right, it's not easier, but then this kind of dissolves your whole argument too: just put your functions in static class or two, what's the big deal? It's just like a namespace after all.
Is Mozilla really relevant anymore ? When they cut the devtools and rust/servo teams I view them as fragmenting the browser market and not driving web forward.
The combination of very squeaky stairs, a lack of microphone, and hallway noise made it really hard to follow any of the talks. Will have to rewatch some of them later.
I’m in the same boat. I worked on a project with Microsoft Consulting Services when the .Net Beta 1.0 was released in 2001. I felt very lucky to be employed at the time (post 9/11, .com bubble bust) and also getting paid to work in the latest stack. Like you I have no regrets.
Donald Trump threatens to ignite era of trade wars with new tariffs
As you are acting as a mouthpiece for Apple, let's pretend you are Apple.

You just turned on a thing I find annoying that I have to individually turn off everywhere, which one of us is doing a knee jerk thing again?

You, remove the knee.

You need to sell me on the value prop of a thing, not force it upon me.
Yes, it feels like Apple is increasingly embracing dark patterns.

The fact that they are withholding security updates for older iOS versions from devices that support newer iOS versions is also one. (E.g. I can’t upgrade from 17.7.1 to 17.7.2 now, currently staying on iOS 17 like the parent, although it was possible for a few weeks from mid-November to mid-December, but I had somehow missed that. In other cases the updates have been restricted to older devices to start with.)

Furthermore, patterns like the one noted in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42899637.
This 1.8 T was calculated by the AAF a republican right wing group that once asserted that it is proven that in medicine market forces work. So take that absurd amount with a grain of salt.