skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A long time ago, I held the grandiose title of software architect. My job was to describe in a mix of diagrams, natural language and method signatures what developers were supposed to do.

The back and forth was agonising. They were all competent software engineers but communicating with them was often far more work than just writing the damn code myself.

So yes I do believe that our trade has changed forever. But the fact that some of our coworkers will be AIs doesn't mean that communicating with them is suddenly free. Communcation comes with costs (and I don't mean tokens). That won't change.

If you know your stuff really well, i.e. you work on a familiar codebase using a familiar toolset, the shortest path from your intentions to finished code will often not include anyone else - no humans and no AI either.

In my opinion, "LLMs are only marginally useful in coding" is not true in general, but it could well be true for a specific person and a specific coding task.
For me, SWE consultant, LinkedIn profile is a bait for recruiters. With proper SEO I can get steady inflow of roles. What other world-wide platform would work in such passive way?
You probably know this, but I'm just writing it here because it took me a while to figure it out — you can also use the keybinding (Ctrl+Shift+L) to fill in login forms. It works 90% of time, and you don't need to copy anything. It really reduced the number of times I'm interacting with the extension's panel.
I have a pair of now fairly old Xeon D-1541 which are not the fire-breathing xeons people imagine, but they're robust, sip watts, and have some really full feature sets that have kept them around in my rack for a long long time.

I got them as they were the cheapest path to 128GB support (in ~2014) and they're still useful today. I run one NAS/VM/home automation box and one Jupyter box with an nvidia GPU in it. They never complain. Neither does my power bill.
>CCDs

I think this is "Charge-Coupled Device"?

"an electronic sensor that converts light to digital signals through charges generated by bouncing photons on a thin silicon wafer"

Is that correct? Not familiar with the acronym.
Sorry if it wasn't clear, but that was a rhetorical question. We all know why they don't do it: because a significant percentage of their voter base are boomers who rely on that stuff.
I love the fact it remembers what page you were on and leaves it on that page.

In the previous version, you'd go Vault -> Search -> [Find Thing] -> Copy Username, but when you de-focused the extension it would return you to the vault home, so yet again you had to do Vault -> Search -> [Find Thing] -> Copy Password.

This one, when it loses focus, it stays exactly where you left it.
> They're over-the-top with their trademarks too, especially for a nominally well-intentioned non-profit.

Agreed, it's amazing people put up with this part of them. The NFL is similar with Super Bowl trademarks (petty to the point where they tried to trademark "The Big Game" when people started using it), but they don't pretend to be about bringing the world together in peace and unity.
Or buy 2 Nvidia digits for $6,000 to get 256GB vram.
It's still here (HNET) ;)

https://moshix.dynu.net/

https://github.com/moshix/BITNETServices
>Regardless of the official definition, the word “habitable” is highly subjective

Well, one constructive way to take it out of the realm of subjectivity is to put forward a specific definition.
What Happened When America Emptied Its Youth Prisons
https://archive.ph/2025.01.28-163958/https://www.nytimes.com...
>"I know it sounds ghoulish, but the staff of the burn unit in my hospital practically danced around the beds of the three children who were admitted in the past year with burns incurred when their pajamas ignited. The reason was that they were wearing garments that had been treated with a flame-retardant chemical. The burns, therefore, were trivial. The children were quickly treated and sent home. A few short years ago, before flame-resistant sleepwear was on the market, these same children would either have been dead or sentenced to a life of pain and disfigurement."

Your use of the phrase "moral panic" in this context is ironically in support of a moral panic about the dangers of fabric flame retardants.
The SR-71 engine is a weird beast operating like both a ramjet and turbojet due shaping the flow and injecting fuel in the air stream.

A ramjet [1] stays efficient at high speeds even though it on the outside kind of looks like an afterburner.

It was a conventional afterburning turbojet for take-off and acceleration to Mach 2 and then used permanent compressor bleed to the afterburner above Mach 2. The way the engine worked at cruise led it to be described as "acting like a turboramjet".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_%26_Whitney_J58

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramjet
And the "mandatory" part will probably lose them at least one customer (me).
holy shit why is this not default
Whether to nudge or to force is a policy choice, and is orthogonal to the question of digital currency.
Hahaha. My favorite was when we bumped go up to use go 1.23 and our AI code review tool flagged it because “1.22 is actually the latest release.” Yesterday.
Dude, just read the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemi...

It’s not impossible, but we’ve got a ton of evidence why it’s extremely unlikely. It’s a long list including stuff like possible quantum transition states enabling biochemistry, reactivity with oxygen (the third most abundant element), and spectroscopic transparency. It’s an active area of research that keeps coming up with dead ends.

Ammonia and methane are the best candidates but those would only be possible at low temperatures that preclude lots of other reactions.
> The idea that outdoor smokers are impinging on your right to breathe is a bit of a stretch

I’m sitting out on a terrace and you’re smoking next to me. I have to either move inside the cafe, or leave. This isn’t a hypothetical, it’s what I face every time I go out. So no it’s not a stretch.

The majority of society would rather you don’t smoke. You live in that society, so choices are to either stop smoking, or continue because what you want is more important (aka being a dick).
That's only one generation that would need to be raised on a ship
> As SRE, I've heard executives say this "There is no penalty for breaches, why care?"

Honestly, I'm more afraid of reputational loss than government fines. Our customers don't have to use our product. They do because they trust us. Lose that trust and it's awfully hard to get it back.
That's right, the Concorde had engines capable of supercruise - long distance supersonic flight without afterburners.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercruise#Aircraft_with_supe...
Are anonymous tips admissible?

Can the police launder AI results through an anonymous tip line?

"Here is a picture of a guy, do you know who he is, please don't use AI (wink wink), but if you call this number apparently we can then use whatever you tell us. Wink wink."

I am clearly not a lawyer but if anonymous tips exist in police work why can't wacky flailing AI guessing machine also exist?

[Another post clarifies it is not wrong to use AI or anonymous tips, it just can't be used to establish probable cause, so the police skipped some important steps]
Google Maps says U.S. users will see Trump's new name for Gulf of Mexico
take some process that you, or someone you know does right now that involves spreadsheets and copy-pasting between various apps. hiring a software engineer to build an app so it's just a [do-it] button previously didn't make sense because software engineer time was too expensive. Now, that app can be made, so the HR or whatever person doesn't need to waste their time on automatable tasks.
You can either be dogmatic or go where your potential customers are.
The phrase occurs in that book, but I'm not sure it's reasonable to say that it had "the current sense" before Jonestown.
This is exacerbated by the tendency in popular media to depict a Scientist character, who can do all kinds of Science (which includes technology, all kinds of computing, and math).
The first exoplanet detection was in 1992; in my lifetime, "there are no planets outside our solar system" was roughly as supportable as "there is no life outside our solar system" is today.

Here on Earth, we can barely decide if viruses are life or not, and discover new things within our own bodies pretty regularly, despite... a lot of direct access to them. (Example: https://www.science.org/content/article/it-s-insane-new-viru...)

We should be casting a pretty wide net.
I think, seeing recordings of people using LLMs to accomplish non-trivial tasks would go a long way.

I’d love to watch, e.g. you Simon, using these tools. I assume there are so many little tricks you figured out over time that together make a big difference. Things that come to mind:

- how to quickly validate the output?

- what tooling to use for iterating back and forth with the LLM? (just a chat?)

- how to steer the LLM towards a certain kind of solutions?

- what is the right context to provide to the LLM? How do it technically?
Any good alternatives that do not require 2FA ?
Think of how much easier it is to learn to code if you actually want to.

The mantra has always been that the best way to learn to code is to read other people’s code. Now you can have “other people” write you code for whatever you want. You can study it and see how it works. You can explore different ways of accomplishing the same tasks. You can look at the similar implementations in different languages. And you may be able to see the reasoning and research for it all. You are never going to get that kind of access to senior devs. Most people would never work up the courage to ask. Plus, you are going to become wicked good at using the AI and automation including being deeply in touch with its strengths and weaknesses. Honestly, I am not sure how older, already working devs are going to keep up with those that enter the field 3 years from now.
Yep it a AlphaServer ES40 with 4 cpu's, 2GB ram
Sure, the fitness tracking features aren't essential. It's absolutely possible to train to an elite level purely by perceived exertion without using any devices at all. But the device makes everything easier and more convenient, especially if you're trying to target specific energy systems or follow a structured training plan. Some of us also enjoy sharing activities with our friends on Strava.
I agree, totally no brainer. Security through making things so annoying that even the guy that is supposed to login, just doesn't any longer. In fact I agree so much with you, we should go even farther. I propose a service where you have to sprinkle some drops of blood in you keyboard every 5 minutes. If you fail to do so, all your accounts will be permanently deleted.

Or wait, I got an even better one; We will go to the house of each person on the planet and destroy their computer--there's you absolute security right there. No BrAiNeR.
I’m more bearish about LLMs but even in the extreme optimist case this is why I’m not that concerned. Every project I’m on is triaged as the one that needs the most help right now. A world when dozen projects don’t need to be left on the cutting room floor so one can live is a very exciting place.
Sam Altman says a lot of things.
Wild. Almost like you shouldn’t trust your competitors if they tell you it’s not worth competing.
Trump administration halts proposed EPA limits on PFAS pollution
How is it clear at all that extraterrestrial life is more likely carbon based than not. Is there any evidence other than it's the only one we know?
“ It's a difficult problem to solve, requiring new sets of books, courses etc.”

Instead of this, have you considered asking Deep Seek to explain it to you?
This. For folks who regularly write simd/vmx/etc, this is a fairly straightforward PR, and one that uses very common patterns to achieve better parallelism.

It's still cool nonetheless, but not a particularly great test of DeepSeek vs. alternatives.
I like bitwarden, but there are a lot of weird things that make me want to move or find a self-hosted solution. This feature may actually cause me to leave. I actually ended up buying a subscription and then refunding it in less than an hour.

So what's going to happen? Are they going to cache my location? Or are they storing a cookie on my side? Neither sounds great. Ever hear of a VPN? That's going to make my life easier....

Some more general complaints:

The storage thing is really weird. Did you know it is just stored on their server? So you can't store locally. But the worst part, when you want to retrieve the item then you download it and it just appears in your download folder. This is TERRIBLE and both of these make it absolutely useless. I got to download it when I need it, hope I have internet in that situation, and then delete it after because I'm... storing sensitive information, right?

The new design is just terrible and could only be designed by someone who assumes you never open the panel to fill in the website. Yet... that's the *most common* reason I open that.

Things like this give me concern that those designing the tool aren't thinking about other things. When it comes to security, all the little things matter a lot.

Of course there's frustrating things that I know they have little to no control over, like all the dumb Microsoft logins I'm forced to have and then annotate because I keep logging into the wrong account. But I do like that it integrates with Firefox's relay. The only thing I wish is that it wouldn't name the mask "Generated by Bitwarden." but "the fucking website name" (sure, append "Generated by Bitwarden" but no one cares and this does nothing to help brand recognition, it just makes things confusing).
Yes and is easy
Firms are not run for the benefit of their employees (unless they are also the majority owners, which is pretty rare), so it doesn't actually matter what we prefer unless it impacts hiring (aka the cost of sufficiently useful labor) which it largely doesn't as most employees don't have pricing power on their labor (they are price takers, not price setters) and unions (the purpose of which are to give them that power) are out of the question.
Bans, Fees, Taxes. Can Anything Stop Overtourism?
Person Y and Person Z on account X could use the same PIN with different cards. A PIN is not an identifier.
I responded with what I did because complex problems do not have simple solutions. It is not "oligopolies are the problem" or "oligopolies are not the problem"; it is "the problem is multifaceted, here are potential actions that can be taken to solve for the complex problem, the likelihood of success, second order effects, etc." Also, if voters do not understand the problem, and keep voting for people who lie to them about the cause of the problems and the solutions, success is impossible (because federal policy is mandatory to solve for this, and federal policy is a function of election outcomes). Discussing this nuance is not "shifting the discussion," but broadening it to be accurate and thorough; to expect a simple yes or no answer is unreasonable, and to do so is to double down on both being factually incorrect and ignoring the complexity of the problem at hand. The system is failing (affordable food, food security), due to multiple components: ag consolidation and voters are two of those components, but not the only components that require improvements to encourage an improved system outcome.

I hope this helps communicate my mental model and thought process on this problem space.
Now they need to finetune it like R1 and o1 and it will be competitive with SOTA models.
A new ability to pinpoint sources of fast radio bursts
Color me a bit sad to not see 2112 make the list.
This is a really interesting take that I don't see often in the wild. Actually, it's the first time I read someone saying this. But I think you are definitely onto something, especially if costs of AI are going to lower faster than expected even a few weeks ago.
https://archive.is/niQc8
If you were really smart surely you would be able to see that there are more long-term valuable things for you to do with your time than just make yourself more money...
The Wikipedia article supports my point - plenty of smart folks think it's at least plausible for alternative chemistries to work.

An ammonia-based life form at our stage of exploration is probably gonna scoff at the idea of scaldingly hot liquid water as a basis for life, too.

> It’s an active area of research that keeps coming up with dead ends.

So's SETI so far, but I'm not willing to conclude extraterrestrial life is impossible just yet.
We've passed 1.5C global warming, on our way to 2.5C with no sign of slowing down. Australia is on fire, again. Future so bright, gotta wear asbestos.
Until the code breaks and no one can figure out how to fix (or prompt to fix) it :)
I don't use GoDaddy, but I had to transfer some domains of NetSol a couple months ago, and it made my experiences with GoDaddy look like a happy dream.

People will put up with all kinds of awfulness if they don't know better.
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How to design an effective multi-agent AI team: Hierarchical Two-Pizza Approach
So to mitigate lockout risk, you keep multiple Yubikeys, store recovery codes in multiple physical locations including presumably a fire-proof safe bolted into your home (at your expense), and use obscurity to store the TOTP secret on random places in the internet, presumably relying to external services or a self-hosted solution, which are themselves dependent on regular credit card payments going through.

Okay, I grant that you've reasonably mitigated the lockout risk. But I don't want to do any of this, and is it really reasonable to expect the everyday person to understand or implement all this? What happens in practice is that many users will not realize anything is wrong until they get locked out with no recourse.

This makes it hard for me to recommend Bitwarden to my friends who use typical insecure practices like password reuse or post-it notes.
The afterburner on the SR-71's engine is being fed super-compressed bypass air from the intake. It can ignite the exhaust with comparatively minuscule amounts of fuel when compared to a regular turbojet.

At speeds beyond Mach 3, you don't even need fuel to ignite the oxygen. The simple friction and drag of the airframe is enough to ignite the oxygen around it and surround the aircraft with superheated plasma.
Subclinical here, I became a data analyst. Bit of talking, bit of coding in Jupyter, bit of stats but not hard stats. Life is good :)

Caveat: you need someone willing to take a chance on you and they needed someone with a software engineer profile.
What does distil qwen 32b mean? It uses qwen for what?
At most I guess they found a cartidge that could have been fired by the suspects weapon. Bullet forensics is not that accurate.
Huh. The longest flights are around 10,000 miles. They usually cost over $1000. Fuel apparently accounts for about 25% of ticket price on long haul, so $250 in fuel normally. To do that in 4 hours is to travel 2,500 mph. Naively, traveling twice the speed requires 8x the power, so going over 4x the usual 550mph should mean over 64x more fuel burn, or $16,000 in fuel alone. Maybe a bit less since drag doesn't grow quite as quickly above transonic, call it $10,000. But if a ticket's only $100, I guess they've figured out how to get gas for 0.25% of typical prices.
I hope you loosely wrapped one of the connections to the switch with a slightly too small piece of electrical tape.
You seem to be talking past everyone else in this thread because nobody has disputed a single thing you've said however you're ignoring (perhaps unintentionally) the basic statistical reality that if we focus on potentially water- and carbon-rich environments we are as a matter of course more likely to find life sooner.
Here is the Wikipedia about Lagrange Points (L2 is one of these): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point

The orbital corrections are minimized at L2, because of the relative distance of the moon and other planets vs size. But that is what is accounted for in the corrections.

James Webb Telescope is at Sun-Earth L2.
I just commented this on a related story, so I'll just repost it here:

Can’t help but wonder about the reliability and security of future software.

Given the insane complexity of software, I think people will inevitably and increasingly leverage AI to simplify their development work.

Nevertheless, will this new type of AI assisted coding produce superior solutions or will future software artifacts become operational time bombs waiting to unleash the chaos onto the world when defects reveal themselves?

Interesting times ahead.
Yes absolutely

In the left bar there's a "connecting to LLMs" section

Check out ollama as an example
Commercial banks answer to the government, to the central bank, to their shareholders, and to their non-governmental regulators (payment networks, insurers, etc). This has created plenty of examples of "debanking" of businesses and individuals who bring with them excessive risk due to their history of attracting controversy and/or legal trouble.

Whereas, the government can of course confiscate assets already, including through commercial banks, but generally cannot refuse service. If a CBDC becomes the norm, an account held at the central bank becomes a right, and thus refusal of service becomes a punitive measure subject to statutory and constitutional limits and scrutiny. This is arguably better than the commercial bank situation, where "business risk" is (generally) a valid reason to refuse to provide service.
I love this url, so much better than Linktree - and the functionality is much needed. Can’t wait to use!
The elephant in the room may be GoDaddy's historical total disregard for security, but hey, those pesky elephants won't shoot themselves!

GoDaddy CEO's graphic elephant hunt video sends his clients flocking to competitors, and helps raise $20,000 for elephant charity:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1374679/GoDaddy-CEO...

GoDaddy CEO Kills Elephant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnM5yTW2B3g
I would say it's more like a core feature of the latest generation of LLM's, which can be prompted with images+text, and output images+text, along with possibly audio and video.
There are some interesting technological developments around fuel efficiency and minimizing the "sonic boom" that's felt on the ground. Neither of those killed Concorde though, because the entire idea of Concorde turned out to be incredibly faulty. MOST people weren't in such a hurry to get from point A to point B that they'd pay 5x-10x a normal business/first class ticket to cut a trip down by 50% or so. The intended 100+ units to be built and sold turned out to be a fantasy, airlines weren't interested.

Now consider what's changed: Back when Concorde was new, airline security was perfunctory and brief, so the time spent in the airport was a fraction of total travel time. Today that represents potentially 2+ hours of your travel time that can't be omitted. For much of Concorde's life the modern internet wasn't a thing, or at least mature; every business traveler didn't have the ability to have a conference call IN MID FLIGHT. Today that's routine.

So what's the hurry exactly? Sure some people might have a need or desire, but the planned jet holds 64 people who are going to have to pay through the nose to make it profitable for an airline. Who are these people who wouldn't rather take a sleeping pill or futz around on their laptop instead?

tl;dr Supersonic civil aviation is an ECONOMIC problem, not a technological one, and the economics haven't changed.
Yep, I think the same. With 128GB fast memory one could run this.
The Fediverse is a bit like that. Anyone can post replies on things, but they don't spread through the whole network, only to people who are following the replier, and people on the replier's server, and the person who posted the thing being replied to.
Congrats on launch!!!