skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While he’s very much unique, the one writer he brings to my mind is Borges, just a bit more humane and steeped in real technology and theory.
Since you asked, I’m working on something rather ambitious but not discussing it publicly yet. You can reach out and maybe we’ll have a chat.
For the last 4.5 years, my job has been half supporting sales as the tech person working with them and the client and half leading a team once the sale closes. The teams and the customer are located all across the US. So I am definitely not one of the people who just wants to “code forever”. I’ll hop on a plane for a business trip in a heartbeat and have no problem with schmoozing, business dinners, etc

I also have had experience delivering successful and unsuccessful projects. If I did a retrospective of each, none had anything to do with whether the team was collocated. While I’ve only done consulting remotely, I have been a team lead at a product company in office prior to 2020.

I started working remotely and in consulting at the height of Covid in June 2020. It’s just that too many people haven’t learned how to evolve and work in a remote first culture.

Before the gate keeping starts, I’m 50 and have been in the industry almost 30 years and I started in consulting when a job in the cloud consulting department at AWS (full time direct hire) fell into my lap and now I’m a “staff software architect” at a third party consulting company.
Interesting. Did this change in the last decade? I remember MacOS as being very keyboard-friendly out-of-the-box and awesome for automating GUI. But then again, the last MacOS I used was 10.6, around 15 years ago. And I heard automating GUI suffered in recent versions. So they lost on the keyboard-abilities too, I guess.
You mean the completely optional preview feature that isn’t even finished yet?

I really don’t understand why a new feature that can be turned off is a problem.

For what it’s worth as long as Recall can be implemented securely it’s a really useful feature that a lot of people will like. It might even be the most innovative desktop OS feature to hit the market in the last 5-10 years.
It's not only that he has no academic credentials, he also has no accomplishments in the field. He has no relevant peer reviewed publications (in mainstream venues; of course he publishes stuff under his own institutions. I don't consider those peer reviewed). Even if you're skeptical about academia and only care about practical achievements... Yudkowsky is also not a businessman/engineer who built something. He doesn't actually work with AI, he hasn't built anything tangible, he just speaks about alignment in the most vague terms possible.

At best -- if one is feeling generous -- you could say he is a "philosopher of AI"... and not a very good one, but that's just my opinion.

Eliezer looks to me like a scifi fan who theorizes a lot, instead of a scientist. So why do (some) people pay any credence to his opinions on AI? He's not a subject matter expert!
The fact that you can make a cult of the Rationalist movement is truly a testament to the fact that some humans are able to turn anything into a cult

If anything, the reading I have done (mostly SSC and LW) have made me less radical and much much more humble
I’m waiting for them to find an ancient fart bubble trapped in amber
A world where massive wealth disparity does not produce a corresponding power disparity, at this point, is known to be hopelessly utopian.
Designing IaC for Developer Experience [video]
Never counted but I can touch type accurately until I become conscious I'm doing it at which point I get in the way. Generally I start to appreciate how good I'm doing, at which point my 7 year becomes better than me.
Thanks, that's a very interesting insight.

Chilictl, the tool in the article, is maintained by the team that also uses it the most. So we know its applications best, and even though it's original author is not around anymore, we are still very motivated to maintain it collectively.
Of course nothing will ever be simpler than i3 if you never try anything else. I am happy with sway and have resisted the urge to try hyprland/paperwm. But I'm not going to delude myself and say it's because sway is better. It's just that I don't want to endure the switching costs.
SEC's Republican-led commission tightens oversight of probes, sources say
Smarter memory paves the way for EU independence in computer manufacturing
> At least I think sqrt, sin, and cos are generally considered to be slow. […] Based on X you can calculate a range of legal Y that will still fall within the circle.

Yup, that calculation is called sqrt(1 - x²).

> Try to use a lookup table+interpolation with desired resolution to make this really fast

On modern hardware (like, most architectures from 1995-ish onwards), LUTs are mostly slower than polynomial-based solutions for the same level of accuracy.

> 1. Generate random X [-1 to 1]

As others have pointed out, this is already wrong unless you intend to reject some of the solutions later.
Unless you have the real and the fake side by side it can be really hard.
I mean, there's really no justification for the Get-Help cmdlet. The -h flag has been universal for decades. If it were a replacement for 'man' it would be defensible, but not when most programs do not acknowledge -h
SQL and pgplsql triggers for example are usually slower than their JavaScript counterpart.
At the same time, if psychological research proves there's a class of people who are only prevented from joining a murder cult by their unthinking devotion towards conformist beliefs, would you be surprised?
Your comment is actually a perfect encapsulation of this problematic mentality.

You’re clinging on to something that Microsoft never even said explicitly in their marketing materials or documentation.

Literally one guy at Microsoft at a conference (Jerry Nixon) said one quote at a conference. And for some reason a bunch of users can’t let that comment go.

So if all your distrust is about how Microsoft made you install big updates I don’t know how you expect to use any software or connect to the Internet at all. You have to download updates on Linux, too. And Mac.

It seems like these are unreasonable expectations.

Windows 11 clearly needed a new name because it had more serious hardware incompatibility breaks compared to 10. And yeah, a lot of insufferable people still can’t get over the fact that Microsoft won’t support a 10 year old processor for their brand new OS.
Who the fuck is "you"? I'm not American, I don't live in the USA, I'm just watching from the sidelines how fucking bonkers all of this is unfolding, and for some reason you don't even consider that maybe it is that fucking bonkers. Even if you support what's being done just the sheer pace of it won't drive it forward anywhere bright.

It's just some pent up rage and anger, now being used for retribution against something not even tangible, it's just wrecking for the sake of wrecking.

The only way to see through if it's "crying wolf" or heeding some warning calls is when you're way past a turning back point, it's speeding fast to that point and you are actively choosing to blind yourself because you feel there's an "other" (as your usage of "you" in there) that is only against what's happening because of some distorted notion of bucketing people into camps of ideology and only thinking through that lens.

I don't even know how to try anymore to shine a light on how absurd each step is growing to be on top of each other, if even the cohort of Americans who have absolute access to information, knowledge, are supposedly well-educated can just blindly follow through the master plan in motion and call anyone trying to warn you there's danger ahead as the opposite-you I simply have no respect left for the general American populace.

You do deserve the reckoning that is very likely to come, perhaps after that we can talk about who is crying wolf or not because this "no, you" rhetoric does work, it's fucking exhausting, it doesn't lead anywhere, and there's no room for talking to be done if you cannot ever reflect on your own position to admit that some stuff doesn't look nor feel right.

For all the fearmongering of a New World Order the conservatives in general have been stoking it does seem, yet again, that every accusation is an admission. Your government is rapidly getting taken under control of a few select people with a plan to fundamentally change how the fabric of your State works (and it's not under the 10th Ammendment or whatever the fuck else is in your fossilised Constitution). The plan has been talked out in the open, they've been talking about it on podcasts, on interviews, on articles, and yet it seems that any warning call is just "crying wolf".
"Currently, the app isn’t open source, as I felt it didn’t need to be."

No open source, not selling me as a customer.

If you make your entire product about customisation, you're doing me a disservice to not let me adjust the code as suits my needs, asides from the ethical position on free software.
You might like Mochi for macOS and iOS.

www.mochi.cards
> Hopefully not much. They'll invent some jargon if necessary and move on.

"Winnie-the-Pooh"?
Pretty much, except that Zizianism is like the evil nihilist version of the main character who has just looked into the Everything-Bagel, taken to the most ludicrous extreme; whereas in the movie, the good and empathetic version ultimately prevails.
My point is that Microsoft has always been this way and that the people who are clinging to Windows 10 for these emotional reasons rather than evaluating 11 on its merits are basically drawing a false line in the sand.

If you don’t like the toxicity of Microsoft in windows 11, why were you okay with it with Windows 10? My view is the same people complaining about Windows 11 complained about Windows 10 and basically every prior version.

Like if you’re mad that Windows 11 is spyware and nags you to buy OneDrive and changed your UI, well, that’s the same thing that Windows 10 did. So why is anyone so insistent on sticking with Windows 10 when Windows 11 at this point has 4 years of feature updates have a laundry list of improvements and modernizations?

And yes, people who won’t upgrade because “the UI changed/got worse” grind my gears. That just shows that you refuse to learn and adapt.

I am much more understanding of the people who switched to Linux or won’t upgrade to 11 over hardware compatibility. But everyone else is just keeping themselves a version behind over digital superstition.
Whoa, great to see Yoeven's work here. I learned about JigsawStack when I applied for a role there and was super impressed with what he's built. We ended up having a call and he was able to tell me a bit more about what he's working on.

He is a friendly and super down-to-earth guy who has made some remarkably good progress on building a platform that just works. For instance, easily connecting a fine-tuned LLM that knows how to scrape content to a translation LLM and wrapping that up in a platform with a really good developer experience.

If you're interested in kind of thing, he also did a ShowHN last year on Dzero, a distributed SQLite database built on Cloudflare D1:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40563729
Wozniak estimates that you actually get a maximum of~300,000 based on his decades of data, so it seems the simplified model misses some effect and so converges to the wrong total: https://supermemo.guru/wiki/How_much_knowledge_can_human_bra...
if you buy from Amazon, you never know if you get a genuine card.

Yes, but there is a significant difference --- I can always return it to Amazon postage free if the capacity is fake and it won't format properly. Presumably, Amazon extracts the appropriate weight in flesh from the seller.

The way retail typically works in the USA, the vendor assumes all the risk --- any problems get unrolled backwards. You can sell a fake product on Amazon --- but it will likely cost you --- not Amazon (who controls the money) nor the end consumer if he is astute.

Basically, Amazon acts like an escrow service.
I read the Exhalation collection last year and plan to read it once every two or three years for the rest of my life
Global Variables Are Not the Problem
Reminds me a lot of what’s happened in countries like Hungary. I never thought this would happen in the US but here we are.
The article isn't wrong, but it doesn't mean the status quo isn't problematic. The IRS has also been used as a political tool. From my perspective, the biggest danger with this gambit, is that we will see tariffs, income tax and increased spending. It wouldn't be the first time a campaign promise turned out to be a bait and switch.
Why? I found that story fantastic
Create React App is now deprecated
You said people couldn't own cannons. There doesn't seem to have been a law against cannon ownership. You're now moving the goal posts.
I agree. I had my first house built in a new subdivision - 2800 square feet 4/2 - for $170K in south metro Atlanta in 2002. I was only making $60K at the time.

I even had my second house built in 2016 in north metro Atlanta in the “good school system” - 3100 square feet 5 bed /3.5 bath for $335K and only put around $12K down. I sold it last year for $670K after moving to a condo in Florida that cost $340K. I could never move to the state tax free Florida with not many local tech jobs if it weren’t for remote work
Even then it's hard because the legit vendors change their packaging frequently.
Things make a lot more sense when you realize the benefits a recession has for the top 1% and will have for Trumps personal wealth. While yes, they will temporarily go through some pain in the form of a decrease in their net worth, a recession allows the rich to expand their businesses, consuming smaller businesses that are much harder hit by a recession and collecting their technology and markets for pennies. I don’t think there is a coincidence that all these billionaires are holding hands with Trump. It will also be a fantastic distraction as they convince people how this bill or that bill that quietly strips away your rights is going to be good for business and “bringing the economy back”.

The goal is pretty simple and obvious… Beat The People with the stick until they can barely move, then offer them a carrot and a shackle.
Yes, super sorry about this. I meant to write OSS but forgot an S, and now it's too late to edit the post. But yes this could FOSS since it's a free tool with MIT license.
By that logic, is the term Baptist or Hindu scientifically sound? Is the term string theory? Is the term working class ? What makes words or terminology scientifically sound that doesn't apply here?

It sounds like someone disagrees with the underlying identity that individuals ascribe themselves and now anyone who do research using these identities is censored. You don't have to endorse (or even fully understand) a phenomena to research it. Arguably those are some of the most interesting research questions.
That is surprising, I don't even remember having to look up that much to use the Anki UI.

I make cards on a linux desktop and sync to ankidroid.

Really one of my all time favorite pieces of software. I would have given anything to have had this 30 years ago in school.
I merged spaced repetition with knowledge management app (), and I must say it was the biggest personal improvement for me in terms of organising and remembering stuff.

As a product though I struggle to make it work. I assume people mostly afraid of their notes and cards stored in the cloud vs local storage, which is understandable.

https://www.mindthis.io/
About 120 to 130 wpm, depending on the keyboard and what I'm typing. 95% ish accuracy, but it doesn't really matter since everything is autocorrected or autocompleted anyway.

Been typing since I was like 5 or 6 years old though, first Mavis Beacon and then IRC and Everquest and other MMOs. Voice chat wasn't that popular back then.
Whether you know the law or not, you are expected to obey the law. If society worked any other way, then all murderers just didn't know the law and we can revert to living in caves.

And anyway, who doesn't know that discrimination is illegal at work in 2025? Maybe a handful of recent immigrants from a tiny fraction of terrible countries?

There is no law requiring you to stand up for others at work. But in cases of discrimination, personally, I do. Because the law is on my side, and my employees need me to.

Your point might stand, but your example about discrimination doesn't make your point.
You clearly don't understand what multimodal means. Multimodal is for example new gemini where you can input green car and get the very same car, only with red paint. Multimodal LLM can do the edit in the latent space, which is the key.

Very misleading title, and you won't get away with it by using word "mulimodal" either.
First rule: never buy flash storage from Amazon.
Oh for sure, I didn't mean to employ that sex is itself binary.
If I check on monkeytype it's around 130wpm but as others have said it really depends on what you are typing.

(for what it's worth I learned to touch type on an old typewriter decades ago, however my wpm was much slower then as the typewriter would lock up if I typed too fast)
You think they're just text on a website?
Depends if its sesquipedalian, onomatopoeia or supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
This is exactly what im needing as well, I would like to make something like this and integrate it into home assistant but haven't had time yet
Some DevOps guys I know are running on Macbook M2 a Gentoo musl+llvm+openrc userland on a Linux that has Asahi patches and https://grsecurity.net patches.

The only "downside" is no Windows VMs, but they don't seem to care about that.
I think when you look at these types of groups that become cult or cult-like, they often appeal to a specific experience or need that people have. My guess is the message that many trans and autistic people take away is fulfilling for them. Many people in these communities share similar traumas and challenges that affect them deeply. It makes them vulnerable to manipulation and becoming true believers capable of more extreme behavior.

The more common pattern is a false prophet cult where the influential leader is a paternal figure bringing enlightenment to the flock. It just so happens that free labor and sex with pretty girls are key aspects of that journey.

It doesn't mean that "all X are Y" or "Y's are usually X".
Im kinda skeptical these folks were following some hyper-logical process from flawed axioms that led them to the rigorous solution: "I should go stab our land-lord with a samurai sword" or "I should start a shootout with the Feds".

The rationalist stuff just seems like some meaningless patter they stuck ontop of more garden variety cult stuff.
Hey, I downloaded and played around with the app a bit and it feels promising. It looks like obsidian in the sense of aspiring to be an "everything" app.

However, I am much more likely to use and contribute to the ecosystem of an app that is open source, in order to avoid a rug pull (relevant article https://howtomarketagame.com/2021/11/01/dont-build-your-cast...).

I read in the website that it is not open source because it does not need to be, could you elaborate on this?
I mean...why not? What moral right does the US have to nuclear weapons that others don't? US exceptionalism?

Just looking at what is happening in the US right now -- an astonishingly corrupt banana republic increasingly led by an insane Christian nationalist movement that bizarrely doesn't seem to understand a thing about Christ's teachings -- I have more faith in North Korea's management of nuclear weapons than the US.

Nuclear non-proliferation relied upon a global order where borders were fixed and there was in essence an international law and detente. Now we have an America openly musing about militarily taking countries and land as if it's just casual talk.

Yes, everyone should have nuclear weapons. And many of them should be pointed at US cities. The US is undeniably the most dangerous nation on Earth right now, and has lost any and all credibility as a rational player.
Even with Proton?
Jokes aside, can DNA be retrieved from there? The article is quite limited.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Sentence_case
I don't think he's saying no one should get rich, just that wealth inequality is already too large and seems to be on a path to continue growing. I think most people would agree there is some point where there is too much wealth inequality, we just disagree on whether we're already past that point.
Personally I wouldn’t recommend macOS as a server OS unless you’re doing something that is specifically macOS dependent (like automated e2e testing of macOS / iOS software).

Everything server related that is easy to do on Linux or BSD is at least an order of magnitude more painful on macOS. And like Windows, you cannot run it headless. In fact Windows actually had better support for running headless than macOS despite macOS’s unix heritage.

Also if you need to run macOS on anything other than spare hardware, then expect to pay a premium. This is particularly true of hosting macOS instances in the cloud.

Every time I’ve needed to run macOS as a server, which is a depressingly large amount of times over the years — I’ve had to do that in every job bar one — it’s been a painful process and I’ve had to accept compromises to what would normally be best practices.

Stuff like Tart does make things a little easier. But given how locked down macOS and its hardware are, it really should be something Apple gave a lot more love to themselves. Instead they went the other way and discontinued Mac Server, albeit that was some number of years ago now. And things haven’t gotten any better since.

As a battle hardened unix greybeard, I’d still prefer to administrate enterprise Windows server over “enterprise macOS” servers.

That all said, for any hobby projects, anything is fair game. So if you have spare hardware then go for it. Just don’t expect it to be as “fun” as running Debian on a Rasberry Pi or similar other traditional hobby set ups
I don't think anyone is saying it won't hurt Canada; trade wars hurt both sides. The discussion is whether Canada can make it hurt Trumps supporters enough to pressure him to remove the tariffs.
> What's wrong with people getting rich by producing goods and services, and selling these to willing buyers?

They are not producing goods and services by themselves, but by having a usually massive workforce. We as a society are saying “ok, it is fine to keep the money if you work like that”.

On the other hand, we are seeing in real time what super rich people want in the end: power over the rest, not just money.
before you get a ESP32 CAM (I love em) consider one with an external antenna

it may be wise to read this https://www.reddit.com/r/esp32/comments/r7kqtt/esp32cam_supe...

I got fairly bad frame rate until I tried some of the advise
Correlation still doesn't tell us too much though. In general its nearly impossible to find likely causation for psychological conditions. That doesn't mean the links aren't there, its seems likely to me that there is a biological factor, its just really hard or impossible to design proper studies for causation.