skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how do I ensure I'm paying extra for actual quality and not just sucker tax?

Objectively? You can't. You can make sure you don't get a counterfeit by never buying on amazon or ebay. And you can test things like the write speed are as claimed.

But to actually measure the longevity of a card? You've got to buy a load of them, use them intensively in realistic conditions, and carefully investigate every failure to produce statistics.

You can get plenty of anecdotes from DIYers, but let me tell you: My headless Raspberry Pi doesn't show up on the network? Could be a failed microsd card. Could be the disk's full so some log is blocking on a write. Could be a bad software update. Could be I powered it off mid-software-update. Could be weak wifi. Could be I brought a counterfeit microsd. Could be something I plugged into the GPIO. Could be a barely adequate power supply. Could be I messed up a setting and now the DHCP or the SSH server isn't working right. Could be it getting recruited into a botnet. Could be it changing IP addresses and me trying to connect to the old one. Are you going to take my word for it when I say it was the microsd card for sure?
Is DeepSeek China's Sputnik Moment?
If i'm reading this correctly for web applications setting RUBY_THREAD_DEFAULT_QUANTUM_MS=10 or maybe even RUBY_THREAD_DEFAULT_QUANTUM_MS=1 could be more optimal then the current default of 100, allowing for more throughput at the cost of potentially slower single shot response times?
In any way, Nintendo suing a supermarket due to trademark violations is nonsense.

What are they claiming? That people will confuse it with a gaming console?
Yes, from a Sunday! Is that common in legislations? Effective from a weekend?
> but in terms of absolute efficiency it is very bad

Worse than analogue?
Playing an instrument (or being part of a band), being part of a writing club. Anything where the meat of the activity either requires genuine ability and/or effort, or enjoying skillful humans performing that activity for you.

The problem of a lot of subcultures is that they define themselves in large part by flashy externalities, and commodification is part of their DNA.

For example: You like an underground band's music, as you feel the message they broadcast through their music resonates with you, and you'd like to display your participation, so you buy their merch and go to their shows.

No matter how authentic they may seem, they've already sold themselves off as a commodity, and you've participated in the low effort transaction of buying a piece of identity, like you'd buy a share of a company's stock.

Now, if later the band gets popular, that share of identity gets diluted, and you get to be one of those annoying people who insist you like the band before they were cool.
MSFT seem to be paying more attention to the user experience of Office than they do of Windows.
Buying the media and indoctrinating the masses to "us good they bad" worked remarkably well.

If Biden so much as sneezes the media are up in arms, but an illegal immigrant bypassing the congress and illegally taking control over the Treasury System... Nothing.
> This piece is nothing but an advertisement for Dan Gilbert.

For an outlet that “thanks to our reader-funded model, what we cover isn’t dictated by the algorithms of the tech titans” they did manage to cram a surprising number of ads in there
I started to downvote this comment but when you finished with

> There is no longer any cultural center to even deviate from when everyone lives in a personalized media landscape.

I realized you hit the nail no the head. Everyone needs to feel special in their own little world. As far as I can tell this is not turning out to be a good thing. Humans are social creatures: we must learn to cohabitate without denigrating one another. The personalized media landscape has done nothing but lead to fracturing.
Is the idea to processes other people 3D models or arbitrary calculations?

Is it op-in or op-out?

How do you prevent leeches?

I'd be worried about privacy. Also about rendering ilegal content.
We usually get laughs, some quick jokes, etc., some really involved candidates will ask if it’s worded that way to prevent using ChatGPT.

No one’s found it offensive, the prompt is mostly neutral just very “dangerous activity” coded.
This is a great answer, and yes, those are critical aspects of durable execution. Maybe I should write a follow-on post that goes into more detail...
What do you mean by you tried it?
You're forcing adopters to divide any state-impactful activity into its own function (because only functions can be decorated with step, no?). That's seriously inelegant when scaled to larger codebases.

Regional tagging (e.g. safe/unsafe) would be a better approach, as it would allow developers to more naturally protect code, without redefining its structure to suit your library.

You start to grok the problem here, but primarily think about it in terms of databases, which are just one (admittedly common) type of external state:

>> If you need to perform a non-deterministic operation like accessing the database, calling a third-party API, generating a random number, or getting the local time, you shouldn't do it directly in a workflow function. Instead, you should do all database operations in transactions and all other non-deterministic operations in steps.

Note: Think you should really change "all" into "each in a separate transaction/step" there, to communicate what you're recommending?

As a thought exercise: imagine a Python program that automates a third party application via the GUI. Some UI actions cannot be undone (e.g. submit). Some are repeatable without consequence (e.g. navigating between screens).

How would your framework support that?

Because if you can efficiently support the pathological leaky-state case, you can trivially support all simpler cases.
Just like not everyone accesses 100% of C++ on daily basis on their work.

I do whatever I please, feel free to ignore my comments, downvote them, or whatever goes on your heart regarding them.
My Seventh Year as a Bootstrapped Founder
Author here.

I'm happy to answer any questions or take feedback about this post.
Sure the ideas go away away back - but most people had given up on neural nets after the initial excitement, and sure others were also working on it - however the difference for me is he used it to solve real world interesting problems - and by showing what was possible - that ignited the resurgence.

Now you could argue that the people in the 60's and 70's didn't have the compute available to make non-toy networks, and it was only applying the same techniques on bigger datasets with more compute that was the real difference.

Sure - but that happens all the time in science - every innovation is building on the shoulders of others and the assignment of the Nobel prize is as a result often rather arbitrary.

Also don't underestimate the value of reducing to practice - the difference between coming up with an idea and actually making it work in practice.
Laptop, running over Tor.

I use cash for all physical payments; never the card. I use the card to withdraw cash, once a month.

I very rarely buy on-line, because I stopped using Amazon (treatment of warehouse staff) and buying off of Amazon is hell on toast.
Students in school even post ChatGPT let alone better “AI” will find their growth limited. They will never learn how to solve complex math or logic problems or how to write.

You will also see long term affects in the industry as the pre-AI generation leaves the market.

It was already hard for entry level developers to break the can’t get a job <-> don’t have experience cycle. It is even harder now.

Before there was always some simple busy work that senior developers didn’t have time to do so you would hire a junior level developer who needed to be told exactly what to do. LLMs are already as competent as a junior developer. Why hire them?

I see the next level of hallowing out to be mid level experienced “ticker takers” who just take well defined business use cases off the board and do the work. For non software companies, a lot of that work has already been outsourced to SaaS offerings where businesses hire a consulting company to do the implementation (various ERPs, EHR/EMR systems, Salesforce, ServiceNow, etc)
Existance of the Y chromosome causes a major difference (gender, body shape, hormones etc.) so it's not surprising it causes minor differences too.
> Who said I was crying wolf?

Trumps opponents, collectively, have been crying wolf. They've been saying we're just around the corner from a a dictatorship for years, and Trump had a whole term and a dictatorship didn't happen.

And we're talking about some new-style political correctness here, but you're jumping to "we may never have elections ever again!1!!." If there's actual danger, people need to fucking stay focused and not get distracted and habitually overreact. Overreaction does two bad things: 1) it burns up your credibility, because it's a lie; and 2) when acted upon it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy as it triggers reactions of its own.

> I believe Trump would have lost if this was a fair election.

Election denial? Not a good look.

> In the wolf story you refer to the wolf was real.

Only at the the end, not at the beginning. In the beginning, the boy was lying to get attention.

> The real moral of that story is that the villagers should have trusted the boy (to prevent his death) and help him, as he in fact saw a wolf (who ate him in the end).

No it isn't. The real moral is don't lie, otherwise people stop trusting you and bad things will happen. It's explicitly stated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf: "The moral stated at the end of the Greek version is, 'this shows how liars are rewarded: even if they tell the truth, no one believes them'".

If you get something so basic as that wrong, it calls everything else you say into question.

> The story says that the boy lied, but as he died that story would have been told be the villagers who let him die. The wolf was real (he ate the boy), the villagers made up a story after the fact of how the boy had it coming as a lier to justify their position.

> It is a story about people who are more afraid of the scary story and the messenger who tells it, than of the actual danger itself. About people who despite warnings let the boy get eaten, because they checked the first two times and the evil wasn't directly evident to them.

As far as I can tell, that's your imagined head-cannon. Here's the actual original story: http://mythfolklore.net/aesopica/oxford/151.htm

> There was a boy tending the sheep who would continually go up to the embankment and shout, 'Help, there's a wolf!' The farmers would all come running only to find out that what the boy said was not true. Then one day there really was a wolf but when the boy shouted, they didn't believe him and no one came to his aid. The whole flock was eaten by the wolf. The story shows that this is how liars are rewarded: even if they tell the truth, no one believes them.

The boy lived; the farmers believed him, and were not afraid of the story so were fooled for a time; there was no coverup.
20 quadrillion. That's 20 million billion. So given there are roughly 10 billion human beings on earth then the ants outnumber us by a factor of two million.
Love it! I built a toy library that looked very similar to this one a few months ago. How does this handle changing the workflow code? I quite like how Temporal handles it, where you use an "if has(my_feature)" to allow for in-progress workflows to be live-updated, even in the middle of loops. I also introduced an idea of "object handles", something like a file descriptor, which is an opaque handle to the workflow function but which can be given to a step function to be unwrapped, and it can can be persisted and restored via a consistent ID.
I've started to use Ruby for mathematical and scientific computing using IRuby. I am not in need for high performance computing yet so Ruby is still sufficient. Oh boy what a joy it is to use.
I'm a little surprised to see this discussion in 2025, when people can now watch Netflix offline. The term "airport novel," is no longer in common use, meaning a book you would buy at the Hudson News and read on the plane. Complaints of a bygone era.
I think that you can make a pretty good case that global scale isnt necessary for modern quality of life, and the world would be more efficient with 10 or 1% of the current population. Innovation would suffer, but 80 million is sufficient for a diversified modern economy.

Natural resources are still the primary constraint on human prosperity: food, energy, land, metals, ect. In a depopulated world, the average persons labor is the same, but they are working with only the best inputs. You might have the same number of fishermen per capita, but they are fishing the best 1% of fishing grounds without competition. If you drill for oil, it is now in the top 1% in terms of ease of extraction. If you build a dam for power, you have more site capacity per capita. If China had 1% the population, the three gorges dam would supply enough power for entire country two times over.

People learn about economies of scale and high school econ, but there are also ineconomies of scale. At some point there is no more efficiency and gain from increasing the size of your widget factory. However, it might be more expensive to import power and metal from further and further away
Shopify’s CEO has been a known weirdo for a long time now.
A big advantage with digital video in the US is that some systems, like DJI’s, have FCC approval and can go up to 1 or 2W EIRP legally, so the allowed regime is bigger (there are basically no FCC approved analog video systems, so really you need an amateur radio license and to operate under amateur radio rules for analog video in the US).
I loved these books when I was a kid, especially Digital Fortress! This article is so mean and ironically quite clumsily written itself. It's not that funny (although it's hard to be funny when you're being so mean-spirited!)
> Talk to any sufficiently experienced engineer and tell them they don't understand at "all levels".

I only need to look at myself for that. I'm pretty experienced in some areas, but the time that a single person can understand it all within a lifetime has long passed.

> The worry comes when all of that is devalued

Not everything will be devalued, but values will definitely change when it doesn't take a software engineer to write a simple CRUD application anymore.

The industrial revolution seems like a good comparison: There are still people manufacturing individual, highly customized items, whether for niche applications or for people that value the craftsmanship in and of itself. But most things that used to be made in workshops are now produced in factories, with orders of magnitudes fewer workers.

> We're throwing away everything for these idiots who walk all over those who are scared of taking this situation into their own hands.

Another way of looking at this is that a lot of people (not all) have much to gain by letting go of some (not all) low-level control and focusing on higher layers. And yes, letting to of habits and control can be pretty scary – speaking from lots of first-hand experience.
Join the Rands Leadership Slack ^1, where you'll find other individuals in the exact same situation as you.

Whether you want to interact now or just read through the (long) history of how others have handled these situations, you'll find the nuance and encouragement it'll be hard to find elsewhere.

[1]: https://randsinrepose.com/welcome-to-rands-leadership-slack/
Most likely a reference to the boxer Rodolfo González, who was extremely popular in Japan and is frequently referenced in video games (e.g. Gato in Chrono Trigger is named Gonzalez in the Japanese release).
No car.

But in general, email.

I can make calls from my phone/laptop, using VOIP.

I could receive as well if I wanted to, but I rarely need to be called, so I do not normally keep a number, and I could not be called when out and about anyway, because wifi-only, but you do get an answerphone, so people can leave a message.
They already had a satisfying career, their complaint centers around how that was derailed and now they're working on something they have no interest in.
https://ronpaulinstitute.org/audit-usaidthen-shut-it-down/

http://unrollnow.com/
The problem is in leaving the topic of what to teach open. To some people, this may feel like freedom. To others, in the context of an interview where the purpose is to judge the candidate, it will just lead to a bunch of stress from trying to guess which types of things to teach are currently a la mode on the interview circuit.
Sounds like a being a bit in a hurry.
…than billionaires publicly announcing everything they’re doing on X.

This take is as naive to about the reality of what is going on as your take that Citizens United is merely a free speech case. People like you will thrive in the new system. They will need people to rationalize the upending of decades long political understandings and agreements on how governance occurs. As you know no complex system can rely solely on the written rules. When the norms are thrust aside with the speed and suddenness and scope as they are now there are always sycophants ready to rationalize.

Having one person appoint a cabal of people to make decisions on which grants/appropriations to rescind is anti-thetical to the spirit of American governance. The decions made for the grants were spread out over thousands of people and there is safety in decentralization. These were monies appropriated by Congress and signed into law by the Executive branch.

The concentration of power and control over the purse is alarming. It’s autocratic in nature.

no less “Congressionally approved” than the thousands of civil servants

Congress approves the budgets and that includes budgets for hiring people. Congress has not given to the President the authority to rescind previous allocations as his friend sees fit.
It’s unfair but it meets their objective of finding a high in candidate. Google admits they do this.

The companies that do this only do it because they can. They have to have hundreds of people applying. The companies that don’t do this basically don’t have many people applying.
Yes. We should create downsides to being petty assholes.
HIPAA is pretty much the only halfway effective privacy regulation the US has. It imposes strong regulatory, licensure, and even criminal censure for violations.

It's formulated so that they can give those contacts away rather than sell them, but only to the rest of the medical goods & services supplychain that are involved in your care, who are also bound by HIPAA.

The worst dark pattern this has generated so far seems to be pharmaceutical company drug reps bribing your doctor to change what they would prescribe you.

The worst that's likely to happen without regulation, as far as I can tell, involves an associated provider just leaking UnitedHealthcare's full database of every patient and every condition.
This is great! The WebAssembly Core Specification is actually quite readable, although some of the language can be a bit intimidating if you're not used to reading programming language papers.

If anyone is looking for a slightly more accessible way to learn WebAssembly, you might enjoy WebAssembly from the Ground Up: https://wasmgroundup.com

(Disclaimer: I'm one of the authors)
Those get commercialized quickly, too.

You'd think that e.g. dumpster-diving for food would be "unprofitable" and require "high degree of personal investment which can't be substituted with money", but freeganism already turned into aspirational hobby for many, and has its own little ecosystem of influencers selling books. It fits in nicely among its even more commercial cousins, like "minimalism", "healthy eating", "organic food", "zero waste", "frugal lifestyle", etc.; together, they form a larger "anti-consumerist"/"degrowth" market segment, which is happily growing as more people buy merch.

The irony. But as the old adage goes, the market can merchandise everything; it'll happily sell you a hi-vis vest, baclava, baseball bat and a chain you can use to cuff yourself to an utility pole as you camp in front of the supermarket to protest capitalism ruining the world.
The current version of it is that senior engineers - the ones that can talk to stakeholders and manage complexity not “senior” as in “I codez real gud” - are having not too much problem finding jobs that pay well. But non senior “ticket takers” are struggling.

That will get worse when you need fewer non seniors
Hi tmnvdb, since you seem to love these super smart LLMs I thought it would be fun to have openais o3-mini-high analyze your recent comments in contrast to the Hacker News Comment Guidelines. Here is the output it gave me, hope it helps you:

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Hey, I've noticed a few things in your style that are both strengths and opportunities for improvement:

Strengths:

- You clearly have deep knowledge and back up your points with solid data and examples.

- Your confidence and detailed analysis make your arguments compelling.

Opportunities:

- At times, your tone can feel a bit combative, which might shut down conversation.

- Focusing on critiquing ideas rather than questioning someone's honesty can help keep the discussion constructive.

- A clearer structure in longer posts could make your points even more accessible.

Overall, your passion and expertise shine through—tweaking the tone a bit might help foster even more productive debates.

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Just reply here if you want the full 500+ words analysis that goes into more detail.
If anyone is interested, that song is called Chickenshit Conformist. It’s on Bedtime for Democracy.
Yes, I think this also.

But at least we can think those people are passably decent and have some care for others.
Decorator JITs: Python as a DSL
Birds and bombs are a popular combination:

https://www.military-history.org/feature/pigeon-guided-missi...
Excavated: 52 Egyptian Mummies. Over a Dozen Had Mysterious Golden Tongues
On one hand I'm scared of my CV for example being rejected by some LLM. On the other hand I doubt people in EU Parl have any (enough?) technical knowledge to create law regarding this matter
I'm sure the ad networks do a lot more than use high precision variables for soft-linking.

These are professional networks with a ton of capital thrown behind them. They have pretty decent algorithms, heuristics, etc; and you don't make money (compared to the other data correlation teams) if you do simple dumb stuff. I'm certain they take into account those trying to be privacy-conscious, if only to increase their match rates to be competitive.