skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was obvious back in 2017, but somehow the media, social media, and most people "convinced" themselves that this time was different. It's like Gell-Mann Amnesia, when he's being a bumbling idiot people remember that he's incompetent and surrounded by incompetence. When he says "I'm coming for the thing you care about" suddenly the Etch-A-Sketch shakes and people think he's playing 5D chess.

It's infuriating.
> People who stress over code style, linting rules, or other minutia remain insane weirdos to me. Focus on more important things.

Considering anyone who is any good is gonna automate these things… and they are very important for long term maintenance and readability and predictability…

… probably the author is terrible. Sad to waste a decade.
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I love this question, but the unfortunate sort of boring answer is that the internet sort of granulized culture so much. This is in general like the shared culture debate of why don’t we talk about tv shows at the water cooler anymore.

I think the 20th century will have a unique significance throughout history because it was a time of such dramatic design / social / economic change, _and_ that that change was documented, by documentation technology that was also sort of signicantly changing by decade. There’s a chance that in 2450AD “eighties music” still refers to music from the 1980’s.

After watching his whole video, I don’t agree with his conclusion but do agree with some of the problems caused by referring to things by generation or based on shared trauma.
He found the one thing that Gemini does better.
> There have been a few research articles showing that in the last few years too that says the same thing.

It's been known for decades. I remember 20+ years ago pointing out to people that according to the research, multiple sets are inferior to one set (i.e. load that one set high vs a smaller load so you can do 3 sets).

Yet even today, most exercise advice is 2-3 sets.
Also YouTube has been somewhat profitable.
The main advantage is also its biggest disadvantage: you CAN control the clustering of the rows... and you MUST control the clustering of the rows. SQLite won't give you an auto-incremented ID on a WITHOUT ROWID table. You have to assign the IDs yourself and SQLite won't help you.
Been using OpenWRT on a Ubiquity EdgeRouter X for years and it runs great, using adblock directly on it as well, granted there are no nice statistics for adblock like on PiHole but the important thing is that it does the job. Have a separate dumb AP also running OpenWRT which needs upgrading and the next router must support OpenWRT it has practically become a required feature
Wow love this. But also terrified?

Would be interesting to see how filtering by different news sources of different political biases affects the ‘severity’?
Stares and ear-twitches: The linguist learning to speak the language of cows
A nice article about the advantages of stop training
https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/ta...

It is really complex, but stop training can be benefical.
Study: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0565
"This is due in part to the fact that the mainframe can support huge numbers of transactions, as many as 30,000 a second."

This is a very odd number. 30.000 sounds super low for most things today, it might depend on which transaction we are talking here.

But due to this very strange and not really helpful statement I wonder. Are we looking at another AI generated and insufficiently redacted article ?
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The always on jit was a big mistep (IMO, the opt-in torchscript model is much better). I tried a julia a few times and it was just too slow to be usable for anything remotely exploratory. Every year or so, I'd read "TTFP has been improved", so I'd try again and it was still slow as mollasas in siberia. I suspect a lot of people had that experience and will be hard pressed to give julia a real shot at this point, even it it does/has fix the problem.
You're right but then in that mode it's no longer cheap.
Agree. I think 90% if people use their microwave to reheat leftovers or cook pre-packaged meals. All they need is a timer. And I'd prefer a dial to a keypad.

My wife bought a countertop convection oven that has nearly 100 pre-defined cooking programs and 10 different "quick set" buttons. How do we actually use it? Set a temperature and time. With a dial. Could have be so much simpler.
> they publicly announce the presence of vulnerabilitys and then keep verifying as they already do until the vulnerabilitys no longer function

Yes. This is difficult. Particularly given you need to do it fairly and thus comprehensively.
My question was about running it unquantized. The author of the article didn't say how he ran it. If he quantized it then saying he ran it on a laptop is not a news.
US CISA staffers offered deferred resignations with just hours to decide
I don't think so, the waves are actual shock waves which are a solution to the Riemann problem for the shallow water equations because they are nonlinear hyperbolic equations. You can find them even before you start introducing any numerical grid or discretization.

See e.g. the classic exposition by Leveque:

https://www.clawpack.org/riemann_book/html/Shallow_water.htm...
Spatial locality matters on all storage systems, the timescales are just different magnitudes. The filesystem cache and making the most from each page you read from disk still makes a difference, you're just not measuring the delay with your wristwatch when it's local SSDs.
The comment is accurate that if you don't need this, you can ignore it. It's likely not an avenue for backdoors. I wouldn't say it's security theater but it just isn't meaningful to most.

As for why not a library? Go has a pretty big "batteries included" implementation for networking. For customers demanding FIPS compliance it isn't enough to say, write all of your own application code to use a package that does FIPS-compliant TLS, but you have to make sure all of your libraries also use those algorithms. No rational person is going to vendor their entire dependency tree and maintain forks of the entire universe to swap `crypto/tls` and `net/http`. Well, some of these contracts are big enough to justify it, but whew, what a waste.

The FIPS compliant Go builds from Microsoft and now Go 1.24 make it a lot easier to check that box and unless a package implemented their own TLS stack it's easy to attest that the software uses FIPS validated crypto modules. Without that, good luck trying to sell to gov and highly regulated institutions in financial and health.
Oh man the hype around RoR was nuts. You’d get these enterprise Java developers getting their first taste of a “python/php/ruby” language and they’d all make gushing blog posts about how quickly they put together some (rather simple) app. They’d all say how many orders of magnitude more productive they were thanks to RoR.

And to be fair they weren’t wrong. RoR was one of the first “opinionated” platforms of its kind, really. (Well, that isn’t really true but we’ll just pretend it is… it sure was hyped that way). It did make a lot of the pain points of web apps easier… it handled database migrations, testing, ORM stuff, template stuff, etc. It was opinionated. It had some very vocal people pushing it (DHH of 37signals). It was the zeitgeist of the time.

Hell Twitter was started on rails, from what I remember. Eventually they turned into a java shop but yeah. But that was going to be the natural progression. People found all the edges of RoR and we learned what worked and what didn’t and where to apply it and where it doesn’t belong.

But things like RoR didn’t make developers less valuable it made them more valuable.

And to somehow tie it back to LLM’s… it will be the same thing. Software will eat the world and all LLM’s will do is accelerate it. But we don’t know all the edges yet because the story is still unfolding. But I promise it won’t be the end of developers… anybody who uses LLMs daily can already tell you they’ll never be able to replace a dev. They are developer assistants not replacements no matter what the hype says.

…end ramble (which is clearly not the output of an LLM)
Makes you wonder what actually looked at during the "audit" of USAID when he is getting information from Sidney Powell and... "IMemeThereforIAm".
It certainly was for me. I learned how to build Forth on my Commodore.
If I remember right, the "Of Man and Manta" [1] trilogy by Piers Anthony [2] was about a group of dimension travelers who came to see flexagons as a model for their dimension traveling network

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Man_and_Manta

[2] before Xanth became his albatross
You can potentially rely on friends or family members to source such information (e.g., only one member of the household really needs to be checking the local group, etc...)
Hanging in there
That wasn't a long stay. Maybe after all those years of the OpenAI wild ride, particularly being in charge of ChatGPT-related things, he's just burned out on R&D work and needs a long break?
I remember kids in high school playing with these in the late 1980s.
Ah yes, switching from an iPhone to Debian is sure to… checks notes save the species from extinction.

Apologies for the dismissive snark; perhaps you could provide me some examples of how this would help?
> We had to buy what felt like bootleg Canonical OpenSSL binaries

Isn't this the entire FIPS scam? You have to do whatever your auditor says, even if it's ridiculous, and they are getting paid under the table by vendors.
Feedback: Power Calculator
My team is developing a power calculator, and it would be great to get some feedback if possible:
https://www.ninexpower.com/resources/power-calculator/
After the success of DART, we should fund a DART variant to sit in cold storage for a quick asteroid response launch.

6 years isn’t necessarily a long time to develop and build a program like this from scratch. And deciding on every potential impact whether to start funding a deflector will cut even further into development time.
How would you ever know that someone always discloses, if you can't know what they don't disclose?
I think any one who has worked with a code base that has to interop between languages understands some of the pain here. There have been projects I've been a part of that interop between C, C++, C#, and Python, with mandatory support for Matlab. This is a nightmare for maintainability. It typically ruins the advantages of every language with lifetime management. No more RAII in C++, everything is IDisposable in C#, Python and Matlab support require very specific version management. It also leads to situations where it is exceedingly difficult to find references to given functions, as methods get wrapped into different languages. Error handling mechanisms frequently cannot cross language boundaries, leading to situations where you have to do conversions. Often it also leads to non-idiomatic language code, as each language has a different idiom. It leads to silo-ing, because certain developers are better with some of the languages than others. It can lead to contention because someone wants to implement something in the language they prefer. Bindings are also annoying to maintain.
> Matrix and others are pretty normie hostile.

Judging by the design choices I've seen in Matrix 2.0 beta clients, this seems to be changing. A few important fixes and a lot of UI simplification are falling into place. I would not be surprised if I could get my family members using it once these are all integrated in fully functional clients. Here's hoping.
I can't imagine why anyone would run it unquantized, but there are some laptops with the more than 70GB of RAM that would be required. It's not that it can't be done... it's just that quantizing to at least 8-bit seems to be standard practice these days, and DeepSeek has shown that it's even worth training at 8-bit resolution.
There's a fine line being drawn here. While what Musk is doing may be illegal, it's at the behest of the President, which typically means the President would be held accountable, not Musk. However, if we apply the legal precedent set at Nuremberg, where following unlawful orders is itself a crime, Musk could still be held responsible. In Musk's case, he might not even have that cover—DOGE has not been authorized by Congress, which means he may not be protected by executive immunity and could be prosecuted for his actions. This applies to all DOGE staff as well.

That's the summary.
Well, except there are 14 characteristics being reviewed, so is this still true?
True. Trump's plan is to stop having palestinians, that would solve it. And if you can't kill them all, just deport them. Dead people have no claims; deported people is the next best thing. Its not about left or right, and never is - its about power and money. F** the people, right?
It's completely possible to take a piece of GPLv2 or v3 software, make extensive changes, and provide it only as a web service without ever being required to make those changes available to the community. AGPL solves for that important case, where if you use AGPL software to provide a service and make changes, in addition to providing the service you must also make your changes available to the community.

But I think I misunderstood your point, you were focused on the GPLv3 itself. Which I don't think prohibits running on any computer as you say.
>Security is [...] a public good

Yeah, sure. But that doesn't make it a resource. It's an abstract idea that we can have more or less of, not a raw physical quantity that can utilize directly, like space or fuel. And yes, it is relevant that it can't be depleted, because that's what the term "tragedy of the commons" refers to.
That's nice and everything but what to do about the EU cookie banners? Does hosting outside of the EU help?
This is interesting, but in this moment it is impossible to take any aspect of the FIPS program seriously. To get FedRAMP contracts you must meet FIPS 140-2 or -3! Or, you can just change your 4chan handle to "BigBalls". That's also acceptable.
Here's the meaning.

> fascism /făsh′ĭz″əm/

> A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls, violent suppression of the opposition, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.

Looks to me that a lot of the current happenings in the US are heading in this direction.
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You were choking so severely that you were beginning to black out, and then went another 30+ seconds (maybe your sense of time was altered?), before solving the problem yourself. Were there other people around that noticed you almost choked to death?
Lesbian numbers are negligible. Pursuing women is a sport dominated by men. Even Trump won’t ban men (trans or not) from pursuing lesbian women.
Are these the same thing as strange attractors? I remember generating things that looked like this with a desktop program around 2005.
>pot into which foodstuffs are placed and cooked, continuously. The pot is never or rarely emptied all the way, and ingredients and liquid are replenished as necessary.[1][3] Such foods can continue cooking for decades or longer if properly maintained.

So, basically, the code base I’ve been working on is a perpetual stew, maintained for decades
If you work in a kitchen, you’re expected to keep the kitchen clean. The trick to that is knowing how to efficiently clear up, and being prepared for the waves when they come.

As an engineer it’s no different. If you’re not keeping in top of your own debt, you’re actually falling behind.
Thanks for that last note, it's been my argument for a while and I've had a few discussions with people on that point, e.g., <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40849927>. I'll try to remember this comment to share for those cases.

I'll occasionally note recent prior posts which aren't dupes on account of minimal discussion (< 20 comments, generally), just because I remember those appearances and wasn't immediately sure myself whether or not the present submission counts as dupes or not. E.g., <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33186713>, <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41099760>, <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31864872>, <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002384>, and <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39242203> all below limits, <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33942714> just over the 1 year threshold.

And for multiple posts on a given topic see: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41422938> (the indefagitable ChrisArchitect called the dupe, I explained it).

2nd chance queue can also cause confusion, generally not dupes: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29071219>.
2SLGBTQIA+ advancement in various countries to detriment of all else and sponsoring of any elected government that do not confer their electorate with USAID and State department.
Cmon man, look at nature, exponential curves almost never are actually exponential. Likely it's the first part of a logistic curve. Of course you can sit here all day and cry about the worst outcome for an event in the long list of things no one can predict. It sounds like you've made your mind up anyways and refuse to listen to reason, so why keep replying to literally everyone here telling you that your buying into the hype too much.

You're young, and so we'll give you a pass. But as stated, _the entire point of tech is evolving methods_. Are you crying because you can't be one in a room of hundreds feeding punchcards to a massive mainframe? Why not? It's _exactly_ the same thing! Technology evolved, standards changed, the bar raised a bit, everyone still went to work just fine. Are you upset you won't have a job in a warehouse? Are you upset you aren't required to be a farmer to survive? Just chill out man, it's not as terrifying as you think it is. Take a page out of everyone who ever made it and try to actually listen to the advice of people who've been here a while and stop just reflex-denying any advice that anyone gives you. Expand your mind a bit and just consider the idea that you're actually wrong in some way. Life will be much easier, less frantic, and more productive
Fraudulent Elections is at low threat level. Might want update that since Trump just abolished the FBI team that was fighting election interference.
> are you suggesting that a memo was sent out , dictating that plaques honoring protected groups were to be covered over?

No. I suggest the terminology is deliberately ambiguous and that it didn't forbid covering plaques honoring protected groups.

> California Missions should be razed to the ground.

Never suggested anything like that.

> I think most other Californians disagree with that thinking.

I said it should be up to the people who live in the place.
> it somehow justifies the speaker doing exactly Y first.

I think you have a difficult time understanding it because you're equating two things that aren't equal. They aren't doing "exactly Y" if Y is "robbing a grave purely for personal profit without consulting with anyone else first". There is a difference between grave robbing and getting permits from governments, researching, displaying findings in a way that benefits others, etc.. The fact that there is an article in popular mechanics about this means that it isn't "exactly Y".
Your statements all seem correct, but its important to point out (and I think this is what you're trying to do) that the logic is based on meeting the needs of vendors/businesses, not the needs of users.

What percentage of people own businesses? What percentage of people use things? ergo What benefits more people: reducing spending for products, or increasing business profits?

Some things are best resolved by a profit seeking model, but far far from all things.

How many billions of dollars in expenditures would be saved, if institutional users (schools, universities, large businesses, trade/professional organizations) developed s/w for their own use, and shared it via a GPL license?

Instead, (statistically) all of these orgs accept the "philanthropic" "gifts" of for-profit s/w products, and subsequently lock all members of each demographic into a lifetime of purchasing that s/w.

It's like giving out "free" heroin in high schools. The lifetime profits are enormous.

Think AutoCAD, but also everyone paying for simple things like Word/Excel/etc. Often, these desktop applications have already been paid for by the h/w maker, making it even more obfuscated from the user.

Widely deployed software freedom would save users billions of dollars, but instead of presenting this as a giant saving, it's presented as a terrible detriment to "business".

This is the propaganda that has brain damaged the US population. The idea that benefiting corporations is benefiting them.
ElectroBOOM demonstrates this:

https://youtu.be/OyTmJX_TC84?feature=shared
What _would_ happen if they striked?
wow this is really cool! I started getting the hang of things "/" means the object itself, "/path" is how you can refer to stuff inside objects.

Starting to think.. what else could we use it for?
Right, by your interpretation what they suggested is logically impossible (one can't possibly write any code, let alone most, before one writes a single line of code), so I understand you think they should have written differently, but its clear they meant something else, I would assume they meant programming as a synonym for software development, right.
def worth trying something new
It's actually not that hard if you change how you eat an apple. Don't eat around the core, and there won't be any core left at the end.
That doesn't require GPLv4 though. Anyone wanting to switch their project to the AGPL can just start releasing new versions under it. Existing code would be available as GPLv3 and the newer stuff under AGPL, same as the v4 scenario.
GitHub is way to established to course correct. Their entire sales channel is enterprise. They structurally can’t see what makes cursor and stuff so much better.

Plus I think they have to much money sloshing around to care. Unlike the scrappy startups they have beefy enterprise accounts as cash cows.

It’s a tail as old as time, really.
I guess... I maintain a big open-source project by myself, I assume that kind of points to self-directedness. I guess on a career level it's discouraging since a student isn't seen as self-directed, and to go the startup route requires those unique ideas.
I don't know. That's the problem: all the stuff I watch and read is so vague and even contradictory ("push yourself, but don't push yourself too much!"), and so one-size-fits-all that I have no idea where to even begin at this point. It's like learning some skill that takes years, except if you get it wrong you ruin your body and are left in pain.
It is cheaper now, but I wonder if it will continue to be cheaper when companies like Google and OpenAI decide they want to make a profit off of AI, instead of pouring billions of dollars of investment funds into it. By the time that happens, many of the specialized service providers will be out of business and Google will be free to jack up the price.
I think Joel Spolsky says it best: you want someone who's smart and gets things done
My aunt did that with baked potatoes in ~1990 and burned down the entire house.
mIRC doesn't exact do that, the contact list is attached to the chat/channel window. Each window sort of exists inside the main window, but can be minimized to something that mimic a tab.