skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What’s bad about finding waste? Many appropriations are expired yet still keep getting paid out. That’s crazy.

The liberal media echo chamber is preventing people from using common sense. When media and congressional democrats literally call us “Nazis” — it’s hard to take any of it seriously.

“Trump is a fascist”

If that’s true, he’s the first fascist in history to attempt to make the government smaller.

Apparently being interested in free speech and smaller government and reducing waste, fraud, and abuse is fascism.

The people screaming loudest about USAID for example huge hypocrites, or have a very short memory: https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/press-release/icymi-washing...

https://x.com/tracking_doge/status/1888032469699498379?s=46
Save a BMW's worth of expenses on cloud services like GKE/EKS
ZeroTier charges by device. Tailscale charges by user.

ZeroTier is a lot cheaper if you only need to connect a single device for each employee. It gets a lot more expensive if you have a lot of devices.

Tailscale is the opposite. Cheaper if you have a lot of devices, but if each employee only has a single laptop which needs to be connected, then it's a lot more expensive.

Tailscale's documentation is way better and walks you through it like a beginner. ZeroTier's documentation assumes you are already knowledgeable about networking.
The executive branch systematically dismantling itself doesn't sound like "ever more power".
The article suggests to order a Breitling through a special program they have for White House employees to engrave the White House seal on the watch.

What if they do more to the watch than engrave it? Talk about a targeted supply chain attack…
But changing the name of the default branch is not worth one hour of eng time, much less the annoyance of the other team members. I understand that the term "master" is offensive to upper class white people, but I just don't care. They need to stop acting like crybabies and get on with doing their jobs.
Ticketmaster is definitively not the product of a free market, and it's ridiculous to bring up people dying in the context of CONCERT TICKET SALES.

No, paying a $20 convenience fee is not "playing Russian roulette." You wanna see Tay-Tay or whoever and your civil liberties are not at stake if someone is playing middleman.
or vice versa, I have no idea!

I do recall reading that certain autoimmune disorders like psoriasis which are therapeutically impacted by serotonin receptors’ effects on the immune system do happen to increase susceptibility to fungal infection

iirc/afaik

before readings: that paper is wild

(I’ll approach it with a grain of salt while also not immediately discounting it)
It's true that LLMs aren't trained on strings of random words, so in a sense you correct are that they have some "ground truth." They wouldn't generate anything logical at all if not. Does that even need to be stated though? You don't need AI to generate random words.

The more important point is, they aren't trained on only factual (or statistically certain) statements. That's the ground truth that's missing. It's easy to feed an LLM a bunch of text scraped from the internet. It's much harder to teach it how to separate fact from fiction. Even the best human minds that live or ever have lived have not been able to do that flawlessly. We've created machines that have a larger amount of memory than any human, much quicker recall, the ability to converse with vast numbers of people at once, but it performs at about par with humans in discerning fact from fiction.

That's my biggest concern about creating super powered artificial intelligence. It's super powers are only super in a couple dimensions and people mistake that for general intelligence. I came across someone online that really believed chatGPT was creating a custom diet plan tailored to their specific health needs, base on a few prompts. That is scary!
"Electron microscope image of partially-melted optical disc"
Startup founder gets scammed Tinder swindler style [Video]
Steamosaic V2
Mach is still slow, but Liedtke (rip) gave us L4.

Linux is still obsolete.

Today seL4 carries the flag.
Just because it’s on the Internet doesn’t make it true Google!
> Brits never intended to settle overseas

What about Canada, United States, Australia, New Zealand, and several Caribbean Islands?
Most likely he doesn't know, as he isn't a phone OEM.

In reality pretty much no Android phone runs a stock upstream Linux. They all have horrible proprietary modified kernels.

So no, Android isn't even Linux in the narrow technical sense of the kernel it runs.

(The Android userland, of course, is an entirely different OS that has nothing at all whatsoever to do with Linux or any other flavor of UNIX, current or historical.)
Escape Road2
New Apple Silicon Co-Maintainer Steps Up for the Linux Kernel
Champagne makers say sales losing fizz amid global gloom and changing habits
> Jerry Dischler said this was not a “hallucination” – where AI systems invent untrue information – but rather a reflection of the fact the untrue information is contained in the websites that Gemini scrapes.

So LLMs like any other computer system suffer from "Garbage In, Garbage Out".
> Formal wear has consumed itself. We need sumptuary laws back.

I mean, if anything, it’s mostly dead; formal wear is _far_ less of a thing than it was a few decades ago.
But at what cost?

We're in an energy/environmental crisis, and we're replacing simple pipelines with (unreliable) gas factories?
how could you possibly know that?
That's quite a leap there from "sometimes wrong" to "basically useless"...
Gouda being 50-60% of global cheese consumption is obviously complete rubbish. I'm shocked no-one working on the ad noticed.
No. PC's had Max Payne and proper ports. Before the PS3, the PC did that far before.
and herein lies the rub.

> The entire point of human language is to model reality.

is it? are you absolutely certain of that fact? is language not something that actually has a variety of purposes?

fiction novels usually do not describe our reality, but imagined realities. they use language to convey ideas and concepts that do not necessarily exist in the real world.

ref: Philip k dick.

> Since LLMs are directly based on that language, they are definitely based on and are a model of reality.

so LLMs are an approximation of an approximate model of reality? sounds like the statistical equivalent of taking an average of averages!

i am playing with you a bit here. but hopefully you see what im getting at.

by approximating something that’s approximate to start with, we end up with something that’s even more approximate (less accurate), but easier than doing it ourselves.

which is the whole USP of these things. why think about things when ChatGPT can output some approximation of what you might want?
9 VC firms collected half of all money raised by US funds in 2024
> 3. On the other side, there was a Cloud Run (a serverless container-based runtime) that, whenever it received a message, had a new instance triggered by Google’s infrastructure.

Why not just another Cloud Function? No need for Cloud Run. No speed hit.

There isn't much "lockin" with what you were using. It is all just http endpoints. Probably took you only a few hours to convert to a self hosted solution, that as you mention is SPOF and doesn't autoscale.

Your post isn't compelling enough to understand how you made an improvement here.
Yeah, legal constructs are not actually real and are based on circular logic. (And not just in software, that's a property of legal constructs in general.)

Your point is what?
Very well done. Congrats.
As someone who holds degrees in Real Engineering, I don’t care what computer programmers call themselves. I agree that most of the time, Software Engineer is an aspirational title, but you could say that about a fair number of electrical engineers too. You’re just not close enough to the field to see what marginal competence looks like. For that matter, Doctor was once an aspirational title for physicians, having been reserved for those licensed to give instruction in church doctrine. My point being, it’s fine. Nobody is ever going to confuse a software engineer for a real engineer, any more than you’re going to ask an MD about the nature of the Trinity.
That was the point…
If not bullshit then what would you call it?
The console view it's the miopic one. Mafia, Max Payne, Kane & Lynch... great on PC.

Consoles were very subpar.
Do shader compilers have optimization passes to undo this mistake and if not, could they be added?
Nope. It's just a bit more complex to define what "energy" even is on a dynamical spacetime (remember that our usual constant known as time is part of a varying field in GR). But there's nothing stopping you from coming up with an equivalent conserved current due to a global symmetry as laid out by Noether. This fact is even used e.g. in the Hamiltonian formulation of GR. See here for a detailed explanation: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/2597/energy-cons...

This is an old misunderstanding that dates back to the early stages of GR research and has nothing to do with any current crisis.
What do you mean? Do you want to annotate the condition as unpredictable, so that the compiler always assumes that a conditional move is beneficial?

(Compilers obviously do this transformation, including GCC, but it is not always beneficial, especially on x86-64.)
Yeah, it’s ambiguous. They mean ‘of the last 100 years’, ie 1925-2025, not the 20th century.

(I can see an argument for the iPhone, but the iPad, really? I have an iPad, I like the iPad, but world-changing it is not.)
Because the process was intensive and, at least at that time, the functions were quite limited, I needed a lot of RAM and CPU power to generate everything, as well as enough time to download the covers.

PS. Yes, that’s a good point. The current version doesn’t scale like the serverless version, but I don’t think I’ll experience very high peaks.
Power companies in almost all cases don't supply power directly to homes. They supply it to the grid, and the grid supplies to homes. In states that are de-regulated, you pick your power company, you don't pick the servicer, and both charge you a fee. You pay one fee to the generator, one to the grid operator. (It may be rolled into one bill, but it could be going two separate places). The generator must sell to the grid power equal to what it sells.

I'd guess what happened is this small town generated power and let its people buy it at a reduced rate. GP just didn't get into that level of detail.
Google’s org chart is packed full of Product Managers and other similar titles that get paid millions to do ~nothing.

The number of L8+ “leaders” and “drivers” is really jaw dropping.
This seems outdated.
>This is completely wrong, if anything an increase in the usage of LLMs to generate small pipelines will lead to increased demand for professional pipelines to be built. Because if any small thing breaks the dashboards/features break which is immediately noticeable. I think you'll see a big increase in the number of models a data scientist can create, but making those python notebooks production ready can't be done by an LLM. That's to say as analysts create more potential use cases, there will be more demand to get those implemented.

I agree. There is a lot of data people want that isn't made because of labor costs. Not just in quantity, but difficulty. If you can only afford to hire one analyst, and the analyst's time is only spent on cleaning data and generating basic sums, then that's all you'll get. But if the analyst can save a lot of time with LLMs, they'll have time to handle more complicated statistics using those counts like forecasts or other models.
That’s because GP also interpreted it wrong.

Out of all Dutch cheese consumed internationally, 50-60% is Gouda. Or, in other words, 50-60% of Dutch cheese exports are Gouda.

At least that’s how I read it.
Isn't AI supposed to do the fact checking?
“It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.”

— Alfred North Whitehead, "Introduction to Mathematics" (1911)
I think the ZeroTier free tier is much more generous. I also like the client app, which lets you be connected to more than one network without switching. The API is also nice... I've hooked it up to an Ansible play, and it works well.
This is incorrect, there are real effiency gains.

Slightly old by the standards of this field, but a good overview: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05812
The same applies to every public company’s financial statements…?

That is assuming you’ve taken the effort to read the filings.

If your lookkng for easy generalizations that applies to all public companies then no it doesn’t exist. You have to put in the effort to read each individual statement.
If you've not read Absurdistan or Lake Success or any of Shteyngart's other novels, then you really should. He's one of our best living authors.
Ask HN: Which functional language for full stack web development?
I am thinking between F# and elixir. I like F# but don't like .net ecosystem. Should I pick up Elixir?
To be fair, do you believe a human would do better? If you hired someone to create content for your cheese website they would probably do the same thing. They'd search google and copy statistics without triple-checking all of them.

I don't think it's fair to frame this is an AI issue. The internet is simply full of misinformation. Should AI outperform the average human and detect misinformation? Maybe. But I don't think that's part of the current value prop, at least not for "non-reasoning" models. If you use an LLM you should be aware that what you're getting is whatever is most commonly found on the web. If that's not what you want, don't use an LLM.
“You don’t have any gouda?!”
“‘Fraid not sir.”
“But it accounts for 50-60% of total cheese consumption in the world!”
Sure, providing power to a city is cheaper per-head than providing it to a large area which includes a lot of rural customers, news at 11. But they probably should not be _allowed_ to do so, because it would make providing power in rural areas at all uneconomic. If you had an electricity market where everyone paid actual cost to deliver power to them, you’re really talking about just having cities.
Some landing page feedback: As Slack is mostly used in a corporate context the first thing people will look at when they add an app to their workspace would be the privacy policy and to see if it's trustworthy. Would maybe be worth it to expand on that a bit?
I've been caught by this. Even Claude/ChatGPT will suggest it as an optimisation. Every time I've measured a performance drop doing this. Sometimes significant.
The only way is do what OP did – compile your shader, disassemble, and read the assembly.

I do that quite often with my HLSL shaders, learned a lot about that virtual instruction set. For example, it’s interesting GPUs have instruction sincos, but inverse trigonometry is emulated while compiling.
Defense in depth is a thing.

Trusting the message queue to be the only security barrier into your system is not great. Wouldn't be the first time one of those gets misconfigured. When that happens, using Java serialization leaves your system open in a way that other serialization libraries just don't.
Software is a cultural artifact. It reflects the society and economy that produces it, just as much as music, literature, urban design, or cuisine.

So you cannot "destroy" software. But you can have fast food versus slow food, you can have walkable cities or cars-only cities, you can have literate or illiterate society etc. Different cultures imply and create different lifestyles, initially subjective choices, but ultimately objectively different quality of life.

The author argues for a different software culture. For this to happen you need to create a viable "sub-culture" first, one that thrives because it acrues advantage to its practitioners. Accretion of further followers is then rapid.
> It was amazing to see all of the self-built decks, sheds, and unpermitted home modifications that were death traps.

/r/DIY loves to harp on that kind of thing, but most of the "death trap" critiques I read there are for things like decks 12" above grade. People need to get a grip.
You are right, I should have been more accurate in my depiction. Inherently technological problems require low level-technological solutions. There is no way around that.

But most complexity I see arrives from just moving data from A to B to automate everyday bureaucratic tasks or enable data analysis. And the needless complexity I encounter in such systems is just mind boggling.

Currently I am working on a government system which captures tasks for long running procedures such as approving power plants. And the way the devs are treating this system is borderline criminal, acting as if this is just another CRUD app without any structure or architecture.
I work at a mid-sized research firm, and there’s this one coworker who completely turned her performance around. A complete 180. A few months ago, she was one of the slowest on the team, now she’s always the first to get her work done. I was curious, so I asked her what changed. She just laughed and said she just used an AI tool that she randomly found on YouTube to do 90% of her work.

We’ve been working on a project together, and every morning for the past two months, she’s sent me clean, perfectly organized FED data. I assumed she was just working late to get ahead. Turns out, she automated the whole thing. She even scheduled it to send automatically. Tasks that used to take hours. Gathering 1000s of rows of data, cleaning it, running a regression analysis, time series, hypothesis testing etc… she now completes almost instantly. Everything. Even random things like finding discounts for her Pilates class. She just needs to check and make sure everything is good. She’s not super technical so I was surprised she could do these complicated workflows but the craziest part is that she just prompted the whole thing. She just types something like “compile a list of X, format it into a CSV, and run X analysis” or “go to Y, see what people are saying, give me background of the people saying Z” And it just works. She’s even joking about connecting it to the office printer. I’m genuinely baffled. The barrier to effort is gone.

Now we’ve got a big market report due next week, and she told me she’s planning to use DeepResearch to handle it while she takes the week off. It’s honestly wild. I don’t think most people realize how doomed knowledge work is.
Amazing, they got the "actually" guy for a PR person. That's still shit Jerry!
This needs to be discussed more.

Great article though.
As the technology exists today: imperfect, often prone to mistakes, and unable to relay confidence levels. These problems may be addressed in future implementations.

That's the same message, without any emotional baggage, or overly dismissive tone.
Those who sell these things as almighty powerful AI, so powerful and dangerous that it should be regulated (so my competition can't keep up with me), are responsible for this overreaction. Yes, not everything LLMs produce is bullshit but enough is, contrary to how they were marketed, that people are reacting this way.

In other words, you don't counter hyperbolic and downright false marketing with subtleties.
I got one. Failed novelist returns to industry, the world has moved past him. Sour grapes. Get off my lawn!
This is partly because the _early_ days of private BT were so bad that they really had to regulate, hard. Openreach didn’t come into existence for more than 20 years after the privatisation of BT, and it happened because the state required it to happen.
Last release is from April 9th, 2011: http://www.colinux.org/?section=status
Yes, I understand the purported true version of the fact. But it’s impossible to interpret the original quote like that without shoehorning it.
Many professions have legally protected titles. In the USA it's illegal for someone without a CPA license to claim the title of "certified public accountant", and since engineering failures can have fatal consequences the same protection is offered to the title "engineer" (or "professional engineer", etc) in some countries.

You might argue that it's the certification that matters, not the title, but the title of "structural engineer" has been around for approximately as long as humans have been stacking up rocks to sleep under; the certifications have not.
In the past, you had to practically be on a Wheaties box or major magazine cover to be considered a celebrity.

Now everyone is a “celebrity”and hubris is at an all time high.

I’ve been in tech for 25+ years and never heard of this person until now but it’s not the first time I’ve heard similar talk.

These maxims strike me more as bitter senior neck beard developer complains about the rest of his team in a passive aggressive way at the work lunch table before COVID.

If you’re a celebrity, we don’t need your snarky complaints. We need you using your “celebrity” to make things better.
Aren’t soldiers just that? Governments sanctioned killers? The only “guideline” is that the victim must be the “enemy”. Just that the definition of “enemy” is vague and arbitrary, enough that it can mean anything needed at any time.

Being government sanctioned it makes sense that it would attract people who find it easier (even enjoyable for some) to kill and live with it afterwards, or at least it makes it easy by providing the moral cover that it was necessary and moral. They were enemies after all.

These people are far more likely to continue to find killing easy during and after the fact as ling as they’re given even the vaguest sense of moral cover.
Why I'm Excited About Nostr
Isn’t that how Uber came to exist? Undercut pricing until you amass users then return to profit once the competition is extinct. I would love to believe the starlink price is real but history says otherwise.
Exactly, scale after you need to.
Optimal would be something like 3blue1brown math animations, but for physics instead of pure mathematics.
Not just the "50 to 60 percent" statistic, it looks like the entire paragraph in the ad is word for word identical to a preexisting cheese shop site. So either Gemini's "generation" is just searching the web and doing verbatim copy paste, or Google copied it themselves which would be a new low for Google.
AI results should be better than this, but there will be hallucinations from time to time. That is entirely foreseeable.

The true failure here is by the humans who couldn't be bothered to do the bare minimum to protect the brand. This would be a major failure if it where any an sort of ad, but it's utterly unfathomable for a highly expensive and absurdly visible Superbowl ad. Why does anyone involved, from intern to CMO, at either the agency or Alphabet, have jobs that they seem ruthlessly indifferent to performing with any sort of attention or care?
Definancialization / Hyperfinancialization
not data pipelines, not yet at least since usually those require high degree of accuracy (depending on the company, of course). Where I see it (already) move in is data exploration, which effectively are data pipelines before data pipelines are being developed.