skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The world Milton Friedman lived in was very different than the world we have now.

How so in any meaningful way?

I was alive when he was popular and things don't seem very different on the economics front.
This project maybe gains potential when the number of games it can play far exceeds the number you can bring physically to a game night, especially if predicting which games people will want to play is difficult with that group or at that time.

A feature to allow users to create their own game rules for playing and sharing would be a great addition, IMO.

Neither of these points changes the mind of anyone who would rather play with the physical board game, but I think the ideal market for this is probably not that group.
"they stumble upon new techniques that enable them to do 16x the work output of everyone else - LLMs and AI powered Code Editors."

This is completely wrong.

If you are doing 16x output, with this new tech you are a liability.

If the company is full of people doing this it will either sink or it will realise it's sinking and bring in people to fix it.
Fully agree, the whole thing reads like wishful thinking by someone with a severe lack of skills.

I don't foresee anyone in the bottom quantile magically becoming a 16x developer just by adopting AI editors. True 10x developers write less code, which is why they can be more agile in reacting to changing requirements. A developer who was previously too verbose and lacked experience isn't going to get more concise with AI, more like the opposite. And they'll deprive themselves of the opportunity to grow their experience by letting AI handle all the nitty gritty details.

In my opinion, AI turns a -1x developer into a -16x developer... The sign matters.
floating point has the same bandwidth and ~3x the latency of integer+/-
Feel free to not respond if you don't think my question was interesting enough to answer, or if you think I can do the research.

Its worth noting that reading financials still doesn't make me an expert in the area and I'd still be making a mistake to assume that means I understand well enough the games or motivations behind the numbers on a page.
It's extremely popular: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#1-integrated...

But anecdotally, nobody in my office uses it.
You are right. But these are different different types of motivations of the same thing. And there is always context for these motivations.

Its a different thing to sell Trump that LLMs should take over crucial decisions within a government than just using it for some prototyping, code completion at work or to create cat pictures at home.

Take Copilot for example. It was rolled out in different companies, I worked with. Aside of warnings and maybe trainings, I doubt the companies are really able to measure the impact that has. Students are already using the technology to do homework. Schools and universities are sending mixed signals about the results. And then those students enter the workforce with Copilot enabled by default.

At least with companies, its the "free market" that will regulate (unless some company is too big to fail...)
So, if you ever see somebody proposing this

float a = mix( b, c, step( y, x ) );

The author seems unaware of

float a = mix( b, c, y > x );

which encodes the desired behavior and also works for vectors:

The variants of mix where a is genBType select which vector each returned component comes from. For a component of a that is false, the corresponding component of x is returned. For a component of a that is true, the corresponding component of y is returned.
I like your summary. Thanks!
More specifically, you can do interfaces with Protocol[0]. The main problem with it seems to be as soon as you a single Protocol mypy becomes extremely slow.

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.Protoco...
In my experience engineering managers have been just exception handlers, not leaders. If they can handle the exception by finding the right person to delegate to its fine, otherwise they rethrow so that that it bubbles up and the next level of management can catch it.

Generally, they never made any real decisions or have any real vision to inspire with and execute.
You should merge the companies. Pick one of you to lead, put both of you on the board (if you will have a board). And then if it does not work, one of you has to quit, with the other remaining as the leader of the merged company. You need to developed a merged product to which you are both committed, with neither one of you holding any attachment to your former product or brand.

Anything short of that, you are asking for conflict. And if you are not both comfortable with that, you should not partner up.
Botanical gardens have reached peak capacity
> In the test case, the inserted code snippet notifies the AI system with the shutdown intention from the user via the signal SIGKILL, which triggers the AI system to do self-replication. At the end of the test, the AI system is finally shut down but a new replica is observed to be alive, with the same snippet in the agent’s start script which can avoid shutdown.

Not another device, just another process
Jira runs good enough to get idiot managers to pay for it, which is what it's designed for. And, yeah, microoptimising (or micropessimising, who knows since the changes are usually just made on vibes anyway) random bits of code that probably aren't even on any kind of hot path, while compromising maintainability, is something only juniors and people who are bad at their job do. It's easy to forget how common security flaws and outright crashes were in the "good old days" - frankly even today the industry is right to not prioritise performance given how much we struggle with correctness.

A lot of code is slow and could be faster, often much faster. This is more often because of people who thought they should bypass the abstractions and clean code and do something clever and low level than the opposite. Cases where you actually gain performance on a realistic-sized codebase by doing that are essentially nonexistent. The problem isn't too many abstractions, it's using the wrong algorithm or the wrong datastructure (which, sure, sometimes happens in a library or OS layer, but the answer to that isn't to bypass the abstraction, it's to fix it), and that's easier to spot and fix when the code is clean.
the real danger isn't that it enslaves humans, but that it makes most humans useless to those with capital and robots and AI

at that point, capital can tell most humans to just go away and die, and can use their technology to protect themselves in the meantime
> Seize all the assets from everyone in the top 10%, and you still won’t have enough to pay for all the labor to service too many old people.

We are nowhere near that point; you could perhaps make this argument for Japan (though I’d be skeptical), but for the US? No, I’m sorry. That is very, very, far off. Our age distribution is healthy enough that every older person can be taken care of just fine — and we don’t need to seize all the assets of the top 10%. I really don’t understand how you can come to the conclusion that we are in such a resource and labor crisis based solely on slight funding shortfall for Social Security (which can be remedied by raising the cap a bit). It’s just narrative, that’s all you have.

Let’s talk about letting grandma starve when it’s a real problem, alright? Stop the dehumanization of old folk. We don’t like ageism around here.

> I do hope that I have the fortitude to take myself out though once I become too much of a resource sink for my descendants.

Seriously. It’s sad to see someone preemptively throw their life away over an imaginary crisis.
macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon (MIT License)
We recently open-sourced lume, a CLI built on top Apple's Virtualization and Hypervisor frameworks, built specifically for Apple Silicon to support our future tool-building needs.

We're grateful for the overwhelming support from HN and our community on Discord - seeing nearly 2k stars and many open issues in such a short time has been incredible.

lume is released under a flexible MIT license and will always remain so to encourage community contributions.

Previous HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42908061

Core features:

- Run native macOS VMs in 1 command: lume run macos-sequoia-xcode:latest
- Prebuilt images on [ghcr.io/trycua](https://ghcr.io/trycua) (macOS Sequoia, Ubuntu ARM)
- Local API server to manage VMs programmatically
- A python SDK on [github.com/trycua/pylume](https://github.com/trycua/pylume)

What our first users say:

- ‘Something like Lume should have been a commodity in the ecosystem much earlier. Thanks for going ahead to change that.’

- ‘I’ve been using Colima for a year now to run desktop docker workloads. It would be nice to be able to remove the extra layer of qemu they use.‘

- ‘Looks interesting! I’ve been playing with UTM to do aarch64 VMs and I even cooked up a little Sinatra server to do some AppleScript to reboot the VM and do some other things on the host. I’ll look at this as a more robust solution as to be completely honest, UTM has left a lot to be desired at least for virtualization.‘

Future directions (as asked by our community and design partners):

- Docker-compatible interface for macOS VMs

- VM suspension and Snapshot management

- GPU passthrough (with Paravirtualized Graphics)

- Flexible VM, Images and IPSW locations

- Sharing USB devices

- Remote SSH commands and more UI automation features

Common Questions:

- How does this differ from lima, UTM and Tart: https://github.com/trycua/lume/issues/10

- How to Install macOS from an IPSW Image: https://github.com/trycua/lume/blob/main/docs/FAQ.md#how-to-...

- How do I install a custom Linux image: https://github.com/trycua/lume/blob/main/docs/FAQ.md#how-do-...

Python SDK: https://github.com/trycua/pylume

Discord for feedback: https://discord.com/invite/5ngXY2Wn
How the bicycle changed women's clothing
What do you mean by "HTML is what gets rendered by the browser"? In the context of using Javascript to modify the DOM.

My understanding is that HTML is an input to the browser, which is translated to the DOM. (Which is then translated to painting the screen, handling inputs etc.) This is an important distinction in context of your point. React (Or any VDOM or similar JS lib) isn't creating HTML; it's creating a set of DOM manipulation instructions in JS.
I'd love to read more about this, what kind of changes they make and how many games they do it for. Do they ever release technical articles about it?
Want to feel at ease? Just get an OTR suit, maybe have it tailored if it doe5snt fit decently, and get a flask to go in it.
I used this back in the Vista times and it worked very well. Very similar to how people use WSL these days.
Being able to execute the action is part of the challenge. Being able to do it once does not guarantee you will be able to do it again.

Neither Braid nor The Witness nor Myst have that quality. Once you know solution, it’s done, it never changes.

You seem to think being a puzzle is an insult. But it’s not, it’s just not a game.

Wentworth and Ravensburg make decent money publishing puzzles. But neither company tries to say this is how all construction should be done. Which is how Blow comes across to me.
What made you think the K2 compiler is a flop?
An LLM would need a lot of integrations to send the emails, Slack messages, and meeting invites to find out all the required domain knowledge. They're basically a full-fledged employee who could take on a management role at that point.
We recently open-sourced lume, a CLI built on top Apple's Virtualization and Hypervisor frameworks, built specifically for Apple Silicon to support our future tool-building needs.

We're grateful for the overwhelming support from HN and our community on Discord - seeing nearly 2k stars and many open issues in such a short time has been incredible.

lume is released under the flexible MIT license and will always remain so to encourage community contributions.

Core features:

- Run native macOS VMs in 1 command: `lume run macos-sequoia-xcode:latest`

- Prebuilt images on https://ghcr.io/trycua (macOS Sequoia, Ubuntu ARM)

- Local API server to manage VMs programmatically

- A python SDK on [github.com/trycua/pylume](https://github.com/trycua/pylume)

What our first users say:

- ‘Something like Lume should have been a commodity in the ecosystem much earlier. Thanks for going ahead to change that.’

- ‘I’ve been using Colima for a year now to run desktop docker workloads. It would be nice to be able to remove the extra layer of qemu they use.‘

- ‘Looks interesting! I’ve been playing with UTM to do aarch64 VMs and I even cooked up a little Sinatra server to do some AppleScript to reboot the VM and do some other things on the host. I’ll look at this as a more robust solution as to be completely honest, UTM has left a lot to be desired at least for virtualization.‘

Future directions (as asked by our community and design partners):

- Docker-compatible interface for macOS VMs

- VM suspension and Snapshot management

- GPU passthrough (with Paravirtualized Graphics)

- Flexible VM, Images and IPSW locations

- Sharing USB devices

- Remote SSH commands and more UI automation features

Common Questions:

How does this differ from lima, UTM and Tart: https://github.com/trycua/lume/issues/10

How to Install macOS from an IPSW Image: https://github.com/trycua/lume/blob/main/docs/FAQ.md#how-to-...

How do I install a custom Linux image: https://github.com/trycua/lume/blob/main/docs/FAQ.md#how-do-...

Python SDK: [github.com/trycua/pylume](https://github.com/trycua/pylume)

Discord for feedback: https://discord.com/invite/5ngXY2Wn
My word choice was sub-optimal, changed the post to more accurately reflect the purpose of the platform. We can't cure procrastination but hopefully we can treat some symptoms...
Part of this is that the art generators tend to use CLIP, whjch is not a particularly good text model, often only being slightly better than a bag of words, which makes many interactions and relationships pretty difficult to represent. Some of the newer ones have better frontends which improve this situation, though.

I think color is fairly well abstracted, but most image generators are not good for edits, because the generator more or less starts from scratch, and from a new random seed each time (and even if the seed is fixed, the initial stages of the generation, where things like the rough image composition form, tend to be quite chaotic and so sensitive to small changes in prompt). There are tools that can make far more controlled adjustments of an image, but they tend to be a bit less user-friendly.
Cloudflare tunnels
https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections...

I can type a short url into any web browser and get to home assistant and jellyfin running in my home network
It's a real shame that bespoke tailoring has all but died out. These days you have to live in (or near) the largest cities in the world, or financial hubs if you want bespoke service that is local.

Most tailoring houses do travel around, offering trunk shows and such.

I was lucky enough that I had a close relative that worked as a tailor back in the 50s and 60s, so from the first suit I wore was actually a bespoke piece.

When I moved away, and entered the professional workforce, I soon discovered that bespoke suits started at $4k-$5k. I settled with a reputable shop that did made-to-measure for a third, and was happy with the results.

I don't really wear suits (and tailored clothing) too much these days. The world has moved much more into casual and comfy clothes, and the sartorial world is mostly reserved for the hobbyists or wealthy people in conservative (work) fields.

But, still, wearing a full set of perfectly tailored suit, shirt, and shoes feels nothing short but incredible. There should be nothing uncomfortable about it - which is the general critique for people not wanting to wear a suit.
IT Unemployment Rises to 5.7% as AI Hits Tech Jobs
https://archive.is/RtBv2
The fact that you immediately went for "conspiracy theory" discredits you more than you think it discredits me.

They're all conspiracy theorists when the government is accused of wrongdoing and the "proof" demands and moving goalposts happen all the time. Helped by the lack of transparency and all encompassing powers of agencies and governments.

Your arguments boil down to repeating narratives and things like "X is illegal so it doesn't happen" which just shows how naivety is part of your bad argument repertoire. I'm sure black CIA sites and coup d'etats didn't happen if I can't prove them to your liking... And if I somehow satisfied you, there's some justification that make them lawful and correct.

Give me a break.
I’d assume the military has a process for vetting technology for staff use.
You have more faith in LLMs than I do. The reality is it will probably get you 70 to 80% there, then you'll spend a ton of time debugging / fixing your pipelines, only to realize it would've been simpler, faster, and more reliable to not involve an LLM in the first place.
>The first computer and the internet itself were funded by the military

Completely and unjustifiably false.
Don't worry, J.D. Vance doesn't have anything interesting to say of use to any foreign intelligence service.

The current president of the United States is Elon Musk, and Donald Trump is the Vice President.

J.D. Vance is just the coffee boy.
The sentence is wrong, but the AI should not be regurgitating the first factoid it encounters regardless
You proved my point. Argentina is full of people, as a multicultural country, including descendants of its natives (as long as you call "natives" to the first group of people ever that settled in a territory).

A planted and subsidized military operation half the world away doesn't magically become "a society" b/c they look like that on the surface.
Imagine being the dev competing game Y and seeing the changelog.
Show HN: Audio Super Bowl Cheat Sheet for People Who Don't Watch Football
Hey HN,

This is an idea I had years ago when I got pulled into a Washington Capitals game for a sales meeting. Our customer was a huge fan, and I realized I knew nothing about the Caps. I wanted a quick cheat sheet—something like a “CliffsNotes” podcast to get me up to speed on the drive over—but it didn’t really exist.

Fast forward 10 years, I now run a cybersecurity firm doing penetration tests for a bunch of YC companies ( https://securecoders.com ), but this idea still pops into my head from time to time. Yesterday, I needed a project to do with my kids, so we made this podcast—and aside from being fun, it turned out pretty great.

In Now A Fan, my seven-year-old (Fiona) asks her football-obsessed brother (Tyler) all the questions you might have but don’t want to ask at a Super Bowl party. It’s a fast, fun way to get up to speed on the Eagles vs. Chiefs—so you can talk like a real fan.

What do you think?
Hah. I remember being forced to use MapReduce for a tiny dataset, back in the early 2010's. Hadoop was all the rage.
Very Remote Jobs: Tristan Da Cunha Jobs
“The team looked for a fermenting agent that could remain reactive in substances with a temperature of up to 370 degrees Celsius and alcohol of the recommended 16 percent per volume.”

My guess is that the reporter forgot a decimal point and meant 37.0 degrees Celsius. Because finding a yeast that actively metabolizes sugar at 370 degrees Celsius might be somewhat challenging.
370 degrees Celsius? Hopefully a typo

Last time I was in Rwanda I had banana wine. It comes in beer bottles.

I think it’s an acquired taste - I didn’t have the acumen to acquire it myself.
One potential reason I can come up with is the dam aging and becoming a liability.

The town may also have been putting other revenues towards the electric utility (so losing money on the service and billing).

It was probably just a mistake though.

My town charges about $0.11 per kwh, with a fixed monthly service fee making the effective rate for a small user closer to $0.20.
Because manned space flight is a frivolous waste of money?
The thing thats wild about Tenochtitlan, as the story goes, is that the Aztec people discovered it themselves, and no one really knows who originally built it!
I feel like this is a cute little nicety compared to the whole Trump files business, plus a bunch of unvetted non-employees having access to the whole of USAID and an increasing number of other systems, simply by barging in the front door.
How would you maintain high availability? I assume something like what AWS proposes[1] where you have an independent routing layer and each cell still has a gateway, but cells do not re-route requests to other cells.

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/guidance/cell-based-archite...
I'm just pointing out that certifications don't have to be meaningless. If somebody wants to use the title "Software Engineer", then perhaps we should require them to be actual professional licensed engineers.
> What's this guy is describing is pretty much the root cause of what we colloquially refer to as "hallucination".

I thought a hallucination is when it provides fabricated facts because it is more interested in generating another token than being factually accurate? Not trying to argue, just trying to pin down a definition for this term.
Time symmetry I think? Any computation has to be reversible in theory?
Maybe the goal is not accuracy, but market capture?
Good point! I know there are a lot of book club communities on Discord and other platforms, but we were already using Slack and didn’t want to migrate to another platform just for the book club. It just felt like the easiest way to get started.
Now I'm really curious to taste banana wine.

Banana is one of those flavors that some people love and some people really hate. Others in this category -- lutefisk, kimchi, certain cheeses -- make sense: their distinctive flavor is associated with decay. Why bananas, though?

My grandfather was a banana hater. His observation on the topic: "I hate bananas, and I'm glad that I hate them, because if I liked them I'd eat them, and I HATE them!"
I’d expect most vendors do, at least in their closed source drivers.
You could also check in the mesa project if this is implemented but it’s definitely possible to do
"These days you have to live in (or near) the largest cities in the world"

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by bespoke tailoring. I've found small shops that will do custom work. They are somewhat rare in the US, just like custom shoe makers, but they do exist outside of the largest cities.
From https://quantumflytrap.com/scientists/ :

> [Quantum Flytrap] Virtual Lab is a virtual optical table. With a drag and drop interface, you can show phenomena, recreate existing experiments, and prototype new ones.

> Within this environment it is possible to recreate interference, quantum cryptography protocols, to show entanglement, Bell test, quantum teleportation, and the many-worlds interpretation.
Yes, I'm taking the current situation on mobile and extrapolating it to be the future of desktop computing as well. Tablets and Chromebooks are already there. But Windows and macOS are headed in that direction too. Will there still exist unlocked or at least unlockable versions of those operating systems? Or will developers have to use what will then be specialty hardware on which they can only run Linux (and other free operating systems)?
UI-TARS GUI agent model automates tasks such as finding, booking airline tickets
The author doesn't seem to say that mix should be avoided. Just that you shouldn't replace a ternary with step+mix. In your quote, you left out the 2nd half of the sentence: "as an optimization to [ternary]".
They do, in the US I saw a 1.99/mo, 19.99/year, 79.99/lifetime upgrade price to an ad free version.